I’ve been at West Ham in the 70’s & 80’s when the ‘official’ attendance was 26,000 but you couldn’t swing a cat and the following week 35,000 where you could. We often got 2 through the turnstile bunging the attendant 50p or a £1 every ground done it. All seater all ticket whilst taking away some of the atmosphere has made it so much safer inside the grounds it had to happen albeit rather late ⚒️
was at Hillsborough for 1987 semi between Coventry and Leeds. Leeds had leppings lane end. it was a nightmare. my brother could not breathe at the end of the game. in 89 it was an accident waiting to happen. the warning signs of 1981 and 1987 were sadly ignored.
Same thing at the heisel stadium in Brussels only thing separating arsenal and Valencia fans was a wire fence when it kicked off years before liverpool and Juventus stampede where all those poor juve fans were crushed terrible and so avoidable coyg
Ian Bennett I was there and your brother was right it was worrying. A couple of my pals went home with only one trainer on and one lad lost both his shoes 👟 people were standing on each other’s feet it was that tight as the crowd surged backwards and forwards. One or two lads described the same thing that their feet weren’t on the floor at some points it was that tight in there. I was at the front just to the left of the goal. You can see me on the TV when Merv Day misses a back pass. Camera zooms in and you can see my hands pushed into the fence & when I could pull a hand away all my palm was like cubed from the shape of the fence. In front of me I’d wedged a young lad of about 6 years old. I tried to create a gap for him between me & the fence, so every time the crowd surged forward I stiffened my arms to give him that space. He was with his grandad who was really really scared. We had a few words at the start when he said I was crushing his grandson and could I push people back. The kid was crying so that’s when I said I’d try my best to give him a bit of room. I was getting tired towards the end it was like a massive 💪 workout. It was scary I’ll admit. One point I honestly thought I don’t think think I can keep this up. It was always always waiting to happen. I was 19 at the time. The coppers were proper twats. One who would have been in his late 30,s said to me before the game “get down there or I’ll scuff you” I’d never heard of scuff so I asked him what it meant. He had some of those leather combat gloves on the soldiers used to wear in N.I. with the raised knuckles. He hit me like a bitch slap right on my left Temple with his clenched fist. It was quite hard tbh. A older Leeds fan who saw it all came over and gave him a dig, saying he was a straight bullying twat...
I went in 77 united V Leeds. You can imagine the love between us and Leeds, I followed united from early 70’s to today. Home and away. It was top 5 most harrowing games for aggro. United had Leppings Lane we were crushed to fuck. My old man said at the time it’s a miracle no one died. Dozens were carried off. I was not surprised who happened to the scousers. All football fans are pretty much the same. Liverpool and united have the numbers resulting in more trying to get in ticketless.
@ Yeh but they got it a few times when they came up to our end. Still win some lose some. All big cities clubs have their boys. East end of London boys v inner city Manchester and Salford. Anything can happen cos these areas back then bred lads in a fighting culture. They loved a fight. If you remember in them days every area of every city had gangs of lads who used to fight for fun. Even teachers beat you up in them days. Violence was the norm in working class areas.
@@davidwoodhouse6165 th-cam.com/video/vXaSJ-93Bbo/w-d-xo.html Not true, West Ham were everywhere and bang up for it that day.. North and South banks, plus both sides was mostly claret and blue. The red army would usually swarm all over grounds, but I saw them pushed back by Tottenham, up the high road, and QPR fought them out of the loft, although Man U had almost the whole ground there.
Every West Ham fan I've ever met has mentioned this day, 36 years later and they still bang on about it. I'm a Man United fan and 1975 was before my time so I can't comment, I was active in the 80's and have to admit that West Ham always brought small but tasty firms up to Manchester, they always tended to head straight to Old Trafford instead of staying in Manchester City Centre where United's top boys would be drinking. Spurs and Chelsea always had good turnouts at our ground as well.
Greenwood was in fact General Manager Lyall had taken over during the previous season Date is Oct 25 1975 Man Utds first season back in Div 1 after being relegated
People are commenting on this video that clearly were either not there ,or cant really remember what happened, it was over 35 years ago. For one, the video does not show any "Firm" chasing another. It just shows overcrowding and people including Women getting on the pitch for safety. Lot of "legend" talked about here. West ham fans on here talking about one firm attacked one side and another attacked another, how do you know? You cant see all from where your standing in the ground.
Just discovered this. WestHam absolutely ruled the day,picking off united outside the ground and then,holding the high ground of the south bank terrace,steaming into United,who were separated,both sides of the pitch. Horrific kickings. Leaving the game,a gauntlet of pepped up speed freaks in the haircut of the time. Made it to plaistow tube station. Thankfully. There’s more,but now I’m going to have a lie down. It’s all too much.
interested in brian moore's sympathetic commentary to fans getting onto the pitch.....none of the ignorant comments about fans 'invading' the pitch that characterised the first reports of the hillsbro tragedy....
most/all the fighting occured before this video about 30 mins before kick off Man u had been run on the pitch from both the south bank and the west side Police made them get back onto the south bank terraces and tried to keep rival fans apart Shortly after kick off a turnstile door was broken down and several hundred more joined an already overcrowded terrace, west ham steamed in again forcing everyone at the front to spill onto the pitch.
At a Scotland England game in the 80s a good few west ham fans were in Edinburgh at the night time along with 2 coaches of Newcastle men and I mean men 30 to 50 year olds on a stag do and about 25 of us 18 to 23 year olds. It's hard to explain the total violence that went on with the Scots I've a 2 inch scar on my nose and had a few teeth kicked out just proof that north and south did OK
Love the comedy of hooligan lingo/mentality! "Their top boys were there, they were all well tooled up, our two firms stood toe to toe untill the Old Bill arrived, Yep! All of em were game lads. I was wearing the latest designer sweater that cost £350 complete with a matching pair of socks that cost £100." Oh and do not forget the unwritten 'hooligan code of honour' not to attack innocent family supporters despite Indiscriminately throwing bricks, beer glasses, and bottles in their direction!
Fucking Brit hooligans, thinking they’re the shit..spoiling it for everyone. The Soviet fan should have been unleashed on them back in the 70s and 80s just like what happened in the 2010s. Thankful that English football has become much more civilised.
Few coach windows went through that day too in the coach park I'm a gooner but was at that match in the north bank so can give an unbiased view , west ham kicked ass , simple as !
Remember this happening at the time, and it was in all the Sunday papers, even Man U fans said at the time "we were hunted like animals". They got done big time, and were big enough to admit it. For all the non believers it happened, but it was 37 year ago, were you around then.
Jon Wuzz It was a busy day and West Ham fans were on top but I don’t remember being hunted. The Salford lads I was with all stood our ground. But I av to admit it was West Ham’s day.
The Man U came down in 75 They were put in the Paxton the oak lane and side The Tottenham were ready and ready to ruck And the great Man United Got battered to fuck
@@davidcrouch824 got give it Man U they did rule nearly everywhere they went back in 72-75 then the bigger clubs started get their act together and then it all changed, even up at little old Stoke mate.
I remember back in the day most clubs simply couldn't cope with the sheer numbers that would turn up to support Man United. Didn't matter where they played or who they played. Many a time I stood with the home support while United had more of the ground than the home side and we were in with the home support on a regular basis. Cov, Palace, Everton, Blues, Celtic-friendly, Arsenal, QPR and West Ham spring to mind. I remember in one particular game against Palace there were more United in the Palace end than Palace!
+lew morgan Dec 26th 1985 Goodison Park. Gwladys Street End, Frank Stapleton scores and to the eternal embarrassment of my mate I go mental celebrating in full colours.Fans around me just smile. No animosity. Even when Everton went on to win 3-1 they were all good natured. 1995 FA Cup Final. Wembley Conservative club- no more than 500yards from the stadium. Over 300 United and Everton fans spend hours drinking and singing together and having a right laugh, mainly @ Liverpool's expense. Same routine after the match. So YES Everton, I AM sure!!
I've read some bollox on here but this takes the biscuit. More mancscum at West Ham than home support - you're an idiot. None in the seats, none in the chicken run, none in the west side, none in the north bank (apart from '67). So the only place you were in was the south bank, and on this day you took another hiding.
