Hi all ,
I've just learned that an old acquaintance of mine was involved in this , I’ve not been in touch with him since the very late 90s so didn’t put 2 & 2 together, I knew he was a palace fan but my involvement with him was not football related , surprisingly considering what I know now football never really came up.
I heard of it at the time & saw bits on the news at the time but I’m trying to get more background info on it.
Were any lifers on that train?
Was it pre planned ?
Were they looking for someone specific?
Is there any old threads on it? I searched 2007 train attack on the site search but got zero.
Thanks in advance for anything you can share & appreciate it may be something some don’t want to bring back up.
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It was briefly discussed in a podcast I listened to today, he was being interviewed & spoke about it & I couldn’t believe it was him , he’s an absolute lunatic & always was but it’s the mindlessness that confuses me with this & that’s why I wondered if it was something or someone specific that led to it.
total cowards.
Trust me he was a lunatic & prison wasn’t the right place for him an institution would have been more appropriate even back when I knew him , as scary as he was fearless he was a nutter in every sense , very connected & the nature of this attack surprised me. Utter bellend
I was more concerned about them than what could have happened to me. After they ran off the OB turned up and turfed everyone off the train. Told them I could give good descriptions of at least three of them, but they weren't interested.
My boy was gutted he'd missed it all.
But instead they attacked the train knowing none of our hooligans would be on-board.
All that was never my scene though some who i was with on my train would not be best pleased if their carriage was attacked though I don't think any of them were hooligans.
So whether they knew about the train behind that i don't know not sure it was a target but they would of known the people they attacked were not high risk charlton fans that's for sure. yet they still did it.
spitfire your 'acquaintance' might be a lunatic but also what an absolute moron. as was the rest of those with him.
One bloke got his nose broken (think he may post on here) by one of the cowards headbutting him. He had his five year old daughter with him at the time.
There was CCTV of them after this incident walking down the street laughing and high fiving each other.
The only Palace fans I've ever met are either gutless no-mark cowards who only ever do anything or become brave when they outnumber you or blokes in their 40s who have a limp handshake, still live with their mum and by the look of them you wouldn't let anywhere near your kids.
There is not much he wouldn’t of done to an enemy or even family of an enemy from what I knew of him but this just didn’t make sense but I guess that’s the same with all senseless violence it really is senseless.
Hes recently released a book & there is probably more in there on the incident but I’m sure it’s not told as it was, I would buy a copy but as he technically ripped me off £200 I can’t bring myself to put another penny in his pocket!
I remember that game, they picked the right train for showing themselves to be a sack of cowards
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