Other "mobs" turning up

[lennythekad]

I'd say 15000, comfortably Jon. Not bad out of 34208!

[Dave Clark Five]

I'd say 15000, comfortably Jon. Not bad out of 34208!

Ray Graydon running down the wing, joining in with our chants.

[Dave Clark Five]

I remember the last game of the season can't remember the year when chelsea came on the pitch and then we came on aswell then they sort of charged us and they also broke the crossbar.

You hooligan, Darren.

[b23]

A few Forest turned up at Notts County one year -oddly they stayed in the County end throughout

 That was in 71/72 when we won Div 3. County were one of our main rivals at the top of the table but we won 3-0. Villa took thousands that day, we were in the side terrace- the County & Forest "mob" were behind the goal- must have only have been a few hundred of them at most.
I remember that the terracing was wooden and have only just now thought that it must have been a potential "Bradford City"as in fire risk.

Some reckon that there were 30000 of us at that game, but it was probably 10000/15000.
It was mental.

I'd say 15000, comfortably Jon. Not bad out of 34208!

Pack it in Bernie, DC5 and Lenny.

You're bringing tears to my eyes.

 I was on that side with all the other 5 - 10,000 + Villa.

If only a quarter of them had one balloon each, thats more balloons than i can count.

Another fabulous away day.

Bring back the balloons and the fun.

[willywombat]

That game was years before the balloon craze kicked off

[Dave Clark Five]

That game was years before the balloon craze kicked off

Probably in the days of the inflated Durex though. Haven't seen one of those float past for years.

[willywombat]

That game was years before the balloon craze kicked off

Probably in the days of the inflated Durex though. Haven't seen one of those float past for years.

Probably be a glow in the dark, strawberry flavoured French tickler these days

[Brend'Watkins]

That game was years before the balloon craze kicked off

Probably in the days of the inflated Durex though. Haven't seen one of those float past for years.

There was one at Newcastle on Sunday.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

That game was years before the balloon craze kicked off

Probably in the days of the inflated Durex though. Haven't seen one of those float past for years.

There was one at Newcastle on Sunday.

That was Mike Ashley.

[pauliewalnuts]

I remember that Mark - there were always rumours that the Noses were turning up - usually rubbish of course.

I remember they did turn up at an away match with Coventry, would have been mid to late eighties.

I also remember getting off the train from Cov at New St in the late 80s with Blose waiting at the station.

Yeah I remember that one, we were pushed out the back way of New Street and they were all by the theatre chucking stuff.

I distinctly remember that, as well. It wasn't much fun.

I remember legging it through the Midland Red bus station, afterwards. That'll be in the direction "away from aggro", obv.

One other thing I remember that day was that, as the coppers were herding us back from the ground to the station, they were going absolutely fucking mental at anyone who so much as stepped off the pavement and onto the road.

At one point, we rounded a corner approaching the station, and there was some bloke minding his own business, nothing to do with us, walking along with a supermarket bag, having just done the shopping, his path merged into ours.

A copper started screaming at him "get on the fucking pavement", he started protesting he was nothing to do with us, the copper just screamed louder at him. I saw he was still being forced to walk with us as we entered the station and got herded directly onto a waiting train.

By the looks of it, he was getting an enforced trip to Birmingham New St.

[Chris Jameson]

I can remember a Friday evening match against Middlesbrough (moved for the Motor Show) and I was surrounded by thousands of Boro nutcases*, really mental hard blokes and lasses, on the Holte End but I refused to budge and held my own against them all. It could have got proper naughty but they soon quietened down I can tell you although the fact they won probably took their minds off foolishly having a go.





*not actually thousands but my school friend Kev Ward and he had to keep his mouth shut or he wasn't getting a lift home.

[pooligan]

The mention of Middlesbrough reminds me of when they use to play at Ayresome Park .The two or three times i went there,hundreds of them were waiting at the station for us as we got off the train. No police to be seen anywhere and most of their mob seemed  to be 6ft plus and skinheads A lot of us got a good kicking .Sunderland at Roker Park was another scary place ,always seemed to be lots of them in the away end asking anyone they thought was Villa the time Thank god they never asked me

[Chris Jameson]

The mention of Middlesbrough reminds me of when they use to play at Ayresome Park .The two or three times i went there,hundreds of them were waiting at the station for us as we got off the train. No police to be seen anywhere and most of their mob seemed  to be 6ft plus and skinheads A lot of us got a good kicking .

I went to a Villa match with a girl from school when I was 15, we were both attacked outside the ground and the police stood and watched and told us to get ourselves home, the walk to the railway station was yet another pleasant one. Middlesbrough was also a scary place to go to gigs, hate the place.

[pauliewalnuts]

The match at Ayresome Park on Valentines Day 1988 wasn't a lot of fun, to be honest. There seemed to be at most 300 of us there (it was a Sunday game, one of the rare live games you'd see on telly back then).

And we lost, too.

Middlesbrough was a horrible, horrible place back then. Prob still is. See also, Sunderland.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The mention of Middlesbrough reminds me of when they use to play at Ayresome Park .The two or three times i went there,hundreds of them were waiting at the station for us as we got off the train. No police to be seen anywhere and most of their mob seemed  to be 6ft plus and skinheads A lot of us got a good kicking.

I've mentioned this before but me a mate came off the train there and the old bill wanted to know if we were Villa. When we replied yes, they threw us into the back of a van. The police up there are like no where else in the country. They drove us to the ground, dropped us off in front of the away end and arranged to pick us up after the game and take us back to the station. I'm pretty sure it's the 88 game Paulie mentions. Jack Charlton was in a box above us doing the TV commentary.