This one is really funny a lad in Malaysia wearing a manc top in the Liverpool end.. The one I remember is when I went up to Manchester City with my City mate in the packed Colin Bell stand on a wet Monday evening. Danny ****tu nearly scored I tried to jump up and my City mate dived on me shouting NOOOOOOOO. I just about escaped being thrown over the first tier of the stand by the City fans... [video=youtube;Cv-CW3dkhvE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-CW3dkhvE&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
i've sat in the wrong end at Chelsea twice, watching us lose 4-0 twice. Not pleasant! I had my Watford shirt tucked up nicely beneath my jumper and thought i was being very discreet but at the end of the second match, the guy next to me turned to me and said "we're playing your lot next week"...i had to laugh, he was a Portsmouth supporter and was there because his son supported Chelsea...
The Watford shirt is pretty distinctive.... I guess any end other than the Watford one is the wrong end, whether we are playing or not. When I lived in Southampton, I did go to a few of their matches. One of them, a mate said I could come as long as I wore a Saints shirt.... After a lot of arguing I agreed, but wore a Watford shirt underneath it!
We played Chelsea years ago, iwan Roberts put us 2.0 up early on. Two of us were sat in the shed , not very pleasant , things calmed down when they scored to make it 1.2, then when they made it 2.2 we got sang at.
Torquay. Arrived at 2 for a 3.00 KO. Went in the covered end - worked out about 2.15 we'd better move on... The Rookery was the wrong end once Norwich fans had invaded it circa 75.... Chelsea. Bought a blue scarf and went in the Shed and shut up!!!!!!!!! Last season a mate turned up on the day (Barnsley I think) to be told all tickets sold - it was a family day. So he paid cash and sat with the yorkies!!
A good friend of mine is a big Southampton fan. On 18 Dec 1987 we went to the kennel to watch Southampton get a 2-2 draw. This was during the days when no away fans were allowed. John Burridge brought on a small bucket of sand to mark his area, and the scummers were going beserk around around us as the sand was piling up on the plastic!!!! I honestly do not know how the referee didn't notice as it was laughable. I honestly don't know how we got away with it amongst the "huge crowd" of 6618!!! The things I did in my youth.
In the 60s & early 70s it was 'policy' at away games to deliberately go into the 'Home End'. This was in the days of lots of hard lads from Sarfocksey, Garston, the Meriden & the Holywell looking to 'take' the home end. Home Ends invaded included the Oak Road (Watford held their own on numerous occasions), Stockport (very hard lot), Bristol Rovers, Walsall, Swindon, Mansfield, Shrewsbury. This usually ended a mass brawl with police involved in partitioning the terracing. Very rarely were the Watford boys 'run' in the parlance of those days - few happy-clappers in sight then. After we were promoted into the old Div. 2 it was a little more difficult to impose on the much larger home ends, like the Holte, the Kop at Hillsborough, Preston, Blackpool, Birmingham, Middlesbrough - although I do remember a huge barney down at Ninian Park in the home end of our old friends Cardiff.
In the early 80's went to Chelsea at The Bridge with a Chelsea mate and a big gooner. We sat in that big old main stand that had just been built. I thought I was quite discrete, but I think Barnes brilliant goal must have given away. At the end of the game some big old Chelsea meat-head in front starting having a go, so my Chelsea mate tried to calm him with the "it's only a game mate" - to which he got nutted! To which my gooner mate decked him with 1 punch - and we all went separate ways!
Mid 90's away to P/boro, my mate got me a ticket he followed the Posh, so I went with top on below jacket we won 2-5 I was going mental, how I did not get thrown out was a miracle!
lol i've never been in the wrong end when we've won, i think it's easier to be there when we lose lol
i have, however, vowed i'll never go up the wrong end again, since..a. we always lose when i do, and b. it's no fun not being amongst Watford fans!
Been in the Arsenal end a few times and neevr had any problems at all though we always got beat. They're a decent bunch actually. I stood on the shed when we drew 2-2 many years ago and kept my mouth shut. Still, it's not a problem in london as you can at least talk to people.
Funny lot those Bristol Rovers were. From memory, their away support was always large and generally full of troublemakers. A totally different kettle of fish at home in Eastville though - one year, when we won 2-0 there, the home end were giving it large to a small band of Hornets faithful so about a dozen of us hid our scarves and quietly made our way into the middle of them, one by one. When we 'made our presence known', the locals scattered in fear - mostly to the other end. Happy days!
The one occassion I was at the wrong end was at a England U-21 game at Brentford. I was used to U-21 games at the Vic (usually against Denmark, for some reason best known to the FA) where the ground was never full. I thought it would be the same for this match but I should've known better with it being against RoI. The only place I could get in was their end. England won 3-0 and I cheered all 3 goals but none of the Irish fans said anything.
I don't think there was a wrong end when we played Northwich in the cup. Anyway, I was surrounded by Northwich fans holding candles because Mike Keen, or someone, had insistd that the game kick off at two rather than three because we didn't trust the floodlights. There was no danger, just humiliation when we lost.
Also our last sojourn in the promised lan of the Prem, my son in law got tickets for Anfield I was so close to our fans but had to bide my tongue, which is no mean feat!
