The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients.
SoG
"The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients".
Also a fact.
The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients.
SoG
"The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients".
Also a fact.
Hiney
I think most of the Albion in the North Stand also ended up watching the game in the South!!
What about West Ham and Millwall ? They were scary too.Aint that the truth.
Most scared i've ever been at a football match
What about West Ham and Millwall ? They were scary too.
What about West Ham and Millwall ? They were scary too.
What about West Ham and Millwall ? They were scary too.
You saying Millwall it must have been late 70's early 80's when the Millwall lot totally trashed a train stopped at Lancing station.
We came home by car and went past the station just after the police had finished getting battered.
Can anyone else remember this and what year?
That was every year with Millwall.
specifically remember the train parked up at Lancing with no glass left in any of the windows i could see!!
Just wondered if anyone remembers seeing it or being on the train?
Cant see why Millwall fans would be going back home via Lancing but then again they were thick twats at the best of times.
Posters
OK, was worried about getting banned for going off thread topic. But for the record this is the Old Mans version of events and i dont disbelieve him.....................
Hundreds if not thousands of Spurs fans "invaded" the North Stand, picking on innocent fans such as "scarfers". They were then forced and crammed into the North West absolutely petrified. There was not one chant from the Albion fans as they were so scared. But about 15 minutes before "official" Kick Off they were so pissed off with what was happening. The "scarfers" and old boys started chanting GOSBTS as an act of defiance. This didnt go down well will the Spurs fans. At the same time a local Brighton pub outing arrived at the back of the North.
The rest is. As they say is history.
Cant see why Millwall fans would be going back home via Lancing but then again they were thick twats at the best of times.
It could have been Pompey. 6th April 1977 - train from Portsmouth halted at Barnham as 'yobs urinated everywhere, ripped out seats and smashed lights'.
They ran riot in Hove, overturning cars and smashing windows. Loads of fighting in the ground. 29 arrests. 5 Albion and 15 Pompey in court the next day.
They were, but it was the whole randomness of the violence at the Spurs game. There were so many people there who we didn't recognise, you didn't know if they were us or Spurs and if Spurs, whether they were going to kick our heads in!
Pretty much how it was. There was a 45 minute battle for the roof of the tea hut under the west stand. Finally held by Brighton fans fighting for their lives, ripping up the felt and boarding to smack around the heads of the Spurs fans trying to get up and at them.
Made me spill my Bovril the bastards.
Hiney
Strangely the Old Man remembers the 78 Spurs home game as one of the best ever matches he attended at the Goldstone.
Well that explains why you appear not to know anything about it.TIP ; click "view public profile - to see age"