A friend of mine was in a marching band aged 14 and was marching along the seafront before the match when the whole band were confronted with the Portsmouth mob and had to turn tail and quickly run the other way. I was in the NS that day and remember 4-5 fans with coshes running in and causing...
They still were in the NS next to the chicken run with a double line of coppers separating the fans. In the eyes of Return of the Rev they took the NS and held on till the end. They certainly had a very big mob. I was told the GS was carnage after the game.