[Albion] Whats the game you was shit scared the most?

[AZ Gull]

Home games
Spurs (78?)
Chelsea first game of the season one year - they were everywhere.
Millwall (77?) - think we won 3-2

Away
Millwall play-offs
Cardiff (any time in th 80s!)

That Chelsea match was the first I attended as a season ticket holder - my parents had bought me a season ticket in early May as that was the only way to get me a ticket for the Cup Final.

 

[Ghost of Killer Reeves]

Fulham away 1977, (Teddy Maybank’s return with us).Me and a mate decided that we should swerve the underground station nearest to the ground. We went to the next one on as we suspected Chelsea might be sniffing around.
Well Chelsea were sniffing around on the platform at the underground station we chose to go to. We weren’t wearing colours and tried to look invisible..The train pulled in and they piled on.
We hopped into a different carriage containing some startled Doncaster supporters who quickly hid their colours.
After a brief cultural exchange Chelsea legged it. A platform bench and fire extinguisher following their progress down the steps.

 

[kojak]

Oldham 1978
the spurs game was the week before
what a week or so that was

14 years old at the time
very scary stuff

 

[Whitley Bayster]

The Old Den, Millwall away 1991 (I think). League game we won 2-1 just before we got them again in the play offs. The ground emptied quickly and we were kept back then kettled to the station. All was very dark and quiet, eeriely quiet as we edged to the station. Then suddenly the Milllll... wall chant rumbled up and a load of bricks and debris came flying at us. The police put shields up and rushed us into the station and onto the train. A few people got hit. Of course once safely on the train teenage me got all billy big balls!!

 

[Anger]

Millwall 91 play-off match. They had already kicked off inside the ground and it was a long walk back to the station and too many dark roads / alleys on route.

Nothing happened though. Which was nice.

 

[Eeyore]

Surprised no one has mentioned Everton away December 1979.

That was the first time we had gone there after getting promoted to Division 1, buses laid on to run everyone back to the station, only trouble was that Everton fans were on the same buses and proceed to whack everyone including girls and old folk, followed by running battles at Lime Street Station.

So bad I think only about 20 or so of us went back next time.

Can also confirm Millwall away on numerous occasions. Can't say I ever jumped into a taxi to get back to the car, but have taken an hour to get back to the car, after being told not to go down that road as we can't guarantee your safety, and having to walk almost to New Cross Gate before doubling back.

Also after the play off game, walking back to the car behind a couple of coppers on the overside of the road from a Millwall pub, when glasses starting being thrown across the street at us.

And most games in late 70s and early 80s, you gained a sixth sense to avoid trouble. If not in a convoy, always best to walk quickly giving the impression of knowing where you were going, and avoiding speaking as the southern accents were a real give away up north.

This was before my time, but an older Albion fan told me it was his worst away experience.

 

[Eeyore]

Oldham 1978
the spurs game was the week before
what a week or so that was

14 years old at the time
very scary stuff

One of us would always return from Oldham having taken a biff.

 

[Cotton Socks]

My 1st away game.... Millwall '91. We had a lovely day in London first, Madamme Tussauds, picnic in Regents Park (well not a picnic, a couple of bottles of wine that had a lot of cork in it after I used my key to open them), then onto there. I was a bit naive and wasn't expecting it to be like that.
The York match at the Goldstone in '96. I worked in the office but we could watch the match, it all kicked off I went inside and then we were locked in with no idea what was happening outside, apart from the fact it was loud with people banging on the windows of the office and what felt like everywhere. I retreated to the safety of the 'lounge' (bar) and distributed alcohol to myself and others (I'm good in a crisis). Seemed like hours before it was safe to leave. Probably wasn't and I was just having 'one more beer' to be on the safe side! I had to wait for The Argus to come out the next day to corroborate my reasons for being late and tipsy.

 

[Cotton Socks]

The Old Den, Millwall away 1991 (I think). League game we won 2-1 just before we got them again in the play offs. The ground emptied quickly and we were kept back then kettled to the station. All was very dark and quiet, eeriely quiet as we edged to the station. Then suddenly the Milllll... wall chant rumbled up and a load of bricks and debris came flying at us. The police put shields up and rushed us into the station and onto the train. A few people got hit. Of course once safely on the train teenage me got all billy big balls!!

Sounds like the one I was at. Wasn't great on the train either as they continued to lob bricks at that.

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

Knock knock Ginger in 73 was scary, fell over a wall banged my head and ended up in Southlands then keys in a bowl party in Shirley street Hove 95... ended up with a minger and a dose!

