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[Bear Town Robin]

every home game when attempting to dodge the pigeon fire 

[GolfRoader]

dont think much bad has happened since the events of 70's and 80's but in recent times obviously fc united and oxford away stick in my mind,i remember the nasty surprise waiting for us at the exit after the game.................,good times

[Jacko]

 ;DI remember the Halifax game at home sooo well, the mad thing was that they bumped into me next to rileys and for some reason i started banter with them and they were ok, obviously not intoxicated as they were later in the ground, the ball and chain guy just did a complete u-turn from nice bloke to nasty txxx, just shows you what the game does to us!!!

[thegazelle]

I remember the Southport cup match in the late eighties and there was a brief scuffle of somesort in the golf road.

At the time we had a rent a steward policy and they had no idea who was who (not that that should matter) and they had just painted yellow lines in the paddock behind the dugouts in the main stand. the steward spent the first half trying to move people who had stood there for years and didnt see why they should move.There was the usual eclectic mix of ex directors the odd  ex club secretary, famous pools collectors and webby of the meat and potato chant and clive lloyds boots story,fame)  and also  my old nemisis pc maddocks who was merrily quoting the taylor report to the steward as a reason why we shouldnt move. certain others of us had explained that the poor chap was not physically capable of throwing certain of us out without a fork lift truck. Alty score and it kicks off, my now best friend ex pc maddocks explained to the steward with much humour that the steward should duck off (i think thats what he said)and sort out the troublemakers on the terraces and leave this bunch of respectable and elderly  retired football hooligans alone to enjoy the match.

That story is only funny if you remember the weekly comings and goings on the golfroad in the years previous to  those days

[Timperley The Best]

i still have a wembley 78 silk scarf in one of my treasured memories boxes in some friends house or other, one day we will be reunited.


the great harwood one is something of a blur but it involved some tw@t with a dangly earing and driving round great harwood looking for him in the other sw's green hillman i seem to recall chasing him down some alleyway but surprisingly not catching him and then deciding it was better to go and drink some thwaites

one of the funniest memories of the other SW was a weymouth at home game where surprise surprise we had a scoop or twenty in the moss and he was so p1ssed he fell asleep on the chequers end and we carried hurse like with the funeral march being chanted to the golf road when we changed ends at half time.

runcorn in the trophy we got attacked as soon as we walked into the ground and as usual foxy took the brunt of the assault he was led off by the st johns lot and i remember thinking i wish i could go with him. i can still picture my view from the canal end of the ball boucing off mal baileys head and thinking oh sh*t what do we do now, the rest i recalled earlier but what a moment.

 one of the funniest football violence moments was when we played rochdale in the early eighties around falklands war time. ozzy the punk had already upset my school teacher mother with his f**k argentina tea shirt as he called for me to go to the moss for our usual 11am start.

 rochdale unbeknown to me had started an attempt to take the golf road and i had gone for a piss, as i walked past some young herbert leapt on my back and attacked me i shook him off and turned to face possibly 20/30 rochdale fans on my own about half way down the golfroadthinking i was done for. only to hear their leader say sorry ozzy i didnt know you were an alty fan we'll go back to our own end and they promptly all turned around and left such was ozzys reputation.

and just to prove i remeber the football as well we won, had 3? players sent off and vic Callow was the referee and did derek goulding score or was he sent off

somehow the fear made it all the sweeter when we won and boy was i happy to get back on the coach on several occassions

 i dont try to gloryfy those days and am sometimes embarrassed about some of my antics (but we all know that feeling
heh gary/young denis etc)

  but those days were outstanding in my life and i wouldnt change any of it.
the nearest i have felt to it was the play off wins and that oh so sweet equaliser at the new swill field

and in a slightly oiled mood it was all for my beloved Alty FC

drunken ramble over but sw does keep firing the bullets to jog ny hazy memory


what ever happened to ozzy ? was he an alty lad ?

[Ballers]

Morecambe away - I think we won one nil and I was clapping Barry Butler off when the biggest Leeds fan in the world hit me from behind.  It was like on a cartoon when a boxer knees wobble, they see colours and fall over.  Never clapped Barry Butler again.

