Bit before my time but Blackpool home and away sounded a bit tasty according to AVFTT:

 

 

At Bloomfield Road:

 

The Bolton game when they won 2-0 with a Whatmore brace (and its aftermath) is still to this day the worst and most widespread fighting I have ever seen at a football match. They had a huge following, but half the town turned out to meet them it seemed. Of course feelings were still running very high then regarding Kevin.

 

Bolton '77. 26,000 on at BR and we were packed on like sardines. Half the crowd though were Bolton!

 

The 2-2 draw v bolton, 25k crowd and horwich scum seemed all over the ground especially the west, not many in the east.

 

 

At Burnden

 

Burnden Park the only away ground in Lancashire where i always felt sure we were in for a kicking.

 

a 3-0 win at Burnden Park in about 1975; carnage afterwards on the way back to the station

 

That Bolton match definitely, didn't remember the score, spent all the match in the Bolton end fighting off repeated charges and dodging bricks, bottle and toilet seats.Then when we thought we were safe on the train, that got bricked as it left the station-Happy Days!

 

Burnden Park in '76. I was 15 and terrified. Could hardly have been a Pool fan there who didn't get a kicking. I was one of the lucky ones but only because I was quick on feet. Horrific.

No mate, that was 'The Treatment'. Have a good mate down here who was one of em. Funnily enough, away from football, the two mobs didn't get on. Local rivalries, Bermondsey v Peckham or summat.

yes it was treatment remember were i saw it panorama program found it on you tube treatment had the masks and f troop were the nutters harry the dog

Edited July 1, 201114 yr by Farnywhite

 

After problem with crowd invasions, Burnden Park greeted supporters for the 1977/78 season with 8 ft high fences behind each of the goals.

 

I scaled the ones in the Paddocks a few times over the years!

ah, fair enough - I'd forgotten that the ends were done first.

Reason I asked was I was trying to think when it was we played Sheff Wed and a sight I'll never forget - 3 of their lot escaping over the Paddock fence but one was too slow. So the poor sod ended up with his mates trying to pull him over and Bolton fans tring to pull him back, including one bloke lamping him with a crash helmet! Daft sod was lucky not to get impaled.

Another one I remember was playing Arsenal and some cocky cockneys getting lead by the police along in front of the Paddock back to the away end. One was giving it large but then looked distinctly less full of himself when a milk crate got lobbed over and hit in square in the mush

have I imagined this, or did they take the 'spikes' off the top of the fences in the latter years?

We won the old 2nd division in 77/78, & I don't remember them being up then.

 

On the Paddock I mean.

Edited July 1, 201114 yr by wackerchackers

yes it was treatment remember were i saw it panorama program found it on you tube treatment had the masks and f troop were the nutters harry the dog http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eweccg4y8I

 

Featuring this classic quote:

 

Featuring this classic quote:

 

 

wonder what happened to harry the dog ? there is some funny sights on that vid people stood on the terraces wearing blankets dont think you will see that today .

Thanks for the great memories!

 

One thing that's bugged me for ages was a sunny saturday late 80's in Southend where there were loads in the away open terrace behind the goal. Shed loads sat down through the first half then invaded the pitch at half time into the home end behind the other goal. That end emptied rapid.

 

To this day never found out who that lot were or why they were there?

 

Anyone?

It was the 1st day of the season, me and the mate caught the train and was thinking we would be the first wave in town, no, the place was hammered with Bolton fans who set off the night before in loads of tranny vans.A mate from L/H who had been arrested, had to make four visits to the courts in Southend.

Thanks for the great memories!

 

One thing that's bugged me for ages was a sunny saturday late 80's in Southend where there were loads in the away open terrace behind the goal. Shed loads sat down through the first half then invaded the pitch at half time into the home end behind the other goal. That end emptied

rapid.

 

To this day never found out who that lot were or why they were there?

 

Anyone?

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=6bFiexw270Y

 

This one?

Featuring this classic quote:

 

40 years on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqADIQ1cM0U&feature=related

wonder what happened to harry the dog ? there is some funny sights on that vid people stood on the terraces wearing blankets dont think you will see that today .

 

He died some years back.

Love this thread. Far to young to have been there but the stories are brilliant. Keep them coming!

He died some years back.

 

 

Did he get by a train?

Did he get hit by a train?

I think some norhern ponce gobbed on him, and he caught hepititus.

Edited July 1, 201114 yr by leigh white

the one thing that sticks in my mind when we played millwall at home around that time when they were making a name for them selfs was turning up at burnden park before kick off and they had sprayed millwall in big letters on the wall of the manny road next to were the old club shop was dont remember much of the game though if there there was any trouble . did anyone on here ever go to there old ground cold blow lane been to the new den and thats in a shit hole but some chelsea fans i know recon the old ground was an experience

Edited July 1, 201114 yr by Farnywhite

We won the old 2nd division in 77/78, & I don't remember them being up then.

 

On the Paddock I mean.

 

i think the spikes on the railings only lasted about a season before they cut them off

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=6bFiexw270Y

 

This one?

 

Still don't know .... link either don't work or a few too many this afternoon.

the one thing that sticks in my mind when we played millwall at home around that time when they were making a name for them selfs was turning up at burnden park before kick off and they had sprayed millwall in big letters on the wall of the manny road next to were the old club shop was dont remember much of the game though if there there was any trouble . did anyone on here ever go to there old ground cold blow lane been to the new den and thats in a shit hole but some chelsea fans i know recon the old ground was an experience

 

I think every ground in the land had"MAT BWFC" daubed all over it.

Did he get by a train?

 

Cancer I believe.

i think the spikes on the railings only lasted about a season before they cut them off

 

I think the spikes were still there until about 1990. Then about 3 years later the fence was lowered. iirc anyway.

Cancer I believe.

 

Car crash.

Just because it was raining too.

 

You're right. I seem to recall they started off in the Embankment, as was the norm, and the coppers led them round the cinders into the Lever End.

We won the old 2nd division in 77/78, & I don't remember them being up then.

 

On the Paddock I mean.

 

I can confirm that the year we went up as champs (79) I scaled the fence at the embankment.

the one thing that sticks in my mind when we played millwall at home around that time when they were making a name for them selfs was turning up at burnden park before kick off and they had sprayed millwall in big letters on the wall of the manny road next to were the old club shop was dont remember much of the game though if there there was any trouble . did anyone on here ever go to there old ground cold blow lane been to the new den and thats in a shit hole but some chelsea fans i know recon the old ground was an experience

See previous post when we had the windows of our coach done in. Cant remember the year, but we lost 5-2 after Jeff Chandler had given us the lead. There was just one more coach, apart from ours, which went from the Albion, full of not-rights. Those were the days!

Two games with significant argy bargy and a combined Burnden crowd of 66k+ in the space of 5 days...

See previous post when we had the windows of our coach done in. Cant remember the year, but we lost 5-2 after Jeff Chandler had given us the lead. There was just one more coach, apart from ours, which went from the Albion, full of not-rights. Those were the days!

 

was at the game

 

paul fitxpatricks debut, i think

 

went twice to the place and thank fcuk we got beat both times