Watching football in years gone by...

[Aston max]

Ah yes. The fishtank, corner door of Rackhams and outside the Penny Black. Where the term 'meat rack' was coined.

Talking of the penny black does anyone remember the day back in the 70s when the lady pigs got leathered by Newcastle fans in there then got chased all over town

we were all in the hofbraus (honestly love dint look at the strippers) and stood watching them running down arundal gate

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

And just behind the best store on the world c & a
Mind you anybody buy their threads from Jonathan silvers? ?

Aston , used to get all my clobber from Jonathan Silver . Bloke i believe passed away some time ago . Bloke ahead of his time .

Those were the days . Crazy Daisy , then match.

UTB

 

[1889]

Didn't Utds 'boys' wear Silver Doc Martens and Wednesdays wear Gold in the 70's, during the skinhead era?

I'm sure it was that way round, as I remember thinking that as Wednesday were a shower of shit, we should have had the Gold boots!

 

[Silent Blade]

Talking of the penny black does anyone remember the day back in the 70s when the lady pigs got leathered by Newcastle fans in there then got chased all over town

we were all in the hofbraus (honestly love dint look at the strippers) and stood watching them running down arundal gate

The only time Newcastle played at Swillsborough in the 1970s was the FA Cup semi final against Burnley in 1974. So it must be 1980-81?

 

[Woodwardfan]

Watching football at Bramall Lane in years gone by.....and cricket of course....white railings, dressing rooms on John Street, wire netting round players' entrance to the pitch,cigarette lighters and matches flashing all over the background, no subs, no technical areas, trainers with a bucket and sponge, three sided ground, games only on Saturdays, no mobile phones, no internet, score for away games put up every 15 minutes on cricket pavilion at Reserve Games - no other means of keeping up with the score, temporary stands for big cup games built on the cricket ground, regular 57000 capacity crowds- police limits imposed regularly, walk round from Bramall Lane end at half time, Arnold Laver, John Harris, no fan segregation, "W formation" including 3 forwards minimum!!!!!, big sheets collecting thrown coins sailing above our heads for charity, all standing on all three sides with a few sitting in the stand, scarves, rattles, woolly hats, Yorkshire County Cricket Ground, at least 3 County games each summer, Australia played here in a warm up game including Don Bradman though I didnt see him my father did, cushions, Tizer bottles 3d returnable deposits - big money!, wooden benches, manual scoreboards, Pavilion Clock, pavilion balcony, Gentleman and Players entrances, White programmes with green writing printed up to date at lunchtime by some technological marvel, sitting on Kop watching Yorkshire and watching grass grow on the football pitch, fast bowlers run ups from the long grass of the football pitch, Wardle, Trueman, Binks, Wilson, Padgett, Sharpe, Illingworth, Close, Appleyard, Boycott later , etc etc., can't begin to name the footballers but they were all heroes in those days apart from them my Dad said were rubbish, autograph hunting,scrap books, queuing for big cup game tickets Sunday mornings, SWFC bribery scandal, selling Mick Jones - that's when the music stopped and never changed tune.

 

[torridon]

And just behind the best store on the world c & a
Mind you anybody buy their threads from Jonathan silvers? ?

My mum bought me some canda pants in the early eighties, I thought they were some upmarket designer brand until my mate pointed out they were c and a, he still remembers and I'm still embarrassed.

 

[Aston max]

The only time Newcastle played at Swillsborough in the 1970s was the FA Cup semi final against Burnley in 1974. So it must be 1980-81?

Must have been old age does things to ur mind mind you been a blade for 57 years that might be enough for early onset dementia

 

[grafikhaus]

Christmas games with the Sally Army band playing carols on the side of the pitch. The whiff of tangerines and Manikin cigars on the kop - a rare Christmas treat (and their - extremely at the time - risque TV ads. 'The makers of Manikin cigars have one aim in life - to have a fucking good perv over Caroline Munro )

Then a long walk home. Few private cars back then and the buses only catered for Wendy Bank Holiday games - a bit like now. Mum would crack open the sherry, we'd have our Eat Me dates and get the nutcracker out. Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special on the (probably B & W) telly. Fucking 'orrible.

 

[grafikhaus]

Another one - particularly relevant today. Oldham away, Boxing Day 1977. We took thousands, half of who ran across the pitch to invade their kop during the game (!). Their 'kop' steps were made of wood and energetic efforts were made to jump up and down to try and smash them. There were also several attempts to set fire to them. Different world back then.

