The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients.
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"The reason OB didn't get involved was that they didn't want to end up as hospital patients".
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seagullsovergrimsby
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What about West Ham and Millwall ? They were scary too.
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!
The lack of a police presence was the norm in those days and I can remember Arsenal fans starting up in the north stand a couple of years later during an evening league cup match and the public address announcer pleading 2 or 3 times for the police to come and assist people who were being attacked and crushed.
Going back to the Spurs game though I would have to say that was the worst I have ever seen inside a ground. Outside seemed to be mayhem just about every game in those days.
Going back to the Spurs game though I would have to say that was the worst I have ever seen inside a ground. Outside seemed to be mayhem just about every game in those days.
Nottseagull
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And Chelsea in the North Stand for the FA Cup 3rd Round in, I think, 72-3.
Even Bristol City had a mob of about 400 in the North Stand that season, although I remember the police managed to contain them.
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steward 433
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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.
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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.
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.
steward 433
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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.
There has been a brilliant series of articles in the Collectors & Historians Society Newsletter recently - 'A History of Albion Crowd Disorder'.
For the Spurs game in '78, loads of Tottenham were arrested on Friday night but were bailed, allowing them to go the game the following day
Over the weekend, there were 91 arrests, 85 injuries with 20 serious enough to need hospital treatment. 20 Police were injured.
For the Spurs game in '78, loads of Tottenham were arrested on Friday night but were bailed, allowing them to go the game the following day
Over the weekend, there were 91 arrests, 85 injuries with 20 serious enough to need hospital treatment. 20 Police were injured.
steward 433
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Diversion via the Horsham line?
Was only about 7 from memory so really don't know for sure.
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.
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.
steward 433
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It was Millwall and Lancing station for sure Hiney, But can't remember the year.
Hiney
Strangely the Old Man remembers the 78 Spurs home game as one of the best ever matches he attended at the Goldstone.
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"There was a 45 minute battle for the roof of the tea hut under the west stand."
Was it not the Radio box rather than a Tea Hut?
We ripped them to pieces on the pitch. Paul Clarks goal was one of the best of that era. Shame that they and Saints had to contrive that goaless draw to deprive us of promotion.
m20gull
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Well that explains why you appear not to know anything about it.