The Aggro Archives

[BushBlade]

Yeah Sid,Ainsworth wasn't on the bus but he had a row with their manager and knocked his cap off
His name escapes me but was Vale manager for a good few years

Would it have been Brian Horton?

Edit: no it wouldn't.

 

[brownie4583]

John Rudge

Yes John Rudge he was Vale manager for 16 years 1983-1999

 

[DifferentClass]

The First Team getting chucked off a flight for drunken behaviour whilst going on pre season tour in 1990.

That actually made one of Trevor Macdonald's BONG headlines on News at Ten.

I'm blaming Wilder for that one.

 

[Weasel]

Me and the Msz had front row seats to that. Came out of Hill Street just as it kicked off.

Fairly sure Brum left early en masse, as they attacked The Pheasant with only a few people in it. They'd picked up anything throwable on the way, and bombarded the pub with bricks, bottles, etc (and a bus full of Saturday shoppers unfortunately got stuck in the traffic bang outside). The few blades inside threw pretty much everything in the pub back at them. There were tables, chairs, pint glasses, ashtrays, the lot coming back.

Birmingham (I think probably hearing the crowd coming) turned and ran. Not sure if they were lost but they turned and ran up the road we were on. Stood aside and pushed the Msz behind me against a wall and half expected a kicking, but thank fuck they ran straight past us.

Plod (conveniently arriving seconds after it had all gone off) then rounded up all the nearby blades (including us), forced us into the smashed up Pheasant and wouldn't let anyone out. Thankfully they were still serving beer!

There was a lad in there with quite a serious head injury. Apparently he'd been sat in the window when a piece of scaffolding came through it.

Remember it well that one as i got caught up in it. Went with the intention of going to the Lane that day but got into town late and had missed about 30 mins of the match so decided to save my match day money and spend it on ale instead.

Found myself suppin in the Sheldon when a few lads came runnin in quick sharp to tell the landlord to bolt the door as a right mob of Zulus (Brums lads) were coming up the road (it was about 4.30ish at this time so they had left the match early) and they didnt look like they were trying to find a nice quiet local ale pub. Doors quickly locked and the fukas past by with a few trying to get in the door. Next thing i know the shout went up that they had attacked the pheasant. A few of us went out to see what was going on and i quickly sussed the situation as a stool was chucked at me and sailed just past the end of my nose.

It was a pretty hairy scary affair as there seemed loads of em and they were giving a few blades a slap or two. One pakistani brummie was waving a machete about like a fkin lunatic and threatening to cut up any blade fan (he looked off his tits with drugs).

There was a few punches traded and we held our own (just) until more blades came on the scene as the game was nearly finishing. It got to a critical point for the Brummies and they started getting a pasting (machete maniac was getting a bit of a kickin at this point as he had been disarmed) and it wasnt long before they did a runner with em scattering. Saw a few good Brummie lads laid out on the t junction outside the pheasant and some of em looked in a bad way.

Wasnt a nice experience and you wasnt fighting for the 'honour' of any club it was just a case of keeping yoursen from getting seriously hurt. It was fkin mental that one.

Went back to the bar and had a skinful whilst thinking how it could have gone seriously tits up. The Brummies got their comeuppance that day and ive never liked the nasty fukas since.

 

[Old Skool]

There are people who post on here who could write a book on this and some!!! I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....... nicked from bladerunner but appropriate nonetheless!!

 

[coolhandluke]

Remember it well that one as i got caught up in it. Went with the intention of going to the Lane that day but got into town late and had missed about 30 mins of the match so decided to save my match day money and spend it on ale instead.

Found myself suppin in the Sheldon when a few lads came runnin in quick sharp to tell the landlord to bolt the door as a right mob of Zulus (Brums lads) were coming up the road (it was about 4.30ish at this time so they had left the match early) and they didnt look like they were trying to find a nice quiet local ale pub. Doors quickly locked and the fukas past by with a few trying to get in the door. Next thing i know the shout went up that they had attacked the pheasant. A few of us went out to see what was going on and i quickly sussed the situation as a stool was chucked at me and sailed just past the end of my nose.

