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only1billybonds 3:24 Sat Sep 8
Question for the older fan.

I was on You tube last night watching some of our games from years ago including the 2-2 draw at home to Chelsea in the 70/71 season. In the comments section someone asked 'is this the day we took the North Bank?

Now i stood in the same spot in the NB every home game between 67 and 73 and i have no recollection if this. My old man never got us in the ground before 2.45 and i couldnt see fuck all til i jumped on my stool just before KO so i may have missed it. But my idea of taking an end was pitching up in the middle of it and staying theŕe throughout the game.

Anyone?

Far Cough 3:36 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

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

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.

gph 3:51 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

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.

Lato 4:03 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

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.

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.

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.

Far Cough 4:31 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

chav corner, that's my recollection as well, if at all any action, it would have been in the South Bank

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

Admiral Lard 4:45 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

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

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.

Far Cough 5:13 Sat Sep 8
Re: Question for the older fan.

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

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

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.

mallard 5:38 Sat Sep 8
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I’ll always remember the line in Cass’ book,

‘After we took the shed end, we started using it as a meeting point’

arsene york-hunt 5:39 Sat Sep 8
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In 1967 there were no all ticket games, just first come first served. The Manchester scum were everywhere in the ground including the northbank this was because of the daft fuckers from London who support them and all who came down getting to the ground by about 1 0'clock. They needed to win to win the league I stood on the northbank and nobody ever took it over from that match until I could no longer go in about 1986 due to work commitments.

Bullet 5:50 Sat Sep 8
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Chelsea didn't try after 73, don't know about before, some posters on here went to Man U game 68 and say they took the NB. This question has come up before about Spurs taking the NB, I was in the SB and they had a go with a small mob but soon took a beating. I started going 73 and no one came in any end and survived apart from the SB and that was only after they fenced the away section off. I was in the NB 74 and Man U got battered. Millwall had a helicopter escort down green st but it didn't help them make it up the stairs of the SB. Forest ended up on the pitch to get away from the SB and plod escorted them down the tunnel, some not wanting to miss the match jumped into the West Side but immediately took another beating and ended back on the pitch. Nowhere was safe for away fans back then.

stirlinghammer 6:54 Sat Sep 8
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Only ever saw Everton mid 80s have a go back in the south bank...lasted about 10 seconds

Also recall about 50 odd hammers behind the goal clear the south bank when villa were given the whole stand for the fa cup semi

oioi 9:02 Sat Sep 8
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I was on the north bank when Man U took it. I got pushed right up into the corner. We got stuffed on the pitch and the terraces. A tough day but at least I saw George Best play.

That was the only time it happened. Everybody else who had go got chased off.

eswing hammer 9:24 Sat Sep 8
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Man U 67 a bit before my time ,but heard back in the day before hooliganism was only just raising its head ,that all the Man U fans had tickets for the NB,what could go wrong ? Anyway as a kid l remember standing at the top of the steps in the NB green st side 72,73,when about 20 maybe 30 Chelsea ran in ,past us chanting something and then totally disappeared into thin air ,that’s the only time l remember anyone in there!

eastend joker 10:25 Sat Sep 8
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apart from the ones mentioned i remember around 76/77 time Arsenal trying to get in there and getting caught in the area between the turnstiles and the stairs up ,come massively unstuck and scattered along the west side .

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