' Spurs fans came around to Cardiff's Bob Bank '

Wasn't just a few. When it went off in those days hundreds sometimes thousands were involved.

100% correct, it was never the minority in them days, it was actually the majority of City fans up for it.

I remember practically the whole Grange end coming over onto the bob bank to get at the Everton fans just before the start of the 1977 cup game. Must have been thousands involved in that, with a thin line of 20 or so coppers trying (unsuccessfully) to keep order.

Thats really how it was in them days.

When we went away if we took a 1,000 fans, anything up to 800 would be up for it.

If clubs like West Ham, Chelsea, Swansea , Bristol City came to Cardiff and wanted trouble, The Bob Bank, Grange end etc would virtually all run over.

I have said for years - no matter how many we took/take away the percentage of 'those up for it' is unreal - sometimes 80% of the following were game, especially 80's early 90s. There is still a large percentage these days, whether ppl like it or not, that my friends is a fact

Wasn't just a few. When it went off in those days hundreds sometimes thousands were involved.

100% correct, it was never the minority in them days, it was actually the majority of City fans up for it.

I remember practically the whole Grange end coming over onto the bob bank to get at the Everton fans just before the start of the 1977 cup game. Must have been thousands involved in that, with a thin line of 20 or so coppers trying (unsuccessfully) to keep order.

Thats really how it was in them days.

When we went away if we took a 1,000 fans, anything up to 800 would be up for it.

If clubs like West Ham, Chelsea, Swansea , Bristol City came to Cardiff and wanted trouble, The Bob Bank, Grange end etc would virtually all run over.

I have said for years - no matter how many we took/take away the percentage of 'those up for it' is unreal - sometimes 80% of the following were game, especially 80's early 90s. There is still a large percentage these days, whether ppl like it or not, that my friends is a fact

100% agree, it was that many.

Wasn't just a few. When it went off in those days hundreds sometimes thousands were involved.

100% correct, it was never the minority in them days, it was actually the majority of City fans up for it.

I remember practically the whole Grange end coming over onto the bob bank to get at the Everton fans just before the start of the 1977 cup game. Must have been thousands involved in that, with a thin line of 20 or so coppers trying (unsuccessfully) to keep order.

Thats really how it was in them days.

When we went away if we took a 1,000 fans, anything up to 800 would be up for it.

If clubs like West Ham, Chelsea, Swansea , Bristol City came to Cardiff and wanted trouble, The Bob Bank, Grange end etc would virtually all run over.

I have said for years - no matter how many we took/take away the percentage of 'those up for it' is unreal - sometimes 80% of the following were game, especially 80's early 90s. There is still a large percentage these days, whether ppl like it or not, that my friends is a fact

agree infact I would say an even higher percentage...and likewise at other clubs like those mentioned in this thread...{ not many }..it was when travelling meant something not like today when pretty much everyone goes everywhere.

The mid 70's to mid 80's I would say it was the majority were up for trouble at most grounds. A trip to Millwall in the 70's was something else, I can remember as a frightened schoolkid thinking that every single person in that ground was nuts, even had a old guy bellowing in my ear that " the boys will have you". From the time we got attacked getting off the bus, running a gauntlet at New Cross Gate and getting on our smashed up bus there didn't seem like a single moment that there wasn't someone that wanted a tear up with you. Crowds were at a all time low and the sad thing for me was talking to a old guy at a bus station in the late 70's who had been a City fan all his life but stopped going because he was too afraid of the violence, that should have never happened.

The mid 70's to mid 80's I would say it was the majority were up for trouble at most grounds. A trip to Millwall in the 70's was something else, I can remember as a frightened schoolkid thinking that every single person in that ground was nuts, even had a old guy bellowing in my ear that " the boys will have you". From the time we got attacked getting off the bus, running a gauntlet at New Cross Gate and getting on our smashed up bus there didn't seem like a single moment that there wasn't someone that wanted a tear up with you. Crowds were at a all time low and the sad thing for me was talking to a old guy at a bus station in the late 70's who had been a City fan all his life but stopped going because he was too afraid of the violence, that should have never happened.

my experiences at the Den were very similar.
and yes, looking back at it the trouble had a big effect on ordinary people not going to football.