only1billybonds
5:23 Sat Sep 8
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Cheers chaps,thought it was bollox.
I remember the Man Utd rumpus in 68,masses of them all over NB. And again i the SB in 75 when the wall came down. I'd moved to the SB by the mid 70's as i was going with my mates and didnt want my Dad to hear me swear,see me smoke etc.
Remember playing Swansea in the cup mud 70's and there was mayhem after where the coaches parked off barking rd.
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LeroysBoots
5:21 Sat Sep 8
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In all my 50 years of following West Ham no other team EVER took any of our ends. In fact tge runny thing was we always took their away ends?!
South Bank corner , West Side corner... fucking carnage
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Far Cough
5:13 Sat Sep 8
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North Bank was inviolate, it was practically unheard of any ructions in the Chicken Run, West Stand did have a few invaders, Arsenal springs to mind, South Bank was where it all happened
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steveiron64
5:01 Sat Sep 8
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'78 onwards, me. No-one ever took it, but West Ham often took back the away corner of the South Bank.
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Admiral Lard
4:45 Sat Sep 8
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We did the same thing to their Shed End, in 77
Filled the centre section before they arrived. The Police then moved us out, onto the pitch and down to the away end (North Stand)
I remember Tottenham having a go at the North Bank in 76 and getting royally fucked off
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Lato
4:34 Sat Sep 8
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chav_corner 4:29 Sat Sep 8
1968 3 years before my time so I bow to yours and Far Coughs knowledge
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Far Cough
4:31 Sat Sep 8
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chav corner, that's my recollection as well, if at all any action, it would have been in the South Bank
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chav_corner
4:29 Sat Sep 8
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Should add I wasn't there in 68,year before I started .They got in their first and filled it.West Ham were apparently both sides of them with a lot of fighting.-Just wot I heard.
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chav_corner
4:22 Sat Sep 8
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The only team ever to take the Northbank was man u in 68.No-one else was ever in there at all for kick off.
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Lato
4:03 Sat Sep 8
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North Bank being taken....not even close by anyone in my many years going to Upton Park.
I remember 1974/75 hordes of Mancs giving it large in the South Bank before duly having the f@ck kicked out of them.
You can see that on you tube also.
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gph
3:51 Sat Sep 8
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I took the Kop single-handed the year we lost 5-1 there and got relegated.
By this I mean I stood there, avoiding opening my mouth in case my London accent got noticed, without a scrap of our colours visible. I especially didn't cheer our goal. I got away with not cheering theirs, either, because they were too busy celebrating to notice.
I guess Chelsea took the NB in exactly the same way.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:44 Sat Sep 8
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Something for the weekend, sir?
Oh!
You were asking, not asking FOR a question.
As you were.
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Far Cough
3:36 Sat Sep 8
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I was a North Bank regular in those days, no one ever came close to taking it but I think earlier on before I was a regular there, Man U gave it a good go
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