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The week that was - 21st Sept 1976. Charlton 0 West Ham 1

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  • SouthallAddick
    SouthallAddick Posts: 140
    Outside the ground afterwards was bedlam. One fan was kicked into a coma. The Daily Mirror put his photo on the front page, unconscious and receiving treatment. Police tactlessly vowed to 'put the boot into the bovver boys'. I still have the press cutting but chose not to post it. Not a great memory for someone.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,907
    SouthallAddick said:
    Outside the ground afterwards was bedlam. One fan was kicked into a coma. The Daily Mirror put his photo on the front page, unconscious and receiving treatment. Police tactlessly vowed to 'put the boot into the bovver boys'. I still have the press cutting but chose not to post it. Not a great memory for someone.
    Thank god football (or society) has changed from those days. It’s strange that in general I think things are more dangerous today in terms of violence outside of football but clubs all around seem to have done a good job in making football a much safer experience 
  • NelsonsFU
    NelsonsFU Posts: 204
    edited February 5
    I worked with an ex pro who was at the match . He was so upset by the level of violence that night that he never went to another game.
    On a lighter note his claim to fame was that a long haired centre forward in the Arsenal double side ran rings round him in training and told him he'd never make a footballer. He was subsequently released and found his real level at our dear neighbours before scaling the heights of Erith & Belvedere.  
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,636
    edited February 6
    This was the night that a Millwall fan was killed on a train by West Ham supporters.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    guinnessaddick said:
    This was the night that a Millwall fan was killed on a train by West Ham supporters.
    According to the report on page one of this thread he slipped off the platform trying to nick a scarf whilst running so big difference in the story 
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 780
    I was there as a 10 year old youth with the bloke over the road and his dad. Being a child and an OAP we had to go to a different turnstile. It was absolute carnage outside the covered end . Police horses raring up the lot. I’d never seen a crowd so big or so menacing. I lost the old boy and couldn’t get in.  They shut the turnstiles in the end, being a resourceful chap I walked to the lower road , into a petrol garage and asked to borrow their phone, rang home to tell my mum what had happened. Stayed with the nice lady there until I got picked up. A memorable evening indeed

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