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Spurshaker said:
Not sure if this was the same game, but round about the same time, was also in the trent end and and a few might have got done, but me and my mates were with some of KR's lot who stayed in their end and held our own and rucked them, stayed in there the whole game.
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I can't remember exactly what year I want to say 84.
chelmsfordyid said:
Did people get bird for it back then?
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chelmsfordyid said:
Did people get bird for it back then?
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chelmsfordyid said:
Did people get bird for it back then?
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Tottenham Sean said:
The Fish The Fish Nutter-Naylor Nutter-Naylor
What are you memories of Brighton away in the 2nd? Couple of people who i know that went reckons we took over though whole town.
Meant to have been a mad one.
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It was well mental mate, we as young skinheads bunked the train down early saturday out of Victoria the morning after hearing about the row on the news the night before ( good Friday?) Which was well gnarly we were told, got well out of hand stabbings, fires but I wasn't there that night so can't comment exactly. It was Easter weekend if I remember correctly, Spurs every where, like Quadrophenia but Spurs.

Clearly remember after hearing that we went with intent to do them totally. we saw there lot or some lot from Brighton who wanted to know once before in the town centre and had a brief off equal numbers with them before 100s of Spurs came out of nowhere and joined the fray and that lot got well over run before OB rescued what was left of them. Anyone remember the row on top of the tea stand at the ground?

Inside was mental too took over the whole ground going off everywhere, totally took their end, town, ground we took liberties , we was all in there all through the game. Mobs we had back then we're mental. I think if I remember correctly their lot had come to the Lane looking for it previous, remember being in the Shelf and some of our lot went into them in the Park Lane and out side we battered them after, so there was a rivalry on their end , ours it was biz as usual. Crazy days mate.
 
Pete27 said:
Surprised there's not been a mention of Chelsea away in '78.
That was another huge turn out at Sloane Square - early doors at 11am.
Around 50 Spurs in the shed - right hand side as you saw it from the away end.
We had the whole of the North Stand pretty much packed out - right across to the West Stand.
To this day their lot say that's the most away fans ever seen in that end.
Can still recollect the photo on the back pages of the Sunday papers, of that fence being pulled back and forth.
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That day was mental too we took liberty's all day on their manor as you say a huge Spurs mob there. I got nicked that day outside the Shed before kick off. In truth I honestly didn't see Chelsea as our main rivalry back then or anywhere in mid 70s - mid 80s? Think that came later. IMHO they to me they were the same as Woolwich in that we had done them so many times home and away and other crossing paths and meets that they didn't really matter that much anymore, not a threat really, both were just another day at the office for us. maybe we were their main rivals but to me it was always about West Ham in London. They were our rival IMO and Man Utd, Leeds and the Scousers from outside as we had a lot mental home and away with all of them, sorry Chelsea but after 74, 78, 82 , 83, 84 nothing to prove from our lot, bit like when we when ran and destroyed Arsenals main lot chasing them out of the Northbank Highbury all the way to Old Street around same time, just got boring too easy. There was never any coming back from that. Think Chelsea Spurs was a 90s rivalry I was out of it by then. TTID COYS
 
Sauf London Spurs said:
That day was mental too we took liberty's all day on their manor as you say a huge Spurs mob there. I got nicked that day outside the Shed before kick off. In truth I honestly didn't see Chelsea as our main rivalry back then or anywhere in mid 70s - mid 80s? Think that came later. IMHO they to me they were the same as Woolwich in that we had done them so many times home and away and other crossing paths and meets that they didn't really matter that much anymore, not a threat really, both were just another day at the office for us. maybe we were their main rivals but to me it was always about West Ham in London. They were our rival IMO and Man Utd, Leeds and the Scousers from outside as we had a lot mental home and away with all of them, sorry Chelsea but after 74, 78, 82 , 83, 84 nothing to prove from our lot, bit like when we when ran and destroyed Arsenals main lot chasing them out of the Northbank Highbury all the way to Old Street around same time, just got boring too easy. There was never any coming back from that. Think Chelsea Spurs was a 90s rivalry I was out of it by then. TTID COYS
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Ah the Old Street Run , that was knackering but worth it
 
B-0-Sspurs said:
Too young for the 70's but my father never forgets our second division season and our visit to Bristol rovers. Rovers had a sizeable hooligan element and had rows with Chelsea and Southampton but spurs overran the place that day, carnage all day long apparently.

