Moving away from the mobs, at the moment I'm reading a book called "Lions, Black skins and Reggae Gyals" I thought I'd share this particular extract, it's a Tony Witter quote, regarding our 0-0 draw at the Den in 1995: "Nigel Winterburn played a ball down the line and Ian Wright was j...

I don't think anybody is glorifying it. In fact, you'd probably be a bit stupid to take part in any serious aggro nowadays, I've heard of someone who got a six year ban for throwing a bottle. Although I'm still slightly intrigued by the clobber element, who's wearing what and what looks good. A book...

Pennant mentions that the true West Ham InterCity leaders did not take liberties with opposing gangs if they outnumbered them. A load of bollocks, wasn't Dickinson outnumbered when he was stabbed to death by their mob outside Highbury, and I know of some bloke who accidently got caught up in their ...

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I find it hard to believe that Chelsea or West Ham wanted to have a go at Millwall in Slough because of Millwall's National Front connections, it was probably more of a case of having a go at Millwall because they're Millwall. In fact if any team is linked to the National Front, it's Chelsea (I know...

Pennant mentions that the true West Ham InterCity leaders did not take liberties with opposing gangs if they outnumbered them. A load of bollocks, wasn't Dickinson outnumbered when he was stabbed to death by their mob outside Highbury, and I know of some bloke who accidently got caught up in their t...

I remember a cup game at Brighton in the 80's, but for some reason thought it was midweek. Can recall being near the fence dividing the two sets of fans when Arsenal ripped it down and went in to their end. Never seen us play Rangers, but did go up to Celtic one year - first game there for Charlie ...

It wasn't the first time there was trouble down Fratton Park between Arsenal and Portsmouth. Watch this video from 4:14, a Portsmouth lad, who is referring to the pre-season game down there in 1983 says: “We played Arsenal, and it was the first game that Charlie Nicholas played for Arsenal, we had ...

1985, during a 0-0 draw at Upton Park, about 150 of ours were in the west stand lower. They got in but it came on top for them after half time, although it took West Ham more than enough time to get their act together. It went off though and our lot were outnumbered, but held our own until the inevi...

Great read. In the first post you're referring to an Arsenal-Luton league game at Kenilworth Road in 1984, and we actually didn't draw, we won 2-1. West Ham's game at Birmingham wasn't called off that day, as far as I'm aware their train broke down in Luton so they decided to get off to infiltrate t...