Football hooliganism and United

[flashinblade1889]

My other halves brother got expelled from Harvard over in the US a few years ago and he came over to live with us. My brother was a big West Ham 'fan' and supposedly ran a firm down there...

Anyway he got 'r lasses brother into it, and they went all over, used to see them both with black eyes, cuts, bandages every other week...

My brother was beat to death during a brawl with the Millwall 'firm'... Their top boy went down for it, a bloke called Tommy Hatcher. Loads from each side got put away as well.

RIP Pete.

Make a good film that Stevie.......

 

[Danny_Boy]

Had a mate called Zebedee who met a sticky end as well who ran with the Chelsea lads... But that's a story for another time.

I think I know him, did he have a mate called Tommy Johnson? Proper nawty lot.

 

[PokerBlade]

I'm a child of the 90's and therefore missed the worst of it.

But in the United documentary in 1989. Somebody makes the point that whilst he didn't condone the worst excesses of the BBC, they were formed as a necessary line of defence against visiting firms who would routinely attack normal supporters beforehand. So I have sympathy with the notion that they were a necessary evil at one point.

This is essentially how all gangs form. Hell, it's how nations are born. The problem comes that after a while nobody who started the conflict remains, nobody remembers who they were, and if the gang's power in an area is unchecked, being based on violence and ruthlessness and all, it doesn't work out well for anyone.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

This is essentially how all gangs form. Hell, it's how nations are born. The problem comes that after a while nobody who started the conflict remains, nobody remembers who they were, and if the gang's power in an area is unchecked, being based on violence and ruthlessness and all, it doesn't work out well for anyone.

Say that again -and me and my mates will smash your face in.

 

[PokerBlade]

Say that again -and me and my mates will smash your face in.

I yearn for a simpler time, when conflicts were settled not by violence, but by a metaphysical debate over whose Dad could beat whose.

 

[Mad Mick]

Used to get quite hairy on the Kop in the 60's. Bottles and bricks flying backwards and forwards. You have to remember you could take anything in to a match as there were no searches. Supporters used to get in early to try and "Take" the Kop. Sometimes they did but often got shoved to the corner. The biggest brawl I ever saw was the Bramall Battle against Man City around the mid 60's. Sometimes away teams wouldn't bother with the Kop, but walk around past the cricket pitch to try and jump us. Silly buggers could be seen coming round so we always held our own. Weapons were used, but mainly fisticuffs. If you got jumped it was probably just a good kicking.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

I yearn for a simpler time, when conflicts were settled not by violence, but by a metaphysical debate over whose Dad could beat whose.

Yeah, my dad were a boxer in't army.

 

[Aston max]

biggest pasting believe it or not , pigs v manure in div 2 , me and 2 blades mates went to game to watch manure , none of the massive had turned up and about 30 blades were battling manure fans on the kop ,not a good day

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Used to get quite hairy on the Kop in the 60's. Bottles and bricks flying backwards and forwards. You have to remember you could take anything in to a match as there were no searches. Supporters used to get in early to try and "Take" the Kop. Sometimes they did but often got shoved to the corner. The biggest brawl I ever saw was the Bramall Battle against Man City around the mid 60's. Sometimes away teams wouldn't bother with the Kop, but walk around past the cricket pitch to try and jump us. Silly buggers could be seen coming round so we always held our own. Weapons were used, but mainly fisticuffs. If you got jumped it was probably just a good kicking.

The Man City match you mention was the day I got hit on the head by a golf ball - from just below the ledge, first bounce to the white railings. People who know me well say that it explains a lot

 

[Silent Blade]

The biggest brawl I ever saw was the Bramall Battle against Man City around the mid 60's.

1st April 1967. A friend of mine said it was the worst fighting he had ever seen. The Kop spilled blood. It happened near the end of the 1st half when Mick Jones headed in a Woody corner for the only goal of the match

 

[Maidenhead]

I once went hedge hopping!!

Anonymously?

Could be good news week.

 

[prince albert]

Anonymously?