It was a pretty hairy scary affair as there seemed loads of em and they were giving a few blades a slap or two. One pakistani brummie was waving a machete about like a fkin lunatic and threatening to cut up any blade fan (he looked off his tits with drugs).

There was a few punches traded and we held our own (just) until more blades came on the scene as the game was nearly finishing. It got to a critical point for the Brummies and they started getting a pasting (machete maniac was getting a bit of a kickin at this point as he had been disarmed) and it wasnt long before they did a runner with em scattering. Saw a few good Brummie lads laid out on the t junction outside the pheasant and some of em looked in a bad way.

Wasnt a nice experience and you wasnt fighting for the 'honour' of any club it was just a case of keeping yoursen from getting seriously hurt. It was fkin mental that one.

Went back to the bar and had a skinful whilst thinking how it could have gone seriously tits up. The Brummies got their comeuppance that day and ive never liked the nasty fukas since.

From what ive been told ..... plenty of Blades were in the Pheasant but the front doors were locked in there too as the Brum lot turned up . The Blades you recall arriving were actually Blades from inside the pheasant that had got out of the fire exit at the back plus others arriving on the scene .

Like you say , that was a good old set too which left 4 or 5 of the Birmingham lot in hospital .

 

[BladeFisher]

The First Team getting chucked off a flight for drunken behaviour whilst going on pre season tour in 1990.

That actually made one of Trevor Macdonald's BONG headlines on News at Ten.

David Barnes?

 

[coolhandluke]

There are people who post on here who could write a book on this and some!!! I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....... nicked from bladerunner but appropriate nonetheless!!

There was a time , mainly throughout the 80's , when any last away game of the season saw big numbers of Blades travelling and major disorder was always on the cards . Brighton , Portsmouth and Bristol City a couple of times immediately spring to mind .

 

[Isar]

There was a time , mainly throughout the 80's , when any last away game of the season saw big numbers of Blades travelling and major disorder was always on the cards . Brighton , Portsmouth and Bristol City a couple of times immediately spring to mind .

Bristol away 88 I think, it kicked off in the stand, then moved onto the pitch, coppers cleared the pitch and the game restarted, then it all kicked off again in the park near the ground. I would say a good 3k Blades there that day. I had the girlfriend with me and bought tickets for us in the stand, thought there would be less chance of any trouble, well we ended sitting right next to the bristol lads with loads of other Blades.

 

[coolhandluke]

Bristol away 88 I think, it kicked off in the stand, then moved onto the pitch, coppers cleared the pitch and the game restarted, then it all kicked off again in the park near the ground. I would say a good 3k Blades there that day. I had the girlfriend with me and bought tickets for us in the stand, thought there would be less chance of any trouble, well we ended sitting right next to the bristol lads with loads of other Blades.

I was sat in exactly the same stand

There had also been trouble in a playoff game at Bristol City the season before if memory serves .

On the Bristol City front ..... i seem to recall there being a lot of trouble in the centre of Bristol before the Playoff final with Wolves in Cardiff .

 

[Silent Blade]

David Barnes?

And Billy Whitehurst in a plane. They were doing impressions of Dave Bassett doing a team talk in front of their team mates as they were scribbling on a board (or something like that) without realising that the board wasnt for scribbling and it got damaged

 

[Aston max]

you have never lived till you have been chucked in the trent

 

[Marcus Aurelias]

Yup Leeds at home in south stand , a group was boxed into top right hand corner , after a skirmish on south stand , 1. were they ran up into top corner , after a brief get to gether .
Almost got nicked myself for trying to climb up john street fence into them from corner bit , now seated .
Got talking to a couple of 2. there lads at bus stop that used to be there outside train station, they asked 3. were all our lot was , i told em to fuckoff , 4.were 5.where you lot from 11 this morning as we had hundreds waiting for you .
This was the season we ran them in Leeds city centre .

1. Where
2. Their
3. Where
4. Where
5. Were

There's nothing that creeks my spadge more than a nawty boy without a basic grasp of written English.