For those of you that don't know, this was in 1995 before Morecambe were as good as they are now. That big terrace behind the goal they all stand on was just in those days a very shallow yet far back open (and fookin cold) terrace. I tsome became apparent as we stood there before kick off waiting to see which end we wouls have to stand at that there was all sorts of knobheads out, Leeds, Preston, Sunderland. At the time this wa sthe biggest game ther efor years. I sidled up to Ecky 'Er are we getting battered in a minute?' and I swear , without averting gaze at all and within a millisecond of the question 'well judging by the T**t convention that is taing place to our left I would say so' Never a truer word spoken!!

Also Preston away in 97, we ha d anaive habit of wandering into the hardest pubs available at that time. Some f**king meathed, 'youve got 10 minutes to get out of this pub!!' us naively 'great get another half in!'

I'll elt HUghesy and Ecky finish...

[chrisrufc]

This has to be the funniest thread ive read for some time 

I haven't had to many scary moments but there has been the odd occassion.  Rotherham played Swansea in Division 3 (League 2) about 8 years ago both teams had already been promoted and whoever won the last game would win the league.  The atmosphere was very hostile all day and about 15 mins before kick off the Swansea fans started throwing bricks from Millmoor Lane into the Rotherham end and some Rotherham fans threw them back at them.  The atmosphere hadn't got any better by the end of the game  and we ended up making a swift exit at the end.  It was only the day after that we found out a Swansea fan had been killed by a Police horse where the bricks were being thrown.

Personally the most scary moment was when I took my brother to see us play Man City in the Championship and we were walking past the train station when a group of Man City fans being escorted by the police turned up.  The Police blocked off the exit with police horses, so we found ourselves trapped as they slowly backed the police horses into us, trying to force us into the train station.  I kept my bro behind me while being forced to back up against the ticket office and I shouted at the police that "We're Rotherham fans let us out!" eventually a kind WPC noticed and got us out.

One of the more funny moments was when I went to Millwall away and a friend asked "Are we still second in the league" when we were sat on a train in South Bermondsey surrounded by Millwall fans.  It was the same day when I heard a Millwall fan say to a disabled Rotherham fan "Its a good job you lost today, otherwise you would have got a kick in"

As for Alty, I went to that FC friendly and was amazed that anyone could kick off in a friendly game

[Jacko]

That was the thing, it actually did scare me becuase surely for them to kick of in a freindly after conceding would suggest that fc fans seem to think there team is invincible and anyone who dares to mock them must come to the slaughter, i'll be honest with you it was also one of the saddest things ive seen, old men hitting kids!!! whats that about???

[hsmith1]

The most scared i have been with regards to football was.My wife and I were travelling down from Manchester to Exeter to visit her mother(bad enough visiting in laws lol) The train was a Saturday Morning train from Piccadilly,Bristol City were in the old first division(premiership) and they were at home to all people Manchester United whos fans were the worst in the country at the time.They ran riot on the train we were stopped by them pulling the comunication cord  quiet a few times,there was fighting on the train and the language in mixed company was terrible.At Stapleton road station Bristol They all got off the station was crawling in police and fights started there also.Maybe those united fans are the same ones that are followers of FC united

[alty.fc]

Ive just though of another... when nasty nigel and skipper were appointed as stewards; just scary

[Darren]

Ive just though of another... when nasty nigel and skipper were appointed as stewards; just scary

They were appointed because they volunteered we have had a policy of we have given people chances of being a steward yes some you might not of expected and some of them have quite impressed me with how they do the job in 4 years of being chief steward we have had
only had to ask one steward to step down for certain reasons.
Altrincham fc reley on there volunteers

[alty.fc]

It was purley tounge in cheek darren i know you rely on volenteers fair dos to em

[altrincham]

Ive just though of another... when nasty nigel and skipper were appointed as stewards; just scary

They were appointed because they volunteered we have had a policy of we have given people chances of being a steward yes some you might not of expected and some of them have quite impressed me with how they do the job in 4 years of being chief steward we have had
only had to ask one steward to step down for certain reasons.
Altrincham fc reley on there volunteers

[Darren]

Ive just though of another... when nasty nigel and skipper were appointed as stewards; just scary

I was that scared i had to give them a job

[Jacko]

Has anyone heard of the Alty razor's? apperantly we had a bit of a crew years ago