Could be good news week.

someone dropped a bomb somwhere

 

[Maidenhead]

someone dropped a bomb somwhere

bleeding tories contaminating all the air,

No sense of environmental responsibility at all

 

[Small Mendonca]

I remember once seeing really bad scenes at an away game. Some people were posturing and then one of them stuck up a middle finger. When I thought it couldn't get any worse, it did. Some guy in Stone Island came and lit a smoke bomb. I'll be telling my grandkids about that day in the years ahead. Feel scarred that I've grown up in such a bad time for football.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Really scary when you see loads of bald fat middle aged men acting hard

 

[snootyfenooty]

Really scary when you see loads of bald fat middle aged men acting hard

With a club shirt on about 3 sizes too small, stretched to fuck around the beer gut. It's a wonder they don't have a fucking stroke.

 

[Kop Cat]

Early 70s could get quite rough, as mentioned away fans would turn up early to "take" the kop (mainly dirty weeds), a few away fans would nick golf balls and darts from Suggs to use a missiles. I remember West Spam had around 15 to 20 real hard nuts at the back of the Kop and despite several attempts (and some police intervention) Blades were unable to shift them, I`m sure it was the "quality goal from a quality player" Currie goal game.

 

[silver blade]

Back in the late 60s/70s there wasn't really an 'away end'

If you were brave/daft enough you went on your opponents kop and took your chance. Seen our kop 'taken' a couple of times

I remember the Liverpool fans taking over the kop, as a young lad I was a bit nervous, they gave us a lot of abuse during the match but after they were very friendly & complimentary about the teams performance, think it ended in a draw.
A mate got hit with a bottle thrown from the back of the kop but that was from a blades fan who didn't throw it high enough.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

I seem to remember a derby match at The Lane in the late sixties when acid was said to have been thrown at the pigs by The Blades fans.
The Star made a big thing of it at the time but I don't think anyone was badly hurt.

 

[vorpal blade]

but it left a bitter taste in the mouth

 

[Th!stledo]

Had a mate called Zebedee who met a sticky end as well who ran with the Chelsea lads... But that's a story for another time.

Wasn't he that mustachio guy with a spring in his step, who kept popping up at round-a-bouts?

 

[pommpey]

Really scary when you see loads of bald fat middle aged men acting hard

You've seen the 6:57 lot then?

pommpey

 

[Sean Thornton]

With a club shirt on about 3 sizes too small, stretched to fuck around the beer gut. It's a wonder they don't have a fucking stroke.

Oh football fans. I though FM was on about Orgreave.


An adidas-macron-hobot shirt really wouldn't do for those who shop at the Thoresby branches of Stone Island and Armani though.

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

someone dropped a bomb somwhere

Contaminating atmosphere and blackening the sky. - - - - -

 

[Davalon]

Oh football fans. I though FM was on about Orgreave.


An adidas-macron-hobot shirt really wouldn't do for those who shop at the Thoresby branches of Stone Island and Armani though.

There's a bloke who goes in my local with the worst fake Stoney duffle coat you've seen. He must be in his 60s too, and predictably a Pig.

Thoresby did a great line in Ralph Lauren too. Looked like the Archbishop of Canterbury sat on a donkey.

 

[Davalon]

Make a good film that Stevie.......

You've not seen it then

 

[Davalon]

Maybe so but the tenet of my post stands.

If you live on Green Street mate you have to learn to stand your ground and fight. Also helps if you've got a crap mockney accent with an Aussie twang.

 

[Sean Thornton]

There's a bloke who goes in my local with the worst fake Stoney duffle coat you've seen. He must be in his 60s too, and predictably a Pig.

Thoresby did a great line in Ralph Lauren too. Looked like the Archbishop of Canterbury sat on a donkey.

Pig in a bar near me wears a fake SI thick cardigan. Got that many bobbles on it it looks like he washes it with a Brillo pad. Fake GStar jeans - GStar he's in his fifties ). He chats about designer gear to my son and his mates and the little sods make up names and he nods sagely. .

 

[Sean Thornton]

If you live on Green Street mate you have to learn to stand your ground and fight. Also helps if you've got a crap mockney accent with an Aussie twang.

That's not a knife, this is a knife, yooo slaaag!

 

[itsinyerblood]

That's not a knife, this is a knife, yooo slaaag!

Thornton, are you having a fantasy half-hour? Don't you have enough work to occupy yourself with? What's all this mockney, Stone Island nonsense? If it keep the little ones happy and keeps them off of street corners then all the better for the rest of us.......now then, I thought you were a captain of industry or summat like that?