Who used to enjoy the aggro?

[William Treseder]

My thoughts on the hooliganism in the 70’s and 80’s is that it was carried out by 10% hard as **** bastards, and 90% wannabe hard as **** bastards, who thrived on safety in no’s.
Scaring old folk and kids was a bit cowardly.
Id have had more respect and willingness to join in in my youth, if they’d done it the east european way, where they’d meet up in a bit of country side with no fuzz or innocent folk about, and just have a good old fashioned square go.
Running amok through city centres, scaring innocent folk shitless was never for me.

[goats]

My thoughts on the hooliganism in the 70’s and 80’s is that it was carried out by 10% hard as **** bastards, and 90% wannabe hard as **** bastards, who thrived on safety in no’s.
Scaring old folk and kids was a bit cowardly.
Id have had more respect and willingness to join in in my youth, if they’d done it the east european way, where they’d meet up in a bit of country side with no fuzz or innocent folk about, and just have a good old fashioned square go.
Running amok through city centres, scaring innocent folk shitless was never for me.

In the 80’s it wasn’t 10% proper nutters, I’d say it was more like 40%. I knew quite a few of them, some decided to stop going by the 90’s saying it was “over”. The bouncing posturing stuff arrived in the 00’s. Completely different times

[the other bob wilson]

In the 80’s it wasn’t 10% proper nutters, I’d say it was more like 40%. I knew quite a few of them, some decided to stop going by the 90’s saying it was “over”. The bouncing posturing stuff arrived in the 00’s. Completely different times

I've not witnessed what I think of as hooliganism at City games for ten years or more, but I did from the mid sixties to, say, the mid to late noughties and I'd say the 10 per cent figure is about right. i accept that, as someone who preferred to steer clear of trouble, I haven't seen as much "agro" as others, but what I did see was, more often than not, more posing, goading and standing off than what I'd call fighting - did hear of a couple of cases of City fans being attacked by our "hard men" in the eighties and early nineties mind.