What's the worst crowd trouble you ever saw inside your teams stadium?

I once witnessed a bloke dropping a cigarette butt on the floor.... St. Andrews Birmingham 1978

Liverpool v Birmingham in the 70s Total carnage

Arsenal 2 minutes  ago

a digusting spilling of tea....was a saucer tho

It was at the only game I was ever evicted from, thanks to the most cowardly policeman I've ever witnessed. If memory serves it was a pre-season friendly against West Ham, where they (WH) had pre-planned an assault on 'The Shelf' (mid-to-late 70's). I was still a teenager at the time and witnessed the assault from opposite, in 'The Enclosure' - The Shelf split in two as violence erupted, but to be fair to the police, they were in quickly and soon had a crowd of around 20 West Ham supporters rounded up, as they paraded them around the perimeter of the ground towards the exit.

As they passed my own stand the 'geezers' all pushed forward, in agitation, leaving me, a skinny light-weight teenager, no choice but to be dragged forward with them. This is when several policeman jumped into the stands to usher us back a little, but out of all the people who could have been singled out for 'incitement' this particular policeman chose to pick me out of the crowd and proceeded to turf me out... what a w*nker! That wasn't all, I was left outside, on my own, with all these West Ham fans, but thankfully even they could see I was only a kid and let me walk away in peace; fair play to them for that one. Out of anyone he could have lifted out of the crowd this copper chose to pick on a defenceless kid; a coward of the highest order imo.

I've been going to Selhurst on and off since the mid 70's and I can't recall ever seeing any aggro. I'm going shortly to the West Ham game and it will be a lively atmosphere no doubt but it's a million there will be any trouble.

COYP.

Luton v Millwall  1985 . 5 OF us all Lions fans,in the Millwall fansend, watching intently, and next minute all on the floor, watching seatsand god knows what passing over our  heads. That was the only time i have ever felt frightenedfor my safety at a match.The good old days

Newcastle v West ham.

Petrol bomb...



Newcastle v hearts

Warzone

Back then, folk paid at the gate.

Arrive early in force, get in, pretty difficult
to shift a large number of blokes ready foe a ruck.

Very true YHTL; easy to swarm a stand back then

Villa Rangers friendly in the seventies. CARNAGE. Game abandoned. People tripping over Jocks in the street days after.

No mobile phones so pre planning was key.

I missed Newcastle v rangers semi in 1969
that was reputed to be the biggest ruck
inside St James park.

Article from local paper, by dave morton
who is younger than me so wouldn't have been there.


https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/victorious-newcastle-united-defied-drunken-16301785

Hearts game was mainly rucks in
gallowgate end, ( that's right hand side on tv)
with dozens of bottles, likely glass brown ale bottles,
hurled back and forth for much of second half.

Causualty dept in rvi, Newcastle main hospital,
were still dealing with cases from match at 10am
following morning!!!

Darts thrown into the away end at Millwall

yes i remember burnley fans throwin darts at us at turf moor 70s aain

also went to watch liverpool awayat carlilse of all places when i think the world and his do were waitin for us after the match. eidies, scottish the bloody lot and the police all disappered total set up to attack liverpool fans

had a man utd mate who made the mistake of going to watch utd v galatasary  dont think he ever ot over it

----you-have-to-laugh--- • January 1, 2022 4:28 PM GMT
Newcastle v West ham.

Petrol bomb...

Went right over my head
Carnage at the train station after the game !

West Ham v Man Utd . South Bank '75 . Mancs forced entry from outside during 1st half and all hell broke loose . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJ6Xe7_LOs

Not our stadium but League Cup final replay '81 (v Liverpool) at Villa Park where Holte End was divided into two was like a war zone for the entire 90 minutes .

There's a book about it on Amazon

Worst Crowd Trouble Ever Seen At Major British Football Grounds Revealed: How Britain's Most Notorious Football Hooligans Wreaked Havoc From The 60's to 90's
by Paul Gratis

I read it and some of the matches told on this thread are included!

arsenal at ayresome park
in fa cup many moons ago,they invaded/took the holgate an hr before kick off,then in the south east corner /chicken run trhey had to use the pitch covers as shields fore 90 mins there was that much stuff getting thrown
in the 70,s riot police had to seperate home fans from each ot,
her game,after game in hoigate end to stop fighting between home supporters ,lads from stockton/billingham fighting with lads from middlesbrough,
the only time m endy arse really nipped was at stamford bridge in 88 play off game fighing in side terrace seats all game,outside pre game,then chelsea invaded pitch from shed and tried to get over the fence in boro end

I never missed a home game for 8 years in the 80s .....and honestly never saw any violence home or away.

The scariest game was some fixture with Man City sometime around 84/5/6. The game finished 2-2.

I reckon there were 4,000 home fans and 12,000 + away fans.

They ran all over the pitch pre game climbed and were hoisted into the seats , I was surrounded by away fans in the home end.

City got a pen scored by Kevin Bond to make it 2-2 in the last few minutes.....the only time I have ever been happy for the opposition to score.

West Ham fans used to "take" the home end about an hour before kick off when all the home fans crew were still in the pubs..

.. I saw them do it at Molineux... they ran a load of kids off the terraces at about 2pm.. but it kicked off properly when the home fans arrived in force at about 2.50

the thug behaviour as now started hitting then racecourses ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFlahbrMjk

Hibs and Falkirk fans. Not 'strictly' fighting.