Why don't you just admit that you know nothing about football or Manchester?
Stewards in the early seventies indeed.
Yes I do and have visited Manchester often.
It's daft to think now that on one visit just because I was wearing a Leeds scarf, as I did then, I've better things to do now, I was threatened with razors by Man U supporters, at strangely, the replay of the cup final held at Old Trafford in 1970, between Leeds and Chelsea. Chelsea fans were hunting Leeds fans too that day, but I did see Bobby Charlton in the crowd.
It was in '68 I began working at Elland Road selling refreshments. I used to take a cut of the profits from the Chairman of the Club, although he didn't know about it at the time.
Stewarding began not longer after that, which I moved over to. I was sacked when I walked off the job.
Guess what? Leeds were playing Man City again
, whose fans were in the 'scratching shed', as it was known then. Some were repeatedly trying to kick me in the bollocks and spitting. The garment I was wearing with
Leeds United emblazoned on it didn't help. Were you there?
It was football hooliganism in the early 70's that led to stewarding in the first place. A way to turn young fans away from such things and pay them for it was the idea behind it and Leeds was one of the first clubs to try it, but they were not the only club to do this. Others came along later. Was Man City, your club, one of the late developers.
C'mon ye whites.