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it's not big and it's not clever.

My career record.

Thrown Out - 4 (maybe 5)

Refused Entry - 2

Mingling in the enemy end - 7 (probably more given that there was no seg back in the day)

Arrested - 0

Pitch invasions - 6 that I can think of.

Bans - 0

PC Roscoe interactions - 2

Criminal record - clean

 

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1 times affray - 100 hrs community service. That is my finishing statement.

Refused entry at QPR, Everton.

Booted out Oxford, Bury, Sheffield utd.

Do life bans stop counting when you stop being contacted?

Sat in the Lincoln end this season.

Not even sure Forest post-Wilbraham counts as a pitch invasion.

I've led a sheltered life.

Few ejections

few arrests

3/4 times on pitch 

Banned once luckily it was during the Doug/lennon time

lot more relaxed now 

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My career record.

Thrown Out - 0

Refused Entry - 1

Mingling in the enemy end - 1 

Arrested - 0

Pitch invasions - 4

Bans - TBC

 

see, i'm good lad- just gobby. i'll stand up for myself and fellow fans. i hate it when coppers try and intimidate you

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1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Sat in the Lincoln end this season.

Not even sure Forest post-Wilbraham counts as a pitch invasion.

I've led a sheltered life.

If you're on the pitch it counts in my eyes.

Active through the late 70's and 80's with the likes of FD, GL, P, Little Hulton lads, a few scrapes, thrown out of many grounds mainly for going in their 'end', had a few good hidings (most notable Chelsea away 6.12.76.) gave a few out, never arrested although held without charge many times, usually to make us miss our train home, dragged out of a pub in Coventry by BT Police (ex wife's new husband was an Inspector with them and thought he was being clever), overall we had a blast for 20 years, times change and we get old but the memories are still intact.

4 hours ago, Underpants said:

If you're on the pitch it counts in my eyes.

So any imposter of the pitch during a game ? Like, say, Liam Trotter

Edited by Dr. Feelgood

Thrown Out - 2

Refused Entry - 1

Mingling in the enemy end - 3

Arrested - 2

Pitch invasions - 5

Bans - 0

Thrown out 0

Refused entry 0

Mingling in away end, must be 12 maybe more

Arrested 0

Pitch invasions,probably about 10 maybe more

Bans 0

In the main i go for the footy + the craic.

Edited by Burndens Bogs

2 hours ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Thrown out 0

Refused entry 0

Mingling in away end, must be 12 maybe more

Arrested 0

Pitch invasions,probably about 10 maybe more

Bans 0

In the main i go for the footy + the craic.

Similar. 

I’m a lover not a fighter 😉

Does mingling mean fighting? 0 if that’s the case. But I’ve been in the enemy end about 10 times- worst experience Bradford, best City.

All pitch invasions mass ones - Home to Peterborough and Forest and at Burnden after Preston game for promotion. 

Not a very good bad boy record, but a decent one to share with your kids that being passionate, having a laugh and following the best team in the world home and away doesn’t mean getting into bother.
 

 

Thrown out 0

Refused entry 0 although threatened to be refused, 2 or 3

Mingling in away end, a few.  Most notable Bristol City where about 6 of us decided it may be a laugh. Fortunately, as the local dickheads realised, so did the coppers. Got escorted around the pitch to rapturous applause from rest of Bolton fans. I stopped the adrenaline-fed shakes about half way up the M6 which was strange; we’d gone down on the train but felt it safer to go out with the bigger mob and onto a coach. 

Arrested 0

Pitch invasions,probably about 5. 

Bans 0

Thrown Out - 2, united and qpr

Refused Entry - 0

Mingling in the enemy end - 2

Arrested - 0

Pitch invasions - 0 with me being an adult

Bans - 0

Thrown out 1 Coventry away FA cup

refused entry 0

mingling Wigan Springfield park, Liverpool on the Kop 2-5 Patterson scored, sussed in 5 minutes, Hull FA cup went in mob handed… we lost. 🤣

Man U when they were redeveloping OT

Chelsea, relegation day. 

arrested 0 detained without charge & released quite a few

pitch invasions. Preston home, Forest home.

bans 0 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Mounts Kipper

Thrown out - 0

Refused entry - 0

Mingling - 3

Arrested - 2

Pitch invasions - 3 at Burnden - Fulham, Wigan and bizarrely Darlington in the FRT. 2 at Reebok. 0 away.

Banning order - 1

Been in away end at Utd, City and Forest 

All the rest, 0 

The big boys go under the radar, never get caught

Never had a problem at footy

Bizarrely when hooliganism was at its height in the 90s I had more problems at Rugby League games

Arrested - 1 Widnes

Denied entry - 2 Leigh both times

Mingling with problems in the away end - St Helen’s and Warrington numerous times

I remember getting chucked out at Oldham, Huddersfield and fucking Chelsea for 'over celebrating' when Pedders scored the winner in 2003 (although it was credited as a John Terry own goal)

Once had the away end for Sheffield United slag off my top as I was laughing at their fancy dress costumes.

It was not, by the way, a tracksuit from Matalan, as they en masse claimed.

That's as close to danger as I like to get.

I was chucked out of Burnley, first game of the season around 76-7, for "being too fckg loud, sonny".

Quite a charge that.

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13 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Never had a problem at footy

Bizarrely when hooliganism was at its height in the 90s I had more problems at Rugby League games

Arrested - 1 Widnes

Denied entry - 2 Leigh both times

Mingling with problems in the away end - St Helen’s and Warrington numerous times

And the 70s & 80s were just warm ups.

11 minutes ago, Underpants said:

And the 70s & 80s were just warm ups.

By the 90s the all out terrace war petered out as the protagonists got hooked on Acid and other such like drugs, from then on in away games were a walk in the park in comparison to the 70s & 80s. 

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1 minute ago, Mounts Kipper said:

By the 90s the all out terrace war petered out as the protagonists got hooked on Acid and other such like drugs, from then on in away games were a walk in the park in comparison to the 70s & 80s. 

Indeed, that was my point. The 70s & 80s were medieval compared to later years.

Anyway, I got thrown out 5 times. None of which I really deserved.

On 08/05/2022 at 11:14, athywhite1958 said:

Active through the late 70's and 80's with the likes of FD, GL, P, Little Hulton lads, a few scrapes, thrown out of many grounds mainly for going in their 'end', had a few good hidings (most notable Chelsea away 6.12.76.) gave a few out, never arrested although held without charge many times, usually to make us miss our train home, dragged out of a pub in Coventry by BT Police (ex wife's new husband was an Inspector with them and thought he was being clever), overall we had a blast for 20 years, times change and we get old but the memories are still intact.

A similar CV, i travelled with FD, Lol & Barney's "mob", mostly the same people, one arrest, one night in A&E, chucked out once or twice & on quite a few "ends"......some more succesful than others !!

It could be scary & some things went too far but i can't say i regret it & am still friends with lots from that period & get invited to the reunions even though i'm very different now & have been for years. 

I'm glad it's over but fear that football is going a bit too far the other way with some people wetting themselves because an empty, plastic bottle gets thrown !!

52 minutes ago, Underpants said:

Indeed, that was my point. The 70s & 80s were medieval compared to later years.

Anyway, I got thrown out 5 times. None of which I really deserved.

Out with the lout! :)

 

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