Fights in school

NPBlue said:
'On the park. 4 O'clock' was the usual response to some handbags being thrown in the playground. It went on for years and nothing ever happened, until some fateful day when the two 'hardest lads' in the school decided to go head to head. On the park, as usual, but this time it was different. It was going to happen.

At 4 O'clock there must have been a couple of hundred boys gathered in a big group in the middle of the park, the combatants in the centre literally did'nt have enough space to swing the proverbial cat.

Excitement was at fever pitch. Blazers and ties were removed, and the big fight began.

Only it did'nt. Just as the first punches were being thrown, an old lady about 5 feet tall waded through the crowd demanding to know what stupidity was going on, and sent us all home!

This happened about 1971 or '72.

The Big Fight, scuppered by an old lady. Oh well.

Usually, fights in the playground were a couple of punches, someone bottled it, and it was over.

Someone had a go at me in the bike shed once, I don't remember why, but I threw a few punches and he stopped when he realised blood was coming out of his nose. He stopped, I stopped, I got my bike out and went home.

The following morning, a teacher came up to me and asked me if we had a problem, they could set up a boxing ring and we could do it properly.

I said it was nothing, and I was'nt bothered about it.

No one was tooled up in those days, and gangs did'nt exist. I had a few fights at school, it was impossible to avoid. You fought your corner, and when it was over, you became the best of mates or you completely ignored each other.
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Bit mad that it took Lisandro Martinez to break it up.
 
Having raised three kids (since this thread was born!) what I can tell you is that there is no longer such a thing as "Cock of the School". Sad times.
 
I had 6 proper fights in the first 2 years of secondary school and won them all. At the end of the 2nd year the cock of the year above attacked me in the bogs and we had a full on war for about 20 minutes. No way I was letting this **** take the piss. Everyone called it a draw. I remember being absolutely exhausted for about a week after it and having all kinds of injuries. A proper full on fight.

No one fucked with me after that.

Nowadays, I couldn’t fight my way out of a paper bag.
 
simonr555 said:
The best fight I ever saw at school was actually a cat fight between two absolute munters who had been sleeping with the same lad (who was also weird).
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The one with the short blonde hair was ok, if I recall correctly.
 
Stoned Rose said:
I had 6 proper fights in the first 2 years of secondary school and won them all. At the end of the 2nd year the cock of the year above attacked me in the bogs and we had a full on war for about 20 minutes. No way I was letting this **** take the piss. Everyone called it a draw. I remember being absolutely exhausted for about a week after it and having all kinds of injuries. A proper full on fight.

No one fucked with me after that.

Nowadays, I couldn’t fight my way out of a paper bag.
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The pinnacle of school fighting was a fight for "Cock of The School" status. I remember two, one in the park where the existing cock got conquered, a parkie tried to intervene and got hit himself, and another on a staircase where my mate HAggis took the crown without even throwing a punch. He's still a hard bastard to this day.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The pinnacle of school fighting was a fight for "Cock of The School" status. I remember two, one in the park where the existing cock got conquered, a parkie tried to intervene and got hit himself, and another on a staircase where my mate HAggis took the crown without even throwing a punch. He's still a hard bastard to this day.
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The cock of our school was in year 11, tried snapping me in football I was in year 7 he fell over and broke his arm because of how small I was haha shit myself!
Was some really horrible fights at my school people getting their heads repeatedly whacked off coat hooks or being DDT'd onto metal manhole covers. Seemed like a right of passage that whoever got beat up smashed a window in the hallways out of embarrassment.
 
Did anyone withness an inter-school Cock of The Schools fight? Our school had one planned with the rival school. and it was rumoured to spill into an inter-school fight, and dozens of us were piling over after school and the police were there and stopped it.

The story was that Haggis (as mentioned above) actually went to the rival school's cock's house and offered him out but I don't know how true that actually was.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Did anyone withness an inter-school Cock of The Schools fight? Our school had one planned with the rival school. and it was rumoured to spill into an inter-school fight, and dozens of us were piling over after school and the police were there and stopped it.

The story was that Haggis (as mentioned above) actually went to the rival school's cock's house and offered him out but I don't know how true that actually was.
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Ashton Grammar vs Stamford School at the side entrance to AGS. Lasted about 5 minutes, which can be an eternity in a fight.

Back then (70s) fight was over when someone got knocked down by a punch. Today, that seems to elicit a kicking and stomping, which back in the day would have been considered chickenshit.
 
I got into loads of fights. In primary and secondary school. Rough area, tough schools. You had to stick up for yourself or you'd just become a target.

One time this nutcase took a run at me head first, I ducked down and then stood up so he flipped up over my back. I will never forget the noise his head made when it hit the concrete playground.

An older lad grabbed me and bundled me away from the scene.

I looked out the window during my next lesson and a cleaner was washing the blood off the floor.

Same lad drowned a few years later, in a tunnel at hough end.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Did anyone withness an inter-school Cock of The Schools fight? Our school had one planned with the rival school. and it was rumoured to spill into an inter-school fight, and dozens of us were piling over after school and the police were there and stopped it.

