Return of the Rev
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i think it happened at norwich v man utd as well!
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Man U fans smashing up Brighton ?
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i think it happened at norwich v man utd as well!
Jim Van Winkle
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Worked with a Man United Fan about 8 years ago who remembered going to the Goldstone and turning over an ice cream van in Hove Park hardly a full scale riot!
Return of the Rev
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still didn't fall off!
Return of the Rev
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Good day out at Norwich was that
Publius Ovidius
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I thought that video was at Scarborough where Manu played a friendly and the worst trouble when Manu went down was at Wolverhampton I seem to recall.
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
Wasn't the Battle On The Bowling Green in the 80's v Man Utd ?
Return of the Rev
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BRIGHT ON Q
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Spoke to some coppers in the pub at Villa a couple of seasons ago and they reckoned United were the worse they have at Villa.Apparently they played there in the cup a couple of times in recent years and it was a nightmare.
Plastic-Fantastic
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Man U were beaten by Bournemouth in the FA Cup in 1985 which would have probably cause a riot, but I don't think relegation had anything to do with it, maybe he was lumping this incident in with violence in 1970s. This is what Wikepedia has t say on the subject:
"The Red Army was the name given to Manchester United away support during the 1970s. Most notoriously in 1974–75, when United had been relegated from the top flight of English football and played one season in the Second Division, the Red Army caused mayhem at grounds up and down the country, visiting stadiums where they would at times outnumber the home support"
house your seagull
Train à Grande Vitesse
When United are at home up here the town is crap, full of arseholes.
No problems with City really.
No problems with City really.
LowKarate
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It all seems very straightforward to me... Man Utd were relegated in 1974 to Division Two where they played Southampton, a South Coast football club approximately 50 miles West of Brighton, a team that was at the time in Division Three and managed by one Peter Taylor, who once visited Burton Menswear in Manchester to buy a rather natty two piece brown suit. United fans smashed up Bournemouth which is a South Coast town, but that was Leeds United and in 1990, some 15 years later.
We can be certain that Brighton and Man U played each other six times in Hove between 1980 and 1983 (including one FA Cup and one Friendly match) and that at some point in the 20th century Man U fans smashed up a seaside town.
I think the facts tell you everything you need to know.
We can be certain that Brighton and Man U played each other six times in Hove between 1980 and 1983 (including one FA Cup and one Friendly match) and that at some point in the 20th century Man U fans smashed up a seaside town.
I think the facts tell you everything you need to know.
the wanderbus
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hurrah !!thats the one!! My mind hasn't gone!!
One of them went through the roof at 28 seconds
Laughing Gravy
I'm a ****
I was in a bar in Zante in June 1990 and I got talking to this bloke who was pissed up. We got talking and when I told him I came from Brighton he got very emotional and offered to buy me a pint and when the barman brought it over the guy gave it to me and said sorry for what we did to you town. I thought what the f***, but didn't want to say anything because he was very pissed.
This went on for a couple of hours and after he had paid for the 4/5 pints I asked him what he meant by smashing our town up.
It turned out, he was a Leeds fan and got us muddled up with Bournmouth and a few weeks before they had a riot down there.
I didn't have the heart to tell him.
This went on for a couple of hours and after he had paid for the 4/5 pints I asked him what he meant by smashing our town up.
It turned out, he was a Leeds fan and got us muddled up with Bournmouth and a few weeks before they had a riot down there.
I didn't have the heart to tell him.
Dandyman
In London village.
This. The Manks did not play at the Goldstone until March 1980.
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
But Leeds did smash our town up a few weeks before they smashed up Bournemouth didn't they ?
daveinprague
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I remember West Ham, Chelsea, Millwall and Spurs...dont remember Man Utd at all.
Laughing Gravy
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Mancgull
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Think it was 1980....the bit I remember was a ManU fan attacking a policeman on his horse, in Hove Park. He was trying to pull the policeman off while kicking the horse and the copper was retaliating by whacking him with his truncheon. Was a load of them charging around like looneys.