Around that time we won a couple summat like 5-1 or 5-0 at Oldham.

 

[Lane Ender]

Aston , used to get all my clobber from Jonathan Silver . Bloke i believe passed away some time ago . Bloke ahead of his time .

Those were the days . Crazy Daisy , then match.

UTB

Some great clobber shops around that time Silvers,Royce,Image, All Kinds on Chapel Walk,Hornes all in the town centre.
The guy who used to run Silvers used to be waiting for,us getting paid he knew he'd cash in
We used to get paid in cash in those days

 

[Mad Mick]

Had some great times in the 60's and early 70's. Although I don't remember much.
We always used to walk up the Moor after the match. I was a chabbie around 65 and followed the big lads.
You could guarantee poor old Fanthom's windows were put through most weeks.
I was there when we played Man City in what was called the Battle of Bramhall lane. Blood and guts everywhere.
It was a regular event trying to dodge the bottles and bricks on the kop. So much so that miners helmets and big T boots were the fashion for a time.
I kid you not.
Also we used to take in bloody great banners with huge wooden poles. They were legal in those days.
I still remember most of the songs. Most of them having a pop at the pigs.
There were regular treks past the pavilion for a punch up.
I remember being at the back of the kop around 68 when a load of WBA fans came around for a rumble.
I had a red puma jumper on. This guy rushed in and tried to hit me with his handbag. I caught him with a good clip and promptly got arrested.
So much for self defence.
Never a dull moment at BDTBL

 

[Mad Mick]

Clobber ah yes.
Lift Up Your Skirts and Fly near the Peace Gardens.
Also remember Redgates and Suggs?
I used to go to a place called Down Broadway and get my hand stamped for a pass-out.
We promptly went to Stonehouse and downed 2 half's and thought we were pissed.
This was before they built the street in the back.
I would be around 16.

 

[Shalalalafenoughty]

I remember Sexy Rexy for clothes, Bata for moccasins and haircuts at Roger Sherwood, just along from the Claymore.

 

[Silent Blade]

I was there when we played Man City in what was called the Battle of Bramhall lane. Blood and guts everywhere.

A good mate of mine who passed away in 2000 told me about that Man City game in April 1967 (he was 15 then). Shortly before half time we were awarded a corner at the Kop End. Woody took it and the delivery was just right for Mick Jones to head the ball into the net. There were loud cheers but Man City fans in the Kop End were attacking those who cheered the goal and then there was a massive brawl that lasted for a long time. Policemen had a massive struggle to stop the fighting. St Johns were busy with their stretchers as many were injured. My mate who was stood in John Street Terraces that day said it was the worse kind of fighting he had ever seen

 

[Mad Mick]

Yep was on front page of many Sunday papers. In those days anyone could go anywhere. Mind you there would have been police between the rival factions. Many were stretchered of with head wounds caused by thrown objects, mainly bricks and bottles. Also the many carried walking sticks if memory serves me right.

 

[grafikhaus]

I was there when we played Man City in what was called the Battle of Bramall lane. Blood and guts everywhere.
It was a regular event trying to dodge the bottles and bricks on the kop. So much so that miners helmets and big T boots were the fashion for a time.
I kid you not.

Yeah, that Man.City game. They had infiltrated the kop in numbers and young kids (me included) were 'evacuated' down to the front of the kop as the 'big lads' at the back battled it out.
Man. City's fans started lobbing bottles down - trying to hit the columns that supported the roof.
A lot hit, and us kids at the front got showered with broken glass.

And they go on about 'smoke bombs'.

 

[blade too long]

A case for not having covered seating

 

[metalblade]

You put your life at risk going to away games in the 70's .............. Leeds was always rough, coach widows put through and fighting them off the coach in Birmingham, a pub disco wrecked in Sleaford on the way back from Norwich all because the DJ played the Bay City Rollers, locked up till kick off time in Ipswich when a services had it's shelves stripped of anything of value, Derby when bricks were flying over the houses into the next street where the Derby mob were, chased all over Nottingham by Forest fans before the Watney Cup game with County only saved when a second train full of Blades arrived, my mate chasing a bloke who spilt red hot bovril down his neck at Leicester LOL all way from top to bottom of the stand and onto the pitch he'd have killed him if we hadn't held him back, another mate nicking his dad's brandy downing most of it and puking all over the coach, someone with a bent nose throwing a bucket of piss out the front door of a coach doing 70mph on the M1 .................. the same piss coming back in through the skylight and over those on the back seats ........ happy days

 

[Lane Ender]

Yeah, that Man.City game. They had infiltrated the kop in numbers and young kids (me included) were 'evacuated' down to the front of the kop as the 'big lads' at the back battled it out.
Man. City's fans started lobbing bottles down - trying to hit the columns that supported the roof.
A lot hit, and us kids at the front got showered with broken glass.

