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At the end of the season United fans always acted up at the last home game. It was the usual stuff – running on to the pitch, attacking away fans, going at it with the Old Bill and so on. At the end of the 1983/4 season we’d just lost to Wimbledon at home and it had dented our promotion hopes. It was the height of the miners’ strike and tensions between the working class and Maggie Thatcher’s militia were at fever pitch. Sheffield and its surrounding towns had a lot of people who worked down the pit. Anyhow, as the plod tried to clear a large crowd of around a thousand lads away from the bottom of Bramall Lane, the lot went up.

Police were chased, which led to a mounted police charge. Around twelve officers on horseback galloped into the crowds, only to be greeted by a hail of bricks. Two bizzies were pulled from their mounts and shovelled in, and the others turned and galloped back from whence they came. A huge roar went up and United hooligans chased the plod right up Bramall Lane. Police vehicles were turned over and ‘full-scale riot’ is the only way to describe it. Bolton and Bristol City away were two games in the late ’80s where the lot went up as well.