WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO STAND ON THE NORTH BANK?

norfbankN16 · Post by **norfbankN16** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:18 pm

Happy memories here. Nothing beat standing in the old style terraces home or away. For me as a young teenager this was in the 80's. Every game was charged with energy created by the fans, there was always a possibility of trouble (no big brother cctv back then).

Sadly the scousers f@cked it all up for the rest of us.

It will never ever be like that again but i'm so glad i experienced for several years up and down the country

worthing gooner · Post by **worthing gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:45 pm

I dont have any pictures to hand but a mate of mine bought the handrail from the players tunnel at Highbury. How good is that!!!

highburyJD · Post by **highburyJD** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:46 pm

pigs fecked it up not the scousers

Exiled-Gooner · Post by **Exiled-Gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:57 pm

Always been a clockender myself ,as we lived at the end of the ground,since against Newcastle in 71-think won 1-0-my brother took me as a birthday present.Like what the older gooners have said that what watching football was all about,terraces,chanting and the ''terrace leg''.

Paying at the gate,standing and as Percy wrote having a fag while screaming for Armstrong,Rix etc to cross the ball and the surge forward when we scored or trying to see where the ball went.Being able to move if your next to some twat unlike now you have to endure the twat and try not to punch them in the head.I think Arsenal was voted on having the best pies out of the London teams.

It was a great 2hrs escape and you really can't explain it but you met your mates in the tavern,have a few beers then to the ground get in and nearly kick off you start singing and abuse the way fans until the teams came out and it was a almighty cheer.There was nothing like it but as football is more like a business all that's gone and you sit and you meant to act like you watching a opera or play not a football match.I miss the old days the singing,jumping,togetherness and the great laughs.

Exiled-Gooner · Post by **Exiled-Gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:08 pm

Some pic's of both ends....googled them not my own.

Post by **flash gunner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:09 pm

norfbankN16 wrote:Sadly the scousers f@cked it all up for the rest of us.

Agreed mate

Exiled-Gooner · Post by **Exiled-Gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:28 pm

norfbankN16 wrote: Sadly the scousers f@cked it all up for the rest of us.

Yes,Victims FC spolit it for everyone,not just the whole experience of football but the ban on English clubs in Europe put our football behind the others for years and we are still behind.The media don't have the guts to express that Victim fc have cause the 2 most horrific events in english football and taken the easy option by blaming someone else.

norfbankN16 · Post by **norfbankN16** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:33 pm

highburyJD wrote:pigs fecked it up not the scousers

The scousers were a ferral bunch at best. Look at Hiesel. I went to a fair few Liverpool games because most of my mates were glory hunting fans and witnesssed them rocking up to away games and forcing their way in. Once, at Cambridge Utd ground (FA cup game) they were climbing over the wall and the crush inside was unbearable.
Agreed the old bill were at fault for opening the gates but they had several thousand drunken scousers rushing the gate. I have no respect for them as tragic as the disaster was

Post by **flash gunner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:35 pm

norfbankN16 wrote:
highburyJD wrote:pigs fecked it up not the scousers
The scousers were a ferral bunch at best. Look at Hiesel. I went to a fair few Liverpool games because most of my mates were glory hunting fans and witnesssed them rocking up to away games and forcing their way in. Once, at Cambridge Utd ground (FA cup game) they were climbing over the wall and the crush inside was unbearable.
Agreed the old bill were at fault for opening the gates but they had several thousand drunken scousers rushing the gate. I have no respect for them as tragic as the disaster was

The sad thing about Hillsboro was it wasnt the idiots who turned up late and tried to force gates open that got injured it was the ones that got there early and got crushed at the front.... Football has never been the same since

norfbankN16 · Post by **norfbankN16** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:37 pm

flash gunner wrote:
norfbankN16 wrote:
highburyJD wrote:pigs fecked it up not the scousers
The scousers were a ferral bunch at best. Look at Hiesel. I went to a fair few Liverpool games because most of my mates were glory hunting fans and witnesssed them rocking up to away games and forcing their way in. Once, at Cambridge Utd ground (FA cup game) they were climbing over the wall and the crush inside was unbearable.
Agreed the old bill were at fault for opening the gates but they had several thousand drunken scousers rushing the gate. I have no respect for them as tragic as the disaster was
The sad thing about Hillsboro was it wasnt the idiots who turned up late and tried to force gates open that got injured it was the ones that got there early and got crushed at the front.... Football was never the same since

exactly!

Exiled-Gooner · Post by **Exiled-Gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:44 pm

highburyJD wrote:pigs fecked it up not the scousers

So the few thousand scousers who left the pubs 5 mins after kick off with or without tickets who flooded the turnstiles to get in are innocent then??

The police opened the gates to avoid a riot or potentially worst happening were wrong?

No that is a ridiculous statement mate,a bin dippers reply,and total rubbish.The police are only guilty of is there should have kept the gates closed and organised the turnstiles.The scousers in there selfish me,me,me attitude caused the disaster themselves by there ignorance.

Exiled-Gooner · Post by **Exiled-Gooner** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:49 pm

Didn't someone post a video of scousers trying to rush the Emirates turnstiles.Also there had fake tickets,so it shows even after Hillsboro there haven't learnt or are to stupid to,ignorant wankers!!

norfbankN16 · Post by **norfbankN16** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:52 pm

Exiled-Gooner wrote:Didn't someone post a video of scousers trying to rush the Emirates turnstiles.Also there had fake tickets,so it shows even after Hillsboro there haven't learnt or are to stupid to,ignorant wankers!!

they were even mugging each other for tickets in athens cl final

merson_is_god · Post by **merson_is_god** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:38 pm

Please can we keep the subject off Hillsborough and back to the North Bank memories please...

Thanks...

mrgnu1958 · Post by **mrgnu1958** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:38 pm

seconded merse"y