most ever CCFC fans in one ground (3 Viewers)

[wingy]

They were the days! !

 

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[Ring Of Steel]

My personal favourite was the Millwall brick- an innocent looking copy of the Financial Times so that nobody confiscates it, then fold it a certain way so that it’s like a brick (sounds crazy I know but just google it) - you’re talking a special kind of mind that takes the time to think something like that up. Then you had the old favourite- old fashioned pub darts flying over the fences... now you have to make an application to take a flag into the ground

It’s way safer now and I was never involved in any trouble, but as with most of a certain age there’s still a tinge of nostalgia for the days when you were on edge & full of adrenaline from morning until getting off the train at Cov Station cause you knew it was gonna be an exciting day, it’s not exciting at all now- great ‘fun’ yes but the edge has gone. Is that a good thing? Great you don’t run the risk of being attacked for sure but all this face painting half & half scarves lark- give me strength

 

[Ring Of Steel]

the only time I got into trouble was Burnley along with some people from these very boards, but that was due to necking about 10 cans on the way, then into a pub for for more, abusing a steward when they scored then managing to sneak back into different parts of the ground so I saw them score from every side of the ground and infuriating the locals. I was warned to “get out of Burnley”- delighted to, Mr Policeman

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Cant remember the figure other than there were a whole load of aggresive West Ham fans looking for blood at the end after we came back from 0-2 to win 3-2.

That was a scary evening. I went to The Vauxhall pub before the game, and the atmosphere in there and around the whole ground had me shrinking in my own skin. Didn't do the away game, but I've gathered from friends who went and stuff on here that it was a night not long forgotten (see earlier posts on thread!!)

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Hillsborough fa cup semi final vs Leeds
Attendance 51700 ish.

Income of the biggest total attendances ever. Would imagine 25k Cov?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

I remember people saying “they couldn’t take the West End” not having any idea what the hell they were on about, and that was the last time ever that there was trouble in the West End at HR, as we went all seater the next season. There was a darkness about West Ham, something a bit evil, it used to annoy the hell out of me when the media were all over them and their ‘tradition’ & class and all that stuff.

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Hillsborough fa cup semi final vs Leeds
Attendance 51700 ish.

Income of the biggest total attendances ever. Would imagine 25k Cov?

Good point! We had 27,000- 22,000 on the kop and 5,000 in the stand, Leeds had 24,000

 

[Londonccfcfan]

Good point! We had 27,000- 22,000 on the kop and 5,000 in the stand, Leeds had 24,000

Thanks. Listening to all these stories is enlightening. And good topic of thread!

 

[Ring Of Steel]

They were dark days in many ways looking back, I’ve never been involved and wouldn’t want to be and this is gonna sound strange- but matchdays were way more fun, you just never knew what was gonna happen

 

[The Great Eastern]

That was a scary evening. I went to The Vauxhall pub before the game, and the atmosphere in there and around the whole ground had me shrinking in my own skin. Didn't do the away game, but I've gathered from friends who went and stuff on here that it was a night not long forgotten (see earlier posts on thread!!)

I was also at the home leg and to say the atmosphere from the West Ham fans was toxic, was a massive understatement. On their way out of the Sky Blue stand, they were laying down the threats for the return leg at Upton Park. Turned out to be true and then some....
My mate and me were hanging onto the fence at the rear of the Sky Blue terrace and both of us got took out by one haymaker from an away fan. Whilst hating him for doing it, I later had to admire the actual act of decking both of us with one effort !

 

[Ring Of Steel]

The other thing they say nowadays that makes me laugh is all this “there was a code, we only ever fought with like minded fans, not normal football fans”... my arse! If you didn’t have an accent like Danny Dyer and weren’t decked out in claret & blue you were fair game- man, woman or child, totally indiscriminate and they didn’t give a toss. None of the old fashioned ‘hooligans’ did to be fair to West Ham, but nowadays when they’re trying to sell books they like to somehow portray themselves as honourable warriors- they weren’t, they were vicious gangs obsessed with violence who had no trouble at all chucking bricks at families.

 

[joemercersaces]

Was there at Upton Park - there is committed support and then there is a collection of nasty fuckers who just want to hurt people. West Ham, like Man Utd in those days and Chelsea and Leeds and Spurs, bullies. Fine when there’s a mob of them, individually no harder than anyone else. Contemptible as a result. Cov had a bad press from the so-called hoolie authors but on their day Cov gave as good as they got and often against the odds. Anyone can play the bully. I despise West Ham as a bunch of psychopathic mutants.

 

[Ring Of Steel]

I was only young but that’s kind of how I remember it- one person fighting one person and there wasn’t much difference. Gangs of fifty charging around armed with broken bottles and stanley knives, different story.

The weirdest one was when we took it upon ourselves to run wild at Man City in 2001 when we lost in the cup, our fans were going across the segregation attacking people, fair enough it was a horrible last minute loss but it was like “where the fuck did this come from?” I’d never seen us do something like that before in a ground. Afterwards navigating the streets of Moss Side getting to the car sure was interesting- what is the obsession with football fans and chucking bottles