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8 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

No worries , that literally sounds like the match/night  from hell for you. In the following seasons Forest programme , for the Milk cup match they mention your coach turning up at Half time to find ourselves 6-0 down . Did the trouble with the Forest lot have any bearing on the aggro in the milk cup tie the following year?.

Just a tad mate 😄 🤣 

Did we really get a mention in that Forest programme ? 

6 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

Just a tad mate 😄 🤣 

Did we really get a mention in that Forest programme ? 

You certainly did mate . I'll quote the piece because for some reason I'm shite at posting my own pictures.

The piece basically describes the game and goes on to say 

" Notts in fact were leading 6-0 after 32 minutes and it's not hard to imagine the reaction of the Bolton Fans who didn't arrive until shortly before half time because their coach was delayed" 

That Forest game being my first game I kind of remember every Bolton bit in the programme :lol:. I do remember quite a bit of trouble in the second half.

8 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

You certainly did mate . I'll quote the piece because for some reason I'm shite at posting my own pictures.

The piece basically describes the game and goes on to say 

" Notts in fact were leading 6-0 after 32 minutes and it's not hard to imagine the reaction of the Bolton Fans who didn't arrive until shortly before half time because their coach was delayed" 

That Forest game being my first game I kind of remember every Bolton bit in the programme ::lol::. I do remember quite a bit of trouble in the second half.

Where was the trouble? In the ground? My memory of the away end at Forest was a big open end that had several segregation fences splitting the terrace in to about five sections. All with a big perimeter fence. 

The main issue I remember seeing there was when Celtic visited in a European game and it got that crushed that it very nearly turned in to a Hillsborough incident.

1 minute ago, paulhanley said:

Where was the trouble? In the ground? My memory of the away end at Forest was a big open end that had several segregation fences splitting the terrace in to about five sections. All with a big perimeter fence. 

The main issue I remember seeing there was when Celtic visited in a European game and it got that crushed that it very nearly turned in to a Hillsborough incident.

I think some Bolton had been put in a seated area in the New Brian Clough stand .  The Away supporters had 1 half of the Bridgeford end  at Forest .

6 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

I think some Bolton had been put in a seated area in the New Brian Clough stand .  The Away supporters had 1 half of the Bridgeford end  at Forest .

Probably more like they decided they were going in there rather than they'd been put in there. Our away support in that era always had a contingent who liked the challenge of the home end! 

Just now, paulhanley said:

Probably more like they decided they were going in there rather than they'd been put in there. Our away support in that era always had a contingent who liked the challenge of the home end! 

Could well be , I just remember a right commotion in the second half , I'm sure Duck egg has commented on it before . I think it was a bit tasty afterwards also.

1 minute ago, dusan nikolic said:

Could well be , I just remember a right commotion in the second half , I'm sure Duck egg has commented on it before . I think it was a bit tasty afterwards also.

My first time at the City Ground was in 75/6 as a very small child. We won and Paul Jones scored a pen. Home and away fans largely mixed. This was the time when away ends had only just been created and people didn't really respect them. By the 80s they were a very recognised "thing" - so if you went in the home end you kept quiet or you were up for a rumble.

Bet Cloughie wasn't impressed with our lot's antics! 🙂 

Just now, paulhanley said:

My first time at the City Ground was in 75/6 as a very small child. We won and Paul Jones scored a pen. Home and away fans largely mixed. This was the time when away ends had only just been created and people didn't really respect them. By the 80s they were a very recognised "thing" - so if you went in the home end you kept quiet or you were up for a rumble.

Bet Cloughie wasn't impressed with our lot's antics! 🙂 

Do you remember the time when Forest had won a cup match and the fans invaded the pitch , he went out and started whacking some of  them round the head . He really was a character. 

10 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

Could well be , I just remember a right commotion in the second half , I'm sure Duck egg has commented on it before . I think it was a bit tasty afterwards also.

The match at Burnden got pretty lively afterwards too......around 11pm near McDonald's.......one or two got a different type of Big sMack 😉 

11 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

Could well be , I just remember a right commotion in the second half , I'm sure Duck egg has commented on it before . I think it was a bit tasty afterwards also.

Well remembered!

We had a triangular section in the corner behind the goals and 2 sections in the side stand.

We went in a couple of cars and got there late.  The terrace may have been closed by then so we went in the seats.  It started to get lively when Metgod chopped Thompson down when he was clean through and got worse when they went 1 up.  A few climbed over from the terrace to pitch in.

There were plenty of running battles outside afterwards.  A few Forest turned up at Notts County the following year looking for revenge.

8 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

Do you remember the time when Forest had won a cup match and the fans invaded the pitch , he went out and started whacking some of  them round the head . He really was a character. 

Yep. And then two or three days later the bloke he whacked was taken to met Cloughie. They said sorry to each other and Cloughie gave him a kiss. Unbelievable. 

There are lots of books out on Cloughie these days and I have 3 or 4 of them. I recommend 150 BC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/150-BC-Cloughie-Inside-Stories-ebook/dp/B00MWPO0HU

1 minute ago, paulhanley said:

Yep. And then two or three days later the bloke he whacked was taken to met Cloughie. They said sorry to each other and Cloughie gave him a kiss. Unbelievable. 

There are lots of books out on Cloughie these days and I have 3 or 4 of them. I recommend 150 BC

https://www.amazon.co.uk/150-BC-Cloughie-Inside-Stories-ebook/dp/B00MWPO0HU

I will look at that , he is the only thing Derby/Forest fans ever agree on , the can be a very tasty local rivalry. 

