Vaguely remember the mags coming through in a big removal van did the police have it on video or was it on the north east news
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Reiver
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As you suggest, it was unfair that they never left their Bristol hovels and came up to Sunderland for a return bout.
They'd always be out in force down their and Ashton Gate as well.
Daffy
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Me & @Barboza dh9 past it on the way thru to the game
Got pulled up outside of Bolden
Fair few of them piled out
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T_Bone
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Never been to Ashton Gate. Been to Cardiff, the one regularly mentioned on here, and Swansea. I've mentioned the
Swansea trip before on this forum. The only time I was close to being seriously injured.Some of my mates were.
Even now I wouldn't reveal what went on but we were minding our own business believe me.
Just a group of about twelve lads minding our own business, not singing, not mouthing off , and we were attacked and outnumbered, ambushed really,in a pub we couldn't get out, but we fought back cos we had to, but there are some on here would say we were hooligans.
Different world.
HU16 Mackem
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Ashton Gate either 75 or 76 was mental 3 Tennick's buses arrived early hours and we had big game of footy in park before the real action started before and throughout the game and after. Remember lad from Shields with real long hair tangled in the barbed wire separating us and them as the lumps of concrete passed overhead.
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Reiver
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joemcdokes
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1855 & 1860
The one I'm on about lived near Hetton.
Cochise 2
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It was always dodgy. After the match in 1980 we walked under that flyover and up one of those steep terraced streets. At the top you came to a main road with shops, pubs etc. We turned the corner and walked straight into a mob of 50 of them. It was an ambush that they had probably carried out many times before and we walked straight into it. We were backed into a shop doorway, but managed to hold them off till plod turned up.
Rovers old ground is an Ikea now
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Reiver
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Not sure tbh, our Dunc lived at Clipstone near Mansfield for a time.
Depends which lads were in the van
@Kid Galahad gets touchy feelie after a half shandy !
Btw, did lads really ever go to away games in a furniture removal van ?
Remember well the Seaburn van hire transits, but never a furniture removal van.
You cud guarantee that after setting off for an away match from sunlun that you'd see a tranny parked up on hard shoulder near ripon, Selby, wetherby, catterick etc with 14 lads having a slash in to an adjacent field. It was part of the scenery !!!
Not a removal van but we went down Sheff. Wed in a large box van. It had a fibre glass roof so it wasn't dark inside but there must have been at least 15 supping in the back.
Typically the useless bastards driving got lost and we arrived in Doncaster at almost 3 o'clock. Got to Sheffield about 3.30 and they wouldn't let us in.
We tried scaling the walls and fences but they were impenetrable. We only got in for the last 20 minutes when they opened the gates. It finished 2-2 and we didn't see a goal.
The locals got a bit of a shock when they were working themselves after the game. We had the shutter up and when the van stopped at the lights we scattered them across the fields
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Reiver
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That was the match I mentioned in post 1914 I reckon ....... big gravel car park and no polis to be seen
Cochise 2
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Yes, both the away end and the home end emptied at full time and everyone charged around behind the delapidated main stand. Both sides came face to face in the car park at the back of the stand and had a massive barney. About 1978? .
T_Bone
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Yes, my first visit was on a Soccer Special train. We came out of a small station, walked down a quite friendly Main Street towards the ground, went under the subway no,probs. Into the ground we lost 2-1.
Afterwards was a different story, we were bricked as we went through the subway, and the walk back to the station up that Main Street was chewy. We were attacked time after time, they were running out of the side streets and getting into us.
As we got closer to the station I noticed our numbers had gone from say 200 to 50. We got to the station approach and there was about 2 or 3 hundred of them blocking the way and about 12 polis. The train looked ready to go(ahem)
We just charged at them I wanted to get on that train ffs. It was a fist fight to get through them.
We got on the train to find half the windows were out. A cold trip back.
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Reiver
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TBF they did always have a taste for swedes
(No idea if that makes sense btw but it's been a long week.)
That was the match I mentioned in post 1914 I reckon ....... big gravel car park and no polis to be seen
Ah yep. Rovers thought it was. And as Cochise says it would have been late 70s.
Remember seeing Jeff Clarke at Ashton Gate, midweek, on his debut maybe, got beat 4-1.
Thought he was shite in that match, but was proved wrong after that
I've never posted before but just had to on this great thread, Third division Chesterfield away, two transit vans was supposed leave from Hendon, one of the vans was knackered so some lads just went home the rest of us piled in the already full other van, as been mentioned before no seats just body's lying everywhere but this van also stunk of horses. Away we went. Got there and lookin for somewhere to park near the ground loads of lads walking passed sure one of them had a red & scarf so we all started singing, bricks, bottles & rocks started coming our way , I was only 15 or 16 at time and was shitting it.The driver ( remember it was his van!!!) jumped out with one of them wheel braces like a big cross and the whole lot of them legged it!!!! After the match the van kept stalling and wouldn't start so we all had to keep piling out to push with the coppers trying to push us back in. Can't remember the score but remember great day out and the smell of horses !!!!!
T_Bone
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You deserve a medal mate.Sleeping in a transit, that's heaven man
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Reiver
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