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You may well be right DR but it's still a very high number. I don't remember many other games at The Goldstone in which there were more. Chelsea and Tottenham perhaps?

Thanks for the confirmation about the attendance. Grim news indeed. 80 arrests is a huge number for a football match, even back then. I remember it as one of the worst in terms of violence at the Goldstone but I hadn't realised that someone had died. Just awful.

You're right, it was October 1978. I can't find an on-line record of the attendance but remember it was one of the biggest of that era. 32,000 rings a bell. We lost 2-1. I was 13 and at that time, stood in the south. I remember loads of West Ham in there and sure enough, it kicked-off. Some...

West Ham must have brought 5,000 or so to the old second division game at the Goldstone in the early 80's. They were everywhere and I remember a lot ot trouble that day.