Away at Tottenham Hotspur

[jakethemiller]

I was there too. Remember being sat at the top of a stand so big I needed binoculars to see the players..
And our Rileys bus had a blowout on the MW coming home.
Total bummer!

Steve other than Carl Gilberts taped boots the other thing i remember was being so high above the pitch.

[Miller Nez]

Any respect I ever had for the police disappeared that day. Probably the same ones who were up north twelve years later for the miner's strike.

[Miller Nez]

I'd have remembered if there was any trouble. Was at Maine rd fa cup our coach got some windows smashed in.

I went on my own to Main Road on a special train and getting a police escort through the streets to the ground. Completely different experience to the Spurs one.

[Nardendee]

Trouble was common place in the seventies.

We had our (Riley’s) coach bricked at Crewe following our 8-1 win at Crewe in September 1973.
We got chased round the ground at Wolves in 1977 during the 3-2 loss in the FA Cup.
We got chased through Southend in 1978 when we made the mistake of scoring in the last minute. We got cornered in a housing estate and we ran into a house to ask them to call the police. We got kept in the police station giving evidence until 8pm. The coach set off back at 11 and developed a radiator problem so we had to stop at every service station on the way back up the M1. Got back to Rotherham at 10.00 am the next day.

One night, my mate came back from the game and went up Sheffield for a few. Got the last train back but fell asleep and woke up in Carlisle.
Around that time we got chased through Torquay too.

70s & 80s were a terrible time for football trouble . Remember the police escorting us straight off the coach and into the ground at Gillingham in 79 about 2 hours before kick off & when we protested, they said that we shouldn’t have come.

[Masbroughstreet]

Can remember back then now there's nothing worth remembering!

You’re right there gru, nothing you post is worth remembering.

[clarkey1974]

Can remember back then now there's nothing worth remembering!

Not a bad reply that for you..!.🤣

[Philips]

I was there,went in car with my Mum and Dad and sat in the massive stand on the side,I was only 9 at the time, remember the ball going out of play before the cross for their first goal, was it Gilzean and Chivers who scored for them?

[CAMiller]

I was there,went in car with my Mum and Dad and sat in the massive stand on the side,I was only 9 at the time, remember the ball going out of play before the cross for their first goal, was it Gilzean and Chivers who scored for them?

It was Gilzean and Martin Peters.

Funny that even 52 years later the names of almost all the Spurs team from that day are still familiar.

https://www.11v11.com/matches/totten...y-1972-213324/

[Miller Nez]

And just look at the nationality of the Spurs players CAM.

8 from England

1 from N.Ireland

1 from Scotland

1 from Wales ........ ahhhh the good old days when nobody threw themselves to the ground as if they'd been shot after being touched.

[Steve Miller]

Trouble was common place in the seventies.

We had our (Riley’s) coach bricked at Crewe following our 8-1 win at Crewe in September 1973.
We got chased round the ground at Wolves in 1977 during the 3-2 loss in the FA Cup.
We got chased through Southend in 1978 when we made the mistake of scoring in the last minute. We got cornered in a housing estate and we ran into a house to ask them to call the police. We got kept in the police station giving evidence until 8pm. The coach set off back at 11 and developed a radiator problem so we had to stop at every service station on the way back up the M1. Got back to Rotherham at 10.00 am the next day.

One night, my mate came back from the game and went up Sheffield for a few. Got the last train back but fell asleep and woke up in Carlisle.
Around that time we got chased through Torquay too.

70s & 80s were a terrible time for football trouble . Remember the police escorting us straight off the coach and into the ground at Gillingham in 79 about 2 hours before kick off & when we protested, they said that we shouldn’t have come.

Too right! Remember going away to Halifax Town and they broke lumps off their 'stadium' to chuck at us 🤣