1 minute ago, dusan nikolic said:

I will look at that , he is the only thing Derby/Forest fans ever agree on , the can be a very tasty local rivalry. 

Yep. But I've never figured out if there's a rivalry between Forest and Notts County?

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27 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

The match at Burnden got pretty lively afterwards too......around 11pm near McDonald's.......one or two got a different type of Big sMack 😉 

The amount of older Forest fans I know who said Burnden was always a nasty place to go . It usually ends with smashed up Mini buses and coaches.

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Just now, paulhanley said:

Yep. But I've never figured out if there's a rivalry between Forest and Notts County?

It has kicked off a few times but I think Forest look on them now as irrelevant neighbour's  . Forest's banned fans used to team up with Mansfield quite a lot at one time.

23 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

Well remembered!

We had a triangular section in the corner behind the goals and 2 sections in the side stand.

We went in a couple of cars and got there late.  The terrace may have been closed by then so we went in the seats.  It started to get lively when Metgod chopped Thompson down when he was clean through and got worse when they went 1 up.  A few climbed over from the terrace to pitch in.

There were plenty of running battles outside afterwards.  A few Forest turned up at Notts County the following year looking for revenge.

I knew you had spoke to me before about it on another video . I was only 10 so everything at that age seems a bigger thing than it usually is but I can remember loads of coppers charging to the corner in the second half . I heard years later Bolton gave them a good run for their money that night . Their favourite trick was picking off small groups going to the train station , there is a notorious housing estate the borders the route to the station.

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17 minutes ago, paulhanley said:

My first time at the City Ground was in 75/6 as a very small child. We won and Paul Jones scored a pen. Home and away fans largely mixed. This was the time when away ends had only just been created and people didn't really respect them. By the 80s they were a very recognised "thing" - so if you went in the home end you kept quiet or you were up for a rumble.

Bet Cloughie wasn't impressed with our lot's antics! 🙂 

I've mentioned it before, the time mid 70's when Forest came on the Lever End, not that many of them but including quite a few fucking hard rocker/biker types & they managed to stay on all the match, but outside they got scattered all over Manny Rd & some were chased & caught as far as up Lever St. It was quite brutal.

Anyway, our next game at Forest, there were only 2 coaches from Bolton & with Forest fans all out for revenge, it was one of the scariest away games i've been to with several Bolton fans getting sussed out & thumped on the open end. If it's the same one you went to (it would be around that time ), i definitely didn't jump up if we scored 😊 & was just happy to get back on the coach in one piece.

16 minutes ago, bolton va va said:

I've mentioned it before, the time mid 70's when Forest came on the Lever End, not that many of them but including quite a few fucking hard rocker/biker types & they managed to stay on all the match, but outside they got scattered all over Manny Rd & some were chased & caught as far as up Lever St. It was quite brutal.

Anyway, our next game at Forest, there were only 2 coaches from Bolton & with Forest fans all out for revenge, it was one of the scariest away games i've been to with several Bolton fans getting sussed out & thumped on the open end. If it's the same one you went to (it would be around that time ), i definitely didn't jump up if we scored 😊 & was just happy to get back on the coach in one piece.

I was five at the time! I remember more about the journey there than the match itself. The City Ground looked nothing like it does now. 

We were in the same orbit as Forest for a lot of the mid 70s. Then they got Cloughie and we couldn't touch them. Albeit in the season we got relegated from Div 1 (79/80) we won our second league match of the season (in January!) at home to them 1-0. This being the great Forest side of the time. 

2 hours ago, dusan nikolic said:

You certainly did mate . I'll quote the piece because for some reason I'm shite at posting my own pictures.

The piece basically describes the game and goes on to say 

" Notts in fact were leading 6-0 after 32 minutes and it's not hard to imagine the reaction of the Bolton Fans who didn't arrive until shortly before half time because their coach was delayed" 

That Forest game being my first game I kind of remember every Bolton bit in the programme ::lol::. I do remember quite a bit of trouble in the second half.

I remember a Bolton fan coming in late asking me the score, it was the biggest Fuck off you lying cunt i'd ever heard.

2 minutes ago, leigh white said:

I remember a Bolton fan coming in late asking me the score, it was the biggest Fuck off you lying cunt i'd ever heard.

I can imagine his reaction , weren't Notts bottom of the league or thereabouts?

Just now, dusan nikolic said:

I can imagine his reaction , weren't Notts bottom of the league or thereabouts?

They were 22nd in the league and  Fashanu didn't play that night thank fuck.

1 minute ago, leigh white said:

They were 22nd in the league and  Fashanu didn't play that night thank fuck.

Thank fuck that was the year before my first game , I got enough shit round here when they beat us in the play offs.

1 minute ago, dusan nikolic said:

Thank fuck that was the year before my first game , I got enough shit round here when they beat us in the play offs.

The scoring went, 15,16,17,21,22,32, we pulled one back with Foster in the 72nd.

Just now, leigh white said:

The scoring went, 15,16,17,21,22,32, we pulled one back with Foster in the 72nd.

Bloody hell that's some going , do you remember there being 4 disallowed goals that went against us?

1 minute ago, dusan nikolic said:

Bloody hell that's some going , do you remember there being 4 disallowed goals that went against us?

To be honest, it's the first time i've seen that vid since going to the match, i knew we had a couple against us, but i doubt it could've changed the course of the match. The Notts police were twats that night.

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