- Oct 5, 2008
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T'was a boxing day as I recall.the last time it went off was in the 2nd division
it was hyped from the start of the season.... at the time they had "harry the dog"treatment, f'troop etc etc...we'd just been relegated & we where giving it back big time
remember going to the den that day...
got to london brigde stn with about 4/500 others.. all game boys.. got to new cross stn and there was plod every 2 yards on the walk to the ground ... in the ground we tried to get at them...smashing down a fence & attacking thier main stand.
afterwards as we came out of ilderton road we where met with bricks, bottles, pipes etc!!!... we stood our ground & then went at them...police pushed us down old kent road towards the elephant!!... they let us go & around 150/200 seperated & ran amok along old kent road attacking a couple of pubs...we where walked all the way back to london bridge by the police
the days of mass "offs" between large groups are well gone... the police have it all well covered nowadays with intellegence & cctv.. they know who the main players are & most of the time & penalties for "aggro" at football matche's is severe to say the least!!.
In the pre internet days people were handing leaflets "meet at London Bridge London Pride is at stake" or something similar.We got to the Halfway Line that day as i recall.