I was in the South Bank it was where we always stood and before segregation Man U got in and all hell broke loose West Ham's Mile End firm then was awesome did the same to Chelsea at the Bridge the year before
fuck me that brings back memories! l was regular at upton park before yuppies hijacked the game. man u had just come up that season from second division and their fans were feared everywhere, yes they did come off worse that day 25/10/75. but to be fair a lot of them didnt travel due to tube strike, west hams support was unbeatable back then (pre ICF) and payback was overdue for man u taking liberties and league title at upton park back in 67.
I don't even pretend to blame hooligans, ultras and barras bravas. They are the soul of football. Without them the atmosphere will die as it has done in UK. I love fans of Racing Club, San Lorenzo, River, Penarol, Estudiantes, Fenerbache, Magred etc. T-E-R-R-A-C-E-S BACK! Hooliganism was always exaggerated by media and Tory.
Nick Pavlou It's weird to think that, if fences had been up at this game, Hillsborough wouldn't have happened. There would probably have been deaths here & a lot of things would have changed a lot earlier.
Ps, a few months later in dec at Norwich with westham I run on the pitch and a Norwich player pulled me down called ted macdaugall who ironicly played for westham not to long after, older westham lads will definley remember it !
Teddy Mac, Teddy Mac is it true what Greenwood says you won't be back, oh no no! ....chant from way back when Ted Mcdougal transferred to Bournemouth? I think.
This can't be 1975 the year West Ham won the FA Cup. The manager in this clip is Ron Greenwood, he left in 1974. John Lyall was the manager when we won against a Bobby Moore led Fulham at Wembley 2 nil.
@@CIMAmotor ye they had a good firm off Piccadilly that day. Not many came into town in those days maybe scouse but most of the time we be in town an no one came off
that was may 67, when man utd had to get 2 points to become champions, theyre fans came down en masse about 20,000 plus queueing from 10,30a.m, they took all 4 sides of the ground that day fighting with home fans throughout the game, and walked away victorious 6-1! humiliating hammers on and off the pitch.
@@barryh.4220 it was the1967 fixture when united had 20, 000 plus at upton park they won 6-1 that day to clinch the title. The above video is the 1975 match (west ham won 2-1) and a lot of aggro led to game being delayed, but youre right there was less than 6000 united at that game.
@@bluenose007 Dec 26th 1985 I was in the Gwladys Street end and there was no trouble at all. Walking to Goodison before the match it was as friendly as I have experienced in over 40 years. There was always a competitive edge playing Everton but there's always been a respect which doesn't exist towards or from the red side of Liverpool.
everyone comes on slagging each other off , if you ask true west ham and man united lads from the eighties they will tell you there were many battles that went on between both firms, they both had respect for each other although some wont admit it, yes the truth is man united did get the better of west ham that day at old Trafford but there were games when west ham got the better of man united
+Michael Burgess Nice post, its true always had great battles with them i.c.f. started going football in 1980 with a few lads from Kilburn. Thease lads had been going for some years because they were well in with top boys in the cockney reds. 1 of the best battles is 86 f.a cup at old Trafford. I.C.F came with 3-400 of their boys led by their top boy Bill Gardner who was in a orange boiller suit. I can remember Dobson doing a meet and greet before it kicked off. I have to say the i.c.f held their own led by their general,they also took over the seats in the k stand what great days.
It was at the boleyn and you got served that day.. But yes I'll give you respect as you were always decent but you got done that day no doubt about it.. I also remember much later banana bob getting sorted by one of our lads coyi
Fair enough mate but the firm were never in the Boleyn. They were always in RJ's wine bar or the Brittania in Plaistow (if Cass fancied playing cards, I could never work out why so many followed that bully). I got run at Old Trafford in '85 during that famous day but can say that I doubt if Manchester United have ever had a better ruck from a London firm at their place. All this bollocks "we run you" and all that, nonsense, everyone got run those days. The two top firms of the 1980's were West Ham and Manchetser United. Millwall would have had a shout also but they were too busy rucking with Torquay in the lower leagues (sorry, I had to get that in my Millwall cousins). Please don't ask me to meet up for a ruck I'm far too old for all that bumfluffery these days. God bless.
Zzzzzz boring mate you only have 2 main manc clubs London has many, we outgrew it & are only 2nd to tourist club man u in ST sold & attendance with 62,500 every home game, more than Arsenal & City ⚒
@@jamescorlett5272 neither are man u Manchester is blue, btw they just won the treble you plank, regarding WEST HAM were just getting bigger, without the tourists 🤣⚒
@TheWESTSIDE1967 clown We just won a Trophy erm oh yeah so did your lot - shit of all the seasons to pick in the last 40 + years lol - the dear old spammers are only making up the numbers we all know this and to be fair seeing as you're mob are as pointless as clubs can get - you do it with Tate + Lyle 🤣🇬🇧 .
In short use are in cricketing parlance A No Ball .......... ps keep off the ferry's wouldn't won't to hear of use getting hurt would we now - you lookin forward to nezt season you'll be going down and blowin ( bubbles ? if u say so chap .
r que..to answer your questions..when i was growing up in finchley my dad took me to see spurs one week and arsenal the next..one week my dad coudn't go so our neighbour took me and his son to see chelsea v united it was 1967..united's football blew me away never seen anything like it i was hooked after seeing best law and charlton..after joining the london fan club i started to make loads of mates it was like a party ftom 9 in the morning..i soon got hooked on hooliganism and when we got relegated it gave me a chance to go to places i would never have seen..hull. cardiff..carlisle..sunderland..bristol etc..as the years went by the mib were a breakoff from the red army..i had loads of manc mates i think the difference is yes the mancs hated cockneys but if yo were a cockney red they welcomed you...trust me city were always in the shadows in those days you never saw them unless you went into the kippax..and that clip i believe was a sunday afternoon testimonial game..i respect you for following your post code team i probably would have done the same had i not gonr to chelsea that day..and last of all im glad you knew of the finchley reds..i can only go by what i saw and was involved in ..great days but time has moved on and spending years in manchester has only left me hating city liverpool and leeds to a certain extent but i really wish spurs could have won the league this year!!..all the best (mick the con)..my united name 👹
Mick Foskett Well said mate. I remember you and the other cockney reds from the scoreboard paddock back in the day. No such thing as glory hunters as we didn’t win fuck all in them days. We still had the biggest crowds and the biggest and best mob. It was pure loyalty. Respect👍
@@daveglynn748 ..are you from Northampton?..i obviously knew a few Dave's as we had incredible support..like you say we wernt glory hunters as we only ever won the odd cup in those days..respect pal👹
@@daveglynn748 ..appolgies for not remembering you Dave but I'm sure we cracked a few heads together in our time lol..great days mate red army..mib..england's no.1 firm ..fact!!👹
Hello Mick I remember those great days of travelling all over the country with United we were from all over the country all friends who would stick together and help each other out ,coming from Finchley as well we all ways had a few with us , sadly it’s not like that any more still love United and still have some great friends from all those years ago
Sad comments from some people who are not football fans,you go to a game to support your team win or lose, not not for a war with the opposition fans..
This was nothing to do with violence as such, just overcrowding because the recognised gate was about 5,000 less than it actually was; a common problem with the old style turnstiles and the blokes' on the gate organising their own little payday. Miss those days though - when you actually had an atmosphere in the ground. Oh - and smoggymichael? In your dreams, mate!
@@CIMAmotor pointless talking with idiots like this billy blag...... the actual match footage shows mancs could nt take the SB........... My WHU mates told me the gate between the chicken run and SB was stormed by WHU to get to the mancs
I was at the game in that corner where there was a crush, thousands of Manchester supporters had turned up has they did at every away game, west ham just packed them all in also there was a story reported in the papers next day that hundreds of locked out Manchester supporters had kicked down a turnstile gate at that end and surged in, I did not see any fighting just a swaying crush of supporters some got on the pitch to escape the crush. There was probably well over 40000 in there that day. Spurs was about the only London club where there would be trouble for the visit of United. When west ham came to OT that season where was their support only a couple of hundred came
Demon 1 I was 17 and my first visit to Upton Park. I was with my pals from Salford and we didn’t move an inch but West Ham fans kept us busy and I loved every fkn minute. Shame the intensity and atmosphere isn’t still the same. Never did see much of a whu firm at OT but you always gave us a good time at yours.
