Our new generation of hooligan pricks

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Houston_Blade said:
Innocent parties can certainly get into trouble, there just seems to be a theme with some posters that they weren’t looking for it but it always seems to find them.

In 2 occasions out of 200+ away games I’ve found myself on the end of something, both times were outside the away end immediately after the match (Molineux and Milmoor), you either walked past the idiots and risked a smack or you stood and waited.
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Similar really, only time I've been near anything was away at WBA 20 years ago. They were waiting at the end of the path from the away end, coppers were there to get fans to filter in, but didn't help much. Just waited a bit and then went
 



Houston_Blade said:
Innocent parties can certainly get into trouble, there just seems to be a theme with some posters that they weren’t looking for it but it always seems to find them.

In 2 occasions out of 200+ away games I’ve found myself on the end of something, both times were outside the away end immediately after the match (Molineux and Milmoor), you either walked past the idiots and risked a smack or you stood and waited.
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Millmoor? Are you sure you didn't mean Millwall?
 
Neuschwanstein said:
It was quite a night out. Loads of Blades running riot outside Highbury after the full time whistle.
When Arsenal scored, a volley of snooker balls were thrown at the home fans.
The police on horseback charged the united fans who were heading back to the coaches.
Loads went off that night, before and after the game. I remember a few Blades using baseball bats that they had in their van.
We lost in extra time 2:0.
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I was still at school at the time and I was in a car behind that van. Arsenal fans were on both sides of the road trying to get at fans stuck in the traffic. The van doors flew open and I saw somebody got smashed with a bat. We were crawling along and I was looking out of the back window for what seemed like a few minutes. The person who had been hit didn’t move and I was thinking “oh shit, have I just seen somebody being killed“.
 
I have no experience of away games although not living in Sheffield I have frequently thought about going (although usually unable to due to no tickets being available)

This thread has raised 2 questions in my mind:
1) what is it actually like on the average away day? you see some of the comments and I start worrying I would be jumped on as soon as I left the train station!
2) why did people actually go to the football in the 70s-80s?! flying snooker balls, darts, I read something the other day about acid being thrown?

I do enjoy the "tribal" nature of football, I think the atmosphere beats all other sports I have been to, but it feels like the line can be hard to find and then obviously crashes over into physical violence.
 
EddieColquhoun said:
I was still at school at the time and I was in a car behind that van. Arsenal fans were on both sides of the road trying to get at fans stuck in the traffic. The van doors flew open and I saw somebody got smashed with a bat. We were crawling along and I was looking out of the back window for what seemed like a few minutes. The person who had been hit didn’t move and I was thinking “oh shit, have I just seen somebody being killed“.
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I was with about 5 mates, we had all travelled down to London by hitchhiking etc.
After the game we ended up in the van, we didn't know who they were, we only knew they were from Handsworth.
The police pulled the van over later, lined us all up for a search.
Because the van was overloaded, we got told to walk. So 5 of us walking around north London after midnight not having a clue where we were. No mobile phones back then.
Finally made it Sheffield about 7am the next day.
Got there and back for nothing and jumped the turnstiles at the Clock End.
Young and impulsive :-)
 
dexter101 said:
I have no experience of away games although not living in Sheffield I have frequently thought about going (although usually unable to due to no tickets being available)

This thread has raised 2 questions in my mind:
1) what is it actually like on the average away day? you see some of the comments and I start worrying I would be jumped on as soon as I left the train station!
2) why did people actually go to the football in the 70s-80s?! flying snooker balls, darts, I read something the other day about acid being thrown?

I do enjoy the "tribal" nature of football, I think the atmosphere beats all other sports I have been to, but it feels like the line can be hard to find and then obviously crashes over into physical violence.
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Stay away from the cokeheads and you'll be fine.
 
dexter101 said:
So just stand far away from any stone island or people with goggles?! 😂
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Unfortunately with the yoof thats the case with probably fakes. The older lot of United just like to wear nice clothing and are past the older days IMO. So unfortunately these label of clothing are bad names.

