DaveTheRave Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 That was brilliant. Even Taylor saw the funny side once he'd realised what was going on. Another funny one was when we played Villa and everyone was throwing snowballs at the bench. One got a Villa coach, Alan Evans I think, right on the side of his face and he went mental. Brian Little had to hold him back as he got bombarded by about another hundred snowballs.
oggybwfc Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 It's shit getting old but i would not have missed those days for the world.The fans of today say that it's wrong maybe so, but at the time it didn't half make saturdays exciting.
beer_swiller Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Can remember going in the Lever End and being met by a load of Forest fans. When more Bolton fans came in we surrounded them and some got a bit of a kicking to say the least. Â A few years before that I can recall a fan being hung out of the lever end, eventually he was dragged back in. Â Does anyone remember Luton fans? we played them in a cup game, they were a 1st division side then. Their fans came with painted faces and caused a few problems. Â Police in the 70s began to clamp down on hooligans by making them remove their steel toe caps, anyone on here that were made to remove them and stand in stocking feet.
oggybwfc Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) Can remember going in the Lever End and being met by a load of Forest fans. When more Bolton fans came in we surrounded them and some got a bit of a kicking to say the least. Â A few years before that I can recall a fan being hung out of the lever end, eventually he was dragged back in. Â Does anyone remember Luton fans? we played them in a cup game, they were a 1st division side then. Their fans came with painted faces and caused a few problems. Â Police in the 70s began to clamp down on hooligans by making them remove their steel toe caps, anyone on here that were made to remove them and stand in stocking feet. Â Â I remember them well one big black lad walked down Manny rd as though he owned it,well just till he picked himself up and tried to wipe off all the claret. Edited June 30, 2011 by oggybwfc
Barnstoneworth White Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 That Chelsea game was the March of 76/7. Didn't a similar set of circumstances arise on the very last day of that season at home to Wolves, in a game we needed to draw to get promoted but lost 0-1? Â I seem to recall pitch invasions from both Lever End and Embankment? Â My memories of 76/7 are very fuzzy but by 77/8 (I was then aged 7) my Dad had decided we were going in the Manny Road Stand (the aforementioned riots might have had something to do with it!). I remember 77/8 very clearly - and of course by the start of that year there were fences up on the perimter of both Lever End and Manny Road. I think it was also the last season of terracing before those 'orrible green seats appeared on the Lever End. Â I remember the Wolves game quite vividly surprisingly. Must have been over 30,000 on and Wolves turned up in some numbers as they had already got promoted. We did need something out of the game to get promoted ourselves but lost 1-0, think Kenny Hibbert got their goal. Â Anyway at the final whistle I do remember the Wolves fans invaded the pitch from the Embankment and charged the Burnden Paddock. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen - dozens of Noddy Holder look-a-likes, with their big hair/sideburns, half-mast flares and 18-hole docs cavorting all over the sacred turf. The scuffiest set of bastards ever to set foot in Burnden, no mistake. As they charged, a no-mans land opened up in front of the Paddock with both sets of fans not taking it any further. After a minute or two a bloke pushed me out of the way, leapt over the wooden fence and started laying into the said scruffy twats - a solo effort. Â To my shame I didn't hang around to observe the ensuing carnage, I was only 12 at the time.
SpiritofBurnden Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 Can remember going in the Lever End and being met by a load of Forest fans. When more Bolton fans came in we surrounded them and some got a bit of a kicking to say the least. Â I remember Forest's visit in 76/77, the year they pipped us to promotion. There was a fair bit of blood spilt in the Lever End that day. You never really notice the St. John's Ambulance teams nowadays but back then, rarely a game went by when they weren't bandaging someone's head or carrying someone round the pitch on a stretcher. Â There was over 31,000 on that day. We had much bigger crowds than they did back then.
beer_swiller Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Despite what some think, this is a brilliant thread. Keep those memories coming because without them we aint any conversation. Â does anyone remember going to Chester one Wed night and immediately being hounded by Scousers. We were behind the goal and the Chester/Liverpool fans were along side. Running battles occured throughout the game. At the end we were chased back to the coaches where a few gorilla`s were waiting. Â I can recall a Wrexham trip when we were the first in the ground, a hot-dog stall had been left unatended and a full coach load helped ourselves to burgers and hot-dogs n onions. Only three coaches. two from hargreaves and one from Bolton coachways turned up that day.
