As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
I'm sure our lads will remember the kind hospitality of the Liege Hellsiders in 1993 as 400 of them attacked 25 of our chaps assisted by our very own met police and the local dibble !
As luck would have it I was in the Arsenal End and couldn't get round to where my seat was ……………...lucky me !
They were very hospitable when we plotted up in their firms boozer hours before the game Plod decided to let us all stay in there & made sure we went in the away end. I think it was about £6.00 to stand but many jibbed into the seats above.
Massive battle outside afterwards with their lot & Plod / Riot Police / Army flares & missiles flying through the air, with all the industrial / mining furnaces & smoke going in the background. a good view from away end. They lost 0-7, even McGoldrick scored, they had the slight hump.
They kept us in for ages, everyone thrown on old WWII / BR style football special knackered rattlers straight back to Ostend, but some lads who had digs in Brussels, pulled the emergency switch, running across train tracks being chased by Old Bill
It was a great trip, proper old school European away day, by trains & ferry, before the days of cheap air travel.
Yea twas me and mine that pulled the cord and got off in Brussels ,plod were not amused. Cost me 50 quid by train and hovercraft plus about 40 quid a night for hotel. Belgium police hate the English and us in particular as we caused havoc in two previous visits ,winterslag and Brussels v Valencia in 80
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Plod decided to let us all stay in there & made sure we went in the away end. I think it was about £6.00 to stand but many jibbed into the seats above.
with all the industrial / mining furnaces & smoke going in the background. a good view from away end. They lost 0-7, even McGoldrick scored, they had the slight hump.
