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[coaxingstar71]

Not this isn't a thread about gold ol' Auntie Beeb.........

Been wondering for a while what's happened to our very own 'Blades Business Crew'? I was never in it and have always kept well away from any 'nawtyness'.

Back in the 80's, there was a lot of talk about them and it was my understanding that they 'formed' because our fans kept getting a kicking from oppo fans and it was partly so that we'd have our own crew/element to counteract this. That's likely a bit of a romantic way of looking at it and I'm certain that most of them were in it to give some other fans a good kicking.

So what happened to them? I remember they allegedly stood on the John St terracing as near to the away support as possible. Are they still around? Perhaps some of you were in it or still are?

I remember at school, some kids would say "He's in the BBC y'know" which was supposed to mean "He's really hard and you shouldn't mess with him, lest he and his gang of mates give you a good kicking and possibly worse".

 

[Jon Bon II]

I remember at school, some kids would say "He's in the BBC y'know" which was supposed to mean "He's really hard and you shouldn't mess with him, lest he and his gang of mates give you a good kicking and possibly worse".

He'd glass you in the face without even a second glance...

 

[The Crab]

He'd glass you in the face without even a second glance...

So would this one...................

 

[snootyfenooty]

Not this isn't a thread about gold ol' Auntie Beeb.........

Been wondering for a while what's happened to our very own 'Blades Business Crew'? I was never in it and have always kept well away from any 'nawtyness'.

Back in the 80's, there was a lot of talk about them and it was my understanding that they 'formed' because our fans kept getting a kicking from oppo fans and it was partly so that we'd have our own crew/element to counteract this. That's likely a bit of a romantic way of looking at it and I'm certain that most of them were in it to give some other fans a good kicking.

So what happened to them? I remember they allegedly stood on the John St terracing as near to the away support as possible. Are they still around? Perhaps some of you were in it or still are?

I remember at school, some kids would say "He's in the BBC y'know" which was supposed to mean "He's really hard and you shouldn't mess with him, lest he and his gang of mates give you a good kicking and possibly worse".

It's true, the original lot you wouldn't mess with and they did allow you to watch a football game unmolested whilst they got on with the dirty work. Sad but a true reflection of those times.

The new lot are just a bunch of fucking arseholes.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

MMMMmmm Anna Ford. Mmmmmm

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

He'd glass you in the face without even a second glance...

Top Boy, feared throughout the land! Unfortunately in later life he fell on hard times, lost all his hair and became a bit of a gibbering wreck, mumbling and hardly able to make himself understood.

A pale shadow of his former self, he now makes ends meet playing a character called Max.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Not this isn't a thread about gold ol' Auntie Beeb.........

Been wondering for a while what's happened to our very own 'Blades Business Crew'? I was never in it and have always kept well away from any 'nawtyness'.

Back in the 80's, there was a lot of talk about them and it was my understanding that they 'formed' because our fans kept getting a kicking from oppo fans and it was partly so that we'd have our own crew/element to counteract this. That's likely a bit of a romantic way of looking at it and I'm certain that most of them were in it to give some other fans a good kicking.

So what happened to them? I remember they allegedly stood on the John St terracing as near to the away support as possible. Are they still around? Perhaps some of you were in it or still are?

I remember at school, some kids would say "He's in the BBC y'know" which was supposed to mean "He's really hard and you shouldn't mess with him, lest he and his gang of mates give you a good kicking and possibly worse".

At school? Are you thinking of cbeebies?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Easy explanation really. The original ones got older and packed it in, then the landscape had changed in terms of policing, making it difficult for organised firms to maraud around city centres looking for each other.

From what I can gather however, they were a necessary evil back in the day.

 

[Aston max]

So would this one...................

I think you meant sit on your face

 

[The Crab]

I think you meant sit on your face

Well, I can't say the thought didn't cross my mind.....................

 

[coaxingstar71]

At school? Are you thinking of cbeebies?

I'd left school by the time cbeebies started.
It was Playschool, Jackanory, John Craven's Newsround and that awful pile of wank, Blue Peter, when I were a kid!

 

[Sean Thornton]

I'd left school by the time cbeebies started.
It was Playschool, Jackanory, John Craven's Newsround and that awful pile of wank, Blue Peter, when I were a kid!

Tales from the riverbank, Magpie?

