Worst violence away from home ?

[daveinprague]

Anybody remember the fruit and veg fight on the motorway rest stop with Millwall? Was funny more than violent.

The worst away trip i did was with the Bosun lot...I got to the station with my 8 quid for ticket to Cambridge, and was offered a 2 quid ride in the back of a lorry....
Only way in or out was via some trapdoor on the side... must of been at least 20 odd in the back... stopped off in Croydon, and they robbed an off licence.....by the time we hit the twisty roads in Cambridgeshire, the vomiting started, and the only way to get rid of it was to piss it out the trap door...when we got to Cambridge, an old copper saw us exiting the trap door....covered in vomit and piss, as it was impossible to keep your footing... looked disappointed, and put us through the kids entrance.
I woke up at halftime, and it was 1-1
Left the ground at the endc to be told the driver had gone to visit his mother in weston super mare?
So went into the city, where they then attacked a cinema queue, and various other misdemeanors.
Lorry turned up, but we had to wait for people to be let out of the police station.
Travelled no more than about 5 miles, and showed up in some village, and stopped as somebody spotted a fish an chip shop..
people came back from the chippy announcing theres a local disco and loads of cambridge fans there... dear lord..didnt get back till next day.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I think you will find the second story was in fact Reading...

The second story was told to me about 13 years ago buy someone i was working with at the time, i expect i got the places wrong, one thing i do remember is the other fans were coming into the pub in fancy dress , i think to suss out that Albion were in the pub.

 

[Ernest]

Everton away in 1979

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I got nobbled by a Tunisian gang in Clapham for my phone. Claret all over the place. I'd like to say there were more than three, but it wouldn't be accurate.

Brighton were away at Bristol City that day.

 

[patchamalbion]

Only 26 so i'd have to say Chesterfield, Lincoln and i don't mind admitting touching cloth at a night game in Luton mid noughties when 70/80 tooled up Luton were legging it up towards 15/20 of us in a pub only for the robo's to turn up last minute.

best show from BHA away from home have been Palace, Pompy, Chesterfield and Wolves imo - also Vale.

 

[El Presidente]

Grimsby 1985, Tuesday night, won 4-2 after being 2-0 down with 12 minutes to go.

Locals were very unpleasant.

Millwall at the Old Den, they had not lost at home for two years, Mick Ferguson picked up the ball on the half way line, we (and the Millwall defence) assumed as usual that nothing would happen, he ambled forwards 40 yards with no one attempting to tackle him and then slotted it half heartedly past their keeper. We held on to win 1-0. Afterwards they put out every window on the football special back to Brighton.

Port Vale in 2002. We had already been promoted but needed a win to be champions. Paul Watson curled one in for victory. About four pitch invasions during the match from their lot, and carnage in town afterwards.

Wolves 1981/2. Andy Ritchie scored a 25 yard screamer which gave us three points and took us to 5th in the top division. Their lot were randomly giving anyone not in flares a kicking outside Molyneux.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Remember the 87/88 season and trips to Southend, gillingham, aldershot, brentford and Northampton got lively, especially the cup games !!

That was my first season going away. Went to Southend on the Costa Express. I'm not much of a lad or fighter at all, I'd rather have a laugh and a drink but sod me I knew that far more interesting things were going on outside that coach than in. It was train for the rest of that season. Gillingham was mental, going off all over and then we had the police dogs set on us at Victoria. Brentford I arrived after the pubs had been done and was escorted straight to the ground where we were held by "Ploppy the Jailer" but afterwards got chased by police horses all through some narrow council flats. Less said about Aldershot the better.

Now I'm a lefty family type with two kids who loves books, music and football. No intention of getting involved whatever. Yet I KNOW that season was what got me hooked on The Albion.

Am I a much less successful Nick Hornby?

 

[Cesar Chavez]

Everton away in 1979

I was on that double decker bus on the way back to Lime Street station. To coin a phase, 'it got a bit lively' on the upper deck.

Nearly got a good kicking before getting on the bus, got surrounded by scallies, asking 'what's the time' and all that but got rescued by a friendly copper before they got going.

Came back south via Manchester. Bad move, city centre was a war zone. Leeds had been at OT and Chelsea were returning from Oldham. People were being thrown through plate glass windows. well dodgy it was.

 

[Ernest]

Grimsby 1985, Tuesday night, won 4-2 after being 2-0 down with 12 minutes to go.

Locals were very unpleasant.

Millwall at the Old Den, they had not lost at home for two years, Mick Ferguson picked up the ball on the half way line, we (and the Millwall defence) assumed as usual that nothing would happen, he ambled forwards 40 yards with no one attempting to tackle him and then slotted it half heartedly past their keeper. We held on to win 1-0. Afterwards they put out every window on the football special back to Brighton.

Port Vale in 2002. We had already been promoted but needed a win to be champions. Paul Watson curled one in for victory. About four pitch invasions during the match from their lot, and carnage in town afterwards.

Wolves 1981/2. Andy Ritchie scored a 25 yard screamer which gave us three points and took us to 5th in the top division. Their lot were randomly giving anyone not in flares a kicking outside Molyneux.

I remember 1 trip to Wolves , I think November 1980 when the few of us going got ran by Palace at Victoria on the way up, then ran by Man U at Euston, ran all over Wolverhampton before and after the game, ran by the Scousers at Euston on the way back and ran by Palace again at Victoria and East Croydon on the train back to Brighton.

I was fitter than Mo Farrah after that lot.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Last league meeting at roots hall between us and Southend there was a bit of agg on the seafront there.

