Went to all 3 Leeds playoff games but the first one was worst at Selhurst. Remember Leeds fans banging the gate door to get out and 75 bus getting bricked on the way home. Brum 98 was bad, Millwall away, all games in 90s; Chelsea playoff; Everton away in 89 was bad on bus back to the station. Palace? No way!
I remember going to a game at Luton away, I guess in the early 70's.After the game we were all sat on the train at Luton station waiting for the train to leave.Suddenly the train was attacked by a group of Luton fans and a lot of windows were put in.Glass was going everywhere.I would have been about 11 and remeber being quite scared.Anyone on that train?
M'Boro away at Ayresome Park...won 2-1 with a last minute Tommy Caton (RIP) penalty in about 94?
Anything that could be thrown over a row of houses was being thrown over a row of houses!
Stockport away a few years back (lost 3-0 I think).....it was Charltons first away game after an eventful trip to the City Ground 2 weeks earlier and the locals were ready to play. Got chased out of Yates and had to take refuge in a JD Sports haha
M'Boro away at Ayresome Park...won 2-1 with a last minute Tommy Caton (RIP) penalty in about 94?
Anything that could be thrown over a row of houses was being thrown over a row of houses!
Stockport away a few years back (lost 3-0 I think).....it was Charltons first away game after an eventful trip to the City Ground 2 weeks earlier and the locals were ready to play. Got chased out of Yates and had to take refuge in a JD Sports haha
Yeah, I remember that Boro game. I went by coach. Bottles were flying over the houses and just missed us and that was when we arrived ! Unbelieveable Barry.
Bristol R A at Bath. In the pub afterwards it went off, wild west style with some Bristol C lads. TBF we were warned by Rovers fans, but had impaired judgement after about 10 pints. Landlord jumped over the bar with a baseball bat.
Not sure I was scared, but Chelsea away in 88, the last day of the season where we drew to stay up and send them into the relegation playoffs was certainly right up there in terms of hostile atmospheres.
Seeing National Front recruiters outside the ground shows how far football, and especially Chelsea has come too!
I got threatened by a Charlton fan fighting/queing up for the tube afterwards, because he thought I was Chelsea.
Wolves A about 10 years ago. We drove & parked behind the home end. Big mistake. We were a handful of Charlton fans walking through thousands of Wolves fans. Thought we'd get a right kicking, but didn't.
I was coming out of work and realised I needed a piss, so went into the bogs at work. Was standing at the urinal when I needed my customary fart. I farted but something felt wrong, so wrong. I'd followed through.
Had to dispose of the underwear in the bin in the Gents and go to the game commando.
Spent the whole of the time in the pub and at the game worrying about if I needed to 'fart' again!*
Brimingham away 98, not so much for me but my boy who was 13 but looked more like 17 and built like a brick shit house, like all big lads, soft as anything. Pretty nasty on the way out and one or 2 very unsavoury incidents getting back to the car.
Chelsea H 1976 ? when they had fires going at both ends of the ground & demolished the turnstyles.
That game was fkn scary as was the Stamford br miller/leaburn game. All millwall games were mad also in the 70's and early 80's. Bristol c away with the bricks from the skips was no fun either. I got chased all over Wolverhampton in the famous 70's cup game also. Kids today, don't know their born.
Can't say I have been scared. That Game at Bristol in the FA cup was just a bit of fisticuffs really. To be fair I missed the Leeds play off final.
Apprehensive/wary : man City away when they played in Moss Side. That was a dodgy area but nothing much happened apart from some incident with a coach I believe.
QPR at Shepherds Bush Tube when we won 4-1 after not winning away for about 20 years was lively.
The street behind Cold Blow Lane was always a tad intimidating.
The replay at Luton in the FA Cup the other season...as soon as I got out the station I got the idea that Luton is a shithole and no one was welcome. The "police" escort back to the station was pointless, they had to stop to look around every corner to see if there were any Luton mobs hiding and waiting for us to go past.
Away to Man. United in the League Cup 1975 (lost 5-1). Not so much the game, although that was problematical after Peter Hunt scored at the Stretford End in the first minute, but more the journey home. We (two of us) had car trouble on the way up and it conked out again after the game so had to be towed to a garage in Salford. We managed to catch the last London train which had loads of tanked-up United on board who systematically started wrecking the carriages. Railway police got on at Stockport and then there were runnig battles up and down the train which gave us a couple of tricky moments before things quietened down as they got off at various stations. So tired by the time we got to London I forgot to take the diesel loco's number!
