Do any of you remember a lad of Indian descent who used to run with the Wanderers lads in the mid 1970's,initials MF ?

 

M still lives and works in Bolton,and very well known indeed,but stopped going to the match esp after a certain incident and being best friends with the accused

 

 

He's given me a whole stack of pictures and original newspaper cuttings from those days,i may upload some but some might not be in the best taste,and out of respect for others

one pic which may be ok to look at is available on Blackpool's Muckers site,section 'Darker Stories'....on that thread,scroll down to the end and there's a couple of acceptable pics from Bloomfield Road,1974

 

 

 

 

http://z11.invisionfree.com/MUCKERS/ar/t123.htm

Did Bolton turn out good numbers against the red filth in 74/75 or did the Red Army rule the roost as they did in most towns ?

The Blackpool lad in the scooter club will no doubt remember the Red Army visiting Blackpool the same season ? I read some cuttings on it last night,where it said 1,000 united had gone on 2 specials the night before and wrecked blackpool. about 500 slept on the beach and made campfires to keep warm,bloody mad days by the sounds of it. before my era unfortunately

 

I was a Burnden Terracer by then but we were battling all round the ground. In the main, it was just numbers which gave them the upper hand. The best we could say was the filthy fuckers knew they'd been in a match.

 

I was working in Bury at the time and a lot of my workmates were either DMB's or local lads who went to scum games just for the agro. Their leader (imaginatively called 'Johnny Red' and worked on Union Road, Denvale) used to organise transport to away games for 30 or 40 of em. Used to nick pantechnicons on a fairly regular basis! (furniture vans fert young uns). Removalist companies didn't even know they were missing one until Monday morning by which time it had usually been dumped near Elton Res or similar.

 

Blackpool Trev down here stopped going to football after the Bloomfield Road incident. Tells me he caught KO as he fell backwards.

didn't wolves win, too

 

i used to have a cracking view from the back of the burnden stand

 

i'm sure they did the length of the pitch gallop

 

it might have been the 'promotion failure' game or possibly sooner

 

I remember that 0-1. Was in the Burnden Terrace and my recollection is they gave it a go and were sent packing. Ran back with their tails between their legs. Only Chelsea and the DMB's to my knowledge unless some want to claim they took it at 2pm. There'd be loads of them.

A few mobs like Forest Bristol City And Stoke got in post segregation and stood their ground, but if they want to count taking 50% with the help of a fence as a victory. The only two that ran us out we're Chelsea & dmb

I remember the year we got promoted Leeds had a lot in the Lever end, but couldnt be classed as taking it as it was all seated by then

Correct. The bastards must have been well organised as it was a ticket only match I re-call. Twats

cant remember if all ticket or not, but coppers didnt bother trying to stop them getting in lever end

we must have been outnumbered 10 to 1 in there

 

Attendance against scum was 38k - next home game against bristol was 11k - gives an indication of how many of the filth we faced that day

Edited November 25, 201213 yr by bwfc2003

i was only a nipper at the time of the united game so can't comment except to say the ground was pretty packed and those bastards were everywhere. did they do a ''you'll never walk alone'' before the match in the embankment,seem to recall and a sea of red and white scarves

 

my dad despises those bastards even more than he did on the strength of the 1-0 defeat. he had 22points on the coupon,and the one which stopped him getting 8 draws was that match. he won something like £12 for 22 points,instead of around £250,000 for 24points

i was only a nipper at the time of the united game so can't comment except to say the ground was pretty packed and those bastards were everywhere. did they do a ''you'll never walk alone'' before the match in the embankment,seem to recall and a sea of red and white scarves

 

my dad despises those bastards even more than he did on the strength of the 1-0 defeat. he had 22points on the coupon,and the one which stopped him getting 8 draws was that match. he won something like £12 for 22 points,instead of around £250,000 for 24points

sounds like another reason to despise them - dont know you or your old fella, but i will put it on the ever increasing list as to why i hate the red filth

sounds like another reason to despise them - dont know you or your old fella, but i will put it on the ever increasing list as to why i hate the red filth

 

cheers pal. the £250,000 would have come in handy in those days. i could have had a silver spoon in my gob

I remember that 0-1. Was in the Burnden Terrace and my recollection is they gave it a go and were sent packing. Ran back with their tails between their legs. Only Chelsea and the DMB's to my knowledge unless some want to claim they took it at 2pm. There'd be loads of them.