 

[Sheebo]

Don't we get this thread every year?
Anywhere in the 70's.
In particular Cardiff on the Seagull train. Just looked it up and the tunnel under the line on Clare Road was my most scary moment ever. No police and running back alone to the station. Didn't go to Cardiff for around 40+ years.
Sheffield was the safest in that we were strip searched at the station and kettled both to and from the ground.

How the hell did you managed to get strip searched at a station!?

 

[Weststander]

They only started segregating fans at the Goldstone in the late 70s. Even then it wasn’t always effective as in those days you paid on the gate and not many wore colours.

Segregation (ticketed or just policed) started years before that eg Division 3 game in the mid 70’s. Hooliganism started in the 60’s and was a huge thing by the early 70’s. I remember as clear as yesterday CP, Millwall, Portsmouth and every other club in separate standing and seated areas in the Taylor then Mullery era, away games were the same.

What people are describing are orchestrated trying to take ends. Tons of stuff on the internet of eg West Ham always taking the North Bank, Liverpool taking additional stands just due to the huge numbers travelling, Manure were the same, Glasgow Rangers taking any end they chose in ‘friendlies’ in England. All up and running by 1972.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Any away game in the 70’s was more than often a bit hairy.

Most things were back then.

 

[Jack Straw]

Spurs (home) 78. Terrifying. But on the Friday night I was watching a work colleague’s punk band in the Hungry Years when it dawned on me that all I could hear above the extremely loud band was ‘Glory Hallelujah‘. We escaped via a side door and returned to my friend’s car and spotted that all the cars had their tyres slashed. For some reason they had not damaged our little Renault 4 so we jumped in and headed hom, only to discover that as we waited by the red traffic light at Kings West, all the Spurs fans were being marched to the beach and were surrounding all the cars. Hopefully those days are now well and truly over.

They tried to get in to The Concorde as well. It was the usual Friday night Reggae do, and all was well until about twenty Spurs fans appeared at the door and started their Barmy Tottenham Army song. They'd already grabbed hold of the Bouncer and threw him on to Madeira Drive. What happened next was wonderful. Every person in there downed their drinks and hurled their empty glasses- dozens of them, towards the mob. That did the trick! Off they ran to the sound of Police sirens, and mysteriously dissipated in to the night.

 

[Miximate]

Got a pasting after a Cardiff game back in the early/mid 70s and had my nice silky albion scarf ripped off my wrist!

 

[Jack Straw]

sound pretty horrible, but, I think the post that prompted your reply referred to the Home game (same season) and the fact that the match was stopped for significant periods.. this would get my shout too! (similar age as others, 10 years old in the relative safety of the West Stand)

Chelsea at Home c.1984 was pretty horrible too.. sheer volume of away fans, far more than allocation, loads in the home terraces, this was when they had seated away stands in the west stand extension, a huge pitch invasion at the end of the match. I think there was loads of trouble the night before. I think this was my first match on the terraces!

I was at both of these too. However, in enemy territory, you felt nervy before you started!

 

[MTSeagulls]

The 7-0 v Charlton back in the 80s.
Me and my mate decided to hot foot it to Hove station with about 5 minutes to go.
We got there and were on the Shoreham side when about 20 Charlton saw us and encircled us. Initially it was just a bit of taunting but then a couple of police stepped in front of us and it turned into an old fashioned school corridor type bundle with fists flying everywhere.
I got away with just a couple of punches taken to the side of the head.
Never left a game early again

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Segregation (ticketed or just policed) started years before that eg Division 3 game in the mid 70’s. Hooliganism started in the 60’s and was a huge thing by the early 70’s. I remember as clear as yesterday CP, Millwall, Portsmouth and every other club in separate standing and seated areas in the Taylor then Mullery era, away games were the same.

What people are describing are orchestrated trying to take ends. Tons of stuff on the internet of eg West Ham always taking the North Bank, Liverpool taking additional stands just due to the huge numbers travelling, Manure were the same, Glasgow Rangers taking any end they chose in ‘friendlies’ in England. All up and running by 1972.

By segregation I thought he meant fences around away ends. I think they went up at the Goldstone towards the end of the 70s ?

 

[Weststander]

By segregation I thought he meant fences around away ends. I think they went up at the Goldstone towards the end of the 70s ?

1978?

 

[Blue3]

Thre games spring to mind but cannot recall the dates not even that sure about the decades

Millwall late 1970s very scary fenced in for our own protection

spurs away early 1980s on coach which was attacked twice one included bricks thrown from bridge

Lincoln of all places 1990s just not very friendly northerners