Now , write out 'Where were you at Bramall Lane? Where were you at Bramall Lane?' a hundred times before the next fracas.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

From what ive been told ..... plenty of Blades were in the Pheasant but the front doors were locked in there too as the Brum lot turned up . The Blades you recall arriving were actually Blades from inside the pheasant that had got out of the fire exit at the back plus others arriving on the scene .

Like you say , that was a good old set too which left 4 or 5 of the Birmingham lot in hospital .

What season and what was the score?

 

[sitwell]

I'm blaming Wilder for that one.

and you would be correct ,but others took the rap.

 

[coolhandluke]

What season and what was the score?

About 97 wasnt it ? Fuck knows what the score was . Just to compound my dodgy memory , i remember going to their place for the return fixture and i havent a fuckin clue what the score was there either

 

[sitwell]

There are people who post on here who could write a book on this and some!!! I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....... nicked from bladerunner but appropriate nonetheless!!

Quite a few stories in the Bladerunners book resulted from ones we made up and told Armstrong after a game at Highbury when we were 5-0 down at half time (think its the only time Ive left a game early). He will never know how close he came to getting his head kicked in actually ,one or two more lads filtered in during the second half and were convinced he was an undercover copper, it took a couple of well known lads to persuade them otherwise but it was very close.

 

[silver blade]

Have some good memories of reading this in Flashing Blades as well as 'Days That Shook The Lane'

Other day a bloke at work said only thing he recalled about the Blades is that we made News At Ten once for hitting a linesman !!!!

What other incidents can you recall down the years on and off the pitch where we have made the front or back pages for the wrong reasons?

slightly off tangent but have there been any streakers at the lane? I can't remember any, I know the weather is getting colder but who's up for it on Boxing Day?

 

[Sean Thornton]

Quite a few stories in the Bladerunners book resulted from ones we made up and told Armstrong after a game at Highbury when we were 5-0 down at half time (think its the only time Ive left a game early). He will never know how close he came to getting his head kicked in actually ,one or two more lads filtered in during the second half and were convinced he was an undercover copper, it took a couple of well known lads to persuade them otherwise but it was very close.

Lots believed he was undercover.

 

[Lane Ender]

There are people who post on here who could write a book on this and some!!! I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....... nicked from bladerunner but appropriate nonetheless!!

Oh yes

 

[sitwell]

View attachment 21291 slightly off tangent but have there been any streakers at the lane? I can't remember any, I know the weather is getting colder but who's up for it on Boxing Day?

Charlie ,Tony Agana fame

 

[Silent Blade]

View attachment 21291 slightly off tangent but have there been any streakers at the lane? I can't remember any, I know the weather is getting colder but who's up for it on Boxing Day?

Charlie ,Tony Agana fame

That was v Villa in March 1991

Also we had one against Stoke in April 1997 but Fjortoft caught her and handed her over to the stewards

 

[Bayingblade]

And Billy Whitehurst in a plane. They were doing impressions of Dave Bassett doing a team talk in front of their team mates as they were scribbling on a board (or something like that) without realising that the board wasnt for scribbling and it got damaged

It was the screen for the video, Silent

 

[Silent Blade]

It was the screen for the video, Silent

Yes it was!

 

[zablade]

The First Team getting chucked off a flight for drunken behaviour whilst going on pre season tour in 1990.

That actually made one of Trevor Macdonald's BONG headlines on News at Ten.

I'd forgotten all about that!

I remember now when the headline was announced it said something like "Flight aborted as English First Division Football Team are removed by Police" I turned to my Dad and said jokingly "watch it be United"

10 minutes later when the story came on and the club crest flashed up behind The newsreaders head it was like.. "ohhh Shitttt"

 

[pommpey]

1. Where
2. Their
3. Where
4. Where
5. Were

There's nothing that creeks my spadge more than a nawty boy without a basic grasp of written English.

Now , write out 'Where were you at Bramall Lane? Where were you at Bramall Lane?' a hundred times before the next fracas.

Your gonna get you're fucking head kicked in!

pommpey

 

[Superblades]

View attachment 21291 slightly off tangent but have there been any streakers at the lane? I can't remember any, I know the weather is getting colder but who's up for it on Boxing Day?

