T_Bone
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I bet not many of,our fans were banned from your bus but I wasWell you got your leg over so what are you twisting about?
Oh and by the way, you're still banned.
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Swindon Mackem
Winger
Blackpool brought a few about 74/75 when they were pushing for promotion. We beat them 2-1 then chased the fuckas into the sea after the match.
magcatcherhutch
Midfield
remember that xmas tree in some town just north of london two buses vauxie n gateshead out for night ,,,sammy smith
that was sammy the chin smith they thought it was jaws on dry land ,,
goldie
Central Defender
magcatcherhutch
Midfield
never mind books like , front line , zulu , headhunters , grumbbblleweeeds up the road with lies ,,we could write 99 books with true stories from here ....funny , ifffy times , total nutters , ect ect ,,,not bragging just telling truth becouse on here if you lie someone always was present and says other ,, never happend yet on this thread maybe us oldies know true crack win lose or draw on the pitch in the pub outside a ground funny or bad stuff say how it is and was ,,,, ,,,
Vauxie
Striker
Talking of Felling a skin from the real early days, Docker from Felling, me and him got lifted at Bristol away, first season down 69 before the game but were let out.
Never seen him since those days
I went to the same school as him anarl
Geordie Cole HC wasn't he?
What about Anita?
I never connected any of the Cole lads with Seaham
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Deleted member 6830
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There were no more than a thousand rhs of RE as you faced pitch. We scuppered their promotion hopes even tho we were out of the running ourselves. Tony Towers
Walking back to the bus after that Man City game just two of us we got followed by a mob of city .We decided to walk round the back of some houses to look like we lived there. The road petered out into a back garden, they followed. The lad I was with was about 6 ft four he vaulted the back fence, too late for me they were in the garden. Gis your sheepskin geordie. I bought it with my first months wages and borrowed my board money off me ma for the rest. Like fuck they were getting that. Brains decides to bray on the patio window of the house, the woman opened the upstairs window and threatened to call the police .I said yes please. My next brilliant move I picked up a half brick and stood right in front of the patio doors. They all picked bricks up, fuck me what now. Only one option try to get over the fence, threatening the City fans with my brick I took a run at the fence, over I went. Running for my life now and no idea where to go. Over a field then a fence, one of those barbed wire jobs that lean out at 45 degrees. Over that hands and legs cut to bits they stopped chasing after that, back over the other side of this huge fence. About 45 mins later I managed to get back to the bus, so relieved it was still there. I was one of several casualties. I loved that sheepskin, thought I was the bees knees. Gutted when I carried a car battery to a garage to get it tested and it leaked out my haversack and rotted the coat.
Another case in point for trouble used to just find you back then, no way we were looking for any chew.
was in not 1980, when we beat them 1-0 at Easter, I certainly happened across the aftermath outside the Wolsey one derby game and I think that might have been my first at home, bizarrely had already been to 2 at the landfill
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Yes Anita, I'm losing it a bit now but always thought the Cole brothers and Anita were from Seaham.Jimmy married a Red House girl Linda Lodge,her brother Malcolm passed away not long ago.
Anybody with any thoughts?
Our bus used to park opposite the Wolseley on the seafront and we would go in for a pre match aperetife. The first time we played the mags at home guessing mid seventies, this must have been before your story, I could not beleive how many of them were in there. I also could not beleive that they did not get a hiding as I m sure that if the tables were reversed we would have got scudded through there. As far as I remember there was no bother in the pub itself that day but there were loads of them milling about Roker.
Stopped going in the Wolseley vskunks after that and went to boilermakers/barbry coast. Much better atmoshere . If your going in theRoker clap your hands. Another story.
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Sorry Jimmy's wife is Carol, Linda is her younger sister. Two lovely girls.Thats my lot it's too early to be on here.
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Reiver
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This thread reminded me of Dave Fair's and another daft story came to mind.
We'd been to Stoke, for a night match, and came out in the rain. We'd parked at the side of the ground and the car park took ages to empty. There was a knacker of a car with the bonnet up and a huge figure bending over it with the bonnet up.
Even though it was pissing down we took pity and went over to help. And there's Dave who'd driven over from Burton where he was working on the doors. He'd completely flattened the battery so we told him to get in and we'd push start him ...... after 15 minutes of pushing him round and round we gave up.
I went off, on a mission, and came back with a huge old hosepipe like the fire brigade use. We tied it on both cars and off we went, onto the main road, with the hose stretching then recoiling so Dave was jerking and swerving all over the road with no lights on.
We couldn't see a thing so just kept going, wondering if it would ever start ...... I looked at my mirror and there's Dave coming alongside laughing like a maniac and putting his thumbs up
All he had to do was flash his lights but that wasn't good enough for Dave ...... absolutely crackers.
We'd been to Stoke, for a night match, and came out in the rain. We'd parked at the side of the ground and the car park took ages to empty. There was a knacker of a car with the bonnet up and a huge figure bending over it with the bonnet up.
Even though it was pissing down we took pity and went over to help. And there's Dave who'd driven over from Burton where he was working on the doors. He'd completely flattened the battery so we told him to get in and we'd push start him ...... after 15 minutes of pushing him round and round we gave up.