 

[I should coco]

that awful pile of wank, Blue Peter,

Anna Ford AND Valerie Singleton.

This thread is an old perv's paradise!

 

[coaxingstar71]

Tales from the riverbank, Magpie?

Don't recall Tales from the Riverbank.... sounds terrible. Magpie was the wank ITV equal of Blue Peter.

 

[BushBlade]

I'd left school by the time cbeebies started.
It was Playschool, Jackanory, John Craven's Newsround and that awful pile of wank, Blue Peter, when I were a kid!

Blue Peter really was awful. Stop trying to educate me ffs, I've been at bastard school all day, I want to watch cartoons like Scooby Doo, not learn how to make the Eiffel Tower out of a shitting washing up bottle.

 

[BushBlade]

Don't recall Tales from the Riverbank.... sounds terrible. Magpie was the wank ITV equal of Blue Peter.

One for sorrow, two for joy. That was the time it took to get off my arse and turn the TV over.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Anna Ford AND Valerie Singleton.

This thread is an old perv's paradise!

Val reminded me of someone you would meet in church. Now as for Anna Ford.........

 

[The Crab]

Val reminded me of someone you would meet in church. Now as for Anna Ford.........

Anna reminded me of someone you might meet round the back of the Church

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Tales from the riverbank, Magpie?

Hector's House, years ahead of it's time. A morality tale about multi-culturalism.

And you all thought it was about a Dog called Hector living with a cat called Zsazsa, with a frog called Kiki as a next door neighbour!

 

[Aston max]

Anna Ford AND Valerie Singleton.

This thread is an old perv's paradise!

Mmmmmm mmmmmm and ayesha

 

[Bayingblade]

Blue Peter really was awful. Stop trying to educate me ffs, I've been at bastard school all day, I want to watch cartoons like Scooby Doo, not learn how to make the Eiffel Tower out of a shitting washing up bottle.

First TV programme I ever saw in colour was Scooby Do. My mates dad got a colour TV in about 1970 and we all went round for a look. Still slightly traumatised by finding out that the aforementioned hound was bright orange..............

At least he was in 1970 on my mates dad's TV!

 

[BushBlade]

I had a big crush on Toni Arthur when I was about 4.

I knew I wanted to do something with her but no idea what.

 

[grafikhaus]

Easy explanation really. The original ones got older and packed it in, then the landscape had changed in terms of policing, making it difficult for organised firms to maraud around city centres looking for each other.

From what I can gather however, they were a necessary evil back in the day.

They certainly were. I was a young kid on the edge of the kop for a night match with Leeds - probably late 60s. I'd done nothing (stood with my mum!) and this Leeds cunt- probably pissed - started having a go at me. This bloke in his 40s came to my rescue and 'ushered' the bloke to the back of the kop. My curiosity raised, I followed them and my saviour - and two others - proceeded to kick the shit out of him. Not big, not clever but some of these twats ask for it. Still see some of the originals at matches now - Mitchell, Lawrence etc.

It all changed around 1980. Until then, getting nicked at football got you - at worst - a £40 fine. Then they clamped down and West Ham's top boy - Bill Gardner - and his Chelsea opposite number, Terence Last, got ten years each.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Mary mungo and midge.

Nuff said.

 

[BushBlade]

First TV programme I ever saw in colour was Scooby Do. My mates dad got a colour TV in about 1970 and we all went round for a look. Still slightly traumatised by finding out that the aforementioned hound was bright orange..............

At least he was in 1970 on my mates dad's TV!

Yeah, we didn't get colour until around 77. Used to go round my mates to watch Hawaii Five O.

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Magpie, despite being a pretty duff programme did have one redeeming feature...

.

 

[DifferentClass]

Blue Peter really was awful. Stop trying to educate me ffs, I've been at bastard school all day, I want to watch cartoons like Scooby Doo, not learn how to make the Eiffel Tower out of a shitting washing up bottle.

For fucking yonks I had no idea what "sticky back plastic" was.

Turns out it was fucking sellotape.

 

[BushBlade]

Magpie, despite being a pretty duff programme did have one redeeming feature...

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Jenny Hanley?

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Correct.....ex Bond girl too

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Val reminded me of someone you would meet in church. Now as for Anna Ford.........

........ behind the church, on a warm Summer's evening, blanket in hand.