Worst Trouble??

[Peter Grummit]

Anyone remember Reading away mid-80s? I remember Brighton attacking police horses with lumps of wood. Went with my mate who is ManU and lived locally (but does come from Bramhall) and he said he'd never seen such trouble anywhere!

PG

 

[Simster]

Anyone remember Reading away mid-80s? I remember Brighton attacking police horses with lumps of wood. Went with my mate who is ManU and lived locally (but does come from Bramhall) and he said he'd never seen such trouble anywhere!

PG

Was that the one where 3 Albion fans got in the home section next to the away end?

I think Kevin Bremner scored for them (then joined us at the end of the season to get us promoted again)

 

[Tooting Gull]

Anyone remember Reading away mid-80s? I remember Brighton attacking police horses with lumps of wood. PG

Doesn't sound like our finest hour...

 

[Caveman]

Anyone remember Reading away mid-80s? I remember Brighton attacking police horses with lumps of wood. Went with my mate who is ManU and lived locally (but does come from Bramhall) and he said he'd never seen such trouble anywhere!

PG

Not sure if this is the same game, but I remember there was a burger bar at the top of the stand and the fans were taking flour, bottles and anything else they could get there hands on and lobbing them at the Reading fans, there was only a large chicken wire style mesh dividing the two sets of fans. All a bit of a hase though?

 

[Caveman]

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.

No, one of my mates almost went down for that game. I remember the pub with the stripper before hand, I think it was the Robert Peal or something like that, had a right laugh in that pub. I think it was the same game a hand full of Chelsea giving a couple of Brighton fans a slap just outside the ground, luckily there was about 10 of us who walked around the corner and saved these couple of Brighton fans a serious shoeing. The brave Chelsea blokes ran off when outnumbered themselves.

 

[wehatepalace]

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!!!!!

 

[Peter Grummit]

Was that the one where 3 Albion fans got in the home section next to the away end?

There were Brighton in the seats with the Reading between them and us on the terraces.

I think Kevin Bremner scored for them (then joined us at the end of the season to get us promoted again)

Correct - I'd forgotten that - must have been 86/87.

PG

 

[the wanderbus]

Sheff utd in around 1985, we needed a win & other results to go our way to go up to div 1, we won 1 - 0 then it kicked off on the pitch after with some nutter hurling the corner flag like a spear - all shown with accompanying outrage on coast to coast on the monday.

East Croydon station in 1978 when the old bill herded about 1000 of us onto a 3 carriage train. Every body just jumped out the other side ,climbed over the station wall & was off to have some fun with the scum.

 

[Seagulls over Lewes]

Chesterfield away 1987/88 season was very juicy. As was the time we played the in the div 3 championship year.

 

[wigman]

Anyone remember Reading away mid-80s? I remember Brighton attacking police horses with lumps of wood. Went with my mate who is ManU and lived locally (but does come from Bramhall) and he said he'd never seen such trouble anywhere!

PG

i remember that game very well; i remember a shed being dislodged and pushed down the back of the terraces!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Luton was always a bit tasty in the late 60's. They were our main rivals then, hooliewise.

Somebody mentioned Bristol city. They were the opening game of 72/73 following our promotion and had loads in the North.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

The only trouble I've ever seen is Brighton fan legging it as fast as they can away from any trouble. The rest is simply vain glorious wishful thinking boasting. We don't fight, we run.

 

[timbha]

The only trouble I've ever seen is Brighton fan legging it as fast as they can away from any trouble. The rest is simply vain glorious wishful thinking boasting. We don't fight, we run.

I ddn't realise you are only 16 years old.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Aldershot away was pretty tasty in F.A Cup as far as recent years go

We were in the Home end that day and we tried to get the guy on the gate which separated the fans to let us through but he thought we were Aldershot fans so the only thing was to blast out a few Albion songs it's amazing how quick they got us out of their a few punches being thrown at us as they went mad - but amazingly the police saw sense and let us back in our side to see us thump them 2-6 i think!!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I ddn't realise you are only 16 years old.

If only you knew.... I'm not sure whether this is a complement or an insult. You decide.......
The last trouble I saw involved a large number of Arsenal fans on the West Stand.... I suspect you don't know where the West Stand was/is? We ran..... very fast.

 

[timbha]

If only you knew.... I'm not sure whether this is a complement or an insult. You decide.......
The last trouble I saw involved a large number of Arsenal fans on the West Stand.... I suspect you don't know where the West Stand was/is? We ran..... very fast.

yes I know the West Stand, and yes I know it wasn't filled with the most "active" fans. West Standers running? I hope you collected your flasks

 

[Cheshire Cat]

This entire thread is complete drivel. BHA has never had "hard" fans. Every time the alledged "hard" fans came up against some really hard fans - Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham, Millwall etc they melted away like snow in a heat wave and were never seen again (until the next weeks posturing). The rest is complete wishful thinking and fantasy. I saw the Inter City Firm and Millwall whatever they called themselves in the mid '70s and BHA were helpless kittens by comparison (and still are thank God). Now that is a reputation to be proud of.

By the way, can we resurrect the pink away shirt next season

 

[Cheshire Cat]

yes I know the West Stand, and yes I know it wasn't filled with the most "active" fans. West Standers running? I hope you collected your flasks

Thats why I was standing to the north.

I didn't realise 10 year olds knew so much history. I'm impressed. An apple from teacher.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

When we moved into our current house in 1980, we used to take our dogs for walks up to Standen, where I used to see a rottweiler being exercised. It turned out that he was Blitz, the first rottweiler to be used by the police. His handler told Dad that it used to take him three days to recover from a game at the Goldstone, where he was used for crowd control. At Shrewsbury at the end of the 2000-01 season when we had won the Division 3 Championship, I remember walking around the town being met by locals congratulating us on having won the league, and the Shrewsbury fans came up to the away end at the end of the game and clapped us. On leaving the ground, I walked back into the town - I was wearing colours, and was met by someone who said, "Don't go down there", so I went up an alleyway and watched as a huge group of lads kicked lumps out of each other on the road outside a pub. None had colours on. I don't know if that was some of our "lads", but some on here have claimed there was trouble that day.

 

[smudge]

The Millwall one was definitely a Saturday.

That is all