@Demon 1 dickhead plastic Chelsea fan supporting west ham, I was at the game right in amongst that crush, I can only say what I saw and what the national papers reported next day, the main problem I saw that day was that nasty crush and the papers next day were blaming drunken Manchester United supporters causing all the trouble. Has for Chelsea I went to all Uniteds games there in the 70s and 80s and never saw any major incidents there, always felt safe, there was only one incident I heard about where a Chelsea mob were run and battered at a tube station by United. Talking of plastic fans, we all remember chelsea getting crowds of less than 15000, full of plastic fans now from Surrey
I was an eleven year old kid in the North Bank at Upton Park in those days. I loved it, I'm still going to West ham games can't wair to be able to get back to watching football again after this lockdown buisness
r que..i was a good mate with tony back in the day he mentions me in his book (mick the con)..his name is O'Neill by the way..i went to whl at least 20 times and was there the year the spurs fan died..yes you were good at whl and we had many offs there some we won some we lost but no way did your mob ever do anything at ot..you may have turned up big deal loads of teams did after 79..only west ham had a go in the city centre...but its whl your talking about so yeh you were decent at home ill give you that we always knew we'd have fun there👹
rque..your way off on the north south red thing..we stayed over in manchester an vice versa many times over the years we would let them know in advance in advance what was happening like where we would meet an vice versa we had great nmates in manchester and me personally made some great mates there over the years including a guy called mick grogan...robbins cousin!!!...ask him!!!...now please stop fantasizing!!!👹
rque..well for a start city never came into town before or after the match trying to find them was like looking for gold dust...anyway pal you have your beliefs and dreams ill stick to being real...going to the pub now to see us get beat by the scum👹
r que I was a regular through the 70s and 80s and us mancs got on great with the cockney reds. Never heard anyone slagging them off so your words sound like fiction mate.
r que lol. There’s always been hard mobs from all the different parts of mcr. Wythenshawe Gorton Moston just to name a few. Salford has always had a hard reputation but by no means was it the only one.
r que Been to the old Main Road ground dozens of times starting when I was still at school and seen some great battles in the kippax but the length and shape of the place would stop any firm from completely taking it and it used to just flare up all through the match. I can tell in truth that I have never heard of any mob even trying to take the stret but my cousin who was an origin skin told me of a match when Everton fans got in there early doors and had a good scrap before being forced out at half time but this was before my days. I remember Bobby Charltons testimonial match against Glasgow Rangers and a mob of them tried to get in but they got absolutely battered in the stret but gave us a good fight everywhere else that day. I also read in some book by a Chelsea fan who’s name I can’t recall that him and his pals took a piece of the stret and I thought wait a minute I was in the Stretford end that day (which was rare for me then) and looked through my old progs so I know full fact I was there and they definitely wasn’t. All pure fiction. Iv read a few accounts like that and just laugh. In its heyday the Stretford end was a mad house and no fucker but a red would go there. A lot of fun was had back then but with cctv everywhere now it will never be the same again. Now there are different battles to fight with the twats that would turn our country into a shithole. Fight on🇬🇧👊🏴
I was at this game so unlike probaly a lot of tobys on here can give a true account of what i know about that day.We mobbed up in Victoria as usual and had quite a few run ins all the way to the ground.NEVER got run but an interesting journey,and that was how it was all day.
Chris the cockney red Dalton Thats how I remember that day too. Got into London early and was kept busy all day but they never run us. enjoyed every minute. Salford reds!
Amazing how many comments there are from fans who have experienced crushes at various grounds including Hillsborough. Sadly we'll still get the ridiculous "always the victim" shouts from opposition clowns all over the country. Suppose it would have been a different story if it had been your own club's fans on that fateful day in 89. YNWA the 97 🙏
I've just watched the highlights of QPR v Man U played one month before this. At that game Man U fans have the whole away end and are in the side terracing as well. At West Ham the 'Red Army' are squeezed in to a corner of the South Bank. I guess lots didn't even go because of West Hams reputation.
I was at this match, ( 9 years old) , looking down from the upper west stand seats. The whole of the South Bank was given over to the Man Utd fans. West Ham thugs had forced open the main exit door at the south-east corner of the ground, and shoved their way in, causing the crush. The attendance at Upton Park during big games was always thousands over the official figure. Plenty of fiddling at the turnstiles.
+gav begg There could have been a Hillsborough at Hillsborough before Hillsborough. The two experiences I had at that ground in Oct 87 and, I think, February 1989 were horrible and the earlier one was watching the crushes from the seats above which in a way is just as bad as you are helpless
Some truly childish comments here lads, and many from those of you old enough to know better FFS! On a side note, you are delusional if you ever believe that Man Utd had more supporters than West Ham at the Boleyn.
I was in north bank in 67 fighting all match West Ham never got over getting there arses kicked, always took a good firm to Upton Park , hammers not very good travelers though
@@britishqueen94 The police operation Operation 'Own Goal' put the wind up Cass, Swallow and Gardner even though they got off. Shortly after that a lot of them moved into the rave scene or started running doors and making a load of money.
As a non football hooligan but a RL player, I have to ask, did you lot actually fight or was it just urban myth and in fact just a bunch of gobshites throwing handbags? as despite trawling through dozens of such like videos, I can literally count on one hand the amount of times actual physical confrontation takes place and when they do get down to business, it only reminds me of the comical hide-ins I would take of me gran. Looks like a bunch of wannabes given it the biggen to me, before legging it when the opposition out numbers them. And one stray lamb will get slaughtered by a baying heard in a sporting ratio of around 25/1. Yet you claim to be hardmen, seriously I just don't get it..???
Spot on. I was around in the 1970s and 1980s. Never got touched. Not once. And I hardly know anyone who did. These so-called firms only acted when they massively outnumbered their rivals. Cowards most of them.
The video shows the aftermath of the fighting west ham are all along the back of the south bank man u at the front Fighting started in a packed south bank an hour before kick off with west ham and man u alongside each other Man U got run , get over it , as you say ,it was a long time ago Manu also got run onto the pitch from the west side 3 hours before kick off about 8oo man u were gathered outside the north bank entrance in green street and a mob of the same amount w ham chased them to f gate
Mate on each occassion Man U came to my home club at Ashton Gate Bristol.Seasons 74-5 , 76-7 , 77-8 , 78-9 , 79-80, your so called Red Army , ran away , and those who did not , took a beating. I know doubt you will counter with you did blah , blah , but the fact is you took a hidding from little old Bristol City fans . Where as West Ham were a totally different story , genuine head the balls , as for the 75 game at West Ham it is well know your boys took a beating that day. Cue the abuse and lie
The Red army were running amock all over the country when in the 2nd Division, until they came up against 3 firms that were waiting for them. Millwall in the 2nd Division, when all those Millwall weapons were found, and then Spurs and West Ham in the 1st Division. They got a real pasting from all 3. They always said that Spurs took the biggest mob to old trafford from down South.
@@nasreireinas3392 No, I used to go to some big London matches with some mates. So seen a lot, some when locked out of grounds, which happened a lot in those days. I saw the Red army get a terrible beating outside White Hart Lane. My mate was a big Spurs nutter, and he used to tell me who they were travelling to, to have a go. They were the only London ones that went to places like Newcastle in numbers in the 70s, and they always had a go. They were mad. West Ham didn't travel well up North in the 70s. That all changed in the 80s, and then Chelsea became really strong, and they both overtook Spurs in my opinion.
Utd took firms a support all over the country from the 60s it just became more highlited in div 2 because small clubs an towns couldn’t cope as well plus agro had become fashion
I was there 500 Manu got run out of the west side onto the pitch 3 seperate large scale fights were going on at the same time in the south bank West ham manouvered around the back of man u -they ran and the crush caused the pitch invasion "Nothing to do with violence"?that made me roll up
Where were these West Ham supermen at the return game at Old Trafford-certainly not in Manchester they didn't show.....just like millwall in 74 they shit out.......
You shit out Millwall away 74, even that bullshitter tony o`neill, admits that,and you got battered that day, but hey, don`t let the truth, get in the away, of the usual man utd bullshit.
I heard that Millwall brought a mob up to Man Utd in August 74,but were then turned back on to the next train for Euston by the old bill at piccadilly..
