jevs
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yep...a million apologies. It was the 77-78 season. my f*** up. I was there and remember it well
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yep...a million apologies. It was the 77-78 season. my f*** up. I was there and remember it well
LA1972
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The photos of the Chelsea game remind me why I used to LOVE going to football. I feel sorry for anyone who missed those days and have to put up with the sanitized alternative we have now.
Chelsea in 1983 - the one after which Chris Hutchings was arrested
Was there with my dad and brother, I was 14 my bro 12. We was in the north stand and when Brighton scored we didn’t say a word, Couldn’t believe it, My own club and I couldn’t celebrate.
There was Chelsea all around us and they looked really scary, we was more concerned for our dad as we knew if they started on him there was nothing we could do but we just hugged him and said we’ll protect you dad even thou we couldn’t. we was in it together, if they attacked him then they’d have to attack us as well.
At the end, the policeman getting attacked on the pitch, so sad, he’s still in a wheelchair to this day.
the wanderbus
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yep...a million apologies. It was the 77-78 season. my f*** up. I was there and remember it well
Trouble is I'm a real sad f*** when it comes to remembering dates, I can usually recall scores from donkeys years ago but not from last season & have walked past people i know from school without even realising.......senility creeping in?
Grapes of Wrath
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Spurs 78 was without doubt (depending on how you view these things) the best out and out constant bout of football violence I have ever seen. West Ham around the same time was interesting.
The most frightening for me was in the early 70's against Millwall, it was an evening game and this big black fella in a butchers coat was in the middle of the North Stand when he produced what was basically a carving knife. The surrounding crowd quickly scattered, and a copper dived in and disarmed him. That was a brave move on his part.
Birmingham was a good one when they tried to attack the Albion fans by coming in between the West Stand and the old lego stand. A certain well known ex west street top boy stood at the top of the steps knocking them over one by one. His timing was brilliant. Thanks SS, that was a day to remember. Those that eventually got through were met by the rest of us, including a recently banned individual from NSC who found an old mop in the cupboard by the steps and proceeded to wipe a few zulu warriors clean with it!
SS also got his picture along with a few of us on the front page of the Argus after the Sheffield Utd game which was the last of the season. Everyone as you do on the last game went on the pitch, it then turned nasty, but in the main only handbags and standoff's.
There are numerous other memories, from Bournemouth who had a good firm in the early days, and all had to take off their Doc Martins and leave them outside the ground, to various encounters with Millwall which have already been mentioned. Ditto for Palace, Pompey Southampton where I got decked at the top of the steps by Hove Station by a ginger Saints fan.
Have seen a lot over the last 40 years, have some great memories and met a lot of good people who I would not have, had I not followed the Albion
The most frightening for me was in the early 70's against Millwall, it was an evening game and this big black fella in a butchers coat was in the middle of the North Stand when he produced what was basically a carving knife. The surrounding crowd quickly scattered, and a copper dived in and disarmed him. That was a brave move on his part.
Birmingham was a good one when they tried to attack the Albion fans by coming in between the West Stand and the old lego stand. A certain well known ex west street top boy stood at the top of the steps knocking them over one by one. His timing was brilliant. Thanks SS, that was a day to remember. Those that eventually got through were met by the rest of us, including a recently banned individual from NSC who found an old mop in the cupboard by the steps and proceeded to wipe a few zulu warriors clean with it!
SS also got his picture along with a few of us on the front page of the Argus after the Sheffield Utd game which was the last of the season. Everyone as you do on the last game went on the pitch, it then turned nasty, but in the main only handbags and standoff's.
There are numerous other memories, from Bournemouth who had a good firm in the early days, and all had to take off their Doc Martins and leave them outside the ground, to various encounters with Millwall which have already been mentioned. Ditto for Palace, Pompey Southampton where I got decked at the top of the steps by Hove Station by a ginger Saints fan.
Have seen a lot over the last 40 years, have some great memories and met a lot of good people who I would not have, had I not followed the Albion
Silverhatch
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That Millwall game had F-Troop, Treatment and The Half Way line mob in full action. We were 2-0 down and came back to win 3-2. There was serious bother in the North but also some very tasty inciidents in the West with the aforementioned half way line mob. As I remember it a dog handler let his big Alsatian off its leash and sent it into the crowd to stop a particularly nasty scrap and some huge Millwall bloke wearing a sort of sheepskin/afghan coat grabbed the dog and threw it out of the stand and back onto the pitch, at which point reinforcements were called.
The Spurs weekend was also completely barking - and as others have said there were fights on the beach Friday night, the Buccaneer (now Audio) was turned over and by Saturday night I think every copper in Sussex had been mobilised.
Exciting and frightening in equal measure.
The Spurs weekend was also completely barking - and as others have said there were fights on the beach Friday night, the Buccaneer (now Audio) was turned over and by Saturday night I think every copper in Sussex had been mobilised.
Exciting and frightening in equal measure.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Definately spurs in the 70's. Behind the North West terrace it was like a scene from the
Wild West.
Who needs F troop when we had the Bosun!
Wild West.
Who needs F troop when we had the Bosun!
the wanderbus
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Remember the fight on top of the cafe? Bha on top, Spurs trying to get at us.We threw everything from bits of brick & peices of wood to ripped off roofing felt at them & if any did manage to get their heads above gutter level they got a ten hole, ox blood DM straight in the face.
