Football Hooliganism?

[Whatsmore]

remember us turning sheff utd over 1-5 at bramhall lane

as for darren , After a slow start & going under cover at bwfc , he eventually made a senior rank in the GMP , he specialises in football hooligans ! :-)

I had the pleasure of going to that game.were we parked the car though I remember was about 2 miles away from ground.does anyone remember was that the same season we beat Bristol rovers 0.5 neil whatmore scored a couple if I remember rightly.

[JimmyJazz64]

remember us turning sheff utd over 1-5 at bramhall lane

Blimey!!! That was my 14th birthday!!! 14th Jan 1978 or near enough dammit. My dad took me and my brother and we sat in their brand new main stand. We had to leave after the 5th goal as me and my brother were going mental and my dad was getting all sorts of sh1t from the locals. That was scary!!!! My brothers now a City fan. Cock!!

[garyp1803]

I remember being at Sheffield train station waiting to come and I think the lads is/was Darren (wasn't a bright lad) and he always had a coat full of pin badges and some Sheffield knobs were trying to take them off him, a group of Bolton lads went over to help him out and it was carnage.

One of the proudest moments I remember, taking a liberty was swiftly dealt with.

Incidentally, is Darren still around??

do you mean "spazzy daz?"
If so, he still goes to the games. He looks a bit like a down syndrome person, but he isn't, if you
Know what I mean?

[Stan_van_nel]

There was a lot of needle between Bolton and Burnley in the late eighties and visiting Burnden Park was no picnic either.

I remember the Bolton lads trying to get into the away end (from outside the ground) at Burnden armed with scaffolding poles and whatever else. We managed to repel them just about.

Like Gary has said, going to Ayresome Park was a nightmare, guaranteed aggro.

I'm not going to say too much because people think of me as being placid and reyt in the head.

[eric1953]

I saw it all from the late 60's. You soon grew up from being a kid into an adult, although you didn't act like an adult.

Manchester Road mainly after the match was sometimes a running battle.

Blackburn, Burnley , Preston and Blackpool . Ah Blackpool, my relations who have lived in Blackpool for 50 years now and still support Bolton tell me of Blackpools's hatred of Bolton since that young lad got killed in the mid 70's. I was in the Kop that match, and I know several Bolton fans who tried to give medical assistance to the youngster. I think that was an eye opener for some of the halfwits who infested Burnden and Bloomfield Road at the time. It definitely stopped some of them in their tracks and made them think about their actions.

Unfortunately the mayhem still continued the length and breadth of the country on Saturdays for many years.

[lord_hooray]

It seemed to go off every away game from about 1983 to 1990, by about 1985 Bolton's mobs were quite a match for anybody really. It seem to die down after the dawn raids. I remember a cup tie at Barnsley when they run riot, also a cup tie at Man U in 1991 when there were over 10,000 Bolton fans at the match, it kicked off everywhere. Seemed to die off funnily enough as the team got better.

[JimmyJazz64]

Jesus!!! This thread keeps bringing back horrible memories!!! If you're talking about the game at Barnsley in about 86 or 87 when we lost it was horrific. I was stood behind the goal right near the back. The Barnsley hoolies were in the bottom corner of their paddock and our finest were down in the bottom corner of our end and the inevitable happened. The police decided to let the dogs loose into our end and the fkin stampede backwards towards us was frightening. We got the usual bricking on the way out and I got a dent in my car door from a Barnsley boot as we drove away from the ground.

[Whatsmore]

A lot of boltons finest used to meet up in space city planning their dirty deeds.does anyone remember leeds at burnden we won 3.1 but police had to use tear gas and smoke bombs to keep fans apart.Game got stopped at one point and almost abandend,it was frigging scary I was only about 15.Crazy though it seems but I can see roy greaves now equalizing for the whitemen,come to think of it that's what started the riot.Ah the good old days and the songs we would sing like YOU'LE NEVER TAKE THE PADDOCK etc and no fcker ever did.

[eric1953]

I remember that game against Leeds, Neil Mcnab and Brian Flynn got sent off for fighting.

I seem to recall it got a little tasty. Our front line troops and theirs enjoyed a rather spiffing afternoon's enjoyment. Plenty of claret spilt, and I do believe that the Old Bill had the time of their lives at that little jape.

[bwfcforever]

once when coming back from west brom ( hargreaves ) ..almost every window got put in ...frooze me tits off all the way down the M5 & M6