NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm by Stuart Wheatman & Steve Wraith & Mark Mennim

Author:Stuart Wheatman & Steve Wraith & Mark Mennim [Wheatman, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wraith Promotions Limited
Published: 2013-11-18T23:00:00+00:00

Wolves

We had a good day out at Wolves in 1983 too. It looked like our boys wouldn’t get a ruck before the game. Typical! They plonked themselves down in one of their bars next to the station and waited and waited, but nobody came. Just as it looked like they were going to be stood up, a black guy came in around an hour later wearing a deerstalker hat and asked how many of them there were and whether they wanted bother or not. He also asked if they were tooled-up. The lads told him they wanted a fight and said they’d wait there in that bar for them to turn up. They never showed.

Inside the ground a lot of Newcastle fans had got tickets for the home end and it didn’t take long for fighting to break out and spill onto the pitch. The police were in on it quickly to restore order, but it kicked off again at the end of the match and hundreds of fans spilled onto the pitch and got stuck into each other. It was a pretty decent riot!

There was bother outside the ground once everyone had cleared out. One of our lads got nicked and cuffed to a fence. The copper then left him there like a sitting duck.

In another incident, a bus got pulled over by the coppers on arrival in Hanley in Stoke. The officer welcomed the lads to Stoke and told them to avoid The Roman Candle pub as this was the Stoke lads’ bar. It was jolly well civilised of him to warn our chaps of the terrible ruffians that frequented that drinking establishment, so they thanked him, said their goodbyes... and told the driver to head straight for The Roman Candle.

When they got there the bar was closed and there were a few broken windows. Turned out a group of our lads from Stanley had gone in six-strong and gone for it. One of the lads ended up getting stabbed in the arm and another was beaten black and blue and was unrecognisable when the rest of our lot saw him later. Another was nicked and one of them saved the day by wiping out the Stoke mob with a bar table. Quite a productive morning for Newcastle!

We ended up fighting in their end; it was great. The bizzies chased one of our mobs out of the home end and they ended up on the pitch a few times during the match. Technically, there are a few of ours who’ve had more appearances than Michael Owen. They took on the infamous Subway Army a few times outside the ground. They were always game bastards.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.