Ani Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Despite what some think, this is a brilliant thread. Keep those memories coming because without them we aint any conversation. Â does anyone remember going to Chester one Wed night and immediately being hounded by Scousers. We were behind the goal and the Chester/Liverpool fans were along side. Running battles occured throughout the game. At the end we were chased back to the coaches where a few gorilla`s were waiting. Â I can recall a Wrexham trip when we were the first in the ground, a hot-dog stall had been left unatended and a full coach load helped ourselves to burgers and hot-dogs n onions. Only three coaches. two from hargreaves and one from Bolton coachways turned up that day. Â Â Who has knocked this thread? if people got involved or not it is all part of our history and back in the day the atmosphere was what made burnden special and that atmosphere was so good because it could be sinister. Â in the old days there was not much more spectular than when an end just erupted, was funny at burnden was that ok,other clubs went on the embankment, a few ventured on the lever end but the burnden terrace and Manny road terrace were also full of loons
athywhite1958 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Can remember going in the Lever End and being met by a load of Forest fans. When more Bolton fans came in we surrounded them and some got a bit of a kicking to say the least. Â A few years before that I can recall a fan being hung out of the lever end, eventually he was dragged back in. Â Does anyone remember Luton fans? we played them in a cup game, they were a 1st division side then. Their fans came with painted faces and caused a few problems.Police in the 70s began to clamp down on hooligans by making them remove their steel toe caps, anyone on here that were made to remove them and stand in stocking feet. Â They were playing at A Clockwork Orange, they were at the bottom of the Lever End looking up at us,
athywhite1958 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 I remember Blackpool coming on a really foggy day, they came onto the Lever End at the Burnden Paddock side
SpiritofBurnden Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) I remember the Wolves game quite vividly surprisingly. Must have been over 30,000 on and Wolves turned up in some numbers as they had already got promoted. Â The crowd that day was over 35,000. One of four attendances at Burnden that season of over 30,000, including a crowd of over 50,000 for the visit of Everton in the League Cup semi-final. Â In fact only Chelsea had bigger average attendances than us that season. Despite finishing fourth and just missing out on promotion, we even had a higher average attendance than Wolves who went up as Champions! Edited June 30, 2011 by SpiritofBurnden
SatanGreavsie Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Â Police in the 70s began to clamp down on hooligans by making them remove their steel toe caps, anyone on here that were made to remove them and stand in stocking feet. Had to take me laces out and leave them under the Paddock. Anyone remember them massive orange balls that used to turn up in the Paddock and get lobbed about; twice the size of a beach ball and made of hard plastic. Could never work out how anyone would get them in - but a while back on here someone suggested they were from groundsman's barrow?? Â Main thing I can picture dead vividly though was in a packed Paddock you could always tell when it going to kick off with some interloper by the flying coffee. Half the time you couldn't see the people involved...but the coffee was always the giveaway
paulhanley Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Do I remember wrongly or with the rather large exception of the two home games against Leeds and the second home match against Munich,were our two first division seasons in the late 70s comparitively trouble free at Burnden?
Burndens Bogs Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 I remember the Wolves game quite vividly surprisingly. Must have been over 30,000 on and Wolves turned up in some numbers as they had already got promoted. We did need something out of the game to get promoted ourselves but lost 1-0, think Kenny Hibbert got their goal. Â Anyway at the final whistle I do remember the Wolves fans invaded the pitch from the Embankment and charged the Burnden Paddock. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen - dozens of Noddy Holder look-a-likes, with their big hair/sideburns, half-mast flares and 18-hole docs cavorting all over the sacred turf. The scuffiest set of bastards ever to set foot in Burnden, no mistake. As they charged, a no-mans land opened up in front of the Paddock with both sets of fans not taking it any further. After a minute or two a bloke pushed me out of the way, leapt over the wooden fence and started laying into the said scruffy twats - a solo effort. Â To my shame I didn't hang around to observe the ensuing carnage, I was only 12 at the time. Â Wolves made there way accross the pitch to the Lever End after the game, they were big on numbers and were "up for it" - but the first few dozen who manged to scale the fence into the Lever End took a right pasting iirc. Anyone remember the Spurs cup game from the late 70's? it was a night game and we won in extra time. Spurs fans left the embankment early and covered EVERY exit from the Burnden terrace,the first few brave Bolton souls to leave got a kicking but hundreds and hundreds of angry exiting Wanderers fans saw what was happening, and the London boys got their comeuppance - big style.