 

Spot on, they got to the halfway line & the Burnden terrace spilled onto the pitch It was a mass battle but they were sent running back to the embankment

That game is one of the reasons us fifty something year olds still hate the bastards with a passion

I was carried out of the Lever End on a stretcher that day with a fractured leg, we got royally twatted, as I was unconscious on the stretcher the red vermin cowardly bastards set my new silk scarf on fire while it was round my neck, I got to Bolton Royal and my mate was there as he had been thrown through a shop window opposite the ground, just 1 of many rerasons why I hate the cunts with a passion

 

I was carried out of the Lever End on a stretcher that day with a fractured leg, we got royally twatted, as I was unconscious on the stretcher the red vermin cowardly bastards set my new silk scarf on fire while it was round my neck, I got to Bolton Royal and my mate was there as he had been thrown through a shop window opposite the ground, just 1 of many rerasons why I hate the cunts with a passion

 

Happy days:)

The utd game was 1974 at ours i think the crowd that day was 32:000

The lever end was complety taken over

There wasnt many bolton turned out that day for what ever reason

I remember bricks being thrown in to the embankment

Luton fans coming in to the lever end dressed in orange

Boiler suits i remember one bolton lad with a dart in his head

Chelsea took the lever end as they came in early

I remember a chelsea fan limping in with a walking stick

Soon as he got in the lever end he ran amok whacking any bolton lad he saw.

Millwall forest city stoke blackpool spurs leeds

Have all tried to take the lever end only man u and chelsea have taken it proper

Wolves was mayhem on the pitch 77/78 i remember one known lad running in to them with a stretcher pole

 

Stoke 77/78 season against stoke 80 injured and nearly

90 arest it was on the front cover of the news of the world

Battle of burnden was the head lines

As for blackpool they smashed the painters arms in 1974

Before the game got dun in the lever end and after the game got legged up mani rd

Hull city early 70s at ours had it on the pitch with them

Funnist of all was bristol rovers geting legged out of the embankment they was back on there coaches before the match kicked off

 

 

The utd game was 1974 at ours i think the crowd that day was 32:000

The lever end was complety taken over

There wasnt many bolton turned out that day for what ever reason

I remember bricks being thrown in to the embankment

Luton fans coming in to the lever end dressed in orange

Boiler suits i remember one bolton lad with a dart in his head

Chelsea took the lever end as they came in early

I remember a chelsea fan limping in with a walking stick

Soon as he got in the lever end he ran amok whacking any bolton lad he saw.

Millwall forest city stoke blackpool spurs leeds

Have all tried to take the lever end only man u and chelsea have taken it proper

Wolves was mayhem on the pitch 77/78 i remember one known lad running in to them with a stretcher pole

 

Stoke 77/78 season against stoke 80 injured and nearly

90 arest it was on the front cover of the news of the world

Battle of burnden was the head lines

As for blackpool they smashed the painters arms in 1974

Before the game got dun in the lever end and after the game got legged up mani rd

Hull city early 70s at ours had it on the pitch with them

Funnist of all was bristol rovers geting legged out of the embankment they was back on there coaches before the match kicked off

 

Good memories, however the match at Burnden against Man U was March 75, nearly 38000 on at Burnden, the 32000 crowd was the Friday night when Frankie ripped them to pieces, did not see much trouble that night the Munchens headed home just after half time.

Did anyone go to the 2 cup matches against Bury in 1960? How times have changed nearly 80,000 on for those 2 games how times have changed and not for the better, would love to hear any stories from those 2 games.

Remember the wolves game as a young kid at the timr. They took the home side and can remember seeing 1 bolton lad in amongst about 30 wolves windmilling. Was in the lever end v chelsea when they came across the pitch my dad refused to budge. When they scored money was flying out of their birmingham bags. Went to the chelsea game in 82 i think me and my dad went in the lever seats. Chelsea were bsnned but turned up anyway the police let them in the lever end and they all sat round us. They was ok with us all game then went charging up manny road after the match. The leeds match in78 was scary with bricks flying about for most of the match. Favourite game of that time was blackburn away in77 when we won promotion seeing blackburn getting chased out of the blackburn end onto the pitch jumping in the nuttal street and then 2 mimutes later getting kicked out of there as well. Think they ended up with half the riverside.

i was in the lever end as a nipper with my dad and older brother when chelsea invaded. also there when wolves tried,but thankfully the padock saved the day. i was in the embankment when bolton played blackpool on 22nd october 1974(i remember the date as it's my brother's birthday) seem to recall a few shenanigans in the embankment that night,pretty sure blackpool fans were being chased but was only young so can't comment for sure,older posters may remember in more detail ?

 

i do recall a double decker bus (think it was full of blackpool fans) crashing into the railway bridge on weston st,think it ws before the match

One of the London Whites has a window cleaner who was one of the Chelsea lot in 76. He's your archetypal West London geezer & looks like he should be propping up in the bar in the Winchester Club with Arthur & Terry.

 

Bolton had made a name for themselves and a few faces from other London clubs made the trip up with them, fair play to the Lever Enders who faced up to those odds.