The next day the Southend Echo had the headline "soccer yobs on rampage" referring to our own sweet boys. There was a little crew arrested outside the ground in connection with that...they all looked about 40.

I remember a comedic incident on Cowards way where some Millwall goon was fronting up from behind a line of OB giving it the "come on then" arms outstretched. There was a bloke at he front of our lot...again, not a youngster, who waited for the bellend to wander past and just reached over the cops and twatted him. Even the Police were laughing as they wrestled him to the ground. It was a thing of beauty to behold.

 

[pasty]

As I only started going to away games in the mid 1990's, this is the worst I've seen. I was in the kebab shop next to the pub when a coach turned up and everyone got off to attack the pub. It escalated pretty quickly and the pub was absolutely trashed.

some well known lads out that day from a certain estate

Well the Aldershot lads certainly seemed to be ready and waiting. I was only in there as I'd gone up with a couple of mates to meet some other mates who were Aldershot fans, so we were having a drink with them. As we walked into the pub, we were clocked immediately as non-locals, and some lad half shouted "seagulls" to see if we'd react - fortunately we didn't fall for that and kept schtum. We'd only had a bout one sip of our first pint when the Brighton lot turned up, and it certainly did escalate quite quickly. I saw a couple of Aldershot lads with big overcoats on, open their coats and start luzzing empty bottles they'd kept ready in their pockets. Tables, chairs and glasses followed pretty quick and a couple of them turned to look at us, but we'd scarpered.

In my dreams I like to think they thought we were the advance crew telling the rest where to come Which, as anyone who knows me knows, that couldn't be further from the truth

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

I remember 1 trip to Wolves , I think November 1980 when the few of us going got ran by Palace at Victoria on the way up, then ran by Man U at Euston, ran all over Wolverhampton before and after the game, ran by the Scousers at Euston on the way back and ran by Palace again at Victoria and East Croydon on the train back to Brighton.

I was fitter than Mo Farrah after that lot.

That's a lot of running Ernest---obviously before you discovered THE FULL ENGLISH

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Grimsby 1985, Tuesday night, won 4-2 after being 2-0 down with 12 minutes to go.

Locals were very unpleasant.

Millwall at the Old Den, they had not lost at home for two years, Mick Ferguson picked up the ball on the half way line, we (and the Millwall defence) assumed as usual that nothing would happen, he ambled forwards 40 yards with no one attempting to tackle him and then slotted it half heartedly past their keeper. We held on to win 1-0. Afterwards they put out every window on the football special back to Brighton.

Port Vale in 2002. We had already been promoted but needed a win to be champions. Paul Watson curled one in for victory. About four pitch invasions during the match from their lot, and carnage in town afterwards.

Wolves 1981/2. Andy Ritchie scored a 25 yard screamer which gave us three points and took us to 5th in the top division. Their lot were randomly giving anyone not in flares a kicking outside Molyneux.

They still wear flares to identify each other at Molynuex.

 

[Ernest]

That's a lot of running Ernest---obviously before you discovered THE FULL ENGLISH

I had a lot more PUFF in them days

 

[Blackadder]

I have been to lot of the games already mentioned. Chesterfield, Luton, Port Vale, countless palace and Pompey games but the one that still sticks out in my mind is the 0-0 at Spurs.

 

[carlzeiss]

Watford FA Cup 1984 . No trouble at all until 1/2 way through the 2nd half when the Met.Police move in to the ground .
Standing in front of the Away fans on the pitch perimeter , making menacing gestures to the bewildered Albion following .
No response to their provocation therefore they enter the away terrace . Picking out innocent individuals at random and subjecting them to a viscous beating with their legally held weapons .
In those days the Police were only paid by Football clubs if they were inside the ground . If there was no reason for them to be so it was sometimes necessary for them to engineer a situation that required their response . Saw similar on a smaller scale at Upton Park the previous season .

Scary times indeed .

 

[BN9 BHA]

I have been to lot of the games already mentioned. Chesterfield, Luton, Port Vale, countless palace and Pompey games but the one that still sticks out in my mind is the 0-0 at Spurs.

Spurs away was scary, I was only 12

 

[portslade seagull]

Watford FA Cup 1984 . No trouble at all until 1/2 way through the 2nd half when the Met.Police move in to the ground .
Standing in front of the Away fans on the pitch perimeter , making menacing gestures to the bewildered Albion following .
No response to their provocation therefore they enter the away terrace . Picking out innocent individuals at random and subjecting them to a viscous beating with their legally held weapons .
In those days the Police were only paid by Football clubs if they were inside the ground . If there was no reason for them to be so it was sometimes necessary for them to engineer a situation that required their response . Saw similar on a smaller scale at Upton Park the previous season .

Scary times indeed .

Remember something similar when we played Fulham, some Met scrote giving us signs down to his side and then unluckily for him he
was sent into the crowd to pull a fan and got beaten to the ground and had to be pulled out by his mates

 

[El Presidente]

The 5-1 defeat at Fratton, followed by being locked in for 30 minutes in the pouring rain by Pompey's OB, who were all in their waterproofs. They then abandoned us and we got a shoeing from Pompey's nutters.

 

[carlzeiss]

The 5-1 defeat at Fratton, followed by being locked in for 30 minutes in the pouring rain by Pompey's OB, who were all in their waterproofs. They then abandoned us and we got a shoeing from Pompey's nutters.

Remember that one 1-0 up at half time , left with 10 mins to go and watched he rest of the game in the Fratton end .