The story was that Haggis (as mentioned above) actually went to the rival school's cock's house and offered him out but I don't know how true that actually was.
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My older brother went Spurley Hey in the late 80s early 90s said they would have a big fight planned with their rival on Mellands. In the end turns into like a 3v3 as everyone shits out.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
Ashton Grammar vs Stamford School at the side entrance to AGS. Lasted about 5 minutes, which can be an eternity in a fight.

Back then (70s) fight was over when someone got knocked down by a punch. Today, that seems to elicit a kicking and stomping, which back in the day would have been considered chickenshit.
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For us surrender, drawing blood or tears was typically seen as the end of a fight, certainly in the younger years. It was just kind of accepted who won, there was never any dispute. There were a fair few draws which saved both party's pride. I don't remember any school fights where others joined in back in the 80s. I remember a lad banging his hed on the concrete and going unconscious. That one had the school buzzing that day.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Did anyone withness an inter-school Cock of The Schools fight? Our school had one planned with the rival school. and it was rumoured to spill into an inter-school fight, and dozens of us were piling over after school and the police were there and stopped it.

The story was that Haggis (as mentioned above) actually went to the rival school's cock's house and offered him out but I don't know how true that actually was.
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I knew a haggis, woodslane cheadle hulme. He was cock of the school too

I lived in cheadle hulme and within close
Proximity there was moseley, kingsway, woodslane and st james.
There was always a hierarchy and it was cock of years, and cock of school.
As most knew people from each of the other schools there would also be inter schools fights to determine hardest school and fights between cocks of schools to determine cock of the area.
Mental really

Incidently, the cock of woodslane was at one point a girl called silvine. Her brother , paul bailey (bails) was the hardest lad ive ever seen and at 15 looked like a man.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
I knew a haggis, woodslane cheadle hulme. He was cock of the school too

I lived in cheadle hulme and within close
Proximity there was moseley, kingsway, woodslane and st james.
There was always a hierarchy and it was cock of years, and cock of school.
As most knew people from each of the other schools there would also be inter schools fights to determine hardest school and fights between cocks of schools to determine cock of the area.
Mental really

Incidently, the cock of woodslane was at one point a girl called silvine. Her brother , paul bailey (bails) was the hardest lad ive ever seen and at 15 looked like a man.
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Fuck me that reminded me of a time when a 16 year old girl beat my younger brother up quite badly (She had a tough older brother) and told my mam to fuck off when she went round to her house, she was an obnoxious **** with the blessing of her family.

My elder brother gave her a dig waited for her hard older brother and kicked the shit out of him too, still remember the fucknut limping back to his Ford Capri whinging about rough families.
 
mexico1970 said:
Fuck me that reminded me of a time when a 16 year old girl beat my younger brother up quite badly (She had a tough older brother) and told my mam to fuck off when she went round to her house, she was an obnoxious **** with the blessing of her family.

My elder brother gave her a dig waited for her hard older brother and kicked the shit out of him too, still remember the fucknut limping back to his Ford Capri whinging about rough families.
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I got twatted off oa girl when I was about 10. My mate had an older sister, maybe about 12-13, and she was saying she could fight and I was laughing and saying that no way could she beat me. She knoocked me around their kitchen. Totally leathered me. Taught me a lesson.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I got twatted off oa girl when I was about 10. My mate had an older sister, maybe about 12-13, and she was saying she could fight and I was laughing and saying that no way could she beat me. She knoocked me around their kitchen. Totally leathered me. Taught me a lesson.
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Yup they mature sooner and are stronger for that very short space of time. The one I mentioned was a fucking brute.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Did anyone withness an inter-school Cock of The Schools fight? Our school had one planned with the rival school. and it was rumoured to spill into an inter-school fight, and dozens of us were piling over after school and the police were there and stopped it.

The story was that Haggis (as mentioned above) actually went to the rival school's cock's house and offered him out but I don't know how true that actually was.
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We had inter school fights, Marple Hall v Willows, also one time what seemed like the whole of New Mills turned up at Marple Hall during lunchbreak, even the teachers were flapping until the police turned up and escorted them away, New Mills was not a town to fuck around with back then.
 
nw42 said:
We had inter school fights, Marple Hall v Willows, also one time what seemed like the whole of New Mills turned up at Marple Hall during lunchbreak, even the teachers were flapping until the police turned up and escorted them away, New Mills was not a town to fuck around with back then.
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New mills to marple is a fair fuckin walk at lunch break!!
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The pinnacle of school fighting was a fight for "Cock of The School" status. I remember two, one in the park where the existing cock got conquered, a parkie tried to intervene and got hit himself, and another on a staircase where my mate HAggis took the crown without even throwing a punch. He's still a hard bastard to this day.
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Haggis seems really keen on cock. Knocking on doors and meeting in stairwells for it.

Think you might have the wrong end of the stick about him mate?
 
On the school sports field, 4.00ish, Sale grammar against Cecil Ave....loads of handbags and the classic was the cock of the year ( do they still exist ) asking if someone had a pair of Docs he could borrow !!!! nothing usually happened as the Rugby master usually sorted it out way before any bifters happened, happy days.
 
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