An incredibly atmospheric clip. I watched it from the Chicken Run as a young lad. The truth? Man U swamped the South Bank, a fair few West Ham stood their ground in there, loads of West ham skins piled in to help from the Chicken Run, as more West Ham entered from the rear of the South Bank in the Chicken Run corner, hence the crush. In the ground there were no winners and losers, the crowd was far too tightly packed. Word got round though. A few weeks later Liverpool visited- minus their fans.
Gary longden I was there too but can’t remember seeing any skins that day though I know there has always been a few about. The style of that time had nosed dived.🙈
@@johnholmes8178 No actually I was at West Ham in 75, like I was last season, when we beat them 1-2.... Common knowledge tho only 14 went to West ham. Hope that helps 😄😄😄😄⚽️🇾🇪👍🏾
remember this as a teenager west ham and half of london turned out to try and stop the red army in there tracks , i also remember west ham and other so called tough boys never showing up at old trafford till they knew they would get an police escort.
raven..escorts started at old Trafford in 79..the icf turned up in the 80s..i was there for all of them..in the cup match you got the 7am train to Manchester to arrive before 10..we could only get about 50 at piccadilly by then and your firm of about 300 had us on the back foot..was that the plan as who would be around at 10 in the morning..you went straight to the ground walking round it smashing ordinary fans..well hard...by about 1pm our firm was there and you stood behind the old bill...after the game you got served...all fact!!..but the best firm you ever brought to ot👹
Not a hooligan or owt. But our team weren't playing now were they? I always laugh at people bigging up hooliganism the biggest ''so called'' hooligan will get seven shades of shite kicked out of him by the quiet hard man in the pub enjoying a drink.
Man Utd turned up everywhere they went no one turned up at old Trafford in the mid 70s Millwall got ran from Piccadilly in 74 and hid in an old fire station rangers turned up in 74 that’s about it
I was in Bernidorm on a stag weekend about 15 years ago, i was with Bradford City lads, we went in the Yorkshire to watch the charity shield, United v City, the whole pub was taking over by United fans, we sat with a family of 5, the only City fans in there, There was 30 lads in there from Birmingham, same as us, on a stag, when i asked them if they was Blues or Villa, they turned round as said " We are all United fans" we were gobbed smacked, United can pull in a firm from every town and city in the country, so the numbers game is not a myth, how can other clubs complete with that, except, maybe Liverpool.
Neil jobe we took West Ham end boro boys having said that. We were that pissed we thought we were in thecOrient brisbon rd just before I got a wollop I thought why are they singing about bubbles then I was seeing stars always ende d in trouble London must be the beer .
@@mickfoskett6629 Mick mib were untouchable in there prime still can get tasty mob now just thought what you thought of Everton service crew Stoke Boro all not complimentary bout mib you any insight of stories in new book coming out
Suzanne Martin thanks for your comment and for telling the truth..i can only comment what I saw n went through back in the day..stoke n Boro both good at home you had to have your wits about you..everton..tasty both home and away..had some battles with them..won some..lost some..but to be involved now is stupid with all the cameras n old Bill..2 years for 2 minutes tear up..na!!..cheers!..ex member minutes!👹
Yeah the Mile End was there but it was just everyone from all over East London. The I.C.F. never come about till 1977 The reason I put I.C.F. is because what we become a few years later
I’ve been at West Ham in the 70’s & 80’s when the ‘official’ attendance was 26,000 but you couldn’t swing a cat and the following week 35,000 where you could. We often got 2 through the turnstile bunging the attendant 50p or a £1 every ground done it. All seater all ticket whilst taking away some of the atmosphere has made it so much safer inside the grounds it had to happen albeit rather late ⚒️
was at Hillsborough for 1987 semi between Coventry and Leeds. Leeds had leppings lane end. it was a nightmare. my brother could not breathe at the end of the game. in 89 it was an accident waiting to happen. the warning signs of 1981 and 1987 were sadly ignored.
Ian Bennett Went there with Wolves eight years before - hundreds of Spurs fans got crushed in that end. They had to drag them over the fences.
Same thing at the heisel stadium in Brussels only thing separating arsenal and Valencia fans was a wire fence when it kicked off years before liverpool and Juventus stampede where all those poor juve fans were crushed terrible and so avoidable coyg
Ian Bennett I was there and your brother was right it was worrying. A couple of my pals went home with only one trainer on and one lad lost both his shoes 👟 people were standing on each other’s feet it was that tight as the crowd surged backwards and forwards. One or two lads described the same thing that their feet weren’t on the floor at some points it was that tight in there. I was at the front just to the left of the goal. You can see me on the TV when Merv Day misses a back pass. Camera zooms in and you can see my hands pushed into the fence & when I could pull a hand away all my palm was like cubed from the shape of the fence. In front of me I’d wedged a young lad of about 6 years old. I tried to create a gap for him between me & the fence, so every time the crowd surged forward I stiffened my arms to give him that space. He was with his grandad who was really really scared. We had a few words at the start when he said I was crushing his grandson and could I push people back. The kid was crying so that’s when I said I’d try my best to give him a bit of room. I was getting tired towards the end it was like a massive 💪 workout. It was scary I’ll admit. One point I honestly thought I don’t think think I can keep this up.
It was always always waiting to happen. I was 19 at the time. The coppers were proper twats. One who would have been in his late 30,s said to me before the game “get down there or I’ll scuff you” I’d never heard of scuff so I asked him what it meant.
He had some of those leather combat gloves on the soldiers used to wear in N.I. with the raised knuckles. He hit me like a bitch slap right on my left Temple with his clenched fist. It was quite hard tbh. A older Leeds fan who saw it all came over and gave him a dig, saying he was a straight bullying twat...
I went in 77 united V Leeds. You can imagine the love between us and Leeds, I followed united from early 70’s to today. Home and away. It was top 5 most harrowing games for aggro.
United had Leppings Lane we were crushed to fuck. My old man said at the time it’s a miracle no one died. Dozens were carried off.
I was not surprised who happened to the scousers. All football fans are pretty much the same. Liverpool and united have the numbers resulting in more trying to get in ticketless.
Was there that day too bud. Was at borough too when there was the crush.
No fences at the Boleyn. I'll always be grateful.
If there were fences it would’ve been like Hillsborough
The turnstiles were a bit generous at the time. Pay for two - get one free.
West ham had the hump with united after United won the league there in 67 and swarmed the place .Never an easy ride going there in those days
Tone Mc That 1967 match when united swarmed Upton Park and rules the gaff is said by many to be the birth of the modern football hooligan era.
@ Yeh but they got it a few times when they came up to our end. Still win some lose some. All big cities clubs have their boys. East end of London boys v inner city Manchester and Salford. Anything can happen cos these areas back then bred lads in a fighting culture. They loved a fight. If you remember in them days every area of every city had gangs of lads who used to fight for fun. Even teachers beat you up in them days. Violence was the norm in working class areas.
West Ham getting locked out of their own ground… Both ends and Both sides full of United Fans 😂😂
@@davidwoodhouse6165 th-cam.com/video/vXaSJ-93Bbo/w-d-xo.html Not true, West Ham were everywhere and bang up for it that day.. North and South banks, plus both sides was mostly claret and blue. The red army would usually swarm all over grounds, but I saw them pushed back by Tottenham, up the high road, and QPR fought them out of the loft, although Man U had almost the whole ground there.
@@davidwoodhouse6165Ever thought of getting a job on jackanory?
Every West Ham fan I've ever met has mentioned this day, 36 years later and they still bang on about it. I'm a Man United fan and 1975 was before my time so I can't comment, I was active in the 80's and have to admit that West Ham always brought small but tasty firms up to Manchester, they always tended to head straight to Old Trafford instead of staying in Manchester City Centre where United's top boys would be drinking. Spurs and Chelsea always had good turnouts at our ground as well.
Greenwood was in fact General Manager
Lyall had taken over during the previous season
Date is Oct 25 1975
Man Utds first season back in Div 1 after being relegated
This Should have shown their was problems in 1975 and it tuck Hillsborough in 1989 for something to get done
There were no fences at the Boleyn, the problem at Hillsborough was fences.
I remember this incident, imagine the potential outcome if there had been fences..
knowlage that can't be used on comments I've been reading. Good job no fences up at this game.
