HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SCARED OR HAD A KICKING

Annis don't know if you remember but we was in a hotel in Glasgow, pre season 2002. There was only 5 of us in this hotel then one night when we went to the hotel bar there were around 40 Zulus in there as Birmingham were up there on pre season to. They saw your face and knew you straight away and called you over. You chatted to them for a while and they were ok. But the next day they had a battle with some Rangers fans and word got to us that they were going after you that night. So we moved to a Hotel in Motherwell where there were more Cardiff fans as we stood no chance on our own.

Annis, that must have been some experience for a youngster meeting West Ham at that period. The West Ham firm of the late 70's to mid 80's has got to be the meanest firm ever.

Spurs away in league cup heard about half a dozen yids behind me slagging City off.I called them all the cunts going and then mistakenly turned my back on them.f*cking WALLOP,one of them hits me in the side of the head with what feels like one of those battering rams they use to break down druggies doors.My one side of my face goes numb but I didn't go down, and say to the yid's 'that all you got'.With that a City fan runs past me and smashes a bottle over his head and then we run them off.The feeling didn't come back to my face for about 12 hours.

preston away last season, the steward wouldnt let my brother into the ground cos they said he was drunk because he wouldnt go back to the coach straight away the police pounced about 5 kicking him punching him, i got held back then they said you better go back to your coach i said i cant leave my brother, woman officer said you better go or we will arrest you next thing i new two dick head coppers came tripped me up i smashed my head on the floor they threw me into a holding cell where i passed out and woke up in hospital with a cop on each side of my bed like as if i was a terrorist they got me to sign a form for an 80 pound fine. really fucked me off.

Oh f**k, where do I start Pompey away twice, Leeds away late 70s, Spurs away, Lincoln away, Plymouth away, Pompey home(the year they had the G/end) and Swindon. We wernt even playing Swindon ffs, we got off the train there on way home from a London game and got set up and had to run a gaunlet and have to be honest it was the biggest & most cowardly kicking I ever had. Bastards, I'll never forgive them even tho it was about 26years ago.

coming back from a cardiff game at millwall was on the underground with about 15 cardiff fans, we stopped at a station when a mob of west ham were looking for liverpool fans , the saw us had a battering of them some police tried to stop it and they had a battering too

Following Your Club.

My BIggest and most frightening place West Ham Away 1978.
Went home black and Blue, Westham invaded the Away end, battered us and got on the coaches after the game and done us again and I was just a kid, but they just hit anyone in their way.

hahaha you fibber annis you wernt a kid in 78

FA Cup QF 1972 Cardiff vs Leeds.

I use to stand behind the goal in the Grange End but for this game I had to stand on the corner of the Bob Bank as the Grange End was packed. This was 2 hours before kick off time as well.

Anyway, on the top of the corner of the Bob Bank were about 300 Leeds fans. On the corner of the Grange End facing these Leeds fans where well over a 1000 Cardiff. The banter went on for quite a while and it was only a question of time before all hell broke loose. I watched from the bottom of the Bob Bank as these 1000 Cardiff fans decided to charge the Leeds. I absolutely shit myself.

The Leeds made a quick exit, dont blame them, and they never returned. God knows where they went and I did not care providing they stayed away. Seeing a 1000 Cardiff charge you is not a pleasant site.

Think it was 86 or 87 and i made my way to Ninian park as a 15 yr old on my own as i'd played football in the morning.Got on the train in Port Talbot and there was 80-100 cardiffians waiting to get on the same train.Head down time and sat on my own whilst they roamed the train for Jacks.Got to Cardiff Central and was greeted outside by a good hundred youths looking for it.I did think about getting on the next train home but thought f**k it i've come all this way and jumped into a taxi and all the way to Ninian It was the game where some lunatic come out of the Bob Bank and onto the pitch and threw a crutch at the Swansea fans There was murders all game and you lot were fighting the OB in the Captain Morgan.As scared as i was though it was one hell of a buzz

Another time Swansea played Hayes in the Fa Cup,87 i think and west ham and leeds had played earlier in the day 11.00 ko.Both sets of fans thought they'd go to our game in the afternoon and were met there by Chelsea.Never ever seen fighting like it in my life,mainly west ham and Chelsea going at it all game long.We took a back seat in the stand and let them get on with it We had our coach windows put through leaving the ground and had to drive to Swindon with no windscreen and the bus driver covered in blood and bandages.

