Worst most frightening time at the footy?

Remember it well

Coins coming over all game, car set on fire on way out, kicked off all over the place

 

Play-off's away to Huddersfield

before kick off, was shittin mi sen cos i couldn't stand another year of league 1 football and we were 1-0 from the 1st leg.

 

Went in the City end that day.

Parked in the car park at the school.Some naughty people about that day.

 

I remember that crush at Rotherham. Why the coppers let us out and then stopped us at the top of the lane I don't know. Fortunately me and my dad were near the front and he held his ground against the wall, protecting me (I was only young at the time), but after that we swore never to go to Rotherham again. It must have been horrible being right in the middle of it.

Otherwise, the worst for me was the play off semi at Birmingham, although the worst battle I've seen was between Newcastle fans and Barnsley police in around 1981 or 1982. The coppers were riding through the crowd of Newcastle fans on their horses, indiscriminately battering people round their heads with their truncheons. I was around 12 years old and in the St John Ambulance. We were walking away from the ground and walked right into the middle of the battle. The aftermath was pretty gruesome and probably the most horrible injuries I saw until I worked in A&E many years later. As a 12 year old, to be confronted with a chap with his top lip quite literally hanging off, split all the way across under his nose by South Yorkshire police's finest, it gave me a great story to tell at school on the Monday. The police ended up in a whole lot of bother after that one.

 

Coach park after our famous 0-0 draw at Liverpool in the League Cup ...

...... 1981?? Pitch black, foggy, snow on the ground, hundreds of coaches that all looked the same (Wallace Arnold?) so virtually impossible to find your coach and loads of those lovable scousers running inbetween the coaches with knives in their hands just smacking folks and trying to slash 'em at random.

Best fans in the world though yer know them scousers, the kop and you'll never walk alone and all that.

Scumbags

 

Middlesbrough away 1980 FA Cup

I was 12 at the time, so we headed for the "family enclosure" the only problem being you had to walk accross in front of the real nutters to get in there behind the goal. There were some tarn fans who were well up for it too, but they got a right kickin due to weight of numbers. First time I had seen it so close up, of course many innocents got thumped too, including a middle aged woman.

The things that sticks in my mind are the skinhead/donkey jacket/Dr Marten brigage, all the boro nutter seems to be decked out like that. Terrifying at the time.

 

Leaving Millmoor in the Eighties - Banks Hat-trick I'd guess.

The exit passage was long and very narrow, hemmed in by walls on one side and the stand on the other. Every so often there was a buttress in the wall to stabalise it. As you were pushed forward by the mass of spectators you were getting the life squeezed out of you. There were people facing the opposite direction that were being carried along by a mass of people. It was an ace off a disaster if somebody had fallen.

 

Liverpool away,feb '82,league cup

Only 11 at the time,running back to the coaches through the back streets around Anfield with my dad,scary times but also good times!

 

Getting to the train station on foot was no better. We asked the coppers outside the ground which the best way was and he directed us down the hill to where around 200 Birmingham fans were being fought back by police, trying to get back up to us. We asked if perhaps there was another route that didn't involve a certain kicking (there were only three of us) so the copper sent us round the ground. We came out on the main road around 100 yards further down from the savages and were tiptoeing across trying not to grab their attention, when the police decided to charge them and disperse them. Unfortunately they all ran towards us. I think we broke the world speed record getting out of the there.

The station was pretty tense too, with little packs of brummies and groups of police and us trying to look like we were just on our way home from work or something. Even when we got on the train and breathed a sigh of relief a brummie stuck his head in the train and shouted "fat *******" at my mate. It was only when we sat off that we could start to enjoy the fact that we were going to Wembley.

 

Yes it was bad that day ............

....... luckily we were in 'our end' on the left hand corner which was packed solid, but they opened up the other corner for 'pay on the day' fans and virtually everybody who went through those turnstiles got a kicking, the boro boys were just stood there waiting for the Barnsley fans to get through the turnstiles, no coppers to be seen ....... very bad on the terraced streets outside ayresome park afterwards as well, it's a miracle there weren't any deaths that day, probably would have been if they hadn't won

 

Spatially.

No need to thank me.</p>

 

Aye and it was us that was behind bars..

Said to a Copper on the fence..these millwall fans are like animals... he said...no youre wrong they are worse than ANIMALS...

 

Brum play-off semi and Man City, FA Cup in the Kippax - I was about 11 nt

 

RE: Yes it was bad that day ............and I think it was a wake up call for our fans

I was there...........and yes I paid on the day

i watched the so called hooligan element from Barnsley walk on to the terrace to the right behind the goals
They took one look and legged it
At that time Barnsley was supposed to be a rough tough mining town
But the fans of Barnsley FC hadn't really been confronted by large numbers of soccer hooligans
They did on that day

Things started to change after that match and now Barnsley have a respectable reputation in the hooligan league of hooligans. And thats why there are very few away fans in the town centre before a match. Hence no trouble

So I say lets celebrate our hooligans (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap) (clap)

 

FIVE-0

 

Behave yourself.

Rotherham FA Cup 79/80 season, Huddersfield in the league same season - 'hooligan' element was in full effect those days.
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It were small scale then..............I think we have got some brilliant hooligans these days

.........although there's always room for improvements

I just wished we could make the WELL the ground no away team or fans want to visit

 

It might have been small scale

But what I see on occasion passing itself off as representing Barnsley at the minute would **** up the stick if it even saw some of them lads from the late 70's.</p>

SY Plod has a handle on Barnsley's hooligan element - except when they fancy a swansong at cardiff.
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I think our hooligans have improved a lot since then, for example.............can you remember

...............Leeds fans running onto the Brewery Stand and knocking old men and kids over

Would that happen these days ???.............not a chance!!!

Why, because we have a better class of hooligan these days

 

Upper class hooligans