Anyone remember when Boro

….,came into the Ponty end? Early 80s



The wasp is the boro fans

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Is that the one where, we bet them 1 nil, they were promoted and we thought we'd got the playoffs. Was like a training match for an hour. Remember it kicked off outside before kick off

 

Remember that, a few Boro fans in Ponty end giving it large. They were Chased onto the pitch and literally got kicked in

 

Yes I remember that. The Chronicle ran with a picture the following Friday asking people to identify the Barnsley fans fighting the Boro fans on the pitch.

 

I remember very well...me and a lad who's now dead ( RIP pal) had chased 3 Boro fans from Courthouse to Townend Roundabout ( as is now). 1 of them pulled out a cut throat razor.

" Thas won" my mate shouted and we walked off haha

 

I was there with my dad a younger brother.

Was very nasty.

 

Playoffs didn’t start till eighty six

 

No, I think it was a good few years earlier.

 

Police dog had a mouthful of one boro fans jeans.

I don’t think they got much of a hiding tbh, because they scarpered pretty quickly when our lot sussed and mobbed them.

I reckon it was 83, and there was still some Ill feeling from when we’d played them in the cup at Ayresome - graveyard ambush etc

 

Well there was 2 of them laid on the pitch getting kicked several times. The Boro keeper went to help stop it

 

You may be right mate, I couldn’t be that certain. I’d narrow it down to be between 83 and 85.

 

Remember a Sunderland fan in the Ponty once - jumped up when they scored. Stewards escorted through the concourse at half time when it was packed - one of our fans walked up to him and knocked him clean out! Was like the Jack Ruby / Oswald meeting

 

Yeah, that was bad. Risky to celebrate in the wrong end, but I felt a bit for him. They were coming from all over to have a go at him.

Funny one about being in the wrong end. Couple of my visually impaired mates John and Martin were in the disabled bit at Scunny. We had just come back from 2 down and all our end was singing, and I looked across to see those two and a few others clapping and singing amongst the home fans,

 

Remember it well and pictures on back of chron

 

Was the 83/84 season... I think we lost 2-0.
Sign of the times back then. Boro brought a 'firm' down and had the better of things in town.
Leaflets circulated around Tarn calling on a revenge mission and 200 (i think) or so gathered in the bus station. That's the day the slashings occurred at Boro.

 

Some of the comments glorifying and reminiscing about how Barnsley fans had 'won' in the battle of the hooligans really embarrasses me

Said it before and I'll say it again. It won't be popular with those who refuse to accept they had some blame but Alanyone who took part in hooligan behaviour in the 70s and 80s has blood on their hands for Hillsborough as it was their actions that directly led to fencing and cages at the front of stands and the way police treated football fans which in turn led to those deaths.

 

Blimey!

 

An inconvenient truth I'm afraid

 

So the police aren't culpable in any way then?
Ok......