Birmingham in 92 was another,got set upon by 10 lads flashing blades...'Fancy a swordfight' 'Fancy a swordfight'...yeah like f**k ,see you

some scrapes along the way but wouldn't change it and no regrets,part and parcel of being a football fan

There's been a few ! swindon in a cup game they done our tyres on the minibus we were parked up in a garage and a few of the boys go over to the offlicence two of us sat there and i spoted a load of swindon walking towards us,I say to my mate (big mald )get the f**k out of here! we get out and in to the garage they smashed every window on the bus and were kicking the garage windows screaming you welsh wankers lets ave it ! The boys comming back from the offlicence bump into a few ov them and the old bill then arrive . The AA arrive and he says f**k boys i thought it was a puncture you had !! the bus was fucked
shefield united away 12 oclock ko. After the game 4 of us head for the station we had an hour to kill so we ask copper best pub to go in.The pub by the station we are sat there i spot a few of there youth soon on there phones next thing we know there's a few of there boys stood around us ! now were fucked i said. youth start chopsing were's your soul crew were were you at old trafford (england v wales) all that shit ! look f**k off there's only 4 of us having a pint and were going ! my mate (den) stands up and this lad says were do you think your going ? to the bar for a pint do you want one? He goes to the bar and says 4 pints please and do us a favour call the old bill ! Riot police soon arrive and a few of there boys were gone out the fire exit. we get escorted out of the pub and the youth are trying to shake our hands (wankers) Lucky escape for us! we pissed ourselves laughing all the way home !! Thats why we LOVE IT also kicking in swansea night club jack basterds!

Following Your Club.

My BIggest and most frightening place West Ham Away 1978.
Went home black and Blue, Westham invaded the Away end, battered us and got on the coaches after the game and done us again and I was just a kid, but they just hit anyone in their way.

more kickings than cooked dinners and lost every one but never run ever !

There's been a few ! swindon in a cup game they done our tyres on the minibus we were parked up in a garage and a few of the boys go over to the offlicence two of us sat there and i spoted a load of swindon walking towards us,I say to my mate (big mald )get the f**k out of here! we get out and in to the garage they smashed every window on the bus and were kicking the garage windows screaming you welsh wankers lets ave it ! The boys comming back from the offlicence bump into a few ov them and the old bill then arrive . The AA arrive and he says f**k boys i thought it was a puncture you had !! the bus was fucked
shefield united away 12 oclock ko. After the game 4 of us head for the station we had an hour to kill so we ask copper best pub to go in.The pub by the station we are sat there i spot a few of there youth soon on there phones next thing we know there's a few of there boys stood around us ! now were fucked i said. youth start chopsing were's your soul crew were were you at old trafford (england v wales) all that shit ! look f**k off there's only 4 of us having a pint and were going ! my mate (den) stands up and this lad says were do you think your going ? to the bar for a pint do you want one? He goes to the bar and says 4 pints please and do us a favour call the old bill ! Riot police soon arrive and a few of there boys were gone out the fire exit. we get escorted out of the pub and the youth are trying to shake our hands (wankers) Lucky escape for us! we pissed ourselves laughing all the way home !! Thats why we LOVE IT also kicking in swansea night club jack basterds!

you violent thug your crb check should make good reading

Went to Burnley in the 80s with my mate from Yatton by Bristol when we were walking back to our car 3 Burnley fans walked down a subway and then walked back up the other side again coming behind us, They were giving it Sheepshaggers and all that shit , we thought 3 against 2 we'll have that as we walked towards them about 20 Burnley charged at us from across the street. We tried to leg it but they cut us off, my mate kept on getting back up shouting my f*cking Mother can punch harder than you cunts,only to be kept getting knocked down again , i got up to tell him to stay down only to be put down again myself .
A bunch of brave tossers nearly 25 against 2,. Never had respect for Burnley after that.

Chelsea home march 84....Waiting outside Cardiff Central dressed in burbury Golfer,must have been about 20 of us waiting for the London train to arrive..and it did.!!! then probably a mob of about 4-500 CFC steamed out of the Station....When they caught eye of us waiting by Asties a massive rore went up and they proceeded to steam straight our way..Fuk did we run..!!!Ended up in the old western Mail building hiding beind piles of papers while we could hear Cockmey accents roaming the road outside looking for the prey..must hae been in there for over half an hour before the coast was clear..
The rest of the day has been well documented in DJ & TR book...

Stabbed in the gut down plymouth in the 70s,knocked up in the air by a copper on horse back in the 90s,ended up on the pavement with my head split open outside ninian park,fair play to the staff at the ground,took me up to the cctv room next to the canton end,patched me up,that was against plymouth,a few years ago was given a holiday from the city,and where was that you guessed it plymouth away.me and plymouth just dont get on.

Being outnumbered in the old owain pub by the market, think i was only 16 -17. I think newport had mobbed up and were smashing there way into the pub, we were opening the doors and throwing beer glasses at em, but they still kept coming.

Police dogs are the worst though, one fucker ripped my f*cking shoe to pieces, didnt give a f**k about the shoe, but i had to walk around like a dick for hours. Mate of mine got his own back by biting one of the bastards back.

