How many times did the northstand get run by other fans?

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Come on tell us how did you get hurt?

Broken nose
Fractured Skull
Chinese Burn

What happened

Nothing to be proud of. I was trying to climb over a fence to get away and got dragged back by the leg. I wasn't in the North Stand looking for trouble - it just arrived near the end of the game. Never seen Brighton fans move so fast other than to get out of Withdean with 5 minutes to go. Bruised ribs and hurt pride.

Worst violence I saw first hand was at Sloane Square tube in about 1979 - can't remember the teams (Chelsea and someone) but we pulled in to the station as a full scale football riot was kicking off. Doors didn't open initially. Saw one guy felled and then hit in the head by a girl wielding one of those red fire buckets of sand that used to hang from the walls. Splashed his head open. Eventually the doors were opened, much to our horror, and three guys jumped on. One had had the back of his leg slashed and the whole big muscle round the hamstring was hanging off. The guy just screamed "They stabbed me in the c&nt". We got off at Victoria at bloody high speedy as the rozzers dragged these lads off the train. Very nasty indeed. Nothing impressive or glamorous about real football violence.

 

[withdeanwombat]

I clearly remember when Archer and co. took the North Stand.

 

[26-10-02]

palace fans legged it onto the pitch...

they of course deny it now haha

Because it didn't happen-ever. FACT.What about yours in the 1974 season or the infamous 1989 game ?
As for the holmesdale
Chelsea,millwall,spurs west ham were regular attendees. Bristol city went in at about 2 o'clock
Arsenal and man.utd. both got a good kicking in the 1979-80 season when trying as Palace had got their act together.
In uniteds case I could never work out why they ran out of the end as f***ing hundreds of them were escorted along the touchline to the whitehorse end.

 

[The Wookiee]

That wasn't Port Vale instead of Stoke was it

I remember them in a pitch invasion and it started with a few boys fighting at the front of the NorthStand and then it almost changed with a click of a switch to them celebrating and clapping us.

Both teams did, both werfe last games of the season, Port Vale were playing for promotion and brought down thousands, loads of trouble before the game near Churchill Sq and Cranbourne Street. Stoke were down for a relegation party having not won away all season, they beat us 4-0 I think. Big pitch invasion by there fans although no real trouble in the ground, quite a bit in West Street that night with Brighton fans being locked in the Brighton Rock as Stoke fans were running riot outside.

 

[daveinprague]

Because it didn't happen-ever. FACT.What about yours in the 1974 season or the infamous 1989 game ?
As for the holmesdale
Chelsea,millwall,spurs west ham were regular attendees. Bristol city went in at about 2 o'clock
Arsenal and man.utd. both got a good kicking in the 1979-80 season when trying as Palace had got their act together.
In uniteds case I could never work out why they ran out of the end as f***ing hundreds of them were escorted along the touchline to the whitehorse end.

LOL
Yes sonny..It didnt happen...
Keep forgetting that Palarse fans are so pwoper nawty.

As I was in the group I can assure you it did happen... FACT.
Keep living in denial prat.

 

[life on mars 73]

Don't want to be sanctimonious, but can we bear in mind that the culture of English football hooliganism reached its zenith in the mayhem of Heysel in 1985, and led indirectly to the slaughter at Hillsborough four years later ?

A few silly boys running around and having pretend scraps is one thing, but it turned into something a lot, lot darker.

 

[26-10-02]

LOL
Yes sonny..It didnt happen...
Keep forgetting that Palarse fans are so pwoper nawty.

As I was in the group I can assure you it did happen... FACT.
Keep living in denial prat.

Of course you are a proper geezer.Muppet.
You came in once and got chased out and to top it all got attacked from the arthur waite when being led alongb the side
It was on match of the day that night so there is your fact.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

They weren't all pretend scraps back in the early 80's. They were often very nasty affairs. Might now mainly be a pastiche of that violence (thank goodness) but don't try to suggest that the violence was bravado - there were some very ugly scenes back then.

 

[Arthur]

f***ing Hell,a fair few posts in and some self satisfied bore hasnt started a pwopa nawty parody of danny dyer before offering up condemnations of 'hooligans who spoil it for everyone else'

Took 26 posts....must be some sort of new NSC record!

Don't want to be sanctimonious, but can we bear in mind that the culture of English football hooliganism reached its zenith in the mayhem of Heysel in 1985, and led indirectly to the slaughter at Hillsborough four years later ?

A few silly boys running around and having pretend scraps is one thing, but it turned into something a lot, lot darker.

 

[grummitts gloves]

I seem to recall a visit by Leeds to the Goldstone in 1988 or 1989 didn't end to well?

 

[daveinprague]

Of course you are a proper geezer.Muppet.
You came in once and got chased out and to top it all got attacked from the arthur waite when being led alongb the side
It was on match of the day that night so there is your fact.

Not at all sonny, but I am HONEST.

First you say it NEVER happened FACT, now you come up with us being attacked as we were led along the side? You seem to be giving yourself credibility issues.
We were not 'chased out'... the police rounded us up and took us back to the Brighton end.
And attacked by the arthur waite fans? Whilst being escorted back by the police? lol Get a grip of yourself, although, I suspect you already have.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Was that when they had the whole of the East Terrace gg?

If so, that was the day when they did their incredible mexican wave, corner to corner. Impressive and intimidating. I really dislike Leeds but you an't fault their away fans for ethusiasm.

 

[life on mars 73]

By "pretend scraps", I was referring to the very early days of football hooliganism, in the late 60's - it always seemed to me in those days that it was very much about a bit of bravado, a bit like a Bank Holiday bundle. lots of posturing, surging back and forth, lots of running around, "seeing-off" displays, but no real calculated violence.

i knew a few blokes back then who freely admitted it was all a bit of a laugh, but they never actually wanted to really hurt anyone. The thought of knifing someone, or inflicting serious injuries, was never there.

Sure, it did turn into something altogether more nasty, and it reached its logical conclusion in Brussels in 1985.

 

[daveinprague]

I remember Millwall treatment forming a pyramid in the west terrace and a mob of them climbing the pyramid and beating the crap out of people in the west stand haha..

 

[grummitts gloves]

Was that when they had the whole of the East Terrace gg?

If so, that was the day when they did their incredible mexican wave, corner to corner. Impressive and intimidating. I really dislike Leeds but you an't fault their away fans for ethusiasm.

I think so, my memory of the day was a bit clouded by a few pre match beers.

 

[On the Left Wing]

Pompey tried on an evening league cup game in 1969... they got into the east side of the North Stand before the OB managed to form a thin blue line and separate them

 

[Mellotron]

Nothing impressive or glamorous about real football violence.

This thread would suggest a lot of people think otherwise.

Also, by all means talk about past scraps etc, but don't refer to each firm by their club's names. None of this has anything to do with football whatsoever.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Don't want to be sanctimonious, but can we bear in mind that the culture of English football hooliganism reached its zenith in the mayhem of Heysel in 1985, and led indirectly to the slaughter at Hillsborough four years later ?

A few silly boys running around and having pretend scraps is one thing, but it turned into something a lot, lot darker.

Sanctinmonious and pretentious. I think you mean 'nadir' rather than 'zenith'.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I remember Millwall in the early 70's turning up in Clockwork Orange white boiler suits. And standing in the middle of the North Stand.

 

[daveinprague]

I remember Millwall in the early 70's turning up in Clockwork Orange white boiler suits. And standing in the middle of the North Stand.

I remember Forest Bovver as they were called doing that... even wore the makeup...saw a whole bunch of them around Goldstone Road/Sackville Road area.