Leeds@ Grimsby 1982

Chelsea got battered in the ponny all in their green bomber jackets scrambling for deer life over the fences ,bet they never expected that

I remember being in the Pontoon when Leeds tried to take it before ko. I was 15 at the time. I didnt run (I'd like to say because i was hard but the more honest answer was I was too scared to move). I didnt get hit (miraculously). Probably the worst violence i have seen inside BP.  I was a kid and  these were blokes in their 30's and older.

The following season the game got moved to a Tuesday night. That was fun and games walking home to Meggies down Grimsby Road after the game.

Millwall came here in 1980 and that was chaos after the match as well. Havent been to that many games at BP down the years when I've thought 'intercourse'. Leeds was one.

Been to Elland Road a few times down the years watching Town and Manchester City. Cant say it was ever an enjoyable experience regardless of the result. The Peacock behind the away end was certainly an experience. I used to go to matches on the train when I was younger. Ran into Leeds on many occasions.

Trips to Leeds were intimidating. Derby Baseball Ground could be tasty. Ayresome Park was another. Went to the Old Den once though.......I will never go to Millwall again.. Worst away day experience by far.  I was lucky to get out alive.

Remember it well they tried to get in the ponny like Newcastle did but both were rebuffed with interest. They wreaked the Osmond kicked the back of the stand in and urinated in the people's gardens behind. They also played a Christmas fixture in which we beat them made a massive noise think there were more in the main stand than town fans.

Went to Elland road when flying Leeds/England winger Peter Barnes absolutely murdered us we got hammered that game on the pitch. About a thousand town fans were housed in the side stand in a very hostile atmosphere.

Getting to the stand was bad as we were pelted with half bricks and stones readily available from some building work going on nearby.

Most of the agro were aimed at the Yorkshire Police though as it was during the miners' strike.

To a man that massive kop end and the opposite end stood up shouting “Sieg Heil”  and gave the Nazi salute to the police as they came into the ground.

Must admit the Police did not adhere themselves to us either as after the game after getting a lesson in wing play and hammered (can't even remember the score) They made us wait until all the home fans had gone whilst that was happening, Two mounted police trotted backward and forwards between the only exit covering the ground with horse shat which we had to wade through much to their amusement illegitimates!!!

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Chelsea got battered in the ponny all in their green bomber jackets scrambling for deer life over the fences ,bet they never expected that

I was 17 at the time and vividly recall a few Chelsea trying to get out of the Ponny by climbing the fence. I just saw numerous pairs of hands reaching up and dragging them back down into the fray.

One character who I can still picture .... a big bloke wearing a sheepskin type of coat with a fur collar and sporting the perm of the day,,,,,,, absolutely battering the shite out of a few Chelsea skinheads!

ah the good 'ol days

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Went to Elland road when flying Leeds/England winger Peter Barnes absolutely murdered us we got hammered that game on the pitch. About a thousand town fans were housed in the side stand in a very hostile atmosphere.

The old Lowfields Stand was nasty.

The 1982 game was first time Leeds visited for years & years and the opening of the Findus stand & 1st game of the season. Att 16,137 but alot of the so called Leeds fans where from other clubs & towns just there for a scrap, Kilmore scored for Town & Lorimer equalised late on. Next season was Tuesday night & only 7,797 attended, but Drinkell scored cracker as town won 2-0. Horrible in Clee Friday night, they came into the Toby from Willys, staff came round & said we're closing as soon as the cops get here, come back in half an hour through the back door, so that was it back in the Toby with the curtains closed. Note to younger fans "The Toby" was the best pub in Cleethorpes if you had a scooter, beer was crap though. No where like that now...
Chelsea visited 4 times during that period 80 to 84 att 14,708 first time for Trevor Wymarks debut as town won 2-0 loads of trouble Friday & Saturday att went well down for next 2 visits then 13,000 for last game of the season as Chelsea needed to win to beat Wednesday for the title, Town finished 5th equal on points with Man City in 4th. Chelsea may well have outnumbered Town that day in the ground, huge pitch invasion at the end, but a fair few Town steamed into them though.
Town had a great team of locals then but crowds were quite low, the fishing was almost over, youth unemployment very high, little money about during Tory Margaret Thatchers recession plus people put off by the trouble, decaying stadiums & high caged fences all over.

Quoted from barralad

There were a significant number who came on the Friday night..a lot of whom slept in the shelters on the seafront or on the beach. I can back Moosey's view about the beer off on Trinity. Two of my mates got attacked in Cleethorpes cemetery. There were small gangs all over randomly attacking anyone...whether or not they were going to the match.  I think it was the first game the new Findus stand was open for. I went to pick up my season ticket and there must have been a hundred Leeds sat in the car park.There were a lot of Leeds fans who didnt get in or who got chucked out who went down the passages in Blundell Ave and amused themselves by throwing bottles over the fence.

My dad was a bobby at the time and had been in for a few years but had never used his truncheon until that Friday night and on numerous occasions the following day.    

Quoted from BottesfordMariner

I remember being in the Pontoon when Leeds tried to take it before ko. I was 15 at the time. I didnt run (I'd like to say because i was hard but the more honest answer was I was too scared to move). I didnt get hit (miraculously). Probably the worst violence i have seen inside BP.  I was a kid and  these were blokes in their 30's and older.

The following season the game got moved to a Tuesday night. That was fun and games walking home to Meggies down Grimsby Road after the game.

Millwall came here in 1980 and that was chaos after the match as well. Havent been to that many games at BP down the years when I've thought 'intercourse'. Leeds was one.

Been to Elland Road a few times down the years watching Town and Manchester City. Cant say it was ever an enjoyable experience regardless of the result. The Peacock behind the away end was certainly an experience. I used to go to matches on the train when I was younger. Ran into Leeds on many occasions.

Trips to Leeds were intimidating. Derby Baseball Ground could be tasty. Ayresome Park was another. Went to the Old Den once though.......I will never go to Millwall again.. Worst away day experience by far.  I was lucky to get out alive.

To be honest, all the Yorkshire sides have been tasty,Scunny was always ..........interesting but Stoke was the worst I have witnessed here.

Remember some idiot with a machete came charging across the pitch towards the Pontoon end.

Before the police got him a handful of town fans intercepted him and gave him a right kick in lol.

Late 70s and 80s were bad got pelted with coins and metal kung fu stars. Urinated from above at Wolves two-tier stand got a good belting at Liverpool when they put us in the kop stupid prats.

It must be difficult for anyone under 40 nowadays exactly what it was like going to a match in those days when violence rather than supporting your team seemed to be the number one item on the agenda for a large number of blokes.  Genuinely glad a lot of the really nasty stuff at grounds has been consigned to history, but I doubt the violence that follows the game outside the stadium environment will ever go away.