I remember my dad taking me to ewood in the70's they were playing millwall in the fa cup. Milwall had been banned from playing at the den after trouble against ipswich. The game was midweek and we went in the darwen end as my dad hated rovers and couldn't bare to stand with the cunts. At 7.25 their was about 50 millwall in the away end when we heard the cry of millwall millwall outside. About 200 of their top boys came in and stould near us. They were fierce but my dad didn't give a shit and just chatted to them. Rovers won 3-0 and my dad was as gutted as the cockneys. He hates rovers to this day and would never stand with their fans.

I remember that 0-1. Was in the Burnden Terrace and my recollection is they gave it a go and were sent packing. Ran back with their tails between their legs. Only Chelsea and the DMB's to my knowledge unless some want to claim they took it at 2pm. There'd be loads of them.

 

I concer on that

was on the lever end for all them games as a teenager some good times remember them well

Was on the Lever End as a five year old for the Chelsea and Wolves games in 76/7. Clearly remember the carnage of the Lever End v Chelsea. Got knocked over in the middle of it all. My Dad caught the Chelsea fan who did it and thumped him. He was on the point of being arrested but a more senior copper came along and said to leave him because he'd seen what had happened, but then gave my Dad a right bollocking and told him they'd got enough on their plate without the likes of him getting involved. We ended up in the Manny Road stand having been escorted out along the running track.

 

I remember the Wolves trouble on the last day of 76/7 but not in as much detail.

 

By 77/78 we were in the Manny Road Stand up near the Embankment with a season ticket each. Don't remember much trouble from that season but the Leeds match in 78/9 after we'd been promoted I remember as clear as day. Housebricks showering from the Leeds fans on the Embankment to the Paddock ... and back! Like a scene from Beiruit. Bolton won 3-1 but Leeds went 0-1 up in the first half and I remember the wild celebrations of their fans in the Embankment (they had to open up the middle section because there were so many of them).

 

A lot of talk about United in 74/5. Don't remember that. I do remember 79/80 (lost 1-3) with loads of filth in the Manny Road North Terrace singing "Hark now hear, United sing, the Bolton ran away" all through the game. Bolton fans in the stand got some threats for celebrating when Neil Whatmore scored our only goal.

 

Remember all the Chelsea episodes in the early 80s and one not many seem to mention .... West Ham in 80/81. Just remember a huge battle starting out of nowhere on the Manny Road North terrace, seemed to go on for ever, blood spilt, no quarter given. The coppers were very, very slow to react. When they got there it all seemed to stop as suddenly as it had started.

Was on the Lever End as a five year old for the Chelsea and Wolves games in 76/7. Clearly remember the carnage of the Lever End v Chelsea. Got knocked over in the middle of it all. My Dad caught the Chelsea fan who did it and thumped him. He was on the point of being arrested but a more senior copper came along and said to leave him because he'd seen what had happened, but then gave my Dad a right bollocking and told him they'd got enough on their plate without the likes of him getting involved. We ended up in the Manny Road stand having been escorted out along the running track.

 

I remember the Wolves trouble on the last day of 76/7 but not in as much detail.

 

By 77/78 we were in the Manny Road Stand up near the Embankment with a season ticket each. Don't remember much trouble from that season but the Leeds match in 78/9 after we'd been promoted I remember as clear as day. Housebricks showering from the Leeds fans on the Embankment to the Paddock ... and back! Like a scene from Beiruit. Bolton won 3-1 but Leeds went 0-1 up in the first half and I remember the wild celebrations of their fans in the Embankment (they had to open up the middle section because there were so many of them).

 

A lot of talk about United in 74/5. Don't remember that. I do remember 79/80 (lost 1-3) with loads of filth in the Manny Road North Terrace singing "Hark now hear, United sing, the Bolton ran away" all through the game. Bolton fans in the stand got some threats for celebrating when Neil Whatmore scored our only goal.

 

Remember all the Chelsea episodes in the early 80s and one not many seem to mention .... West Ham in 80/81. Just remember a huge battle starting out of nowhere on the Manny Road North terrace, seemed to go on for ever, blood spilt, no quarter given. The coppers were very, very slow to react. When they got there it all seemed to stop as suddenly as it had started.

 

You are talking bollocks about the filth in manny road north 79/80

They may have been in there in numbers in 75 but no one had any success after that , certainly not them fuckers

utd in manny road terrace 79/80 never one or two but a mob never

we lived less than 100 yrds from burnden park ,,growing up ,and living so close on a sat was a real buzz ,,used to make a bob or two before game minding cars as you do ,,then a bit of vandalism if they didnt pay or had utd stickers or manc tax disc

Edited December 1, 201213 yr by hillofdaub

utd in manny road terrace 79/80 never one or two but a mob never

 

Don't remember any of the filth staying in there

A few may have goy in cut they certainly wouldn't have stayed long