“ Chelsea fans trying to take Cardiff’s end “

So Tottenham never get mentioned!
First club to leave the Enclosure early and try and steam onto the Grange End. Mayhem.

1977 ?

it was 77 annis and it was the league match as i was up in london with a lot of cardiff watching glamorgan in the gillette cup cricket final as it was then.
we were all on paddington waiting for our trains when the football special carrying spurs from cardiff pulled in. they got run all over paddington and the ones who stood took a pasting it must have been a huge shock to their system getting run by cricket fans

So Tottenham never get mentioned!
First club to leave the Enclosure early and try and steam onto the Grange End. Mayhem.

1977 ?

it was 77 annis and it was the league match as i was up in london with a lot of cardiff watching glamorgan in the gillette cup cricket final as it was then.
we were all on paddington waiting for our trains when the football special carrying spurs from cardiff pulled in. they got run all over paddington and the ones who stood took a pasting it must have been a huge shock to their system getting run by cricket fans

played them twice in 77 and the day they came around the grange end was defo the 1st game in the FA cup..

So Tottenham never get mentioned!
First club to leave the Enclosure early and try and steam onto the Grange End. Mayhem.

1977 ?

it was 77 annis and it was the league match as i was up in london with a lot of cardiff watching glamorgan in the gillette cup cricket final as it was then.
we were all on paddington waiting for our trains when the football special carrying spurs from cardiff pulled in. they got run all over paddington and the ones who stood took a pasting it must have been a huge shock to their system getting run by cricket fans

Cheers Steve, great little story :thumb right:


We also had them in the FACUP.

The spurs cup game in 77, I was one of the first out of the Grange end and immediately regretted it as some big fat cockney git put me on my arse. They took everyone by surprise and as mentioned it took a while for city fans to get out on to the street and then the tide was turned. These spurs lads were mental, met a couple of them later and they said their main nutters had come from Walthamstow, crazy day.

Chelsea weren't so full of themselves when we took 1000's up to there place in 76. They got run everywhere before the match and two of their pubs they were in got trashed along with their brand new scoreboard. Copper said to us that city fans were the maddest to go to the bridge in years.

Remember coming out of the bob bank with Chelsea everywhere. Cardiff ran them back down to the souvenir shop next to the gates coming in off sloper road, Chelsea made a stand here, but were pushed down the road under the railway bridge where they stood again. It went off under the bridge for a good bit of time. Kept going all the way to Cardiff central station. Happy days

The spurs cup game in 77, I was one of the first out of the Grange end and immediately regretted it as some big fat cockney git put me on my arse. They took everyone by surprise and as mentioned it took a while for city fans to get out on to the street and then the tide was turned. These spurs lads were mental, met a couple of them later and they said their main nutters had come from Walthamstow, crazy day.

28,000k big crowd for us back then...….8 months later we played them in the league only 8k a lot less Spurs and the old grange end had gone.

Crazy day and they were the best I've seen at NP. Started off in the Grandstand only to end up being escorted out and some copper tried putting some of us in the enclosure which was full of Chelsea. Spat at and coined around the pitch by them as we were put on the Bob bank... Had to be careful as I got pinched at Maine Road the week before Those times make some of todays trouble seem like a Vicars tea party

The match against Chelsea when the railings in Jubilee Park gave way, there was a Cardiff fan who had a collapsed lung after being stabbed, it was front page of the Echo on Monday.

I attended the game against Tottenham away. I was at the merchant navy training college in Gravesend at the time, to my surprise there were 4 other Cardiff fans from the college who also joined me. We got off at Seven Sisters underground and were passed by City coaches giving us abuse, we had put our scarves under our jackets and couldn't give ourselves away, it was too risky!

Arrived at the away turnstiles and I remember a brick wall (not part of the stadium) with Cardiff City daubed in huge letters. It stood out because it looked like a newly built wall with that being the only graffiti on it. Not long after the match had kicked off, a group of Spurs loonies came to the back of where we were standing and started kicking out at those at the back while chanting "We're the barmy Tottenham army la la la la".
I got separated from the lads I had gone to the match with and I found myself stood next to two Spurs "geezers" who must have been in the early 40's and were telling me how "great" it was down at our place with the bottles and paving slabs being thrown back and forth! In all fairness, they didn't start any trouble with this fresh faced youngster..

Embarrassing that grown men still think this was a good thing.

It was disgusting and frightening for the thousands of sensible people who went to try and watch the football without getting involved in this sort of incident. I hated having to keep an eye out for trouble both in and out of grounds when I just wanted to support my team.

If you were involved, it was nothing to be proud of, neither then or now.

Thankfully this happens rarely nowadays.

So just because you have a problem with it, people can't share their memories? Whether people are proud of it or not there will always be great times that have come from it so just because you and a couple others didn't enjoy it doesn't mean anything

So Tottenham never get mentioned!
First club to leave the Enclosure early and try and steam onto the Grange End. Mayhem.

76 /77 loved that season although we were crap on the pitch.. 2nd half of the season Wolves and Chelsea home and the 3 cup games with 20k plus for all 5 games...was the last season before the original grange end was demolished.....interest just fell away after that and our crowds didn't recover for years..

Remember it well, ended up locked up in a cell under Central Station, an eventful day

Am I right in thinking you would have been with Chelsea that day jock?

Like fekk

I thought there was a big love in with Chelsea and rangers. Don't you all going dancing in the streets of Belfast every 12th July.

Embarrassing that grown men still think this was a good thing.

It was disgusting and frightening for the thousands of sensible people who went to try and watch the football without getting involved in this sort of incident. I hated having to keep an eye out for trouble both in and out of grounds when I just wanted to support my team.

If you were involved, it was nothing to be proud of, neither then or now.

Thankfully this happens rarely nowadays.

It prepared me for the train trip home.

It was usually pack with the girls having to take their younger brothers to Cardiff to give the parents a Saturday Afternnon free of the kids. Some of thjose girls knew how to handle their young brothers and had no trouble sorting out the lads that gave it the big one on the trains. Scared the living shits out of me did those girls.