Roughest grounds you've been too and biggest scraps!

[tidyman]

St James Park in the FA Cup about 1977 I think, we won 3-1 and it was the first big following we took to St James Park after taking the place over in 1968 (which I was too young to have been at) - there was an overflow from the Gallowgate end so the coppers in their infinite wisdom let some young Geordies into our end - cue the masses of hard blokes (and I do not mean that sarcastically) pouring into our end and kicking fuck out of us. Worst violence inside an away ground I can remember. First ever police escort for me was after that match - we fucking needed it, it was murders. Think it was third round, early Jan, freezing - you could spot us Blues, we were all wearing coats, the Geordies just had short sleeved Newcastle tops on

City fans were jumping over a wall to get out of the ground. Must have been about a fifty foot drop. Newcastle didn't have it all their own way that day though to be fair.

If I'm not mistaken, that was the last away game Helen took her bell to. The geordies tried to whack her over the head with it.

I'm not sure but I seem to think it was 4-1 not 3, but you might be right. Alan Gowling OG sticks in my mind for some reason.

 

[Ladybarn Blue .]

Ninian Park in the FA Cup was the worst I've seen although I was at the Den when we were locked inside for about an hour whilst the Londoners had a riot outside.

I was at that game , sat in the Millwall end .

Had my African lady friend with me . We left at 3/4 time !!

 

[marco]

Ninian Park in the FA Cup was the worst I've seen although I was at the Den when we were locked inside for about an hour whilst the Londoners had a riot outside.

this^^^^ most def cardiff city after the game when we were walking out they were walking in and slapping us the coppers just watching 2nd to cardiff was leeds away but we allways took a big crew there and most of the time were ok the lads on the train seemed to get ruffed up more than those that went on the coaches

 

[Cheadle Blue]

Stoke im sure it was 1999, the britannia was fairly new, mid week game.

A ballsup fro mthe start, was a last minute thing, my mate rang and said ive got a spare for stoke do you want to come, his dad drive us down, dropped us about a mile away from the ground

As we walked up to the ground, every cab we asked to take us home told us to politely get stuffed

It was pretty moody in the ground, lots of stoke fans basically seemed to spend the whole game throwing things / gesturing at the city fans, and i mean ALL GAME

Wiekens scored late on, i think, which promted a large section of the yobbos from stoke to leave the ground, only for them then to appear to the right, where the road slants down, there is a gap between the stands, and they were making cut throat gestures etc.

Full time whistle goes, no way of getting home, we make our way outside

NExt thing, the stoke fans stormed the city fans, as there was only temporary fencing seperating us (like you find surrounding a building site), police dogs off leads, horses on the motorway etc

We got ushered onto a double decker bus, and the stokies were trying to tip it over...nice

It took us to the station, we got there before anyone else, more blues started to come through, and i remeber a lad appearing on the oposite side, looked well up for a scrap, acting dead cocky - more stokies then turn up, verbals exchanged across the track

This lad then unzips his coat, to reveal a city shirt! it goes right off, stokies running under the track to get to our side, it was mental

Fucking hell, sounds like a pretty eventful mid week evening out that mate!! - Did you get home in once piece or did you take a bit of a kicking?

-- Mon May 20, 2013 10:42 am --

Villa ,can't say why ,they are the worst ***** you can come across.

I've been to villa the last two seasons and never had any trouble, or seen any trouble...

At the station, a few punches / kicks exchanged and lots of "come on thens" but apart from that we got home alright

Outside thr ground was mental, it really was, full on fighting - remeber a dog getting hold of a city fans arm, and the copper couldn't get the dog off

The wierd thing was, there were no coppers at the station at all when we got there after the game, i really couldn't understand that, the motorway was shut for ages so now excuse really, almost liek they wanted us to get battered

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

In my experience Leeds away in 1977, we played them in the League and got beat 2-1 I think, and then we were drawn against them in the FA Cup also away, which we won. Their fans invaded the pitch to get the game called off. I remember afterwards having to run through a gauntlet flying house bricks and other such delights to this day I don't know how me, my brother (who posts on here. and my mate (who doesn't post on here) all came through totally unscathed. Also the same season I remember it kicked off at Derby County (The old Baseball Ground) That is the only time I ever got whacked by some little scum bag who didn't allow me to to retaliate as he ran away as fast as a whippet, I seem to remember we were under police escort back to the train station at the time. Those are the two that stand out most now some 35 years after the event.

