Long trip to Devon

After we beat them in the league game in 1988 the rows of terraced houses around Ayresome park were a very dangerous place to be.Remember a group of lunatics just appearing from round a corner.Don’t think I’ve ever run as fast in my life.

 

Same match. They were coming out of houses. We parked top side of the park and had to get a lift in a police van to get back to it. Even then they were rocking the car as we sped off.

 

Back in 2016 I spent a few months going backwards and forwards to Middlesbrough. The place I was going was literally half a mile from the site of Ayresome Park. Beforehand I hadn’t given it a second thought as I couldn’t remember where Ayresome Park was, but as soon as I was in the vicinity it looked familiar. Still as rough as it was back in the 80’s, sinister almost. However, if you think the bit around Ayresome Park is bad you ought to go to South Bank which is on the other side of the town centre. Jesus. What a place.

 

Remember getting back to the car and having some of them chasing our speeding Ford Fiesta.No stopping for red lights.

 

Ha ha, we were in fiesta too. Wasn't red was it ?

 

It was yes .An xr2i Wasn’t mine.It was a blokes I worked with.

 

Weird. Ours was a Red Fiesta pimped up to look like an XR2i

 

My workmates car was definitely a proper XR2i

 

I used to live in those houses when I was a student at Teesside Polytechnic in !972-1973.

 

Me and about 4 mates got chased thru hospital grounds by loads of boro fans, didnt get to us tho, thetre was only 2 fighters in our lot, and no, never at football

 

Unfortunately my group had no fighters in it but we could run.That’s definitely the nearest I’ve been to getting a kicking at an away game.

 

Great times

 

Bang right matey, those just were the days, and nights.

 

Went to the game with my dad, remember well coming out of the stand and their idiots charging at us from both ends of the street. Dad just pulled his collar up and said come on walk straight through them and i will belt anyone that comes near, he was a hard bugger , brought up on the streets of Liverpool during the war and a pretty handy boxer in his day.
Strange how nobody came near us , but we did watch the carnage from his transit van crowbar and claw hammer at the ready.

 

Me too, Millwall excepted where three of us were the only city fans not on a coach

 

We turned the wrong way after Wembley defeat, what a bunch of low life animals Millwall are. I’m not a fighter so had to leg it.

 

Millwall after final, 3 of us, 1 young, saw meat heads setting on young city fans, me and older shouted, ran towards to have a go, these meat heads were 40s, like us, lucky black maria turned up lights flashing before we got there, we would prob get battered, but the young City fans got no more once we interrupted. So plan worked in the end.

 

Total scum bags and that’s what they were like when they won !

 

So....we've had kickings in 'Boro, by Millwall etc...
Has anyone had a kicking on a "Long Trip to Devon"?