I've heard a few Bristol Rovers fans say they took the Holte, I don't believe it though. Also a few of them said in the early 70's they classed us as their main rivalsAny truth in that?
Quote from: Lambert and Payne on October 25, 2012, 09:49:45 AMI've heard a few Bristol Rovers fans say they took the Holte, I don't believe it though. Also a few of them said in the early 70's they classed us as their main rivalsAny truth in that?It's mentioned in the Chris Brown book 'Suited and Booted' which is an enjoyable read with a lot about music and the start of the original skinhead movement in Bristol. I reckon Percy would enjoy it as it features a fair bit of Northern Soul type stuff. From what I remember it was the Div 3 championship season. He says they went on the Holte, and ended up taking a bit of a battering but ended up staying on the Holte. I don't remember him claiming it as any kind of "we took the Holte" type victory. I'll see if I can dig it out and find the chapter.
Found itThree months later their team played at Aston Villa and this time they decided to have a crack at the huge Holte End kop. "We sang 'We've got the whole Holte End in our hands, we've got the whole Holte End in our hands' and we had" said Browner. "I had never seen so many Rovers fans at an away game, there were thousands of us. Our main mob was facing us at the opposite end of the ground, but about 500 of us had infiltrated the home fans and we had taken the massive, infamous Holte End with surprising ease. We had come charging up the steps at the back and were swift and merciless in our operation. It was virtually bloodless and they ran to the far end of the cavernous terracing, were they stopped to regroup and assess the situation. We knew we were in an unstable position. It was still a quarter of an hour away from kick off and we felt that if we could stay put for the next fifteen minutes we would be OK, the law wouldn't dare move us off once the game had started, there were too many of us. The minutes ticked away but 15 were just too many and soon the heavy thud of boots came closer. They appeared behind us, coming up the same steps and emerging through the same tunnel we had not ten minutes before. They also came from our left and the mob that we had chased off to our right had now recovered. Absolutely incensed, they attacked us with real venom, a three pronged assault that left us with only one way out, the pitch. We fought as much as we could and we could see our comrades-in-arms ar the open end facing us, desperately trying to get on the pitch and help us out, but the law massed in front of them and held firm. To coin a phrase, we were fucked."From HOOLIGANS, A-L of Britains Football Hooligan Gangs
sorry WW can not remember the guy.I would have avoided him like the plauge if he was as you described.I remember the L.C quarter final in 1970, they had a fair old support in the Witton. we won 1.0 with Pat McMahon scoring the goal.I did not go to the first game at Bristol.
I was at this game and can honestly say I have no recollection of Rovers being on the Holte End at all never mind World War 3 breaking out