Zulus: The Story of the Zulu Warriors Football Firm by Caroline Gall

Author:Caroline Gall [Gall, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zulus, soccer violence, football hooliganism, birmingham city, hooligans
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
Published: 2011-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Manchester

Many see Man City as a similar outfit to Blues. The club underachieves and shares a city with a “bigger” team, but their firm is organised and whether there are 400 or fifty out they’re always up for it and will have a good row.

WALLY: Since that day back in 1982 when the Zulu chant was first heard, we always had a thing about turning out at Man City and always looked forward to going to Maine Road. They don’t turn up in Birmingham. I can only remember one time when there was trouble with them in Brum and that was in 1981 in our Apex days. Twenty of them came into the Bullring shopping centre while we were making our way up to New Street Station from Gino’s café. We bumped into them on an enclosed bridge that goes over Smallbrook Queensway in the city centre.

One side of the bridge is glass and there is a very long drop to the traffic underneath, so it was a dangerous place to have it off. If you went through one of the windows you wouldn’t have much chance of surviving. We had about the same number as them and we steamed into the Mancs, running them back to New Street and a few of them got a good hiding. Some of the birds who used to hang around with us steamed in as well, bashing them with brollies. We chased them back to the barriers and they just jumped over them and ran on to the platforms.

Some of us were still hanging around when, after a while, one of them came back up to the barriers and we started talking to him. He said the others had caught a train back to Manchester but he had bunked the train down and the ticket inspector had just checked their tickets and he didn’t have one, so they threw him off. The only way he could get back was to go to the game and try and make his way back with the other Mancs from there. We told him to come with us. He wouldn’t have it at first but after a while he agreed and made his way to St Andrew’s with me, Carlton R and Tully. One thing about Blues is we don’t take liberties if someone is on their own or if there is only a couple of them, we leave things like that to the Scousers.

While I was locked up, Blues had a couple of good rows in Manchester. The next time I encountered them was in 1986, when we had it off in the Arndale shopping centre. About fifty, mainly Bordesley Green and Kings Norton and some townies, had it with the Guv’nors. It was the same result as the Bullring clash. One of our lot let off a flare but it bounced off a wall and hit one of our own lads in the back. We ran the Mancs out of the Arndale; some of them stood and got done and some didn’t hang around.

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