I look to the positives of the rest of the drivers and their teams supporting the fight against bigotry.
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I look to the positives of the rest of the drivers and their teams supporting the fight against bigotry.
But I was walking from the ground to the train station after beating you 5-0Can't remember it being like that. Back then it would have had a decent town centre, along with Chav Town, generally economically vibrant retail areas but for some reason the whole of Medway, with the exception of Rochester went to pot.
I always felt the pedestrianised of Gillingham came too soon, one of the first I can remember being done, it was said it would kill the Town and it did. Obviously these days, pedestrianisation is seen as a bonus, but we're talking about long before internet shopping (I think).
Then the dregs moved in. You always had corners of them, but again social deprivation fooked the place up, and nothing was ever done to put it right, total neglect.
Rochester (pubs/bars) is as about as close as you'd want to get to the place these days....oh and the football ground of course
We had a couple of guys with their heads smashed in with bottles thrown from a bridge
Football could have that effect in those days
What bridge?
From the station to the ground there isn't any bridges. One incident dosen't tar a whole town, in the context that you put it
@brb just realised that lady has her own website, blog the lot! Written a few books on Leeds United and she’s still a home and away STH. Wowzers.
If we’re looking for the forums most committed fan, then look no further - 50 years of devotion..............to ****ing dirty Leeds
Yes mate, that's it. Loads of media stuff about her. I've never seen anything like it.
The only time I was actually scared was at Charlton after we beat them 3-1
The Charlton fans were hunting in packs looking for Watford supporters on their own or in small groups
The train we caught was one of the old fashioned ones with a corridor and compartment and my mate and I got into a compartment with a couple and two young kids, they gave us their scarves to wear until the train pulled off
The mobs run past us a couple of times
The woman said she hated those fans because they gave the club a bad name, god knows what would have happened if we had got in the wrong compartment
Happy days
The Charlton fans were hunting in packs looking for Watford supporters on their own or in small groups
The train we caught was one of the old fashioned ones with a corridor and compartment and my mate and I got into a compartment with a couple and two young kids, they gave us their scarves to wear until the train pulled off
The mobs run past us a couple of times
The woman said she hated those fans because they gave the club a bad name, god knows what would have happened if we had got in the wrong compartment
Happy days
All I can remember is that they were higher than us and bottles were thrownWhat bridge?
From the station to the ground there isn't any bridges. One incident dosen't tar a whole town, in the context that you put it
Your right it doesn't reflect the whole town, I have been their since not at a football match and everyone was friendly and I worked with a couple of guys from Gillingham on a rail project and they were good guys
I guess it was football that caused the trouble in those days
Back in 1969, the only higher section on that route, would have been the away terracing itself. Bit of history to explain...back in them days it was known as the Town End, albeit the opposite end was strangely always the home end, known as The Rainham End and still is to this day. I don't know the history on how it became the home end. Anyway, the Town End now known as the Brian Moore Stand (BMS) was liked by many Gills fans such as myself, so it was shared with the away fans. From the time you mentioned through to the late 70's or possibly (not sure, memory fades) very early 80's, there was a route that you could walk from one end to the other at half-time. Naturally it got closed during the height of football hooligans, and a new stand was eventually built on what now is a non existent (non traceable) route. The reason I'm telling you this is because the Town End Concrete terracing was elevated, so home fans could overlook where the away coaches came in on the road, that ran parallel, don't tell @Libby but many years a go a Southampton coach got trashed with concrete from the elevated level. But I can't think of anywhere else elevated by a bridge, that would allow you to access people beneath it.
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No mate the away end then known as the Town End, was towards the Town Centre. Hence why I never ever understood, why the Rainham End became the home terrace.
In the North it’s a well known hot spot for racism. Massive EDL followings come from there
Blackburn and Burnley have large Asian populations and have had race problems for years, Blackburn now seems to have settled down mostly and the racists are losing ground.
Rawtenstall on the other hand have very few Asians (if any) yet the majority of people there are very racist.
Around here we tend to believe that anyone who lives above/beyond (i added beyond because Burnley is way down the hill) Ramsbottom has six fingers on each hand and probably marry their sisters.
The Blackburn / Burnley rivalry has many facets. Accrington sits slap bang between the two - probably not much more than 15/20 mile span between all 3? - when the original Accrington Stanley went under in the 60s, Burnley were prepared to try and bail them out financially if Blackburn would join them 50:50 ... Blackburn declined. Stanley went under and the majority of footie fans in Accrington grew up supporting Burnley and hating Blackburn.
Racist ****s in Blackburn too...can remember once was waiting at Blackburn train station and a group of Burberry wearing ****ers walked past with one getting in my face and saying ‘your dead’
I was like ‘ooooft’...get me on that train
That happened to me in Leeds once aswell
To balance the racist stuff out I must add..I’ve been robbed at knife point too...they were black
15 years plus ago?
only asking because i have seen much more cohesion (from my point of view) in Blackburn for a few years now.