Real football , real fans. The English Game at its prime.
The match going tourist and bandwagon jumper haven't got a clue what it was like
Amen to that brother! 🙏🏽👊🏽❤️
Replace tourist fans.
The referee and linesman getting applauded when returning onto the pitch 😆
People are commenting on this video that clearly were either not there ,or cant really remember what happened, it was over 35 years ago. For one, the video does not show any "Firm" chasing another. It just shows overcrowding and people including Women getting on the pitch for safety. Lot of "legend" talked about here. West ham fans on here talking about one firm attacked one side and another attacked another, how do you know? You cant see all from where your standing in the ground.
BertAtkin you can see if your involved tho.. Red army got smashed in the ground and all around it outside.. Fact my friend
Just discovered this. WestHam absolutely ruled the day,picking off united outside the ground and then,holding the high ground of the south bank terrace,steaming into United,who were separated,both sides of the pitch.
Horrific kickings.
Leaving the game,a gauntlet of pepped up speed freaks in the haircut of the time. Made it to plaistow tube station. Thankfully.
There’s more,but now I’m going to have a lie down. It’s all too much.
interested in brian moore's sympathetic commentary to fans getting onto the pitch.....none of the ignorant comments about fans 'invading' the pitch that characterised the first reports of the hillsbro tragedy....
He truly was the best commentator. Sympathy and understanding and no ridiculous remarks. A terrific bloke as well from fans who met him.
most/all the fighting occured before this video
about 30 mins before kick off Man u had been run on the pitch from both the south bank and the west side
Police made them get back onto the south bank terraces and tried to keep rival fans apart
Shortly after kick off a turnstile door was broken down and several hundred more joined an already overcrowded terrace, west ham steamed in again forcing everyone at the front to spill onto the pitch.
Blimey, this brings back some memories. I can even pick myself out on the South Bank. Payback time for '67 by the South Bank Crew. Happy days.
At a Scotland England game in the 80s a good few west ham fans were in Edinburgh at the night time along with 2 coaches of Newcastle men and I mean men 30 to 50 year olds on a stag do and about 25 of us 18 to 23 year olds. It's hard to explain the total violence that went on with the Scots I've a 2 inch scar on my nose and had a few teeth kicked out just proof that north and south did OK
Grahame John
John Graham
Love the comedy of hooligan lingo/mentality! "Their top boys were there, they were all well tooled up, our two firms stood toe to toe untill the Old Bill arrived, Yep! All of em were game lads. I was wearing the latest designer sweater that cost £350 complete with a matching pair of socks that cost £100."
Oh and do not forget the unwritten 'hooligan code of honour' not to attack innocent family supporters despite Indiscriminately throwing bricks, beer glasses, and bottles in their direction!
Its up there with, the krays only hurt their own kind, Rose tinted specs, bollocks
rodeoruz fuck off
Fucking Brit hooligans, thinking they’re the shit..spoiling it for everyone. The Soviet fan should have been unleashed on them back in the 70s and 80s just like what happened in the 2010s. Thankful that English football has become much more civilised.
Few coach windows went through that day too in the coach park I'm a gooner but was at that match in the north bank so can give an unbiased view , west ham kicked ass , simple as !
I'm from Philadelphia, PA. Our fans can be rough. But reading the comments here I'm like 😳😳😳😳
Remember this happening at the time, and it was in all the Sunday papers, even Man U fans said at the time "we were hunted like animals". They got done big time, and were big enough to admit it. For all the non believers it happened, but it was 37 year ago, were you around then.
Jon Wuzz It was a busy day and West Ham fans were on top but I don’t remember being hunted. The Salford lads I was with all stood our ground. But I av to admit it was West Ham’s day.
The Man U came down in 75
They were put in the
Paxton the oak lane and side
The Tottenham were ready and ready to ruck
And the great Man United
Got battered to fuck
@@davidcrouch824 got give it Man U they did rule nearly everywhere they went back in 72-75 then the bigger clubs started get their act together and then it all changed, even up at little old Stoke mate.
@@davidcrouch824 its a pity Spurs have NEVER been ready to ruck at Old Trafford. They have never done anything outside London
@@davidcrouch824 and then you woke up from your little wet dream
I remember back in the day most clubs simply couldn't cope with the sheer numbers that would turn up to support Man United. Didn't matter where they played or who they played. Many a time I stood with the home support while United had more of the ground than the home side and we were in with the home support on a regular basis. Cov, Palace, Everton, Blues, Celtic-friendly, Arsenal, QPR and West Ham spring to mind. I remember in one particular game against Palace there were more United in the Palace end than Palace!
+Neutral Observer. Everton,you sure?
+lew morgan Dec 26th 1985 Goodison Park. Gwladys Street End, Frank Stapleton scores and to the eternal embarrassment of my mate I go mental celebrating in full colours.Fans around me just smile. No animosity. Even when Everton went on to win 3-1 they were all good natured.
1995 FA Cup Final. Wembley Conservative club- no more than 500yards from the stadium. Over 300 United and Everton fans spend hours drinking and singing together and having a right laugh, mainly @ Liverpool's expense. Same routine after the match.
So YES Everton, I AM sure!!
25,000 of them at Molineux for a cup replay the following year - hundreds of them up the pylon and on the roof of the South Bank.
Especially when they were in div 2
I've read some bollox on here but this takes the biscuit. More mancscum at West Ham than home support - you're an idiot. None in the seats, none in the chicken run, none in the west side, none in the north bank (apart from '67). So the only place you were in was the south bank, and on this day you took another hiding.
I was in the South Bank it was where we always stood and before segregation Man U got in and all hell broke loose West Ham's Mile End firm then was awesome did the same to Chelsea at the Bridge the year before
fuck me that brings back memories! l was regular at upton park before yuppies hijacked the game. man u had just come up that season from second division and their fans were feared everywhere, yes they did come off worse that day 25/10/75. but to be fair a lot of them didnt travel due to tube strike, west hams support was unbeatable back then (pre ICF) and payback was overdue for man u taking liberties and league title at upton park back in 67.
you forgot to mention utd beat westham 4-0 in the reverse fixture..
@@johnlakin5895 haha coreect and less than 400 west ham at OT for that one.
14 years later ! and they still wanted a fight unbelievable
I don't even pretend to blame hooligans, ultras and barras bravas. They are the soul of football. Without them the atmosphere will die as it has done in UK. I love fans of Racing Club, San Lorenzo, River, Penarol, Estudiantes, Fenerbache, Magred etc.
T-E-R-R-A-C-E-S BACK! Hooliganism was always exaggerated by media and Tory.
Sure it was...🙄🙄🙄
You are joking right? Hooliganism was under-reported as it happened at every game...
One of many warnings for Hilsborough
Nick Pavlou It's weird to think that, if fences had been up at this game, Hillsborough wouldn't have happened. There would probably have been deaths here & a lot of things would have changed a lot earlier.
+peter burry "Remember Ibrox"
wasnt it 5 years before west ham even turned up at old trafford after this?
@r que bit like spurs never done it in manc
@@suzannemartin8628 I suppose you're going to say that West Ham got done here Suzi.
@@suzannemartin8628 who told you that but h/t Man Utd had a decent firm... although we did do it at sea :)
Ps, a few months later in dec at Norwich with westham I run on the pitch and a Norwich player pulled me down called ted macdaugall who ironicly played for westham not to long after, older westham lads will definley remember it !
Teddy Mac, Teddy Mac is it true what Greenwood says you won't be back, oh no no! ....chant from way back when Ted Mcdougal transferred to Bournemouth? I think.
to this day West Ham get so excited when they play United they almost wet their pants
Hillsbrough was an accident waiting to happen with that many people in the West Ham stand
no fences
Lot of folk in that crowd. Stadium tannoy declares: "And todays attendance is 30,000."
Yeah and the rest!
Plus 8000 for the ground staff lol
30 thousand that actually paid for their ticket lol 😆
This can't be 1975 the year West Ham won the FA Cup. The manager in this clip is Ron Greenwood, he left in 1974. John Lyall was the manager when we won against a Bobby Moore led Fulham at Wembley 2 nil.
That's right.
I've got a bad memory
but I believe you!...