And they go on about 'smoke bombs'.

City ended up taking a right kicking that day.
Wee were only chabbies just watching that's how it was in those days away teams come on the Shoreham early then the cavalry arrived

 

[Lane Ender]

We had small but selective crew on the lane end around 77/78 then the old bill warned us they would arrest if we kept going on.
We moved on to the terrace and then into the John St Stand nearest the lane end
Never feared anybody with that crew around you

 

[Bert]

You put your life at risk going to away games in the 70's .............. Leeds was always rough, coach widows put through and fighting them off the coach in Birmingham, a pub disco wrecked in Sleaford on the way back from Norwich all because the DJ played the Bay City Rollers, locked up till kick off time in Ipswich when a services had it's shelves stripped of anything of value, Derby when bricks were flying over the houses into the next street where the Derby mob were, chased all over Nottingham by Forest fans before the Watney Cup game with County only saved when a second train full of Blades arrived, my mate chasing a bloke who spilt red hot bovril down his neck at Leicester LOL all way from top to bottom of the stand and onto the pitch he'd have killed him if we hadn't held him back, another mate nicking his dad's brandy downing most of it and puking all over the coach, someone with a bent nose throwing a bucket of piss out the front door of a coach doing 70mph on the M1 .................. the same piss coming back in through the skylight and over those on the back seats ........ happy days

Bert was on the coach at Birmingham (Trevor hockey scored for us) that got the windows smashed, the coach was stuck in traffic, they were spray painting on the sides of it as well. One lad opened the rear emergency exit and chased them off with a big sheaf knife. It was bloody draughty all the way back up the M1. Happy days.

 

[Bert]

City ended up taking a right kicking that day.
Wee were only chabbies just watching that's how it was in those days away teams come on the Shoreham early then the cavalry arrived

It was normal in those days, no segregation. 70-71 season we stood on the Kop at Hillsborough, high up at the back, and they did likewise at The Lane.

 

[bornablade]

Didn't Utds 'boys' wear Silver Doc Martens and Wednesdays wear Gold in the 70's, during the skinhead era?

I'm sure it was that way round, as I remember thinking that as Wednesday were a shower of shit, we should have had the Gold boots!

I think it was the other way round. Gold for Blades and Silver for the Wendies. I thought there was an article in one of the Sunday tabloids about a Blade and his gold Doc Martens

 

[Woodwardfan]

We had small but selective crew on the lane end around 77/78 then the old bill warned us they would arrest if we kept going on.
We moved on to the terrace and then into the John St Stand nearest the lane end
Never feared anybody with that crew around you

Pathetic.

 

[Lane Ender]

Pathetic.

What did you do late teens early twenties train spotting or collect stamps

 

[Woodwardfan]

What did you do late teens early twenties train spotting or collect stamps

Keeping out of the way of people like you mostly while supporting our club. As I say, pathetic. While you were a hooligan some of us were bringing up Junior Blades in the same stand.

Hey, you are older now and yet you wear it like a badge. Think about it.

 

[Lane Ender]

Keeping out of the way of people like you mostly while supporting our club. As I say, pathetic. While you were a hooligan some of us were bringing up Junior Blades in the same stand.

Hey, you are older now and yet you wear it like a badge. Think about it.

I left all that behind me years ago but this is a thread about the old days isn't it.

And just for the record we never involved innocents and it was thirty years ago

 

[JJ Sefton]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...youth-encourage-new-wave-soccer-violence.html

 

[Lane Ender]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...youth-encourage-new-wave-soccer-violence.html

Not for me fella
A round of golf or a days fishing good enough for me

 

[Revolution]

And just for the record we never involved innocents ago

39 Juventus fans beg to differ.

People who fight at or around football matches are criminals. That's all there is to it.