Charlton v Barnsley 1981. Millwall were at the game and the Covered End was closed for new seating. Whole game seemed to be running battles with Millwall in the old away end. Carried on outside for a while and was then threatened on the train going back to London Bridge. Me & a mate were sitting next to 2 elderly gentleman which saved us from a kicking when Millwall entered out carriage. They made a comment that they would leave us alone as we were with our Grandad's! Escaped at London Bridge being chased by 20 Millwall. Fastest I've ever run all the way back to Fenchurch Street.
I remember the last game of the season at Birmingham when they needed a win to stay up and they were winning and then big fat Pete decided to have a long shot which hit the cross bar in the last minute now I have never been at a ground that I was so so pleased not to score a goal but I was not scared but I think it would have been if that went in!!!
That birmingham game was when palace got relegated at arsenal that day so that was our main focus and getting out of birmingham alive which wouldn't have been possible if we'd have sent them down and at the end a few of them ran over to swap scarves lol Man city 85ish (the day of the bradford disaster) 48k at Maine road when footy wasn't fashionable and crowds were a lot lot smaller , we were getting 4-5k, we had about 200 fans up there and city needed to win for promotion to the top flight .... We had man city fans in front to the left side and right side , we were penned in and basically there would have been no way out...... So before the game I remember thinking we weren't getting out alive if we stopped them getting promoted.... Thankfully we didn't keep it tight, unlike like the brum game, we laid down and died and lost 5-1 or 5-0.... man city fans were delirious at the end singing "Charlton" "loyal supporters" and swapping scarves at the end As a young kid I remember Chelsea filing into the covered end and joining us in our seats and thinking this could get tricky When we played scum at selhurst , midweek, and they went 0-3 up in the first half hour and there were loads of scum in the arthur waite(but the away end wasn't full) all around us, so I moved nearer the sainsburys end and we pulled it back to 3-3 that was a bit nervey as was the 75 bus ride home with the usual knuckle draggers looking for it
Been going to football for 20 years and can honestly say have never had any problem whatsoever. As someone else has pointed out though it just be down to a different era I guess.
Really enjoying reading some of the stories from the 70's and 80's though. Good thread!
in no particular order, boro away, the tommy caton game. leeds, 2nd leg at elland rd and decider at birmingham. birmingham, the gorman game. port vale away, can't remember what game. and finally at home to portsmouth, early 80's. as a kid, stood with my dad on the east terrace in line with the jimmy south stand penalty area. this match, pompey filled the stand, and the corner terrace between the stand and the east terrace. a bunch of our fans thought it'd be good idea to move right near us and goad the pompey fans. one of ours flashed a blade and what seemed like hundreds of pompey climbed the fence and chased our mob past us back across the east terrace. i was cacking it but my dad wouldn't leave 'our' f**king crush barrier.
Paul Bacon in the starting line up vs Leicester away, then we won!
Seriously though, mostly the usuals
Coventry Away Brum Away - was on the coaches when the bricks started being thrown Leeds at Brum - didn't fancy hanging around with 16-18,000 of them at 17 years old Chelsea 88 Everton in the seats at the old away end - think it was when Snodin and Peake were sent off? For some reason the seating was mixed and one evertonian in particular was going mad when our man went, I did the same when theirs did and he didn't like it that much, thought he was going to kill me! Newcastle Away - was a bit worried when the police hid us is the goods section of the station as some of their fans were coming after us
A Pre-season friendly at Reading, late 70's?. Rumour went round that a Reading fan had been stabbed in town before the game. They were waiting outside after the game so th OB put into 2 coaches and whisked us away. Other than that, any Millwall game of that era.
