EastLondonYid
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- Jan 26, 2010
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Back in the 80's if you travelled away it was easy to get caught up in it, me and the guys i hang around with never looked for trouble, but if you were going regularly away you would see the same faces and create a bond, and that makes it hard not to get involved when you feel they may be in danger. Often the coppers would look away and you had to look after yourself, i have seen families with kids getting attacked, how can you not get involved then?....today luckily,it has changed, CCTV around the grounds i think has helped to wipe it out apart from the guys who really want an organised scrap somewhere away from the ground.
For some idiotic reason as 15 year olds we followed 50 older Spurs boys into the West Ham end in 1970...the West Ham fans were clearly unimpressed and we spent the whole game under threat of death or worse guarded by about 20 police. They escorted us out at the end...remember Big Jim... Hopkins ...Black Sammy as a few of the names....used to do the same in the North Bank Highbury before kick off most years then....crazy little kids eh?
.. younger days went home & away with yids from Hoxton, murray grove, haggerston & Bethnal green.
