The Rise Of Hooliganism In Football - Please Give Your Thoughts

Shane Bluck said:
Bollocks



More bollocks
More bollocks again, the ICF would not batter a bloke walking with his girlfriend, you ran into a random bunch of wankers and NOT an organised firm, an organised firm would not lower theirselves to such a cowardly attack, and the ICF would not be dressed in colours.

Why do people think they need to comment on things they know absolutely feck all about?

Here here.
 
Stoned.Rose said:
Virtually all the Yorkshire clubs go to war with each other and the Lancashire clubs as well , yes we do have tribleism up here as well. Its just not a London thing.

Anyone remember the Newcastle lot launching a bomb into West Ham fans at St James's park? That even shocked me that one.

With the thread title in mind, I thought we were talking about a hard-core hoolie element, instead of crowd trouble at derby days.

Like take the Scouse derby for instance, I bet it can get pretty heated, but when most other teams visit Goodison I don't believe theres trouble.
If we are just mentioning plain violence at matches, then you are spot on, though.
 
Stamford Bridge said:
but when most other teams visit Goodison I don't believe theres trouble.

:lol: I think you should pop down your local Waterstones and buy the book "Scally by Andy Nicholls"
 
The only time I've ever really been hurt was when I had a bottle smashed over my head by leeds fans causing a few stitches wasnt into football violence at the time as I was only about ten years old at the time was just walking to the the game with another lad who was a year younger then me no one else was in the vacinity when a coach full of leeds fans stopped doors oppened they came of the coach bottle over my head and gave my mate a bit of a kicking they must have been really hard starting on a nine and ten year old
First away game on my own Bolton away in 79, I think
Remember comming out of the train station turning right then right again down the road where the gararges and shops where and on the way back every window went through coppers just stood back too manny reds for them to do anything
Left school in 1980 could then afford the away days not all games were all ticket then just pay on the gate which meant reds travelling in large numbers which a lot of the time meant there was not to much trouble with other fans as there was so manny reds
trouble at that time seemed to be mainly confined to inside the grounds
Soon after with the advent of CCTv in the grounds this all changed to outside the grounds also the stopping of the football specials meant that fans then had to make their own arangements to travel fans were then arriving in towns and cities all over the country, coppers not then having a clue who was who or where
This to me seemed to be when most of the trouble started
Remember going to Luton when United were on that ten game winning run from the start of the season the place kicking off everywhere Fans from all the clubs in London turned up that day to meet United. Liverpool games were the ones where it seemed to kick off all the time, home and away First ever Liverpool away told by my dad to watch out as there would be trouble I asked him how he knew and he replied
"There is always trouble there always has been, even since when I was a kid"
Forrest away was also another game wher it kicked off and the game did not even start game called off with thousands of United fans in the ground water logged pitch
someone kicked a ball onto the pitch next thing hundreds of United fans on the pitch having a kick about can not remember the year
It was around this time that if United did not have a game I would go and watch any other team who had a game and soon got in with some shitty fans and started to go to some games with them But only when United did not have a game I just got bored on a Saturday when United did not have a game. They at the time were then in the old Div 2 and when they turned up up at some of these smaller ground the coppers did not have a clue and used to travel with the mayneline moterway service crew what a frigging mouthfull one of the first games with them was Millwall away had been on the coach about half an hour when someone asked me " are you some sort of fecking nutter or just a hard cnut" I asked him why He replies"You got a fecking United badge on" took a bit of piss taking and gave them as good as I got but never got any hassle of any one and was told I was welcome on the coach anytime
At millwall was a bit dissapointed as nothing happened apart from all the coaches getting bricked during the game
Went to many other games with them where it kicked off one of the biggest being Sheff United where it kicked off big style them guys have some nutters
Kicked off in a bar in the town centre then kicked out by the police there was about four of us when we about twenty Shef United fans spotted us and we gave it legs suddenly about twenty lads come the other way carried on running towards them as there was not much else we could do got close swung out and caught some bloke square in the face him running at me and me at him knocking him straight of his legs and on to his arse remember seeing his head hit the floor and just bounce straight back up again out of it for my mate running behind me to kick him in the head while he was bouncin back up to a sitting posistion for the same to happen again
Realised I was starting to get in a bit deep as lots of people were starting to get arrested in dawn raids and having my old lady screaming at me for having the front door smashed in at 5:30 in the morning by the police to search the house decided that It had now come to the time where I had to sort mysef out and calm down

Stoney the golf balls at shity was also going on in the 70s
 
Shane Bluck said:
The best football violence picture ever.

(Yes stoned, I have borrowed it from ITK, but it is fecking quality)

2pints.jpg

Fantastic. :lol: