Old gits terrace legends

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Herd wrote:
SPARKSY wrote:Does anyone know what happened to xxxx or what he's up to these days? Haven't seen him over the Arsenal for many years now.
Or xxx?
yes but neither he xxxx or xxx want there names on here so plse remove it
Apologies for that.
Can you put some light on it without going into too much detail? Do they still go over the arsenal?

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Herd wrote:went every time ,wrong forum for violence threads ,wall never came in the tavern so im not sure what your on about
True. I was there that day and they never came in the tavern. Came down Blackstock Road if i remember right from Highbury Fields but didn't get as far as the pub.

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SPARKSY wrote:
Herd wrote:went every time ,wrong forum for violence threads ,wall never came in the tavern so im not sure what your on about
True. I was there that day and they never came in the tavern. Came down Blackstock Road if i remember right from Highbury Fields but didn't get as far as the pub.
Well I know I'm getting on a bit and maybe dementia has set in but I remember being at the bar with my mate and I'm sure they attempted to get in and there was a fair old ruck just inside the door. Maybe they never made it in but sure they did try...........or was that Everton?!!

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Well I know I'm getting on a bit and maybe dementia has set in but I remember being at the bar with my mate and I'm sure they attempted to get in and there was a fair old ruck just inside the door. Maybe they never made it in but sure they did try...........or was that Everton?!![
They never got anywhere near it ,there was a stampede at the door to get out after them ,pure chaos ,u probably just reacted as it seemed like it outside it was raining heavily and a massive saloon brawl swinging match ensued with many falling all over the place in the rain .
The real action took place afterwards on Highbury Fields where Wall came badly unstuck when the invisible firm ,materialised .

Everton took offense to us taking the piss at Goodison ,on a Friday night in 1980 so the following season they came down towards the tavern tooled up with Stanley knives ,but again never got into the pub .

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Herd wrote:
Well I know I'm getting on a bit and maybe dementia has set in but I remember being at the bar with my mate and I'm sure they attempted to get in and there was a fair old ruck just inside the door. Maybe they never made it in but sure they did try...........or was that Everton?!![
They never got anywhere near it ,there was a stampede at the door to get out after them ,pure chaos ,u probably just reacted as it seemed like it outside it was raining heavily and a massive saloon brawl swinging match ensued with many falling all over the place in the rain .
The real action took place afterwards on Highbury Fields where Wall came badly unstuck when the invisible firm ,materialised .

Everton took offense to us taking the piss at Goodison ,on a Friday night in 1980 so the following season they came down towards the tavern tooled up with Stanley knives ,but again never got into the pub .
Everyone made a mad scramble for the doors when we heard Millwall were coming down Blackstock Rd. I think the OB were plotted up outside the pub and were whacking everyone when they came out. Certainly a nice big Alsatian stuck his teeth into my mates leg (it seriously hurt him but we we did laugh!!)

Around the mid eighties, West Ham brought a big firm over, also coming down Blackstock Road from Highbury Fields, only this time it was an orderly queue that left the Tavern and met them up near the Woodbine. That was as far as they got as they were met with what was arguably the biggest and best firm in London at the time.

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Herd wrote:
Well I know I'm getting on a bit and maybe dementia has set in but I remember being at the bar with my mate and I'm sure they attempted to get in and there was a fair old ruck just inside the door. Maybe they never made it in but sure they did try...........or was that Everton?!![
They never got anywhere near it ,there was a stampede at the door to get out after them ,pure chaos ,u probably just reacted as it seemed like it outside it was raining heavily and a massive saloon brawl swinging match ensued with many falling all over the place in the rain .
The real action took place afterwards on Highbury Fields where Wall came badly unstuck when the invisible firm ,materialised .

Everton took offense to us taking the piss at Goodison ,on a Friday night in 1980 so the following season they came down towards the tavern tooled up with Stanley knives ,but again never got into the pub .
I'll shut up now then!!!
On the subject of scousers and stanley knives, they were snidey little crunts then weren't they? Remember coming out of the North Bank after a Liverpool game and a lad got slashed. Always the victim............

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MK Gould wrote:This thread is bringing back some memories!

Villa - they started to come on the pitch, but the North Bank emptied in seconds and before you knew it, gooners were on the edge of the 6 yard box on the clock end. We'd beaten them (2-0?) but Ipswich lost at Boro, so they still won the league!

Do you also remember an away game at Villa in the League Cup. One of those (like Bolton - 1-1 draw - & Boro 1-4 defeat in the FA Cup) where EVERYONE decides to go. Think we had the end, plus half the side. It was mental. Must have been getting on for 15000 gooners up there. We drew, but lost the replay (or maybe it was 2nd leg) at home.

Boro - could be scary, yes. But remember one time walking back to the station following their crew - who were following our escorted crew. We got back to the station, even buying chips on way back, and as soon as we were safe launched into "who to, who to be.....". Should have seen their faces!

West Ham - I knew some of their boys, so we used to drink in the Boyleyn. It still didn't stop some of their mates wanting to have a go at us though - although they stopped short. One year I recall that we were separated by a fence in the terrace, but bizarrely it was mixed down below. We'd met up with the West Ham "mates" again, and one of their guys (who was a decent amateur boxer) gave a black Arsenal fan a real pasting in the loo. It was sickening - and I just looked on feeling powerless to help. Sorry, if you reading this & hope you understand my predicament!

Ipswich - remember drinking in the pub across the road from the ground. I've never seen a pub so packed with gooners. It was getting wrecked but they just seemed happy with the takings over the bar. I remember at one stage sitting on the low roof and some people were ripping tiles off. Then I think there was a fire. One of those days!

Lastly - do any of you old guys remember the trick we played on Palace (& the police) one time at Highbury, the year after they had the cheek to "take" the Northbank. I'd mentioned it elsewhere on here, but no-one seemed to remember it so I'm starting to think it was just my imagination. Has to have been the classiest football fan stings of all time.....!
i went to that league cup game at villa mate
it was a 4th round tie
85/86 charlie nicholas put us in front we got pegged back 1-1
i reckon we had 15,000
you are right i went on a coach from round kings cross with my uncle
no toilet
people were pissing in a plastic bag on the back seat
after a while people were just pissing on the back seat[classy]
we called it broken nose tours
my uncle and me were 1st back on the coach[definately in the lover category]
on a bleary eyed eyed arrival at kings cross the guy who sat on the back seat with fish and chips was kindly informed[here mate,we all pissed on that seat on the way up]
we lost the replay at highbury 2-1 mariner scored

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Cambridge Dustman wrote:Fantastic memories and stuff that can never happen again. Does anyone on here remember the wonderful drinking sessions in the Bank of Frienship on Blackstock Road? We did not always get in the ground before the match had started. The landlord was a top chap but his wife and her cousin were not to be crossed









spot on MK. However, we also did it against the mancs in about '80 or '81. Cockney Reds used to make a show in the NB every year then get escorted up the CE. So we made out we were CR. The shout went up and some of the NB came over to have a pop. the look on some faces when they realsied who we really were. Some were so excited they almost gave the game away. Off we marched along the west stand with the mancs giving us a huge reception not knowing the truth. We got right in the middle of 'em and as the teams came out a shout of 'Arsenal' and then straight into them.

got escorted back down the NB and after the game chased them all the way back to holloway road. I got turned over by plod and missed my appearance at Highbury magistrates due to teh fact the wankers had burst my appendix and I was in hospital for FOUR weeks.

Got a case dismissed when it finally came around.
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I remember that game, think we lost 1-2, seem to remember aggro in the away section of the clock end on and off all match.

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dbrien wrote:I remember the peanuts guy because he always said 'peanuts peanuts get yer peanuts' and then when we won the league he changed his selling ploy to 'peanuts peanuts get yer league championship peanuts.

I also remember the football special to Man City in the league cup, we got stuck at Crewe and the police said that the game was to be delayed, we then got into Manchester and had double decker buses take us to the ground where we found the game wasn't delayed and we were one nil down. I think we got in with ten minutes to go before half time. Our extra support in the second half must have helped because we won 2-1. Allinson scored I think. I got home fully late and I had school the next day.

I also remember QPR away on their astro when we won 1-0 (Allinson again) and my mate and me stood on our school bags to see. When we got to the tube, just as the doors closed the QPR fans (bushwhackers?) ran at the doors. We were pressed up against the glass shitting ourselves and the train driver thought it would be a fun idea to open the doors a little and then shut them. This bloke was telling me how he was going to slit my throat and I only had a door between us. I was as white as Perry Groves legs until the train moved off and I suddenly became a hard nut! My mate was scared that they might recognise our school badges from our blazers and come and get us!

I also remember West Brom away where we were 2-0 down, came back to draw 2-2 which clinched a UEFA cup spot only for the Heysel Stadium tragedy putting paid to that. My Dad was worried as he heard there was a fire at a football ground but not which one and he thought it was ours. Turns out it was Bradford.
yes mate that city league cup tie was 85/86 as well
allinson equalised charlie got the winner

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MK Gould wrote:Oh, the blow up dolls! I'd forgotten about them! They were bouncing around behind the goals with the stewards trying to round them all up! Brilliant! These days you wouldn't even be allowed to bring them in.

Do you also remember "we beat spurs with 6 reserves and alan (Sunderland, I think) scored again..."?

My "debut" at WHL was a 2-2 draw around 76. Think we'd been 2-0 up.
yes mate that was before the 1980 cup final paul davis made his debut
vaessen got our other goal
that 2-2 draw was in the 76/77 season it was a xmas game macdonald got both of our goals
my 1st game at white hart was a 2-0 defeat in 74/75 martin chivers scored

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Wrexham Gooner wrote:I also remember great games like Chelsea away in '79 Supermac's and Peter Bonettis last games - only 1-1, but it was on the Monday after the 79 cup final.
Brighton away I think 1980 - their first game in the top flight - we won 4-0 ish and ruled the Goldstone.
Many of my early memories were of supporting Arsenal at some very ordinary games, and it was almost a rite of passage to say that you were there at an often dull game. Those of us old gits put our time in and we can really say that we have appreciated the Wenger years and also the better part of the Graham years. To you who are new or were bought up in a time of bounty perhaps you will never understand why the North Bank cheered Spartak Moscow's 5th goal against us in the uefa cup in 1980 whatever it was.
When times are lean you learn to cherish the good moments however few and far between. Leeds Utd in a league cup game at Highbury in 1978/9 ??
my memory fails me except the score 7-0 to the Arse. There was also a 5-0 away win at Elland Road around about that time when Leeds were pretty much our bogey team. Hard to believe now I know.
300 replays against 3rd Division Sheffield Wednesday in 79 or 3? semi final replays against Liverpool in 1980. I still remember Brian Talbot hitting the bar against them in the last minute of the first semi- as I was in the Liverpool end that day at Hillsborough- even then you could see that things weren't right with that end.
And yes things weren't right with football then either, with the so called epidemic of football hooliganism. But what I do remember is the camaraderie of going to games with your mates and your fellow gooners and the knowledge that we all stood together. Most of us weren't there for the aggro, but took great comfort from the knowledge that there were those of us there who were and would look after us if things took a bit of a turn.
So good days and bad days yes, but I know that both types of day out helped me through a difficult time in my life.
So I'll raise a glass to Denton et al, and remember that away from home we're all Clockend !!
79/80 was the 4-0 at brighton mate brady sunderland 2 stapleton
82/83 was spartak moscow chapman got 1 of our goals
we had lead 2-0 in moscow before losing 3-2 this had been an afternoon game our only access to coverage was commentary on radio london
sportsnight opted to show a 0-0 with man utd and valencia
and ipswich were on v roma the night of our home leg
79/80 was the 7-0 v leeds and in my head is 1 of the greatest arsenal performances i have ever seen leeds were a force then brady 2 pens,sunderland hat trick, stapleton and nelson
80/81 was the 5-0 at leeds talbot,hollins2 sunderland gatting that was on the big match but only briefly when you got highlights from the regions
we had broke the hoodoo mate winning all but 1 game up there[that was a draw] in 4 years but you are right
prior to that we had,nt won at leeds in 40 years

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MK Gould wrote:Wrexham gooner - Great post. Your name reminded me of the cup tie (5th round?) at Wrexham in 79 when we won 3-2. A car load of gooners (I didn't know them, but you didn't need to!) were killed in a crash on the way home. Effected me at the time, and never left the memory! Guess most peoples memory was the defeat!

For the game at Brighton, the media were predicting a massive sell out - which still didn't stop it being pay on the gate). We ended up leaving at 6am in my Hillman Imp. Got as far as Three Bridges and the engine overheated! Dumped the car at side of road and legged it to the station. Made the game with considerable time to spare (yes, think it was 4-0) and by the time we got back to the car it had cooled down and was ready for the journey home.

Sheff Wed (old 3rd division at the time) in 79 went to 5 games. I went to Hillsboro for the 1st, and Highbury for the 2nd (think Brady equalised in the last minute). The next 3 were all played at "neutral" Leicester City. Bollox were they neutral - they hated us as much as Wednesday! I missed the 1st two owing to the train strikes that were on at the time. The 3rd one (or should that be 5th?) attracted the biggest crowd at Filbert Street for years, & we finally overcame them (2-0, or maybe 3-1).
2-0 mate stapleton and gatting scored
30,000 there
we played them 3 times in a week monday wednesday monday.i believe there balloon failed to save 1 of the games because the terraces were frozen

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Wrexham Gooner wrote:Its funny but once you start down the road of "do you remember... " its hard to stop those memories coming.
As some of you say many of the games in the early 80's were dire.
But how many of us can say that we were there the night Sammy Nelson dropped his shorts in front of the North Bank after equalising against Coventry. There were only 17000 there, and I was one.
I've tried to explain to many younger gooners what times were like then. They find it hard to get their heads around the fact that people weren't flocking to watch Arsenal then.
But then the memories...
Man City at home in the league Cup about 77/78 with 57000 there (and the rest!)
Willie Young's volley in the opening minutes against Fenerbahce in 1980?
The away leg in Turkey when the Turkish Army patrolled the pitch with bayonets fixed with rumours of an impending coup ?
And one I missed but a mate who went swears it happened .... body cavity searches when travelling to the away leg in magdeburg when crossing the East German border :shock:
i was at the coventry game mate when nelson equalised but the crowd was bigger than that
we had 30,000
people were coming to get their fa cup vouchers out the programme

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charliegeorgewhocanhitem wrote:
Wrexham Gooner wrote:Its funny but once you start down the road of "do you remember... " its hard to stop those memories coming.
As some of you say many of the games in the early 80's were dire.
But how many of us can say that we were there the night Sammy Nelson dropped his shorts in front of the North Bank after equalising against Coventry. There were only 17000 there, and I was one.
I've tried to explain to many younger gooners what times were like then. They find it hard to get their heads around the fact that people weren't flocking to watch Arsenal then.
But then the memories...
Man City at home in the league Cup about 77/78 with 57000 there (and the rest!)
Willie Young's volley in the opening minutes against Fenerbahce in 1980?
The away leg in Turkey when the Turkish Army patrolled the pitch with bayonets fixed with rumours of an impending coup ?
And one I missed but a mate who went swears it happened .... body cavity searches when travelling to the away leg in magdeburg when crossing the East German border :shock:
People who can only remember the Wenger years must find it hard to believe how bad things were in the early 80s, I remember a night game at home to Brighton where only 12,000 turned and another against WBA with a similar crowd. We were also signing players of the calibre of Hankin, Hawley and Peter Nicholas. It does make me realise how lucky I've been over the last 10 years to see all the world class players and fantastic football we've played. I was in the 57,000 against Man City and literally could'nt move in the North Bank, more like 67,000 I'd say as it was in the days of the turnstile operators little fiddles to make a few quid on the side :wink:
81/82
18,000 at that brighton game mate a dire 0-0 featuring wood,meade and peter nicholas
same season we had a 16,000 for a 2-2 with west brom
we did have a 15,000 for another 2-2 at the end of the 85/86 season
i have never known us only to have 12,000 mate
67/68 was before my time

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