What's the most scared you have ever been following city away ?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Forget spurs in the FA cup

Forget all the big names

For me it was our seasons in the abyss , to quote a slayer album

Exeter , hereford , Chesterfield, Lincoln

I wet myself several times in those dark days , being chased around a DIY centre opposite Hereford train station long after the police had got our lot back on the train to south wales ......just me and two young lads from aberdare and twenty ginger haired big eared blokes from hereford with hands like shovels

The irony about the Spurs game is that I was with my ex's nephew, who is a Spurs fan and whom I had travelled to the game from Oxford where he lived. I was with him in a pub frequented by Spurs supporters and trying to mask my Welsh accent as best as possible when ordering at a crowded bar. And as the pub was so crowded we decanted into the access area to it just off the main road and whose wrought iron tall gates were closed to separate the locals from the City fans passing on the other side. It was starting to get nasty and I was trapped on the wrong side of the gates both physically and metaphorically.

[Blue Dwr]

The irony about the Spurs game is that I was with my ex's nephew, who is a Spurs fan and whom I had travelled to the game from Oxford where he lived. I was with him in a pub frequented by Spurs supporters and trying to mask my Welsh accent as best as possible when ordering at a crowded bar. And as the pub was so crowded we decanted into the access area to it just off the main road and whose wrought iron tall gates were closed to separate the locals from the City fans passing on the other side. It was starting to get nasty and I was trapped on the wrong side of the gates both physically and metaphorically.

I guess you refer to Spurs in the 1978 league game, the year after knocking them out of the FA Cup 3rd round? I went up on Tommy Morris' buses from Pencoed, 13 years old, on my own. Driving close to WHL, a Spurs fan pulled out a knife..! The start of a series of Rourke's Drift moments that lasted the whole day. Frightened me to death!!

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

I guess you refer to Spurs in the 1978 league game, the year after knocking them out of the FA Cup 3rd round? I went up on Tommy Morris' buses from Pencoed, 13 years old, on my own. Driving close to WHL, a Spurs fan pulled out a knife..! The start of a series of Rourke's Drift moments that lasted the whole day. Frightened me to death!!

I was also at that game. I was based at the Merchant Navy training school in Gravesend, Kent. I travelled to WHL with three other cadets. They were a bit naïve (so was I at the age of 17!) and were all wearing City scarves. They soon hid those scarves though as we travelled on the underground with hoards of Spurs fans. Spurs fans had infiltrated the away end with us and were right loons.
The two Spurs fans stood right next to me, as brazen as could be, were telling me how great it was at our place (Ninian) with all the rocks and pieces of concrete flying back and forth on Sloper Road, they both looked in their 40's.

I also travelled on my own to Stamford Bridge, at a time when Chelsea were mental, again, I think that was about '78? They had played Bristol Rovers away at Eastville the Saturday before and rioted, in the mayhem a WPC got knocked unconcious. I saw it all on the HTV West News (my grandmother always tuned her ariel into the west country reception, don't know why! ). So I had built up in my mind that it was going to be hairy, and it was!

[cardiff55]

I was also at that game. I was based at the Merchant Navy training school in Gravesend, Kent. I travelled to WHL with three other cadets. They were a bit naïve (so was I at the age of 17!) and were all wearing City scarves. They soon hid those scarves though as we travelled on the underground with hoards of Spurs fans. Spurs fans had infiltrated the away end with us and were right loons.
The two Spurs fans stood right next to me, as brazen as could be, were telling me how great it was at our place (Ninian) with all the rocks and pieces of concrete flying back and forth on Sloper Road, they both looked in their 40's.

I also travelled on my own to Stamford Bridge, at a time when Chelsea were mental, again, I think that was about '78? They had played Bristol Rovers away at Eastville the Saturday before and rioted, in the mayhem a WPC got knocked unconcious. I saw it all on the HTV West News (my grandmother always tuned her ariel into the west country reception, don't know why! ). So I had built up in my mind that it was going to be hairy, and it was!

The Chelsea game referred to above was in October 1976 I think, we lost 2-1. Anyway we travelled up to North London to stay with an old school friend for the weekend. Train to Liverpool Street, then Tube to Fulham Broadway, all fine until about four stops before our destination. Then the train slowly filled with mad Chelsea fans, some had knives! When the train pulled in to Fulham Broadway and the doors opened the two of us bolted out of the train, out of the station being chased by probably 50 of South London's finest.

As we came out of the station and turned the corner we ran in to about 1500 City fans being escorted by the police, cue mayhem as all hell broke lose. We skulked off to safety, but we had tickets in the Home end, so were very, very quite for the rest of the afternoon. The only time I have ever been scared at football.