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Originally Posted by old crust
The year Carlisle played in the top division the football special from Leicester was £ 2 return.
Bricking's only ever seem to take place on cold days's. I remember coming back from QPR on a freezing cold Boxing Day with no window's left in the bus.
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Got a story about the trip to Leicester. I think it was one of their first seasons back in the old 1st division. The days of Keith Weller. Must have been early 70s. Certainly before the days of the Service Crew when we started using scheduled trains instead of specials.
On the train down nobody seemed to know anything about the reception we would get when we got to Leicester. Were the police organised to handle 700 idiots arriving together on 1 train. Did Leicester have any fans who would fancy a ruck. Where was the ground etc etc
Because of the unknown there was a bit of apprehension as the train arrived. Everybody charged off the train, through the station and into the street. We answered all our questions. There were about 4 police who scattered sharpish. About 10 Leicester fans who scattered even quicker and we could see some ground in the distance.
Pretty cock sure of ourselves we marched through the streets to the ground thinking this was easy. At the ground there was an open gate guarded by 2 old Legion guys. We stormed the gate thinking we had all got in for free and were going to make a pretty impressive appearance mob handed only to find ourtselves on the rugby pitch at Wheldon Road.
We did a quick circuit of the ground and charged back out to look for the right location.