Farnywhite Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Wolves made there way accross the pitch to the Lever End after the game, they were big on numbers and were "up for it" - but the first few dozen who manged to scale the fence into the Lever End took a right pasting iirc. Anyone remember the Spurs cup game from the late 70's? it was a night game and we won in extra time. Spurs fans left the embankment early and covered EVERY exit from the Burnden terrace,the first few brave Bolton souls to leave got a kicking but hundreds and hundreds of angry exiting Wanderers fans saw what was happening, and the London boys got their comeuppance - big style. Â Â that rings a bell i remember the spurs game it would of been the season we got promoted pretty sure it was played on a friday night for some reason dont no why ? they gave spurs the large end of the embankment next to the manny road which hey filled but most of them didnt turn up till half time the football special trains were delayed
Farnywhite Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 There were a few [Chelsea] who opted to jump into the Burnden Terrace and got a shoeing, i remember one lad in particular, all in white, gesticulating to the baying Bolton fans in the BT, he must have got a crack or two  i remember one off them dressed in bakers outfit all in white running across the pitch among them and him getting pints off beer thrown over him from the paddock prob the same guy unless they had some outfit thing going on like millwalls f troop think remember seeing something were they went to games in surgical masks
SpiritofBurnden Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 millwalls f troop think remember seeing something were they went to games in surgical masks  There was a Panorama special about 'F Troop' in the 77/78 season. One of them was interviewed and he said that they'd 'had a ruck wiv Bolton Wanderers at St. Pancras'.
athywhite1958 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) Do I remember wrongly or with the rather large exception of the two home games against Leeds and the second home match against Munich,were our two first division seasons in the late 70s comparitively trouble free at Burnden? No, we had trouble with virtually everybody who came to Burnden, the 2 Bristols were particularly naughty as were most games against Yarksher clubs Edited June 30, 2011 by athywhite1958
paulhanley Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 No, we had trouble with virtually everybody who came to Burnden, the 2 Bristols were particularly naughty as were most games against Yarksher clubs  I don't think we played Bristol Rovers in Div One did we? Played Bristol City in the very first game but can't remember many Bristol City fans actually being there. Remember them coming back from 1-0 down (Gowling screamer) to win 2-1 though.
bolton va va Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 I think the Chelsea at home stories are about two separate games. One time, the Chelsea fans went on the Lever End early ( as a few others tried unsuccessfully ) but when Bolton fans arrived to try & shift them, Bolton got the worse of it. In my time , the munich match was the only time we got chased out of the Lever End, but that Chelsea game was the second worst game for Bolton fans on the Lever End. Â The time when Bolton & Chelsea fans were on the pitch, I think was a year or two later when a lot of Bolton fans had moved from the Lever End to the embankment & Burnden paddock.
MickyD Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Just before the seats in Lever End, there was a double fence. Always wondered why as it was Bolton fans both sides with the gates open. Â One night match, November 5th, we played a night match against Forest and they were put in the St Peter's way side of the Lever End. From my vantage point in the Burnden paddock it was like I was stood at Bradshaw Cricket Club firework display! Â Â Back to the Chelsea game where we played musical-swap-ends-of-the-football-ground, very early on, about 1 o'clock ish for a 3 o'clock ko, the Chelsea lot had mobbed up on the club car park and were doing a conga line all along the front of the stadium shouting Bolton in as cockney a Bolton accent as you'd ever hear. They were fooling nobody . . . Â Â except the fucking mongalong turnstile operators who let them into the Lever End!
bwfc2003 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Funniest thing i ever saw at Burnden was that bloke who walked onto the pitch before the Fulham game in '76 and handed Rodney Marsh a handbag. Â Was that Ste from LA?
bwfc2003 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Can remember going in the Lever End and being met by a load of Forest fans. When more Bolton fans came in we surrounded them and some got a bit of a kicking to say the least. Â A few years before that I can recall a fan being hung out of the lever end, eventually he was dragged back in. Â Does anyone remember Luton fans? we played them in a cup game, they were a 1st division side then. Their fans came with painted faces and caused a few problems. Â Police in the 70s began to clamp down on hooligans by making them remove their steel toe caps, anyone on here that were made to remove them and stand in stocking feet. Were west ham with them that day?? Seem to remember a big mob of them in the lever end, with darts flying about
MickyD Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 The turnips came right over my head in Manny Rd North.
bwfc2003 Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 Cant believe thers been no tales about the Warbies mob
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