My mate who was a big Spurs fan got 2 tickets for Spurs v Chelsea about mid nineties. They were for the home section, on the Shelf side. I thought I'd just keep my mouth shut if we scored. It was a **** game and heading for 0-0 when Eddie Newton scored with about 5 minutes to go. About 400 Chelsea fans jumped up and started going mad, I didn't even know they were there! No sooner had the police got us sat down, Newton scored again. We went mental and the Spuds were well hacked off. There were thousands of us and we gave it **** all the way back to Seven Sisters tube. Great day.
That Utd game I mentioned above, I was in the away end as I'd bought a ticket off a tout 10 mins after KO (I used to do this for 'all ticket' games back then as the touts were desperate to get rid after KO). I kept my mouth shut in that away end as I knew I'd get a ****ing kicking if I started showing that I was an Arsenal fan. Remember Alan Smith scoring first too and I had to just sit there trying to keep a lid on it. I think we lost that game in the end, can't really remember the score. I just remember that crazy mass brawl in the bar under the West Stand
I started going to games in 1985, which was kind of towards the end of the Hooligan days. The Old Bill had really started to crack down on it then, but I admit that back then I used to find it all thrilling. I know it's the done thing now to say it was all out of order etc, and it was. But there's no denying that it was exciting to be in and around that scene. I never really got involved other than just being a mouthy ****, but blokes that I used to stand with on the North Bank were proper Hooligans and a few of my mates who supported Millwall and West Ham were too. Remember my mate Chris Black (Blackie) was a proper nutter who was always looking for a rumble. He came with me to Arsenal v Chelsea and we stood on the clock end right up against the fence between the home and away fans, with a line of old bill down the middle. We were getting pelted with sharpened up 2p coins (an old hooligan trick, they used to file down the edges of 2p coins to make them sharper and inflict more damage) I remember my mate Blackie climbing up the fence and shouting to me 'Come on, you and me, let's ****ing take em all !', I was like, no ****ing way mate we will get pummelled. And with that he just jumped into the away end and loads of blokes followed him. I thought that was the last I'd ever see of him as I was convinced he'd get killed in there. Saw him again at Charing Cross station around 4 hours later, with a bloody nose and fists, massive grin on his face. Telling me how brilliant it was and I should have jumped the fence with him, the ****ing nutter
Was a different time mate, the most you were gonna get was a good kicking. No ****ing knives etc, they came later, unless you were a scouse ****.
I dunno mate, the infamous Chelsea smile was around back then. Apparently they used to cut your mouth either side and then kick the **** out of you until you screamed, splitting your mouth wide open. Never saw this happen, but I do remember seeing blokes with scars that would suggest it did. Also, some ****s used to take razor blades with them and slash people's arses as they walked past big crowds. You wouldn't know anything about it for a few seconds until the blood started trickling down your leg. Also remember an Arsenal fan got stabbed to death in the tube station after that infamous Millwall game that I was at with my Old man back in 87 or 88 I think ? But yeah, those incidents were few and far between. Now days it seems that every little hood rat in London is carrying a blade.
How many people got a chelsea smile? It's one off those things that happened rarely, but they thrived on the rep. It was Stanley knives the cockless wimp would carry, sometimes double bladed so the bleeding was harsh. Each and everyone of these ****s should be ashamed, as they were just soft ****s.
This post just stinks off a person who doesn't know **** all all football history.. Sorry mate, we didn't choose it, it's just how it was. I get you don't understand, but don't diss us that lived it ffs. It was just a different time, now you play x box, have a joint before planning to watch a game on some stream. It's different times, to traveling with ya mates to some ****ty towns, having a few few beers, watching a real real, and escaping without a good hiding. You stick to Fortnite mate.
Of course you chose it...it wasn’t Vietnam Trying to glorify that ****e Football wasn’t made for ****s...too many ****s forget that. It was made for people to watch. It’s a shame more didn’t stab each other to **** so the rest could enjoy the beautiful game.
I'm not trying to glorify something you simply don;t understand ffs.. You ween't around, so why do you feel the need to try and diss the way it was?
Nothing more than low life dickheads off their tits on drugs an alcohol looking for a brawl driven by tribalism...the dark days of English football The worst thing is these ****s think they kind of own the game...have contributed to the foundations of it...like they represent some unique aspect of being a fan. ***s
Not at all, it's just the way it was. You seem to miss understand how much footy has changed down the decades. Now we have video experts, casting views om blogs without ever being to a game. It used to be a social thing, a working mans game. Saturday afternoon was booze and footy., now it's ****s and Sky sports or streams
Those flats in the corner of Orient’s ground were a stroke of genius by slippery geezer Barry Hearn. And I think all the money went into the club’s coffers, not his? Which no doubt surprised a lot of doubters. Royal Mail in East London used to hire Orient’s players lounge for their manager’s AGM. Not sure how much they changed for that. Brisbane Road is basically a lower League Stamford Bridge, or it was when Barry Hearn has it.
Without checking and purely from memory, but didn't Hearn end up shhiting on them from a great height, hence why they ended up in the National League. I'm sure they were in the League One play-offs from Hearn's money, it was the season (I think) they dumped on my lot 5-0 at their place. Anyway in the play-off's didn't they have a penalty they missed, and possibly Rotherham went and scored straight from it down the other end in the dying seconds of the game / or am I thinking another match. After that defeat Orient season on season crashed out the leagues (1 & 2).
Not sure what financial condition Hearn left them in, but I was sorry to see them drop down the divisions. The Os and Brentford are the two London clubs I have a soft spot for.
Worst was at Goodison in about '78 when I was 16. I fell behind my coachload and took a wrong turn and ended up outside the home end surrounded by angry blue Scousers. managed to get away but then during the match we were sussed out by some little scallies and after the match they directed a group of olders to chase us all the way across Stanley Park to the sanctuary of our coach, A couple of mates never made it and were bicycle chained... The match was pretty **** too IIRC.