Remember man Utd getting chased up the high road in the late 90's that was genuinely frightening to get caught up in!
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Man Utd 79 at WHL outisde after the game it went off with their main Salford and CR lot and, the gentleman in black parked their police buses across the road to try to separate both mobs as it was a warzone, I kid you not, which it did for a second, until everyone in the Navy and White corner slid and crawled under the police buses and went right back into their lot again. Man U never ever had easy time at WHL and have been turned over there a few times in numbers, but they certainly always turned up, never shyed away and have always been game but, they never took the Shelf in 76. Plod put them in there after a crash barrier broke in the Park Lane. They were getting attacked by Spurs all through the game with Plod all around them, and , the Man Utd mob coming from the Paxton to join those in the Shelf got ruined by Spurs, they got smashed all over. It was always mental that fixture at the Lane. We really had a thing for the Cockney Reds back then, we hated them. But Man Utd always came with intent consistently. Best outside of London always a fixture to get excited about. Anyways as you mentioned them was just thinking back as it's a TBWAH post. . Stories flooding back. Not glamorizing it but fuck they were fun times.
 
Spurshaker said:
Can't remember the year 70's, we went to Derby when there was a train strike on. Not many Spurs turned up at St. Pancras, but found out there was only 1 train going out which stopped at Derby so we all got it. We did a count of how many Spurs were on the train and counted about 40 of us.
When we got there met up with Midland Spurs and went to the ground. After the game I reckon we had had about 100 -130 of us outside, so Derby thought they'd run us. Wrong, everyone of us just stood there waiting for them as they got closer they realised we weren't moving.
Then we just charged them, running them everywhere, po,ice finally turned up and marched us back to the station and stopping a train to take us back to London.
We had such a small mob that day, but kicked the shit out of them.
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Remember Derby away 78 or 79 , remember everyone singing Who's up Mary Brown, ? Tommy Tommy Docherty and Harry Dog is a Poodle pmsl. Outside walking back to the station Derby attacked us from both sides of the streets at same time two mobs , they thought we would scatter , we just steamed into both of them and gave them a right row, never took a back step. Some cop got pulled of his police horse in the middle of it. Then they came again mobbed up through the hospital further down and same thing we just broke escort and went right into them, gave them what they wanted. Baseball Ground was apocalyptic back then , all those rows of terraced houses with boarded up windows and Indians or Pakistanis guardiang their homes with big knives and machetes, anyone else remember that ? Derby were always up for it at home but they never came to WHL ever and never got the better of us at theirs either.
 
Tottenham Sean said:
Anyone remember a Manc top boy who use to use a car aerial as a tool?
I got told this story by a fella back in the 80s. He was a short fella whose Girlfriends always looked like page 3 girls, despite him being an ugly git.
Never heard mention of him since.Does it ring any bells?
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Not sure if he’s the one you’re referring to, but one of their ‘top boys’, who I’m still mates with (long story) is an ugly cunt 😂 who always had page 3 looking girlfriends. He was from Northampton back then. Him and his cousins were vicious. They took a lads eye out once, after a match. I won’t post his name . Let sleeping dogs lie and all that
 
Haggar said:
Not sure if he’s the one you’re referring to, but one of their ‘top boys’, who I’m still mates with (long story) is an ugly cunt 😂 who always had page 3 looking girlfriends. He was from Northampton back then. Him and his cousins were vicious. They took a lads eye out once, after a match. I won’t post his name . Let sleeping dogs lie and all that
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It sounds similar,but I presumed the fella was a manc. Possible though. Cheers
 
