Rich. Just read your'e assertion that Hillsboro could only have happened with a small subset

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

of fans. You know as much about football culture as you know about music which is fúck all. The behaviour of Liverpool fans was identical to most of the larger football clubs at the time and Hillsboro could have happened to any of them, including Arsenal. Ask anyone who did away matches in the 70's and 80's.

We were rowdy, raucous and usually drunk. Each week we where crammed into what Taylor rightly called 'slum stadia' in return for our cash. The police, wherever you went, were usually heavy handed bullies, who were all, incidentally, volunteers for extra duty because they enjoyed a bit of a ding-dong themselves. It is actually a miracle that Hillsboro didn't happen more frequently.

One thing I do miss about those times is that there were no braying fúckwits like you anywhere near the game.

[barrybueno]

*He'll murder you for 'your'e' though

[Sulk]

First beer at Moriarty's on a Saturday morning wondering who was from where and what.

[Uttoxeter Gun]

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Supermac1976]

[Mack]

Oh, he already has.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Camp Freddie]

[Guns 'n' Roses]

I went with a mate to watch a game at Stamford Bridge. I had never been there before, so I asked a copper for the directions to the home end, where the singing fans were.

He obviously spotted that I was a furriner. "Well, he says, "the main stand is that way, it's a nice seated area."

"Thank you, but you see, we want to go where the fans are, where there's singing."

"Well, the atmosphere at the stand is quite good too."

"Yeah, maybe, but we really want to go to the terrace..."

"Hmrrrfff. That way."

It was so obvious that he loathed those people, he was sincerely thinking that he did me a favour by trying to guide me away from the yobs.

My mate and I were not used to the enormousness of an English terrace. Chelsea scored, we were not prepared and we both fell under the surge. I was really quite worried when I was down on the concrete with no possibility whatsoever of getting up myself. Some chaps behind us pulled us up. On the way out after the game, we could literally lift our feet off the ground and get carried out.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Johnny1886]

[Guns 'n' Roses]

Cattle wagons removed of anything that could be ripped off. The trains didn't stop at any stations between the departure and the arrival point, and as the wagon passed a station at full speed, a storm of beer cans were hurled out from the windows.

A colleague of mine went to Uni in Leeds but came from Liverppol and was an Everton fan. He once went to Leeds-Everton at Elland Road, and after the game, the police guided him and the rest of the Evertonians down to the train station. Think he manged to narrowly escape being sent home to Liverpool. The walk to the station was a gauntlet. Whenever there was a little gap between the police horses, some Leeds fan would sprint into the flock, administer a punch and then sprint out again.

[3rd Generation Gooner]

[Jock Gooner]

[hamstrung]

[Berni]

for what happened?

Thank you for agreeing with me.

Expect a scouse fatwah.