Got turned over by a load of jacks in Neath after winding them up all night, Neath Gen and 15 stitches l8r appy days, ended up in Bonymaen one night a lift back to Neath from Marthas with my mate in his van 2 of us in back with a few jacks(my mate who's also a jack (he was with me in previous kicking above!!) who I played football with we start singing Caewern songs ) oh oh ere we go kicks off in the back of an escort van!!! guy driving pulls over in f*cking Bonymaen we pile out and as we do my mate gets a f*cking banging Karate kick as he flies out of the van I jump on top of him to cover cover him up getting the shit kicked out of us shouts to the guy driving get the f**k out of here grabs my mate, slings him in the back of the van while its going trying to get in with these cunts all over us.Thank f**k we got outta that shithole fair doos to my mate sitting opposite me says is my face bad I say no your fine m8(Anaethetised by lager) f**k should have seen him next day like f*cking tyson got hold of him. The only other time was as a 15yr old afetr Chelsea game home in 70's in park f**k I've never run so much in my life!!

Sheffield United 97/98 FA cup. Very hairy.

My BIggest and most frightening place West Ham Away 1978.
Went home black and Blue, Westham invaded the Away end, battered us and got on the coaches after the game and done us again and I was just a kid, but they just hit anyone in their way.

Was that the Easter game where Ray Bishop scored a late equaliser - the b*stard

As we were approaching West Ham, we're passing mobs of them and they're opening their coats flashing machetes at us. Nice start . Then get our windows put through - welcome to the East End. Scrapping from the moment we got off the coach and throughout the game - they just kept coming and coming. Died down a bit , and I mean a bit lol - and then Bishop scores! No!!!! Cue carnage. Worst I've ever seen tbh.

Another one - and very relevant given our next fixture was Newcastle in 1982. Left Porth at midnight with Roy Daniels & Adarglas. Got to Newcastle early doors starving after a night on the pop. Calls into a cafe for breakfast and before I'd got my fork dirty a few Geordies had burst into the cafe shouting "Yachi Da boys is it?" and start flinging pool balls around. It's 9 o'clock in the morning ffs and we're at it already. Few more scuffles through the day - so much so we were talking about going on the Gallowgate End as it may be safer! Anyway, decided against that and stood on the Leazes Road terrace. They were amongst us and quite a few little scraps broke out through the match.

Leaving the ground we were expecting more to happen. With that my mate says to me "don't turn around, there's a guy with a knife at your back". So I turn around lol - and see this Geordie coming at me. Next thing I see is a copper diving at him - he's literally horizontal through the air, and he takes him down. Thank f**k for that! But my main recollection of the incident is that this Geordie was wearing denim dungarees. Denim dungarees ffs

Anyway, walk down to the bottom of town to our coaches which are in a compound. Get on the bus and we've a reception committee already on there. Here we go again....

Loads and loads more stories, Leeds away in the cup '74, Wales/Scotland at Anfield, attacked with roofing hammers and scaffold tubes at Bristol Rovers, Chelsea home & away 70's/80's, Pompey, Milan .... happy days - I think

Think it was 86 or 87 and i made my way to Ninian park as a 15 yr old on my own as i'd played football in the morning.Got on the train in Port Talbot and there was 80-100 cardiffians waiting to get on the same train.Head down time and sat on my own whilst they roamed the train for Jacks.Got to Cardiff Central and was greeted outside by a good hundred youths looking for it.I did think about getting on the next train home but thought f**k it i've come all this way and jumped into a taxi and all the way to Ninian It was the game where some lunatic come out of the Bob Bank and onto the pitch and threw a crutch at the Swansea fans There was murders all game and you lot were fighting the OB in the Captain Morgan.As scared as i was though it was one hell of a buzz

Another time Swansea played Hayes in the Fa Cup,87 i think and west ham and leeds had played earlier in the day 11.00 ko.Both sets of fans thought they'd go to our game in the afternoon and were met there by Chelsea.Never ever seen fighting like it in my life,mainly west ham and Chelsea going at it all game long.We took a back seat in the stand and let them get on with it We had our coach windows put through leaving the ground and had to drive to Swindon with no windscreen and the bus driver covered in blood and bandages.

Birmingham in 92 was another,got set upon by 10 lads flashing blades...'Fancy a swordfight' 'Fancy a swordfight'...yeah like f**k ,see you

some scrapes along the way but wouldn't change it and no regrets,part and parcel of being a football fan

Hmmm sure I read about these in a book - Did you contribute to it

walking through riverside on a tuesday night as 12 yearold in the 80's was shitty,i remember one time my mates went in a shop half way down a load of asians locked them in there and nicked they're season tickets and money,a f*cking horrible walk for us valley youngsters in them days.