I went off, on a mission, and came back with a huge old hosepipe like the fire brigade use. We tied it on both cars and off we went, onto the main road, with the hose stretching then recoiling so Dave was jerking and swerving all over the road with no lights on.
We couldn't see a thing so just kept going, wondering if it would ever start ...... I looked at my mirror and there's Dave coming alongside laughing like a maniac and putting his thumbs up
All he had to do was flash his lights but that wasn't good enough for Dave ...... absolutely crackers.
Wakey ftm in Sussex
Striker
Remember that, got a shock at the number of them as no one brought any up usually. On the beach they ran into the sea, some followed ( not me, didn't fancy the train back to Wakey in dripping clays). Can still see one of their big lads walking back towards us, having been in the watta over his waist, in tears, begging not to get a smack, offering his wallet. Iirc someone accepted his offer, helped him out the sea, only for someone else to give him a dig. & yes Sammy was there
Swindon Mackem
Winger
I couldn't believe how many of them had waded out into the sea and into waist deep waves to get away from our nuttersRemember that, got a shock at the number of them as no one brought any up usually. On the beach they ran into the sea, some followed ( not me, didn't fancy the train back to Wakey in dripping clays). Can still see one of their big lads walking back towards us, having been in the watta over his waist, in tears, begging not to get a smack, offering his wallet. Iirc someone accepted his offer, helped him out the sea, only for someone else to give him a dig. & yes Sammy was there
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manilla
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I often wonder what it would of happened if all these lads got to together when we did travel in the early days . As I would travel with a group of 7 - 8 lads regular from Peterlee and on the big games closer to home 15-20 but apart from Sheff utd when Elvis had just died I can never remember squading up and that just happened by chance as 3 bus loads pulled into a car park at the same time over the road to a building site and all hell broke loose and we never took a back step once all day
buster
Striker
To be fair you've answered your own question.
Imagine some of our biggest turnouts turning really nasty, say Man City, Villa, Cardiff, Swindon, Wrexham etc. Everyone on our bus was pissed as a rat from morning till night. Even 3-4 busses all together take some stopping if everyone gets narked. It seemed most other SAFC were of the same mindset. Great feeling sat watching bus after bus roll in with lads hanging out of windows singing and carrying on. All them lot get together and its history for the opposition. Been to sixty odd different grounds over 45 years following SAFC and never been in any organised bother . Quite a few times I would have liked to.
KeefBeer
Winger
Reading these posts has dusted off a few memories from my 58yo memory.
Used to travel with the Iron Horse bus ( Fat man Smithsons Coaches)leave at midnight Friday no matter where we played.
Norwich, trouble in a pub, cops turfed everyone out leaving their police van with the door open, handbrake off and a shove. Don't know what it eventually crashed into to but it made a hell of a noise. Also Norwich stolen moped in the aisle of the bus back to Shields.
Luton in the 70s got in the pub when it opened for a quite pint, a couple of the biggest blackist locals playing pool. It didn't take long before trouble started it must have been 10 onto these 2 and even then it was close! Cops turned up and dragged us all out but the pub manager intervened so they took the 2 locals.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Titt bar Nottingham riot, the stripper got punched, till and tab machine robbed.
Always enjoyed a trip to Forest, never uneventful!
A mate of a mate used to own a mini bus, didn't drink or like football, really quite but took us all over and used to tag along. We where in Liverpool late 70s pub was packed but no hint of bother, all of a sudden he jumped up a laid out this bloke going around selling newspapers, we had to drag him off screaming like fuck and kicking this unconscious man. Place went deadly silent until the pub manager told us all to leave for our own good, turns out the newspaper was some IRA/Sinn Fein fundraiser and this was an Irish Catholic pub. Never found out what had happened to him for such a reaction.
Used to travel with the Iron Horse bus ( Fat man Smithsons Coaches)leave at midnight Friday no matter where we played.
Norwich, trouble in a pub, cops turfed everyone out leaving their police van with the door open, handbrake off and a shove. Don't know what it eventually crashed into to but it made a hell of a noise. Also Norwich stolen moped in the aisle of the bus back to Shields.
Luton in the 70s got in the pub when it opened for a quite pint, a couple of the biggest blackist locals playing pool. It didn't take long before trouble started it must have been 10 onto these 2 and even then it was close! Cops turned up and dragged us all out but the pub manager intervened so they took the 2 locals.
Surprised no one has mentioned the Titt bar Nottingham riot, the stripper got punched, till and tab machine robbed.
Always enjoyed a trip to Forest, never uneventful!
A mate of a mate used to own a mini bus, didn't drink or like football, really quite but took us all over and used to tag along. We where in Liverpool late 70s pub was packed but no hint of bother, all of a sudden he jumped up a laid out this bloke going around selling newspapers, we had to drag him off screaming like fuck and kicking this unconscious man. Place went deadly silent until the pub manager told us all to leave for our own good, turns out the newspaper was some IRA/Sinn Fein fundraiser and this was an Irish Catholic pub. Never found out what had happened to him for such a reaction.
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