I was caught up in that. It was 1976. The lad in question had his ear cut off and as we were walking to the ground about 40 blacks and 1 ginger top jumped off a bus and came charging down the road at us. I stood my ground but got beaten so badly my mum and dad didn't recognise me when they came and pick me up from the police station.
that was a very very nasty day ... and unexpected ... many of the covered end never even got to the ground
That birmingham game was when palace got relegated at arsenal that day so that was our main focus and getting out of birmingham alive which wouldn't have been possible if we'd have sent them down and at the end a few of them ran over to swap scarves lol Man city 85ish (the day of the bradford disaster) 48k at Maine road when footy wasn't fashionable and crowds were a lot lot smaller , we were getting 4-5k, we had about 200 fans up there and city needed to win for promotion to the top flight .... We had man city fans in front to the left side and right side , we were penned in and basically there would have been no way out...... So before the game I remember thinking we weren't getting out alive if we stopped them getting promoted.... Thankfully we didn't keep it tight, unlike like the brum game, we laid down and died and lost 5-1 or 5-0.... man city fans were delirious at the end singing "Charlton" "loyal supporters" and swapping scarves at the end As a young kid I remember Chelsea filing into the covered end and joining us in our seats and thinking this could get tricky When we played scum at selhurst , midweek, and they went 0-3 up in the first half hour and there were loads of scum in the arthur waite(but the away end wasn't full) all around us, so I moved nearer the sainsburys end and we pulled it back to 3-3 that was a bit nervey as was the 75 bus ride home with the usual knuckle draggers looking for it
After the Millwall drubbing 4-0 a few seasons ago i enter the bunch of grapes at London Bridge had a glass put under me chin and bloke jumping round like he had won the lottery because a charlton fan had a arrived. I wont be going back this year for a pint.
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Anything that could be thrown over a row of houses was being thrown over a row of houses!
Stockport away a few years back (lost 3-0 I think).....it was Charltons first away game after an eventful trip to the City Ground 2 weeks earlier and the locals were ready to play. Got chased out of Yates and had to take refuge in a JD Sports haha
I was coming out of work and realised I needed a piss, so went into the bogs at work. Was standing at the urinal when I needed my customary fart. I farted but something felt wrong, so wrong. I'd followed through.
Had to dispose of the underwear in the bin in the Gents and go to the game commando.
Spent the whole of the time in the pub and at the game worrying about if I needed to 'fart' again!*
*This may or may not have actually happened.
Apprehensive/wary : man City away when they played in Moss Side. That was a dodgy area but nothing much happened apart from some incident with a coach I believe.
QPR at Shepherds Bush Tube when we won 4-1 after not winning away for about 20 years was lively.
The street behind Cold Blow Lane was always a tad intimidating.
Spurs away in 1977. We scored first and then it all kicked off.
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Man city 85ish (the day of the bradford disaster) 48k at Maine road when footy wasn't fashionable and crowds were a lot lot smaller , we were getting 4-5k, we had about 200 fans up there and city needed to win for promotion to the top flight ....
We had man city fans in front to the left side and right side , we were penned in and basically there would have been no way out...... So before the game I remember thinking we weren't getting out alive if we stopped them getting promoted....
Thankfully we didn't keep it tight, unlike like the brum game, we laid down and died and lost 5-1 or 5-0.... man city fans were delirious at the end singing "Charlton" "loyal supporters" and swapping scarves at the end
As a young kid I remember Chelsea filing into the covered end and joining us in our seats and thinking this could get tricky
When we played scum at selhurst , midweek, and they went 0-3 up in the first half hour and there were loads of scum in the arthur waite(but the away end wasn't full) all around us, so I moved nearer the sainsburys end and we pulled it back to 3-3 that was a bit nervey as was the 75 bus ride home with the usual knuckle draggers looking for it
Really enjoying reading some of the stories from the 70's and 80's though. Good thread!
boro away, the tommy caton game.
leeds, 2nd leg at elland rd and decider at birmingham.
birmingham, the gorman game.
port vale away, can't remember what game.
and finally at home to portsmouth, early 80's. as a kid, stood with my dad on the east terrace in line with the jimmy south stand penalty area. this match, pompey filled the stand, and the corner terrace between the stand and the east terrace. a bunch of our fans thought it'd be good idea to move right near us and goad the pompey fans. one of ours flashed a blade and what seemed like hundreds of pompey climbed the fence and chased our mob past us back across the east terrace. i was cacking it but my dad wouldn't leave 'our' f**king crush barrier.
Coventry Away
Brum Away - was on the coaches when the bricks started being thrown
Leeds at Brum - didn't fancy hanging around with 16-18,000 of them at 17 years old
Chelsea 88
Everton in the seats at the old away end - think it was when Snodin and Peake were sent off? For some reason the seating was mixed and one evertonian in particular was going mad when our man went, I did the same when theirs did and he didn't like it that much, thought he was going to kill me!
Newcastle Away - was a bit worried when the police hid us is the goods section of the station as some of their fans were coming after us