Roughest grounds you've been too and biggest scraps!

[billfromthehill]

Smedley Playing Fields, Crumpsall! Nowt rougher! Makes the Everglades look like the odd wet patch!

Elaborate fella

 

[Churchill123]

coming out of the scoreboard end at the swamp in the mid-70's after a night game (can't remember which) and the scoreboard paddock rags were stood in a semi-circle immediately around the exit cracking those that tried to pass through

blues were being pulled in to the tier above so thay could avoid the crush/ aggro

otherwise you literally had to steam through as a mob swinging punches to break the line to get out of the ground

any from either side that fell/ got dragged over got a kicking

I hope you gave the red c|u|n|t|s a good shoe-ing in the return fixture..

Wembley a few years ago it seemed like the red bastards got a hiding from a fair few city fans :)

 

[lancs blue]

coming out of the scoreboard end at the swamp in the mid-70's after a night game (can't remember which) and the scoreboard paddock rags were stood in a semi-circle immediately around the exit cracking those that tried to pass through

blues were being pulled in to the tier above so thay could avoid the crush/ aggro

otherwise you literally had to steam through as a mob swinging punches to break the line to get out of the ground

any from either side that fell/ got dragged over got a kicking

Was that the match played in the midweek after the '76 Cup Final that the rags lost to Southampton? The Stretford End invaded the pitch at the end, uprooted the corner and halfway flags (pointed wooden stakes in those days) and hurled them into the Scoreboard terrace like spears.

 

[whipper]

Sheff Utd back in the 80s,this more City fans.The police tried to get us out onto the side entrance to escort everyone to the train station.

City fans then started kickin in the big wooden sliding gates to get out the other way. Al-sorts getting thrown over the wall by both sets of fans.Then started kicking off outside,seen one City fan getting a kickin off the Dibble down a ginnel.

 

[CTID1988]

Leeds at Maine rd circa 83/84 mental all the way back to town at the bottom of fennel st
All the Leeds buses got smashed to fuck not a window left on any of them ,then the battle with the odd lot city lads gettin twitted by coppers I was crushed against Harry halls shop window till it smashed lucky to be alive can still smell the rubber now ha ha
Then on to the train station for more of the same Micky Francis waltzing around on withy grove with a coppers tit on his head haha shouting we want gold lads lets get some gold couple of jewellers on that st but nowt went down cos we wanted tacchini and fila so we went as usual and rinsed m,c sports those days were tough but as the weeks went by we all started to smarten up haha away days were better cos you don't like to shit on your own step to often do ya.can still picture Mickey in that shit bubble coat no wonder he got nicked red white and blue
Truly order of the day.for an England outing but no city colors

for any one at that time.
P.s fennel st at that time was a road back then as you may be younger than me lol.

So, you went breaking into shops nicking clothes?

 

[whipper]

Leeds at Maine rd circa 83/84 mental all the way back to town at the bottom of fennel st
All the Leeds buses got smashed to fuck not a window left on any of them ,then the battle with the odd lot city lads gettin twitted by coppers I was crushed against Harry halls shop window till it smashed lucky to be alive can still smell the rubber now ha ha
Then on to the train station for more of the same Micky Francis waltzing around on withy grove with a coppers tit on his head haha shouting we want gold lads lets get some gold couple of jewellers on that st but nowt went down cos we wanted tacchini and fila so we went as usual and rinsed m,c sports those days were tough but as the weeks went by we all started to smarten up haha away days were better cos you don't like to shit on your own step to often do ya.can still picture Mickey in that shit bubble coat no wonder he got nicked red white and blue
Truly order of the day.for an England outing but no city colors

for any one at that time.
P.s fennel st at that time was a road back then as you may be younger than me lol.

So, you went breaking into shops nicking clothes?

Are you sure that wasn`t Sheff Wednesday,Bill?

I was there when exactly the same thing happened,all the buses got smashed and a clothes shop ( can`t remember the name near the station) got it`s windows smashed it,all the Fila,Lacoste type gear got nicked.

 

[Taza]

1981 quarter final at Everton,asked if we were going to get a police escort back to the station copper laughed and said your on your own,got picked off one by one,was the time of the affro and they all had sharpened steel combs,got cut to ribbons,got home and my Dad said well son you must of done something to provoke them LOL

 

[Doncaster Blues]

Remember going to a few local away days in the 80's, watching city and Sheffield United fans running up and down the old wooden stand battering each other at Bramall Lane.

Then at Elland Road remember seeing the city fans been 'escorted' by the cops to the ground with Leeds fans just lobbing bricks into the fans with the cops just watching on....

In recent years haven't seen much round the premiership, but bit rough when we had a trip to Stoke's old ground when Alan Ball was in charge, saw some pitch battles that day.

Worse I've seen in recent memory was actually at a Doncaster Rovers game. Away at Mansfield, always a bit of needle due to the miners strike legacy. Loads of trouble before the game but afterwards was carnage. To get back to the town centre from the ground you had to go through a railway underpass, cops were stood at either end of it just letting the two sets of lads kick the living crap out of each other in the middle!

 

[Bluemoon230989]

Oldham away just about every year - not particularly rough but always complete and utter bedlam - I remember 1 year when there were Blues literally everywhere in the ground except a small tier 2 seated area down 1 of the sides; next thing a big fuck off ladder appears from somewhere and a load of Blues went up it and took over the seats, funny as heck

-- Mon May 20, 2013 1:23 pm --

another bad one was Everton away in 1981 fa cup (quarter final?) 2-2 draw, Paul Power equalised late on. About 14k City fans there but utter bedlam afterwards, Everton fans were really up for it, genuinely scarey where I was

That quarter final, stopped at the Greyhound on the East Lancs on the way back.... three dickheads walk into a pub full of Blues given' it large, cue flying glass everywhere... never seen so much blood as came out of one of those three.

 

[BlueKolarovWorker]

We got tickets for the home end at Fulham afew years ago (Lee Croft days!). Pretty bloody hairy, I can tell you. There were at least three chaps that didn't even say hello properly, just sort of nodded. Couldn't believe how rude they were! Suffice it to say, I wont be sharing my Pims with them again.