LABHA
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Sort of,it was meant to be the last game Home to york,but BHAFC was allowed to rent the ground for another season,i was up in court also for that game,and that twat was stood next to me,i think he punched a woman for telling him to grow up,i think he got few months for it,and so he should.
yeah i was on pitch and saw loads commotion going on in north stand, men who hit women are just bottom of the barrell cowards if you ask me !!!
The strips of roofing felt with bits of render stuck to them made pretty good weapons if I remember correct. I remember a Brighton fan the size of Giant Haystack coming to my rescue and throwing a Yid straight into the windscreen of the Securicor van which used to park behind the terrace in the North West. I had my brand new brown leather box jacket ripped at the pocket that day after yet another dust up.
A friend of mine from Worthing who now professes to support the Wall (and a penny short of a shilling) called Steve G must have been beaten up 6 of 7 times whilst trying to defend the North. I remember him being belted over the head with a broom handle when it was at its worst. How the hell did anyone get that in the ground I dont know.
Nothing will ever come even remotely close to the violence inside the ground that day. If you were youngish at the time you didn`t have any choice on whether you got involved because you could not just walk to the side to get away from it because the Yids just followed you there and started on everyone. Mind you a few of them got it back in the end.
It went to a different level that day. Not lads just scrapping in roughly even numbers but bullies picking on youngsters and just about everyone else.
The top of the cafe battle was un- f***ing- believable. Lads really were fighting with anything they could to defend themselves.
It was like Custer`s last stand but this time Custer made it through.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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Blimey! What happened to him? Broken spine? Head injuries?
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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Hats off to you. The things that legends are made of .
Norman Potting
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.......Well I am sure it all seemed very jolly at the time.
My memory is of an away game, mid week, v Wimbledon at Plough Lane 85/86 p'raps, lost 1-0 to an Alan Cork goal?
Walking back to the car after the match with some friends (one of whom, a short female, was attending her first game) the "mass" of Albion fans were followed by what appeared to be some inarticulate dwarfs hurling abuse and politely enquiring whether any of us wished to stand and fight (we didn't, just wanted to get back home to the pub before closing time). I believe that these were some Chelsea "yoof" who welcomed the opportunity to practice their social skills midweek at a different ground, I guess it gave them a break from "O" level revision.
They were gradually starting to lose interest when a couple of large policeman came striding purposefully toward the crowd of fans, the Brighton fans respectfully parting to let them through. They strode on toward the smallest, scummiest and loudest of the Chelsea lads, who, betraying a spectacular lack of judgement on his part, continued to hurl abuse and incitements. Without breaking stride they took an armpit each and lifted him off the ground, his legs continued to move in a "Wil E. Coyote chasing Roadrunner and going over a cliff" style.
Loudly and clearly one of the boys in blue uttered the words (which until then I believed only existed in myth or Sweeney episodes) "You're f***ing nicked son".
A magical experience.
My memory is of an away game, mid week, v Wimbledon at Plough Lane 85/86 p'raps, lost 1-0 to an Alan Cork goal?
Walking back to the car after the match with some friends (one of whom, a short female, was attending her first game) the "mass" of Albion fans were followed by what appeared to be some inarticulate dwarfs hurling abuse and politely enquiring whether any of us wished to stand and fight (we didn't, just wanted to get back home to the pub before closing time). I believe that these were some Chelsea "yoof" who welcomed the opportunity to practice their social skills midweek at a different ground, I guess it gave them a break from "O" level revision.
They were gradually starting to lose interest when a couple of large policeman came striding purposefully toward the crowd of fans, the Brighton fans respectfully parting to let them through. They strode on toward the smallest, scummiest and loudest of the Chelsea lads, who, betraying a spectacular lack of judgement on his part, continued to hurl abuse and incitements. Without breaking stride they took an armpit each and lifted him off the ground, his legs continued to move in a "Wil E. Coyote chasing Roadrunner and going over a cliff" style.
Loudly and clearly one of the boys in blue uttered the words (which until then I believed only existed in myth or Sweeney episodes) "You're f***ing nicked son".
A magical experience.
POSKETT AT THE VALLEY
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I think Steve g turned the day that millwall produced a sawn off on hove station . i'd turn too!
Chicken Runner61
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- May 20, 2007
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I remember Spurs in 77/78 being in the South when someone spotted some Spurs and it all kicked off around us. I grabbed my mate by his collar to stop him from falling into a mess of a fight in front of us. There was this big bearded Spurs bloke splattered with blood but giving as good as he gave.
I remember my mate getting a kicking when he walked through Hove Park after while some coppers just watched.
When me Dad used to take me in the Chicken Run in the early 70's we always used to be next to away fans. I remember the silver sprayed DMs with no laces.
I seem to remember a shotgun going off in the North once too.
I remember my mate getting a kicking when he walked through Hove Park after while some coppers just watched.
When me Dad used to take me in the Chicken Run in the early 70's we always used to be next to away fans. I remember the silver sprayed DMs with no laces.
I seem to remember a shotgun going off in the North once too.
brighton bluenose
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BHA ambushed Huddersfield in Fonthill Road just up from the junction with Newtown Road - early eighties!!
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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It was before hand too. I remember this game's off the field antics like it was y'day because of it. A clear JFK moment in my life, never seen anything like it since or before so I'm with Wookie on this one.