Up The Ammers!
did west ham go to old trafford that season?
yes.. and lost 4-0
@@johnlakin5895 there wasnt many went my brother was working near Stockport and went to the game, said less than 400 and keeping their heads down,
We kicked the Doors down in the South Bank and steamed the Manky Mob ⚒⚒⚒
Never took it ot have you cockney mugs red army
@@paulwhilton7197 Man U mob said that the best firm that ever went to OT was West Ham in 1983.
@@paulwhilton7197 we take the piss out of you Manky bastards all the time. We smashed you all over the place. Fk the Red muppets
then you woke up
@@CIMAmotor ye they had a good firm off Piccadilly that day. Not many came into town in those days maybe scouse but most of the time we be in town an no one came off
Mervyn Day started it! I saw him give the fans a come on lads look!
Leeds legend 😂
Lovely! Those were the times.
attendance was 38,528
official capacity was 38,000
I was at that match in 1975 when I was 17 and it was a fkn marvellous day. MUFC Forever. Great times!
Fool
Does anyone actually like watching football here, i've been watching it since the 70's and it's really enjoyable?
madfokkers Good matches and good punch ups. What’s not to like🤔
I was there, 12 year old. Great days
that was may 67, when man utd had to get 2 points to become champions, theyre fans came down en masse about 20,000 plus queueing from 10,30a.m, they took all 4 sides of the ground that day fighting with home fans throughout the game, and walked away victorious 6-1! humiliating hammers on and off the pitch.
steve9542000 My cousin Bill was there and told it just like that. Absolutely swarmed Upton Park.
steve9542000 no they had 10000 which is a lot but not more than the home fans
City took over 20,000 to Newcastle when they won the title ...... United had nowhere near that many at West Ham, i doubt they even had 6,000 there.
@@barryh.4220 it was the1967 fixture when united had 20, 000 plus at upton park they won 6-1 that day to clinch the title.
The above video is the 1975 match (west ham won 2-1) and a lot of aggro led to game being delayed,
but youre right there was less than 6000 united at that game.
Back in those days there wasn't a ground anywhere big enough to handle the vast support of Doc's Red Army!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodison Park but bet you never went
@@bluenose007 Dec 26th 1985 I was in the Gwladys Street end and there was no trouble at all. Walking to Goodison before the match it was as friendly as I have experienced in over 40 years. There was always a competitive edge playing Everton but there's always been a respect which doesn't exist towards or from the red side of Liverpool.
I remember this game I was 12 and there and got crushed and had to be taken into the pitch with me brov loll
everyone comes on slagging each other off , if you ask true west ham and man united lads from the eighties they will tell you there were many battles that went on between both firms, they both had respect for each other although some wont admit it, yes the truth is man united did get the better of west ham that day at old Trafford but there were games when west ham got the better of man united
+Michael Burgess
Nice post, its true always had great battles with them i.c.f. started going football in 1980 with a few lads from Kilburn. Thease lads had been going for some years because they were well in with top boys in the cockney reds. 1 of the best battles is 86 f.a cup at old Trafford. I.C.F came with 3-400 of their boys led by their top boy Bill Gardner who was in a orange boiller suit. I can remember Dobson doing a meet and greet before it kicked off. I have to say the i.c.f held their own led by their general,they also took over the seats in the k stand what great days.
It was at the boleyn and you got served that day.. But yes I'll give you respect as you were always decent but you got done that day no doubt about it.. I also remember much later banana bob getting sorted by one of our lads coyi
Bola Feshitan was also a Kilburn lad but a west ham lad.. Good times back then
+night on the tiles more cockney bullshit you lot never done it in mancfact
Fair enough mate but the firm were never in the Boleyn. They were always in RJ's wine bar or the Brittania in Plaistow (if Cass fancied playing cards, I could never work out why so many followed that bully). I got run at Old Trafford in '85 during that famous day but can say that I doubt if Manchester United have ever had a better ruck from a London firm at their place.
All this bollocks "we run you" and all that, nonsense, everyone got run those days. The two top firms of the 1980's were West Ham and Manchetser United. Millwall would have had a shout also but they were too busy rucking with Torquay in the lower leagues (sorry, I had to get that in my Millwall cousins).
Please don't ask me to meet up for a ruck I'm far too old for all that bumfluffery these days. God bless.
Man Utd as per usual bringing thousands and thousands - many more than poxy Upton park could handle 😆
Zzzzzz boring mate you only have 2 main manc clubs London has many, we outgrew it & are only 2nd to tourist club man u in ST sold & attendance with 62,500 every home game, more than Arsenal & City ⚒
@TheWESTSIDE1967 so your point is what ? Whu are on there way to nowhere congratulations .
@@jamescorlett5272 neither are man u Manchester is blue, btw they just won the treble you plank, regarding WEST HAM were just getting bigger, without the tourists 🤣⚒
@TheWESTSIDE1967 clown We just won a Trophy erm oh yeah so did your lot - shit of all the seasons to pick in the last 40 + years lol - the dear old
spammers are only making up the numbers we all know this and to be fair seeing as you're mob are as pointless as clubs can get - you do it with Tate + Lyle 🤣🇬🇧 .
In short use are in cricketing parlance
A No Ball .......... ps keep off the ferry's wouldn't won't to hear of use getting hurt would we now - you lookin forward to nezt season you'll be going down and blowin ( bubbles ? if u say so chap .
And you have a lovely use of words , makes you come across as prr-oper intelligent.
The red army pioneers in taking over grounds respect were respect is due 🇾🇪 MUFC
Ha! Classic mate. I bet the Mancs would rather forget that little Ferry incident... :)
Skinhead4life Do you mean the incident where West Ham shat themselves refusing to come down the stairs?
😂🤣😂🤣👍🤣😂🤣
Dave Glynn but they were at the top of the stairs
And Plaistow.
@@daveglynn748 13 vs 200
@@CIMAmotor regardless of numbers when it comes on top then put up or shut up.
Good fun was had by all accounts🤔
r que..to answer your questions..when i was growing up in finchley my dad took me to see spurs one week and arsenal the next..one week my dad coudn't go so our neighbour took me and his son to see chelsea v united it was 1967..united's football blew me away never seen anything like it i was hooked after seeing best law and charlton..after joining the london fan club i started to make loads of mates it was like a party ftom 9 in the morning..i soon got hooked on hooliganism and when we got relegated it gave me a chance to go to places i would never have seen..hull. cardiff..carlisle..sunderland..bristol etc..as the years went by the mib were a breakoff from the red army..i had loads of manc mates i think the difference is yes the mancs hated cockneys but if yo were a cockney red they welcomed you...trust me city were always in the shadows in those days you never saw them unless you went into the kippax..and that clip i believe was a sunday afternoon testimonial game..i respect you for following your post code team i probably would have done the same had i not gonr to chelsea that day..and last of all im glad you knew of the finchley reds..i can only go by what i saw and was involved in ..great days but time has moved on and spending years in manchester has only left me hating city liverpool and leeds to a certain extent but i really wish spurs could have won the league this year!!..all the best (mick the con)..my united name 👹
Mick Foskett Well said mate.
I remember you and the other cockney reds from the scoreboard paddock back in the day. No such thing as glory hunters as we didn’t win fuck all in them days. We still had the biggest crowds and the biggest and best mob. It was pure loyalty.
Respect👍
@@daveglynn748 ..are you from Northampton?..i obviously knew a few Dave's as we had incredible support..like you say we wernt glory hunters as we only ever won the odd cup in those days..respect pal👹
Mick Foskett
From the heart of Salford mate🏴
@@daveglynn748 ..appolgies for not remembering you Dave but I'm sure we cracked a few heads together in our time lol..great days mate red army..mib..england's no.1 firm ..fact!!👹
Hello Mick I remember those great days of travelling all over the country with United we were from all over the country all friends who would stick together and help each other out ,coming from Finchley as well we all ways had a few with us , sadly it’s not like that any more still love United and still have some great friends from all those years ago
Sad comments from some people who are not football fans,you go to a game to support your team win or lose, not not for a war with the opposition fans..
This was nothing to do with violence as such, just overcrowding because the recognised gate was about 5,000 less than it actually was; a common problem with the old style turnstiles and the blokes' on the gate organising their own little payday. Miss those days though - when you actually had an atmosphere in the ground. Oh - and smoggymichael? In your dreams, mate!