Away days are class.. sometimes the result gets forgotton about weirdly enough. Going on coach (run by craig not United) and stopping off at little towns and villages before the game for a beer is quality. Places you'd probably never go with your pals and no trouble happens as your away from the home support.

Luton last season was one of the best for an all round good day.
 



Bert said:
Bert was in attendance, he recalls a snooker ball (white) being chucked at us.
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strange thing that day bert boros lads didnt come on to their own end till 2.45pm and then all hell broke loose but there were at least 2k blades on that end that day most violent game for objects being thrown was the september derby in 67 with wednesday coins bricks and tin cans were flying through the air that day on the shoreham started i have to say by united fans wednesday tried to get up the middle steps of the kop that day 3 times but failed miserably and only got on the shoreham via the spiral steps in the corner and then protected all game by a line of police pity lanky ritchie won the game for wednesday with far post header at the lane end
 
Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou said:
Unfortunately with the yoof thats the case with probably fakes. The older lot of United just like to wear nice clothing and are past the older days IMO. So unfortunately these label of clothing are bad names.

Away days are class.. sometimes the result gets forgotton about weirdly enough. Going on coach (run by craig not United) and stopping off at little towns and villages before the game for a beer is quality. Places you'd probably never go with your pals and no trouble happens as your away from the home support.

Luton last season was one of the best for an all round good day.
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Our fans for Luton away, absolutely made themselves heard, I listened to the commentary on radio and wish I could have turned the commentators off to just listen to the crowd.

Unfortunately coach won't be for me as I am not Sheffield based, I am also a lonely blade 🎻 so would be travelling on my own 😂
 
dexter101 said:
Our fans for Luton away, absolutely made themselves heard, I listened to the commentary on radio and wish I could have turned the commentators off to just listen to the crowd.

Unfortunately coach won't be for me as I am not Sheffield based, I am also a lonely blade 🎻 so would be travelling on my own 😂
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Where abouts you based? If south/London, the London blades group on FB are very active.
 
Whereas back in the day running with the naughty boys used to be a rights of passage when you stopped going to games with the owd fella…Nowadays days the dads are still there in the background (in stoney gear) egging the young lads on…such an unedifying sight.
 
djbaldken said:
Help me out here please Blades.
Snooker balls being thrown takes me back to a cup match, away at Arsenal. I think we were in Div 4 so would have been 81/82. We must have drawn at the lane so the replay was at Highbury mid week. We went on an away day British rail special from Midland station. Plod was on the train with us. One even joined in a card game.
Pre match inside Highbury with loads of blades in away end ,a phalanx of Gunners charged down the terrace towards us, intent on a scuffle or two, only to be repelled by about a dozen of the Mets finests, armed with truncheons, who beat the fuck out of the Gunners mob and made them retreat to where they came from. During the chaos a snooker ball, (again white) was launched from amid the blades faithful. It hit one of the rampaging gunners on the head so hard it bounced off the terrace and landed half way into the pitch.
The Blades performed really well that night and took Arsenal to extra time only to lose one nil. It's in my mind that the player who scored was called Sword. The headline the next day being Blades put to the Sword.

Have I imagined this? Anyone else remember it?

I do remember all of us who were on the train special had a police escort back to the train station cause there was so much bother on the streets that night.
As we got back into the Midland Station in the early hours of that morning and were crossing the road back to our car , the team coach drove past us all on their way back to the lane.
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I went to that game with Swainey, went by coach. The clock end suicide squad had a bit of a go. I had to explain to a copper I was from Sheffield (posh accent you see - public school - lol). The Blades played in the Brown and Yellow and we lost one - nil. If a remember correctly Alan Sunderland scored? But some on here refer to me as a pig...............................................really?
 
Inter_blade83 said:
Similar really, only time I've been near anything was away at WBA 20 years ago. They were waiting at the end of the path from the away end, coppers were there to get fans to filter in, but didn't help much. Just waited a bit and then went
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West Brom, good firm at home but never travelled well.
 



Tezza1889 said:
It was always a white ball because they were bigger so they didn't stay down when you accidentally potted them .. so they were free ammo, as they were in the end of the table just sat there... no 20p needed..
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That would make it a pool ball, not a snooker ball.
They are bigger too.
 
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