I remember Man U in the late 70s. War zone from Seven Sisters and back again, think it was then that a lad got killed. Fighting all round the ground as you could walk all the way round it then.
OB put the Mancs in the Shelf and, I think the cage, possibly before it was the cage. Tottenham came into them from the side and rear in a perfect pincer movement and this is the famous picture of them jumping over the front to the lower shelf to get away.
I was told many years later by a Salford Manc I met on holiday that this game was supposed to be the Cockney reds, 'coming of age.' It was them that took the brunt of the beatings as well as a large group of Salford reds, and few firms took liberties with them.
I am reaching into the recesses of my memory for this and as I can rarely remember what I came upstairs for, I could be wholly wrong. :pochfacepalm:
 
Arthur Wensleydale said:
I remember Man U in the late 70s. War zone from Seven Sisters and back again, think it was then that a lad got killed. Fighting all round the ground as you could walk all the way round it then.
OB put the Mancs in
'81 was the escalator incident at Seven Sisters.
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Your right kevin was 81 (rip)
You could always tell the difference in cockney reds and real mancs then because of the dress sense... we as many little firms of yids would terrorise them on the walk from seven sisters..i always mantain even in them days if we where more organised and didnt do our own group things no one would live with us..we had real bods and the numbers...the times we did pull it together i.e chelsea cup game & sloane square, the blind beggar west ham league cup meet ..kevs passing at old trafford ,birmingham the dawn of the zulus when we came in behind them and the 2nd division year etc we never took a backward step anywhere for anyone.. there was a couple of disasters too ..but few and far between.
Forest and the amount of locals who had an unfortunate swim in trent the year we came back up will live me too .
I began as a young teenage footsoldier of vic d !..some will be old enough to remember him....the days of white butchers coats 😄😄
 
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57 varieties said:
Your right kevin was 81 (rip)
You could always tell the difference in cockney reds and real mancs then because of the dress sense... we as many little firms of yids would terrorise them on the walk from seven sisters..i always mantain even in them days if we where more organised and didnt do our own group things no one would live with us..we had real bods and the numbers...the times we did pull it together i.e chelsea cup game & sloane square, the blind beggar west ham league cup meet ..kevs passing at old trafford ,birmingham the dawn of the zulus when we came in behind them and the 2nd division year etc we never took a backward step anywhere for anyone.. there was a couple of disasters too ..but few and far between.
Forest and the amount of locals who had an unfortunate swim in trent the year we came back up will live me too .
I began as a young teenage footsoldier of vic d !..some will be old enough to remember him....the days of white butchers coats 😄😄
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Was he the fella with the long dark hair,looked like a red Indian?
He comes up in conversation on occasion :)
 
57 varieties said:
Your right kevin was 81 (rip)
You could always tell the difference in cockney reds and real mancs then because of the dress sense... we as many little firms of yids would terrorise them on the walk from seven sisters..i always mantain even in them days if we where more organised and didnt do our own group things no one would live with us..we had real bods and the numbers...the times we did pull it together i.e chelsea cup game & sloane square, the blind beggar west ham league cup meet ..kevs passing at old trafford ,birmingham the dawn of the zulus when we came in behind them and the 2nd division year etc we never took a backward step anywhere for anyone.. there was a couple of disasters too ..but few and far between.
Forest and the amount of locals who had an unfortunate swim in trent the year we came back up will live me too .
I began as a young teenage footsoldier of vic d !..some will be old enough to remember him....the days of white butchers coats 😄😄
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RIP.

Agree on the organisation thing. That was one of the reasons WHU & Millwall had the reputations they did, they were tighter than us. We had too many different postcode firms. If mobiles had been around then i'm pretty sure not many would have lived with us.
 
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