It was violence Billy, a turnstile was broken down at the back of the south bank and the West Ham fans came in to attack Man U.
@@CIMAmotor pointless talking with idiots like this billy blag...... the actual match footage shows mancs could nt take the SB........... My WHU mates told me the gate between the chicken run and SB was stormed by WHU to get to the mancs
I was at the game in that corner where there was a crush, thousands of Manchester supporters had turned up has they did at every away game, west ham just packed them all in also there was a story reported in the papers next day that hundreds of locked out Manchester supporters had kicked down a turnstile gate at that end and surged in, I did not see any fighting just a swaying crush of supporters some got on the pitch to escape the crush. There was probably well over 40000 in there that day. Spurs was about the only London club where there would be trouble for the visit of United. When west ham came to OT that season where was their support only a couple of hundred came
Demon 1 I was 17 and my first visit to Upton Park. I was with my pals from Salford and we didn’t move an inch but West Ham fans kept us busy and I loved every fkn minute. Shame the intensity and atmosphere isn’t still the same. Never did see much of a whu firm at OT but you always gave us a good time at yours.
Demon 1 Cheers Demon👍
All the best mate.
@Demon 1 dickhead plastic Chelsea fan supporting west ham, I was at the game right in amongst that crush, I can only say what I saw and what the national papers reported next day, the main problem I saw that day was that nasty crush and the papers next day were blaming drunken Manchester United supporters causing all the trouble. Has for Chelsea I went to all Uniteds games there in the 70s and 80s and never saw any major incidents there, always felt safe, there was only one incident I heard about where a Chelsea mob were run and battered at a tube station by United. Talking of plastic fans, we all remember chelsea getting crowds of less than 15000, full of plastic fans now from Surrey
Eugene can you ever remember utd getting done by everton at ot in the 80s I can't but they said they did
@@HUGHWON thanks
Looks frightening especially if there's young kids in amongst that crowd congestion
I was an eleven year old kid in the North Bank at Upton Park in those days. I loved it, I'm still going to West ham games can't wair to be able to get back to watching football again after this lockdown buisness
According to the Sunday newspapers at the time the Manchester United fans got "Hammered"
I was there. Pity about the problems, but what a relief to hammers fans
And people miss these days....a few hundred spoiling it for everyone else. Anyone who thinks this was better really ought to reconsider....
is this the old West Ham south bank?
yes
yes
I was there too...but I didn't see anything ;)
r que..i was a good mate with tony back in the day he mentions me in his book (mick the con)..his name is O'Neill by the way..i went to whl at least 20 times and was there the year the spurs fan died..yes you were good at whl and we had many offs there some we won some we lost but no way did your mob ever do anything at ot..you may have turned up big deal loads of teams did after 79..only west ham had a go in the city centre...but its whl your talking about so yeh you were decent at home ill give you that we always knew we'd have fun there👹
rque..your way off on the north south red thing..we stayed over in manchester an vice versa many times over the years we would let them know in advance in advance what was happening like where we would meet an vice versa we had great nmates in manchester and me personally made some great mates there over the years including a guy called mick grogan...robbins cousin!!!...ask him!!!...now please stop fantasizing!!!👹
rque..well for a start city never came into town before or after the match trying to find them was like looking for gold dust...anyway pal you have your beliefs and dreams ill stick to being real...going to the pub now to see us get beat by the scum👹
r que I was a regular through the 70s and 80s and us mancs got on great with the cockney reds. Never heard anyone slagging them off so your words sound like fiction mate.
r que lol. There’s always been hard mobs from all the different parts of mcr. Wythenshawe Gorton Moston just to name a few. Salford has always had a hard reputation but by no means was it the only one.
r que Been to the old Main Road ground dozens of times starting when I was still at school and seen some great battles in the kippax but the length and shape of the place would stop any firm from completely taking it and it used to just flare up all through the match.
I can tell in truth that I have never heard of any mob even trying to take the stret but my cousin who was an origin skin told me of a match when Everton fans got in there early doors and had a good scrap before being forced out at half time but this was before my days. I remember Bobby Charltons testimonial match against Glasgow Rangers and a mob of them tried to get in but they got absolutely battered in the stret but gave us a good fight everywhere else that day. I also read in some book by a Chelsea fan who’s name I can’t recall that him and his pals took a piece of the stret and I thought wait a minute I was in the Stretford end that day (which was rare for me then) and looked through my old progs so I know full fact I was there and they definitely wasn’t. All pure fiction. Iv read a few accounts like that and just laugh. In its heyday the Stretford end was a mad house and no fucker but a red would go there.
A lot of fun was had back then but with cctv everywhere now it will never be the same again. Now there are different battles to fight with the twats that would turn our country into a shithole. Fight on🇬🇧👊🏴
let youngs let of steam once a week bring it all back I say
I was at this game so unlike probaly a lot of tobys on here can give a true account of what i know about that day.We mobbed up in Victoria as usual and had quite a few run ins all the way to the ground.NEVER got run but an interesting journey,and that was how it was all day.
Chris the cockney red Dalton Thats how I remember that day too. Got into London early and was kept busy all day but they never run us.
enjoyed every minute.
Salford reds!
Amazing how many comments there are from fans who have experienced crushes at various grounds including Hillsborough. Sadly we'll still get the ridiculous "always the victim" shouts from opposition clowns all over the country. Suppose it would have been a different story if it had been your own club's fans on that fateful day in 89. YNWA the 97 🙏
All that energy and memories there
I've just watched the highlights of QPR v Man U played one month before this. At that game Man U fans have the whole away end and are in the side terracing as well. At West Ham the 'Red Army' are squeezed in to a corner of the South Bank. I guess lots didn't even go because of West Hams reputation.
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I was at this match, ( 9 years old) , looking down from the upper west stand seats. The whole of the South Bank was given over to the Man Utd fans. West Ham thugs had forced open the main exit door at the south-east corner of the ground, and shoved their way in, causing the crush. The attendance at Upton Park during big games was always thousands over the official figure. Plenty of fiddling at the turnstiles.
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why none was ever killed in those daysthere could literally have been a Hillsborough every season back then,, pure luck there wasnt
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There could have been a Hillsborough at Hillsborough before Hillsborough. The two experiences I had at that ground in Oct 87 and, I think, February 1989 were horrible and the earlier one was watching the crushes from the seats above which in a way is just as bad as you are helpless
Even if the caption was true, which I doubt. At least the reds actually turned up at your ground.
West Ham non-existent at OT, always have been.
Reedo107 done you 5 years on the spin in the 80s mate
@@claretandbluearmy8014 Fucking Mancs live in an alternative dimension.
no one is disputing that
You notice how thick the police were as they are now, pushing back on the fans who are desperate to get on the pitch so they can breath.
I was there!
It was terrifying.
A United supporter.
Some truly childish comments here lads, and many from those of you old enough to know better FFS! On a side note, you are delusional if you ever believe that Man Utd had more supporters than West Ham at the Boleyn.
Thats true mate, although a Chelsea fan West Ham always done the the business at home and London away but hardly stepped foot outside London
BarryCFCOK true mate chels came 3000 77 78 with escort n mob west ham first 82 83 cup
Speaking as old Leeds service crew member ...west ham always had good firm when came up north ...
@@StephenSmith-er2jg leeds service crew tin pot mob never did it at man u
Suzanne Martin they ripped you apart at OT you pussy I doubt you was on the front line taking the beating however
The 80's was a disaster waiting to happen.
Red army
Was at that game
lucky there were no fences
A haunting prelude to Hillsborough 14 years earlier. Police at fault again.
I was in north bank in 67 fighting all match West Ham never got over getting there arses kicked, always took a good firm to Upton Park , hammers not very good travelers though
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Your mob said that the best firm ever to go to OT was the ICF in 1983.
@@CIMAmotor serious question whats happened to whu from once a top firm to todays joke?
@@britishqueen94 The police operation Operation 'Own Goal' put the wind up Cass, Swallow and Gardner even though they got off. Shortly after that a lot of them moved into the rave scene or started running doors and making a load of money.
