Worst Trouble??

[London Calling]

Pretty much spot on - although I don't rememberthe Arsenal trouble either.

Spurs was the worst IMO - however Millwall (are you sure it was a night game?) was pretty bad. It was just after the Panorama programme I think, they all wore masks - and I am I dreaming or was there a police horse in the North Stand that day!?

It was a Sat game, I remember also walking around town in a group looking for Millwall and avoiding Millwall, lots of rumours of Millwall nutters with axes etc and didn't some also sleep under West Pier and tried to set it alight.

 

[Hampden Park]

Peterborough away in 76 when their local paper had the headline before the game of ''Town in fear, Brighton here''
I think it was Bamber who who went mad, saying how dare they tarnish the good name of the Albion, who`s supporters were amongst the best in the land.

Anyway the town got smashed up with about 80 arrests.

was that the game when we built a bonfire in the stand to keep ourselves warm?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Peterborough away in 76 when their local paper had the headline before the game of ''Town in fear, Brighton here''
I think it was Bamber who who went mad, saying how dare they tarnish the good name of the Albion, who`s supporters were amongst the best in the land.

Anyway the town got smashed up with about 80 arrests.

was that the game when we built a bonfire in the stand to keep ourselves warm?

Yes , but it was only a small bonfire to be honest , looking back it was lucky that the terracing in the stand behind the goal was concrete and the roof corrugated iron otherwise things could have been nasty ( a la Bradford).
p.s. the urinals at Peterborough smelt as if they hadn't been scoured for several months either.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It was a Sat game, I remember also walking around town in a group looking for Millwall and avoiding Millwall, lots of rumours of Millwall nutters with axes etc and didn't some also sleep under West Pier and tried to set it alight.

There were two matches involving trouble with Millwall. I remember the evening match as we got the bus from Whitehawk and there were blokes in their 30s and 40s who usually didn't go to watch the Albion going along for the "entertainment".
I think it was the Sat game where the Millwall fans were recognisable for wearing the surgical masks.The two worst instances of trouble at the Goldstone definately have to be Spurs and West Ham.

 

[Caveman]

There have been a few, nobody has mentioned Bournemouth away in the mid 90's when Brighton ran across the pitch and ran the home end, the game was live on TV if I remember?

Anyone remember the Crazy Coaches? Great days.

 

[BigGully]

What was the bother when Chelsea cam to town in the 80's.....

The stanley knives and petrol bombs given out to the Brighton Nutters in one of the pubs in the North Laines Area....was it the 'Weavers' that were involved...

Mayhem I have heard ??

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I remember Arsenal playing us in the cup at the Golstone (Niall Quinn scored to knock us out) would have been 87 0r 88 I suppose, there was a right old scrap under the bridge behind the south stand, and later in town a few of us were locked in the cricketers whn we were attacked by a load of gooners with for sale signs.

remember quite a few rucks in the North stand with various clubs fans, Millwall certainly, and bizarrely I seem to recall trouble from Bristol City fans as well although cant place the year.

Away at Portsmouth in the Championship was quite lively as well being bricked as we were leaving the ground.

 

[csider]

Undoubtably!, We are the hardest in London

Yeah, right there mate. About as hard as my cock after an ounce of speed..!!

Seem to remember a no show at BHA very recently because the trains were not running!!

 

[wehatepalace]

There have been a few, nobody has mentioned Bournemouth away in the mid 90's when Brighton ran across the pitch and ran the home end, the game was live on TV if I remember?
Great days.

Yeah I remember that one straight across the pitch into their stand My dad saw me on Sky !

 

[Scotty Mac]

There have been a few, nobody has mentioned Bournemouth away in the mid 90's when Brighton ran across the pitch and ran the home end, the game was live on TV if I remember?

it was on meridian! i found it thoroughly exciting being only 7 at the time

 

[Tooting Gull]

Let's see now...Brentford away, late 80s sometime. About 60-70 arrests, featured in one of the Chelsea hoolie books (they all turned up, unsurprisingly).

The Chelsea home game (83-84?) when they won before going nuts and totalling the goals.

The Birmingham game in (85-86? ) mentioned by Gaffer. What a day that was, fantastic top-of-the-table match, tense atmosphere, brilliant clinching goal by Steve Penney, and then all the aggro. You went home feeling wired. Funnily enough, that was the first game of a now longstanding season ticket holder who I'd taken along to give him a 'taste'. And he got the full five-course meal.

