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Crumps and Farhat old fellas re Huddersfield station pub
Posted by J in C on 21/7/2025, 19:07:45 Sarah
Pretty sure it was Juniors first away game I thinkLegend
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Nah, can’t be. Unless I’m missing something the ‘Arm’ didn’t see off the ICF in Huddersfield, it was on 1st March 1980 (and duly acknowledged by the ICF - yes, there is video footage to confirm this )
Seriously - the worst violence I’ve seen at a football match that I’d gone to on my own (I was 14, and up until Millwall 85). Though I’m told two matches against Chelsea in 85 were also pretty bad……
Re: Crumps and Farhat old fellas re Huddersfield station pub
Exactly what I thought. That bit between the players tunnel and the Oak Road was a full-on two hour punch up. And the Oak Road End wasn’t divided in to 3 separate pens until the following season.
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I was on the other side of the players tunnel in the middle of it all while it was kicking off. The young kids ran on the pitch but there were enough older lads who didn’t. Wasn’t that much older than you and the level of violence that day was the worst I’d experienced up until then. The video is just your usual bullshit from someone who probably wasn’t there and knew nothing about the terrace culture scene in Luton or anywhere else for that matter. A perfect example of that is the picture of SYL stating he run the MIGs in the 80s. Quite an accomplishment bearing in mind he was born in 82. Those who lived, drank and went to the football in that period know who the main people were and what went on.
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Home from work now and able to have a proper look. If (on a full screen) you go to 4:19 and look at the fellow above the word ‘member’ there’s a fellow with fair hair and dark blue shirt - whilst I can’t remember his name he was known around Leighton Buzzard as being well up for it (Luton fan, he was a bit older than us), also - and believe me I’ve a vivid recollection of this - the fellow directly above the word ‘out’ (appears to be looking down and too his right). I encountered him after the match on the Maple Road bridge trying to get a few lads together for another go (he was West Ham) and I still remember, clearly - the words uttered by him to another fellow ‘we need to stamp this lot out but f*ck they’re game for a laugh’ (true story).
One other stand out memory from that afternoon - the penalty that led to the equaliser. You might remember Jake saved it only for Ray Stewart to net the rebound. Cue one side of that corner celebrating, then the other side, followed by what can only be described all-round windmilling from both sides (I watched from the Oak Road).
I remember there being bits about it in the Evening Post that week though if you look at the Hatters Heritage website and the Luton News report of the match there is no mention of the trouble. I’d been at the 3-3 Chelsea match a couple of months earlier but for my money the trouble that day (West Ham) was much worse. Imagine if trouble - on that scale happened today? It wouldn’t of course but if it did it’d make massive headlines.
Re: Crumps and Farhat old fellas re Huddersfield station pub
Different era when games were attended by a lot of young men high on adrenaline. The off the field violence was just part and parcel of the game back then. Difficult to explain to the fans of the modern era. Always looked forward to the big games just because of the edginess they had about them, particularly against the big London clubs. My memory of the Wezt Ham game is quite fresh. I remember walking along Dunstable Road pre match when we got approached by a larger and much older group of West Ham. They thought we were West Ham but we didn’t want to put them right. Their leader informed us of the plan to invade the Oak Road and said they’d be hundreds in there so we knew what was coming. No doubting they had a big mob with a well earned reputation. I went to see them against Chelsea with a Chelsea supporting mate at Upton Park and it was carnage. However Luton was a rough town with a hard reputation so the belittling of the Luton fans at the game is very unfair. West Ham didn’t have it all their own way despite their numbers. Anyway it was just part of growing up. Thankful for the streetwise education it gave me.
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Their leader informed us of the plan to invade the Oak Road and said they’d be hundreds in there so we knew what was coming. 