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The battle of bath lane

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shepherd88 said:
Just don't read it, nee one is forcing you to.
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You're right. I commented on it ages ago and when get reminders I feel compelled to comment on just how pathetic it really is!
Don't worry this is last you'll get from me on it.
I'll leave all you Heros to pat each other on back for your achievements ! :lol:
 
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Mrjardine said:
You're right. I commented on it ages ago and when get reminders I feel compelled to comment on just how pathetic it really is!
Don't worry this is last you'll get from me on it.
I'll leave all you Heros to pat each other on back for your achievements ! :lol:
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Cant understand why you are getting so annoyed about it
 
WAR said:
I am just another fan from south shields. never been a gang member. I was at Ollie Burtons Testimonial, wasnt at the battle of Bath Lane, but was at the match. Scared to death at the testimonial match, got chased out of the Gallowgate through Newcastle. Legged it as fast as I could. Was different in 79.....we were all up for it....being from shields I was sick of mags crowing, they thought we would just let them attack us without fighting back. For some reason they think that as fellow North Easteners and Sunderland fans we are "softer" than them, although we are from the same area and are basically the same people. The fighting after the match was unbelievable....they attacked us in the streets down to the station. We just got stuck into them and they couldnt believe it when we hammered them. And we did..........................

I was proud to be a Sunderland fan that day.
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Ollie Burtons Testimonial was when I really started to hate Mags. Only recently found out on here that a full train from SAFC had been turned round at Central Station due to the multitude of Mags waiting outside. The coppers wouldn t let them out. A few hundred more would have been nice.
 
The Omega Man said:
Just to pick up on comments about the 70's.

This is where I came in supporting SAFC, home and away, and TBH every game in London was an event, but all it did was reflect the society we lived in at the time. No PC bollocks and things pretty much out of control at times. Nowadays if you did some of the things you did back then you would be in jail. I remembering starting work in 1977 and the work place was unbelievable; arses, tits and cocks being felt through clothes etc. Smoking of course was rife in offices and all sorts of shagging went on at works xmas party's etc.
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Still the norm in Boro
 
OLDROKERENDER said:
Agree with a lot of that although you slightly contradicted yourself by saying you avoided violence as you didn't look for it, then went on to say innocent people get caught up in it. The point is you didn't have to look for it, just needed to be in the wrong place/wrong time, walk round the wrong corner, drink in the wrong pub whatever. Makes me laugh when these hoolies who appear in these documentaries make out they leave the ordinary fans alone & only target like-minded people.
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I think the "firms" attempt to avoid ordinary fans 80's onwards. In the 70's any away fan was a target, looking for trouble or not.
 
Mrjardine said:
You're right. I commented on it ages ago and when get reminders I feel compelled to comment on just how pathetic it really is!
Don't worry this is last you'll get from me on it.
I'll leave all you Heros to pat each other on back for your achievements ! :lol:
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Sorry vicar, but you haven't got a clue.

I'll pop round for tea and scones on Sunday and tell you all about those horrid football supporters in the 1970s... :lol:
 
That was the youth culture for loads of working class lads back then, still lads involved but in much smaller numbers.
 
The Omega Man said:
Just to pick up on comments about the 70's.

This is where I came in supporting SAFC, home and away, and TBH every game in London was an event, but all it did was reflect the society we lived in at the time. No PC bollocks and things pretty much out of control at times. Nowadays if you did some of the things you did back then you would be in jail. I remembering starting work in 1977 and the work place was unbelievable; arses, tits and cocks being felt through clothes etc. Smoking of course was rife in offices and all sorts of shagging went on at works xmas party's etc.

So TBH the violence that accompanied football in the 70's and to an extend early to mid 80's just reflected other activities that were going on back then in a whole host of environments.
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TBF, all of that only started after you arrived though... :D
 
Washington70 said:
That was the youth culture for loads of working class lads back then, still lads involved but in much smaller numbers.
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Totally this, which is why many find it interesting. Only have to see the number of books and even films on the subject.

Mind its always enjoyable reading about the mags getting a kicking whether from our lads or another team
 
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