Nearly had a Right Kicking at Exeter! 1992 which was a police stitch up! sent us the wrong way knowing we would be in the shit! half of devon waiting for us ! Plymouth 1994ish beat them to cock up there play off hopes they were slightly miffed !! Qpr at Cardiff millstad play off game ended up in the wrong pub!

All in all still looking good!

At Bristol City many years back when we lost 4-1, I was very drunk and at half time noticed that the gate between the Bristol and Cardiff fans was open behind the terracing, where everyone was getting their drinks.

So I decide to go for a piss in the Bristol end, as I get about two thirds of the way along behing the terracing these Bristol fans come piling around the corner,so I look around to see some Cardiff fans getting ready to counter them, but I'm stuck in the middle.

Now even in the state I was in I figured that the Cardiff fans would arrive not long after the Bristol fans had reached me, and I didn't fancy running back ( stupid bravado I know ),so it was square up and hope for the best.

The best was - a bloody nose.

And I never did get to have my piss in the Bristol end.

That was my only encounter in 30 years of going away !

Following Your Club.

My BIggest and most frightening place West Ham Away 1978.
Went home black and Blue, Westham invaded the Away end, battered us and got on the coaches after the game and done us again and I was just a kid, but they just hit anyone in their way.

My BIggest and most frightening place West Ham Away 1978.
Went home black and Blue, Westham invaded the Away end, battered us and got on the coaches after the game and done us again and I was just a kid, but they just hit anyone in their way.

Was that the Easter game where Ray Bishop scored a late equaliser - the b*stard

As we were approaching West Ham, we're passing mobs of them and they're opening their coats flashing machetes at us. Nice start . Then get our windows put through - welcome to the East End. Scrapping from the moment we got off the coach and throughout the game - they just kept coming and coming. Died down a bit , and I mean a bit lol - and then Bishop scores! No!!!! Cue carnage. Worst I've ever seen tbh.

Another one - and very relevant given our next fixture was Newcastle in 1982. Left Porth at midnight with Roy Daniels & Adarglas. Got to Newcastle early doors starving after a night on the pop. Calls into a cafe for breakfast and before I'd got my fork dirty a few Geordies had burst into the cafe shouting "Yachi Da boys is it?" and start flinging pool balls around. It's 9 o'clock in the morning ffs and we're at it already. Few more scuffles through the day - so much so we were talking about going on the Gallowgate End as it may be safer! Anyway, decided against that and stood on the Leazes Road terrace. They were amongst us and quite a few little scraps broke out through the match.

Leaving the ground we were expecting more to happen. With that my mate says to me "don't turn around, there's a guy with a knife at your back". So I turn around lol - and see this Geordie coming at me. Next thing I see is a copper diving at him - he's literally horizontal through the air, and he takes him down. Thank f**k for that! But my main recollection of the incident is that this Geordie was wearing denim dungarees. Denim dungarees ffs

Anyway, walk down to the bottom of town to our coaches which are in a compound. Get on the bus and we've a reception committee already on there. Here we go again....

Loads and loads more stories, Leeds away in the cup '74, Wales/Scotland at Anfield, attacked with roofing hammers and scaffold tubes at Bristol Rovers, Chelsea home & away 70's/80's, Pompey, Milan .... happy days - I think

I was sat on a wall outside that cafe in Newcastle I saw the Geordies walk in then cardiff come running out with the Geordies throwing pool balls at them.I was only 16,I shit myself.

with wales in belgium
fighting a group of wrexham who had just arrived and were taking their bags off the coach
they all got nicked plus me
got deported following morning with no money or passport
got put onto the ferry with same group of wrexham fans
they weren't happy and blamed me
they wanted to throw me over the side

got beat up same night in back of police van by a woman riot cop with a stick

exeter

1986 87

loads of trouble all day

people go on about the big clubs but plenty of cardiff fans who were there that day will remmeber it

there were loads of army lads in exeter that day and they joined up with the exeter fans

I got chased up a road and into mothercare by ten of them carrying bricks and planks of wood

and it carried on at the ground

a famous city fan from neath was custer at his last stand in the exeter enclosure that day

The famous Mothercare incident

with wales in belgium
fighting a group of wrexham who had just arrived and were taking their bags off the coach
they all got nicked plus me
got deported following morning with no money or passport
got put onto the ferry with same group of wrexham fans
they weren't happy and blamed me
they wanted to throw me over the side

got beat up same night in back of police van by a woman riot cop with a stick

So you got deported for fighting your own team's fans and got beaten by a woman?

Nice one

the closest I have come to getting a good kicking was home to borough in the FA Cup and Scarborough away (twice)!!!

Sack