years of heart ache

Went to an Old Firm game at Hampden and a lad in his late teens early 20's, took a crossbow to the chest fired from one of the flats overlooking the ground and another bloke was stabbed in a chippy a few streets from the ground. That was a well intense atmosphere and not particularly enjoyable, too on edge to enjoy it.

Probably Sheffield Utd away, late 70s. Leicester walking down one street, home fans down a parallel one. Dad, my uncle and me walking down a road between the two to our car. Just as opposing fans decided to choose this street to run at each other, dad pulled me behind a van right where they met and it seriously kicked off.
Was also at Rangers vs Dynamo Moscow at the Nou camp for the Fairs cup (on holiday and showing my age!!)) Some serious beatings going on, I remember police had long truncheons in one had and a snarling Alsatian in the other. Rangers were then banned from Europe for two years.
Ah yes, the good old days....thank goodness families can now go to games proudly in their colours without fear.

Violence wise
An away game at Birmingham,
I was 12/13 so late 70s,

6 kids and 2 adults watching the match passing comments clapping good moves or play by Birmingham as well,,
We went to see football!!
But at half time there was a gap in the crowd around us and during the 2 nd half we scored or came close and we found ourselves on the terrace on our own, with the brum cop behind us (fenced off)
Locals must have thought we were some top gang,,,
Police escort out the ground got to van
Looked down the street and there's around 30-50 fans waiting for us, it was winter / dark at 5 pm and they seem to have trouble deciding whether they were coming for us,
So 2 adults and 4 kids tool up with bits of wood and some lengths of Cooper pipe, and start tge walk down the street,,
A police van comes along we ask for help and they pi55ed off,,
So 1/4 of the way down the hill trying to add 20lb in weight suddenly 10/12 of there guys head up hill,,
" er John how solid is copper pipe "??
Then just as we are I'm range they all turn and run,
Must have got called to a bigger fight or decided we were total head cases and best avoided!!
,,Thank God, I've never been so scared that was a walk of death!

Home game violence
JOHN SALMONDS 50 TH league goal
My uncle bashing me out the way and giving 10 people 1st degree burns with my coffee, just so he could shake his hand,
Nutter!

Newcastle at home last day of the season at filbert street. I used to flog programmes just outside the club shop.I remember looking left and seeing a few thousand city fans and to me right even more in black and white. Then they charged with me with a box full of unsold programmes in the middle. Needless to say the programmes were left and I was on my heals back up to the office. I remember my gaffa being surprised that I'd managed to sell all of my stock until I told him to look out of the window where it was all kicking off! ! Happy day's

comment by dublin fox (was london fox)(now Cambridge fox)(can not spell fox) (U1131)
posted 21 minutes ago
Home game violence
JOHN SALMONDS 50 TH league goal
My uncle bashing me out the way and giving 10 people 1st degree burns with my coffee, just so he could shake his hand,
Nutter!
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good one, very funny

comment by arrothefoxinoz (U8567)
posted 12 hours, 53 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
Millwall away at the Old Den in 1976. How nobody was killed that day, I will never know. Sorry to sound overly-dramatic OP, but there were things that I (and many others) witnessed that day that I have NEVER ever seen at any other Football match either before or since. Law and order completely broke down that day at times.

It was quite simply the most hairy match that I have ever had the misfortune to attend and I have been to many so-called sensitive fixtures, but nothing like that.
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I don't know about that, it was the year I was born, but I can imagine Millwall v Chelsea being exactly as you described. I only missed three home games up to 17 and two were against Chelsea one against West Ham because it was too dangerous.
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arro, yeah mate I still can't quite believe the things that I saw that day, the weapons that I saw that day and the carnage that I saw that day. I don't know if you speak to him on here but Brummie Blue a Chelsea fan who is on here regularly was also at the game and he also has never seen anything like it (and he has been in the Services all his life).

Tools like Meat Hooks, Pick-Axe Handles, Hammers and Chain Saw have no place at a football match.

A home game against Liverpool at the old Filbert Street, I was in my early teens in the early 80's and my mates dad used to park about a 10 minute walk away from the ground. So as we walked down the side of the LRI there used to be a couple of gravel car parks used by fans to park.
We cut through and as we did we saw a swarm of the Baby Squad coming from the Filbert Street direction so we turned to go a different way only to be confronted by a rather large group of unfriendly scousers.
So we were stuck in the middle, my mates dad told us to duck behind a parked car ( which of course we did) and then heard all kinds of sh*t kick off for the next 10 or so minutes until the police came wading in.
It was my first experience of aggro at a game and has stuck with me ever since.
I have been to an Old Firm game and an El Classico and they each bring their own issues ( good and bad).
But try a game in Argentina...... They are all complete crazy motherf***ers. And the football is a side show for inter gang violence.

Maybe getting stuffed by Arsenal 6-1 on boxing day wasn't that bad after all going on some of these experiences.

Tools like Meat Hooks, Pick-Axe Handles, Hammers and Chain Saw have no place at a football match.
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Late 60's, can't recall which home game, I got on the train at Loughborough with a couple of mates. As the train pulled out of the station, I noticed a local skinhead in the next bay of seats, reveal a hatchet strapped to the inside of his Levis Jacket! I suspect it was bravado, but even so...