 

[Simster]

Chelsea in 1984. f***ing hell.

Palace away in 1985 - coins and concrete thrown at us a half time, fights going off all over the place.

Arsenal at home 1987. I think some of their "fans" set fire to that pub by Hove Station.

I'm too young to remember the 70s.

 

[Croydonbloke]

Yeah, right there mate. About as hard as my cock after an ounce of speed..!!

Seem to remember a no show at BHA very recently because the trains were not running!!

Why did you have to mention `Cock`? There are many other things you could have mentioned, i`m sorry to say I have no interest in what your cock does thank you.

 

[wehatepalace]

i`m sorry to say I have no interest in what your cock does thank you.

Yeah right

 

[csider]

You were in the Crescent opposite, attacking the Cambridge was not a good idea that night, your lot ran back, locked the door and hid under tables by all accounts!

As I said earlier, you lot didnt have the balls to make the return leg. We will meet next season, so it can keep.

 

[Croydonbloke]

As I said earlier, you lot didnt have the balls to make the return leg. We will meet next season, so it can keep.

600 tickets to Season ticket holders only. Sure we were to have many of our boys down on the coast.

 

[Croydonbloke]

Yeah right

 

[Mr Blobby]

A v Ipswich when we got relegated and they got promoted.
We were drinking in the Drum & Monkey by the ground. Been in there about 5 mins when everyone when steaming outside and showering the Police with pint glasses who responded with batton charges, which saw Brighton then charge them again pushing them back up the road. Went on for about 5 minutes and the place looked a glass recycling centre. When it had all cooled down it was back to the bar for another pint and another glass!

Barnsley away in 85 in the cup. We got a right hammering after the game after singing "arther scargill is a wan*er". It was around the time of the miners strikes! The supporters coaches had windows put through as they tried to leave.

Oxford away in the mid eighties - kicked off all over the place, police locked us all in a pub for about 2 hours and circled it with riot vans!

Oldham away in the FA cup in 1990. The Gulls eye coach was the centre of running battles in the car park after the match. We got chased down towards the station and couldnt find our minibus for ages!

Southend in the late late 70's/or early eighties, still got my Aunts local paper with the headline "we could handle millwall but we couldnt handle brighton". There was something like £50ks worth of damage to the town centre after the game on the escorted route back to the train station, every shop window got put through as they walked our lot back to the station

Gillingham in 87. My real highlight of that was a pikey chav throwing a milk bottle at us as we walked up the road, he was then hit by a car that came round the corner sending him flying!

Palace away when Ryan broke his leg. Flying concrete, the terracing was all cracking up and people just digging it up and throwing it at palace who threw it back! We had the away corner and the main palace lads stood on the terrace on the side right next to the away fans, in front of the seats that also had away fans in, in what is now the away seats (I think?) After the game the train I was on was smashed to bits!

Millwall at home in 1977 when the treatment gang ended up behind us in the South West terrace, we were escorted to the South stand.

Tottenham at home in 78, Chelsea in 83 were both scary matches

Shrewsbury, Plymouth (on one occasion we got taken back to the train station in a Police van) and Peterborough away always used to be fun and games as well. Swansea when we played them on a Friday night x2 Went clubbing in a quids in night club wearing an england hat (why I have no idea!) we walked home carrying a for sale sign for protection! The other time we played them on a Friday saw one of Swansea finest put over a garden wall by our mate as we all ran for our lives, they stopped chasing us after that!!

All Brighton v Palace games are interesting affairs, the amount of nutters who went up for our last two visits was like a return to the 70's/80's!

Football is a bit dull these days!!!!!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Really? I was there and don't recall any hassle.

I can't be the only one on here who remembers that Kingstonian away game in the cup circa 1996? 2-1 down with 85 minutes played and some Albion fans behind the goal started dismantling the concrete perimeter surrounding the pitch and heaving them towards the playing surface. Cue the local constabulary wading in with some indiscriminate batoning.

The 5-0 at Palarse was memorable for more indiscriminate batoning at South Norwwood Station (or was it West Norwood?) where we ended up being herded. So pissed off were some of ours at this treatment that three outnumbered (but armed with shields/batons) police in the station underpass were almost charged following the classic line: "C'mon let's do 'em!" from one particular pumped up Albion fan.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Also Fulham outside Hove station in mid-late 90s, when cornered Fulham fans took off their belts and snapped off nearby car aerials to defend themselves from the advancing blue and white hoardes.