Carrying on from Mikey, mine and Dots experiences at Leeds, anyone else been in some close scrapes or actually got involved ?
Worse than Leeds for me was Portsmouth away the day that Linesman got knocked out.
Think the OB purposely sent us down the side street into a Pompey mob instead of letting us go back through the alleyway ( Neither a good way to get back to the coaches anyway :hihi: ) Loads of bother and it carried on right to the roundabout in front of their pub.

Lets have your hair raising stories

Regards CB

Had a mate at Keele University who was a mad Leeds fan. I was over his place for some beers one weekend with Leeds due to play Stoke City.

We ventured down to the home end as Leeds were subject to ticket only for away fans.

Needless to say, Leeds stormed it 4-0, and there were more Leeds fans on the home end than the away section! It was kicking off all around the ground, but fortunately we managed to avoid the worse of it.

(Please note that I didn't cheer or sing along at any stage)

Up the owls

Jim:thumbsup:

Loads, most from the late 80s, when I was only a teenager and shouldnt have been anywhere near it!

Never participated myself, but always seemed to get caught up in it - getting "milk bottled" from great heights near West Ham, charged outside the Old Den, hiding in Tescos on the Seven Sisters Road when battle royal went off outside (Spurs v Man Utd), and the most frightening of all, when Feyenoord fans attacked a bus I was on in Rotterdam (1997), nearly setting it on fire and putting the windows in. Andy Cole hat trick made up for it though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/23483.stm

I look back on those days with more fear than I felt then. It all seemed like a big game. Much more peaceful these days....

As a premiership fan the worst scrape I ever got into was when some **** spilled his glass of champagne over my prawn sandwich in the boardroom.

I used to go all over England following EFC and England. I only ever had my scarf grabbed by a bunch of over friendly??? girls at Aston Villa circa 1965.
We had had no trouble at the two previous drawn League cup final circa 1970s till the third at Old Trafford, Everton got beaten (yes I know again) and our train was stuck down a deep rail embankment when some idiotic Man U fan, apparently, lobbed a half housey, it came through the train window right by me, like an explosion. Some poor youngster aged about 11
got facial cuts from the flying glass.

Has no one got any more stories ? I hate being the last to post on any thread.

Recall making an escape from Ell*and Road around 1985 via way of people's gardens. I've never scaled so many fences and gates. Thing is, I can't remember anybody actually chasing us....,

The scariest and hairiest moments watching the Blades away from home (before I knew better) were more to do with bad crowd control than anything relating to the home fans. Usually segregation was quite good (very much so at the Baseball Ground where I didn't come into contact with any Derby fan prior to and after the game).

Shortly after the Hillsborough tragedy the Blades played Wigan at Springfield Park, a ground not too disimilar to Hallam FC's place at Sandygate. You'd think the officials and police would be on their mettle after what had gone on a couple of weeks earlier, but no. On the way out, there was one exit and that was half-blocked by, of all things, a parked ambulance. The crush on the way out was very scary - all because of this ambulance and the fact that (I'd guess) two to three thousand fans had only one means of exit.

That was a scrape of a different kind but it certainly put the poops up me.

I was in the Ipswich end when we Relegated Leeds at Elland Road Last Season.

Suddenly seeing 1000 + fans come running towards you with only a few Stewards holding them back is a sight i'd never wish to repeat. Police didn't arrive for a good 2 or 3 mins when they should have already been there as this was actually, whilst the first full blown pitch invasion, the 3rd time fans had got onto the pitch.

The Town fans to their credit just left en-mass whilst being pelted with coins / watches etc.

Still can't believe the game got re-started and there have been so few people banned over the incident, never mind the lack of any points being deducted for it!

It's a prime example of why they are the most universally hated team in the football league system, can't wait till they play at portman road next.........