@@CIMAmotor Swallow and centerforce were kicking the crap of other WHU rave promotors
As a non football hooligan but a RL player, I have to ask, did you lot actually fight or was it just urban myth and in fact just a bunch of gobshites throwing handbags? as despite trawling through dozens of such like videos, I can literally count on one hand the amount of times actual physical confrontation takes place and when they do get down to business, it only reminds me of the comical hide-ins I would take of me gran. Looks like a bunch of wannabes given it the biggen to me, before legging it when the opposition out numbers them. And one stray lamb will get slaughtered by a baying heard in a sporting ratio of around 25/1. Yet you claim to be hardmen, seriously I just don't get it..???
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Spot on. I was around in the 1970s and 1980s. Never got touched. Not once. And I hardly know anyone who did. These so-called firms only acted when they massively outnumbered their rivals. Cowards most of them.
The video shows the aftermath of the fighting
west ham are all along the back of the south bank man u at the front
Fighting started in a packed south bank an hour before kick off with west ham and man u alongside each other
Man U got run , get over it , as you say ,it was a long time ago
Manu also got run onto the pitch from the west side
3 hours before kick off about 8oo man u were gathered outside the north bank entrance in green street and a mob of the same amount w ham chased them to f gate
Mate on each occassion Man U came to my home club at Ashton Gate Bristol.Seasons 74-5 , 76-7 , 77-8 , 78-9 , 79-80, your so called Red Army , ran away , and those who did not , took a beating. I know doubt you will counter with you did blah , blah , but the fact is you took a hidding from little old Bristol City fans . Where as West Ham were a totally different story , genuine head the balls , as for the 75 game at West Ham it is well know your boys took a beating that day. Cue the abuse and lie
The Red army were running amock all over the country when in the 2nd Division, until they came up against 3 firms that were waiting for them.
Millwall in the 2nd Division, when all those Millwall weapons were found, and then Spurs and West Ham in the 1st Division. They got a real pasting from all 3. They always said that Spurs took the biggest mob to old trafford from down South.
Take i t your a yid?
@@nasreireinas3392 No, I used to go to some big London matches with some mates. So seen a lot, some when locked out of grounds, which happened a lot in those days. I saw the Red army get a terrible beating outside White Hart Lane. My mate was a big Spurs nutter, and he used to tell me who they were travelling to, to have a go. They were the only London ones that went to places like Newcastle in numbers in the 70s, and they always had a go. They were mad. West Ham didn't travel well up North in the 70s. That all changed in the 80s, and then Chelsea became really strong, and they both overtook Spurs in my opinion.
All firms all over got excited when we showed because hardly anyone else did in numbers
Utd took firms a support all over the country from the 60s it just became more highlited in div 2 because small clubs an towns couldn’t cope as well plus agro had become fashion
They met more than their match in Cardiff.
I was there
500 Manu got run out of the west side
onto the pitch
3 seperate large scale fights were going on at the same time in the south bank
West ham manouvered around the back of man u -they ran and the crush caused the pitch invasion
"Nothing to do with violence"?that made me roll up
Where were these West Ham supermen at the return game at Old Trafford-certainly not in Manchester they didn't show.....just like millwall in 74 they shit out.......
Calm down Grandad ! most of us watching weren't even born yet l.
You shit out Millwall away 74, even that bullshitter tony o`neill, admits that,and you got battered that day, but hey, don`t let the truth, get in the away, of the usual man utd bullshit.
I heard that Millwall brought a mob up to Man Utd in August 74,but were then turned back on to the next train for Euston by the old bill at piccadilly..
+Anton Jankovic as a neutral not many teams got a result at West ham certainly not man ure
ye not many teams even went to west ham but we did in all decades fact.
An incredibly atmospheric clip. I watched it from the Chicken Run as a young lad. The truth? Man U swamped the South Bank, a fair few West Ham stood their ground in there, loads of West ham skins piled in to help from the Chicken Run, as more West Ham entered from the rear of the South Bank in the Chicken Run corner, hence the crush. In the ground there were no winners and losers, the crowd was far too tightly packed. Word got round though. A few weeks later Liverpool visited- minus their fans.
Gary longden I was there too but can’t remember seeing any skins that day though I know there has always been a few about. The style of that time had nosed dived.🙈
Actually we visited you twice a few weeks later. Both in the League and FA Cup. And beat you on both occasions (2-0 and 4-0).
@@johnholmes8178 Remember it well.... 14 on a special to West ham 😄😄😄😄😄😄
@@samsmart3861 🤔 Stood there at Lime Street and counted them all eh 😂
@@johnholmes8178 No actually I was at West Ham in 75, like I was last season, when we beat them 1-2.... Common knowledge tho only 14 went to West ham. Hope that helps 😄😄😄😄⚽️🇾🇪👍🏾
Looks like fifa 95 graphics lol
Nice to see the mancs getting a good twatting
Yeah, it really was.
remember this as a teenager west ham and half of london turned out to try and stop the red army in there tracks , i also remember west ham and other so called tough boys never showing up at old trafford till they knew they would get an police escort.
spot on no away fans turned up at ot till escorts were brought in..fact!!!👹
raven..escorts started at old Trafford in 79..the icf turned up in the 80s..i was there for all of them..in the cup match you got the 7am train to Manchester to arrive before 10..we could only get about 50 at piccadilly by then and your firm of about 300 had us on the back foot..was that the plan as who would be around at 10 in the morning..you went straight to the ground walking round it smashing ordinary fans..well hard...by about 1pm our firm was there and you stood behind the old bill...after the game you got served...all fact!!..but the best firm you ever brought to ot👹
How many of you on that ferry?
Spurs took coiaches up there in 78
Erm, we (Rangers) turned up at OT when you lot were in your pomp
Not a hooligan or owt. But our team weren't playing now were they? I always laugh at people bigging up hooliganism the biggest ''so called'' hooligan will get seven shades of shite kicked out of him by the quiet hard man in the pub enjoying a drink.
its not an invasion unless the st johns come on with the stretcher.....
I'm from the East End and ready to turn up, know what I mean, Harry?
Man Utd turned up everywhere they went no one turned up at old Trafford in the mid 70s Millwall got ran from Piccadilly in 74 and hid in an old fire station rangers turned up in 74 that’s about it
Liar .......
I was in Bernidorm on a stag weekend about 15 years ago, i was with Bradford City lads, we went in the Yorkshire to watch the charity shield, United v City, the whole pub was taking over by United fans, we sat with a family of 5, the only City fans in there, There was 30 lads in there from Birmingham, same as us, on a stag, when i asked them if they was Blues or Villa, they turned round as said " We are all United fans" we were gobbed smacked, United can pull in a firm from every town and city in the country, so the numbers game is not a myth, how can other clubs complete with that, except, maybe Liverpool.
Man united were no where to be seen at Millwall in 74 on the Monday game. Only a few cockney reds turned up
You didn't turn up at Millwall did you though. FACT! Everyone knows it.
Never knew utd took over west ham end
paul skinner they never took over the south bank they was given the whole end till we took it back
Neil jobe 🤔Ah it was a gift 🎁
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Neil jobe we took West Ham end boro boys having said that. We were that pissed we thought we were in thecOrient brisbon rd just before I got a wollop I thought why are they singing about bubbles then I was seeing stars always ende d in trouble London must be the beer .
@Anton deranger "15 ICF done 150 of your lot " ....more like Anton deranged...bless
pfg333..knobhead..as if!!👹
@@mickfoskett6629 Mick mib were untouchable in there prime still can get tasty mob now just thought what you thought of Everton service crew Stoke Boro all not complimentary bout mib you any insight of stories in new book coming out
Suzanne Martin thanks for your comment and for telling the truth..i can only comment what I saw n went through back in the day..stoke n Boro both good at home you had to have your wits about you..everton..tasty both home and away..had some battles with them..won some..lost some..but to be involved now is stupid with all the cameras n old Bill..2 years for 2 minutes tear up..na!!..cheers!..ex member minutes!👹
Suzanne.. sorry the last word was meant to say minutes.. don't know how I got minutes lol👹
Suzanne it keeps saying minutes it's meant to say mib 👹
Commando Ultra Fondi irriducibili
no army like RED ARMY
It was a retreating army that day.
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Yeah the Mile End was there but it was just everyone from all over East London. The I.C.F. never come about till 1977 The reason I put I.C.F. is because what we become a few years later