Sneaky at the turnstile

[CITYSTEVEDON]

when i sometimes went to donny, there was a fence and a few of us used to go over it. and also when [for the very old ones on here ]there was a 3 day week, donny used to play on the sunday, and we looked for the free gate as you didnt have to pay on a sunday.

[Littlejoemac82]

Not sure if it counts..but me and me ol' man went to Midjytland without tickets. Ended up getting a pair on the thursday a few hours before the game in that boozer in Herning but realised they were for the home end(stand behind the other goals) Anyway we thought f**k it we'll give it a go getting in our end as all our mates had away end tickets. Gets up to the stadium and me dad noticed one of the ticket collectors must have been about 70 wearing a pair of ashtrays for glasses..'go up to the old fella' up we went and in we went, sorted!!! Awful match, but the last minute goal, you can imagine!!!!!!!!!

[Alex Sapphire]

when i sometimes went to donny, there was a fence and a few of us used to go over it

I know i know, you'd do anything to get out of that place.




Wasn't it Donny RL who held a world record for the number of consecutive defeats?

[CITYSTEVEDON]

when i sometimes went to donny, there was a fence and a few of us used to go over it

I know i know, you'd do anything to get out of that place.




Wasn't it Donny RL who held a world record for the number of consecutive defeats?

yep go to the top of the class

[glossopblue]

yes done it a couple of times.
also let a couple of young scallies in with me at the turnstiles. ( at maine road)

[9secondlegend]

yes done it a couple of times.
also let a couple of young scallies in with me at the turnstiles. ( at maine road)

probably me!
;0)

[sandman]

We played Oldham over summer about 5 years ago, I was working until 2:30, I picked up my mate on my way and we got there to find it was a complete sell out. We tried every gate before my mate phoned some bloke who turned up at the gate in a suit, said something to a steward I couldnt hear who opened the gate and let us in, we had to stand but we saw most of the match.

My mate to this day wont tell me who he phoned or how he got us in, he just says he's got connections, tit!!

[Dipstick]

Until the mid 60s it was an absolute doddle to get in at Maine Road without paying but it was so cheap anyway hardly anybody bothered -except us literally penniless nippers.

The turnstiles weren't really designed to stop people sneaking in but to count people going in - as kids we could crawl under them on our hands and knees without being spotted.

Unfortunately they put in proper turnstiles which went almost to the ground - and raised the height of the walls by a couple of feet (+ topped them with broken glass).
However we found out that one of the big blue sliding exit gates on the Kippax car park had lost the short post on one side that stopped it swinging away from the wall - if you pushed at the bottom corner hard enough you could move it just far enough to squeeze through.

By the time we got too big for that my mate's dad was working on the turnstiles and used to let us squeeze in two at a time for free (though thinking about it now he must have been paying for us himself).

We went to most matches and rarely paid to get in until we were about 15, and even after that we were still going in the junior turnstiles until we were about 20.