Remember a bird running on against Stoke in 97.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

1. Where
2. Their
3. Where
4. Where
5. Were

There's nothing that creeks my spadge more than a nawty boy without a basic grasp of written English.

Now , write out 'Where were you at Bramall Lane? Where were you at Bramall Lane?' a hundred times before the next fracas.

There , their , they're , I promise to try harder next time .

 

[super_pig]

Didn't a fan run on and boot a Walsall ? player as he stood in the wall waiting for a free kick ,or was it Portsmouth

leicester home 2-2 draw.. we got relegated (i know who it was!)

 

[dublin 10 blade]

The game v Arsenal which never was (the Brucie Brucie tek em off game - the game i mean not his dolly birds bra).

Well one of the lads had been nicked early doors for being a bit nawty and was chucked into the blackstock road nick whilst we went to the game which was there to be won as it was anybodys game before they panicked and cheated with 10 to go. Afterwards about 5 of us wondered down the road and to the nick to be told laddo was being detained for the time being but would be let out in the next couple of hours. Being the nice lads that we are we decided to wait for the spanner and wondered into the Gunners Arms where it was steady and whilst we got a few stares we ignored it and got on with drinking a few bevvies and waiting.

There wasnt any bother as the boozer got fuller and fuller and all seemed ok until Wenger popped up on the tele to tell everyone that they wanted to replay the game. The mood in the alehouse changed instantly, especially as one of the lads started shouting 'fkin get in...gu on blades...cheating arsenal twats...'. Needless to say in about 60 seconds it was all looking decidely dodgy and about to come on top a little with what seemed like a hundred arsenal faces all wanting to rip us apart. There was no way out of the alehouse so we put the old Davy Crockett Alamo hats on, stood back to back with our little group, picked up owt worth having in a brawl and told the Arsenal nawties to 'cmon then you fkin wankers', with arms out. It was a case of ok youve cornered us now but some of you fukas are gunna get it first.

Unbelievably the onslaught didnt come and the cockney boys just looked at us as if they thought we were fkin on something (some of us probably were). I remember a big black fella walking up to my mate Jimmy and shaking his hand and saying 'fak me Sheffield your fakin game as fak'...before telling us 'fair dos to ya lads, ya can have a few beers on us' which they proceeded to buy for us. Drinking their ale was a bit uncomfortable as you could see some of em were just itching to start the ruck but it seemed obvious after a while that some of the lads we were with were some of their main lads/faces and seemed to respect our 'fuk it...were all in it together now lads attitude, and probably our bollox for going in there and fronting it out.

Was a bit of a close squeak that one as quite easily one of the lads could have been coming out of the nick to find us all in the local infirmary with pool cues lodged up our a sheffield arses. We laughed about it later but i wouldnt recommend that one. Still they did 'fakin respect Sheffield' afterwards and some cockneys would have been in the next beds to us.

I had a similar encounter when I got out of midland station after traveling over from Ireland overnight , was due to meet a couple of lads in the Howard , unfortunately some are no longer with us , had my suede Nike jacket on , and small Blades badge on walked in and it was fucking chocker , with Cardiff fans , one of them clocked the badge and came over , where are your lads he said , fuck knows I said ! I was expecting to see them in here , one or two started showing off , but the lad talking to me told em to fuckoff as I was on my own , told me to go and get my mates , said see ya later , and shook his hand , walking up past the Globe there was more fucking Cardiff in there as well , it almost came on top , but I pointed to their boy who gave me the thumbs up and they let me be .
Meet a few others but by this time SYP , had them covered , was walking towards London road and met a few Cardiff getting out of a car , lucky for me the guy with the pink Lyle and Scott on didn't have my trainer imprint on his jumper .
Walking up towards the Pheasant , bumped into the second group from the globe along with their Patrick cagoules , we laughed at each other as the police had us both covered and said alright , and winked at each other .
This was the chapter in Mr Cowens book when they were sat in the upper tier of the Bramall stand .
Then there was the time against ,,,,,,,,,,