 

[Churchill123]

Ninian Park in the FA Cup was the worst I've seen although I was at the Den when we were locked inside for about an hour whilst the Londoners had a riot outside.

this^^^^ most def cardiff city after the game when we were walking out they were walking in and slapping us the coppers just watching 2nd to cardiff was leeds away but we allways took a big crew there and most of the time were ok the lads on the train seemed to get ruffed up more than those that went on the coaches

seems like these days are no more... Why is that? - Police better at there job of keeping trouble at bay, or people have a different attitude towards football now and go to enjoy the sport rather than to kick the fuck out of each other?

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

In my experience Leeds away in 1977, we played them in the League and got beat 2-1 I think, and then we were drawn against them in the FA Cup also away, which we won. Their fans invaded the pitch to get the game called off. I remember afterwards having to run through a gauntlet flying house bricks and other such delights to this day I don't know how me, my brother (who posts on here. and my mate (who doesn't post on here) all came through totally unscathed. Also the same season I remember it kicked off at Derby County (The old Baseball Ground) That is the only time I ever got whacked by some little scum bag who didn't allow me to to retaliate as he ran away as fast as a whippet, I seem to remember we were under police escort back to the train station at the time. Those are the two that stand out most now some 35 years after the event. However in the late 70's I also used to go and watch England home and away I was at the riot game in Turin when Tony Woodcock had a goal disallowed in the game against Belgium which England drew 1-1, we all got tear gassed that day. And also a few days later we returned to Turin to watch England lose 1-0 to Italy, a few lads were stabbed and they were throwing glass bottles at us. We weren't allowed to do anything as the Italian police waded in with their batons, and rubber bullets were fired indiscriminately into the crowd, some lads received a really good slap that night. That was the last England away game I went to and probably the worst football violence I've seen at a match.

 

[Always Ali]

Villa for me after the 5-1 away win when White scored 4...........we left the ground and found ourselves in the middle of a mob of Villa who proceeded to punch and kick us like their lives depended on it...............absolute mayhem with 10 of us in a "pwoper nawty" 20 minute running battle back to our mini-bus. I don't normally get involved in this sort of stuff but it was a real adrenaline rush and I am ashamed to say I loved it (no one got badly hurt)!!!

 

[alib]

Burnley v Celtic in 1978

Celtic fans (with a mob of Blackburn fans) tearing down metal railings and throwing them like spears - 1000's of Burnley fans had to go onto the pitch to escape!!

 

[Churchill123]

Stoke im sure it was 1999, the britannia was fairly new, mid week game.

A ballsup fro mthe start, was a last minute thing, my mate rang and said ive got a spare for stoke do you want to come, his dad drive us down, dropped us about a mile away from the ground

As we walked up to the ground, every cab we asked to take us home told us to politely get stuffed

It was pretty moody in the ground, lots of stoke fans basically seemed to spend the whole game throwing things / gesturing at the city fans, and i mean ALL GAME

Wiekens scored late on, i think, which promted a large section of the yobbos from stoke to leave the ground, only for them then to appear to the right, where the road slants down, there is a gap between the stands, and they were making cut throat gestures etc.

Full time whistle goes, no way of getting home, we make our way outside

NExt thing, the stoke fans stormed the city fans, as there was only temporary fencing seperating us (like you find surrounding a building site), police dogs off leads, horses on the motorway etc

We got ushered onto a double decker bus, and the stokies were trying to tip it over...nice

It took us to the station, we got there before anyone else, more blues started to come through, and i remeber a lad appearing on the oposite side, looked well up for a scrap, acting dead cocky - more stokies then turn up, verbals exchanged across the track

This lad then unzips his coat, to reveal a city shirt! it goes right off, stokies running under the track to get to our side, it was mental

Fucking hell, sounds like a pretty eventful mid week evening out that mate!! - Did you get home in once piece or did you take a bit of a kicking?

-- Mon May 20, 2013 10:42 am --

Villa ,can't say why ,they are the worst ***** you can come across.

I've been to villa the last two seasons and never had any trouble, or seen any trouble...

At the station, a few punches / kicks exchanged and lots of "come on thens" but apart from that we got home alright

Outside thr ground was mental, it really was, full on fighting - remeber a dog getting hold of a city fans arm, and the copper couldn't get the dog off

The wierd thing was, there were no coppers at the station at all when we got there after the game, i really couldn't understand that, the motorway was shut for ages so now excuse really, almost liek they wanted us to get battered

They probably did mate! - I was out on the piss for a mates birthday in liverpool the other week, and a big old ruck was going on outside this club we'd all just come out, so we were all minding our business and just watching it all go off and waiting for the police who were across the road from it all to go wading in and calm it all down... yet the 2 coppers who were all of 10 feet away were too busy having pictures taken with fit pissed up scouse birds to even give a shit about the fight and if anyone was getting battered or not..

So maybe the police were getting pictures taken with some fit stokie lasses (not sure they exist) and therefore didn't care if you city boys got your heads kicked in?