[Football] Southend Utd pitch invasion

[Guinness Boy]

Anybody remember when we went to Southend in September 1987 ?
Seem to remember we invaded the pitch, we lost 2-1 i think, whole day was total mayhem

My first ever away game!

The first time I'd seen fighting in the ground for a long while. It kicked off in the big corner of the away end a couple of times.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I think it probably was. His team never looked the same again, stopped winning, got relegated and he got sacked - progressively lower and lower levels ever since. Anyway, there's some football on the tele now, somebody's trying to open up Andorra's box, I think ............................

To be fair Phil Brown's stock had started to fall long before his arrival at Southend, having previously managed clubs much higher up the football pyramid.

 

[Weststander]

Where was PPF when you needed him?

Following Manure?

 

[origigull]

My first ever away game!

The first time I'd seen fighting in the ground for a long while. It kicked off in the big corner of the away end a couple of times.

Its always been the same down there especially in the 70s (1976). Fights and arrests aplenty. I think it made the mainstream newspapers that weekend.

 

[Taybha]

Where was PPF when you needed him?

Didn't need him , I was wearing a Sergio top and red Lois jumbo cords, wearing this sort of clothing in the 80s made you instantly wellhard, plus I had a wooden spork in my pocket knowing I'd probably need to be tooled up for the walk to the pub.

 

[GT49er]

To be fair Phil Brown's stock had started to fall long before his arrival at Southend, having previously managed clubs much higher up the football pyramid.

Yes, his stock started to fall from that very afternoon when he was managing in the PL.

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

Where was PPF when you needed him?

i would of been their that day but i had a heavy cold and my mum would not let me go and i had to sniff some vick nasal rub to make it better

if i had been their it would of been carnage and i would of taken on there top boys no problem

Regards

DF

 

[BN9 BHA]

I used to put all the Save Our Seagulls and Bring The Albion Home type stickers on my rear windscreen back in the day. Parked up in Brighton one day two mid twenties walked past the car, one pointed at the stickers and said to his mate “Why bother” and they walked off laughing with each other about this highly amusing comment. I was so used to it I said nothing, why bother?

I hope they were Pompey fans

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were from Brighton but plastic fans of Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea etc.
Probably got season tickets at the Amex now

 

[atfc village]

The Tegs [Thames Estuary Galacticoes ] even lost at home to us and we are awful.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Not only have Southend been on the slide, Phil Brown has come a long way (down) since that day he sat his players in the centre circle for their half time roasting ...............

Not as far as Peter Taylor

 

[Weststander]

Didn't need him , I was wearing a Sergio top and red Lois jumbo cords, wearing this sort of clothing in the 80s made you instantly wellhard, plus I had a wooden spork in my pocket knowing I'd probably need to be tooled up for the walk to the pub.

Punching a child and taking their scarf …. the making of a real man

 

[maltaseagull]

i would of been their that day but i had a heavy cold and my mum would not let me go and i had to sniff some vick nasal rub to make it better

if i had been their it would of been carnage and i would of taken on there top boys no problem

Regards

DF

Are you doing that deliberately?

 

[Taybha]

Are you doing that deliberately?

 

[Sheebo]

Are you doing that deliberately?

It’s spoof account. Look for the I or i in fairy to see which one it is. It’s bloody annoying sometimes! But is a funny account.

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

It’s spoof account. Look for the I or i in fairy to see which one it is. It’s bloody annoying sometimes! But is a funny account.

Dont call be a spoof as i like girls to

Regards

DF

 

[TB B&W Army]

Couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of 2 team supporting cockney w*nkers

Karma at its best again

 

[The Maharajah Of Hockley]

Charming. I know several, myself included, who appreciated the plight of Brighton in your dark days, and on several occasions visited the Withdean to support you guys where possible. But thank your support.

 

[RandyWanger]

They've had approval for their stadium at Fossetts Farm. 22,000 capacity.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Anybody remember when we went to Southend in September 1987 ?
Seem to remember we invaded the pitch, we lost 2-1 i think, whole day was total mayhem

Yes, caught the train from Fenchurch street with GD and a load of others didn"t see any Southend untill after the game when the OB kept them back by a pub just up from the ground

Was this the game with the wheelie bin being thrown down the terrace and Brighton going across the segregated area ?

Regards
DF

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yes, caught the train from Fenchurch street with GD and a load of others didn"t see any Southend untill after the game when the OB kept them back by a pub just up from the ground

Was this the game with the wheelie bin being thrown down the terrace and Brighton going across the segregated area ?

Regards
DF

Do you really imagine anyone gives a tiny shit what you did, thought or saw ?