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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 08:02:04 »

A few were convicted under joint enterprise? Wasn’t a murder but didn’t get off.
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 08:20:25 »

The next away game down there was an interesting experience
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 09:03:22 »

The next away game down there was an interesting experience

Yes it was, I remember we were locked in for an hour after the match, had a police escort to the end of the park, and then left to our own devices to get to the station (which went fine for me thankfully).
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 16:24:27 »

I was there too, sitting in the pub, and saw poor Mark Smith get his head kicked as he lay in the road. But he got up, and even went to the match, and didn't die until after the game. Later I rued not following the bloke who kicked him so that I could identify him, but Mark got to his feet and I got back to my pint. My everlasting shame.

I was a (useless) witness at the trial, when a whole bunch of thugs got off.

Useless fact - the trial at Winchester was taking place at the same time as three alleged members of the IRA were on trial for Conspiracy to kill Tom King at his home in Castel Combe - I was working on that trial and tracking the Swindon trial at the same time.

Trust me, you can't blame yourself for what you could have done - you weren't to know he would die later on; what you do know si that if you had known he would die, you would have done the right thing.
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« Reply #19 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 16:41:48 »

Remember it well.
Those days of taking ends and away fans in the home end, scary times.
Travelling away was risky.

So much safer now.
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« Reply #20 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 17:16:21 »

Also remember Northampton away in 86 when a Swindon fan got stabbed before the game.
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« Reply #21 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 18:25:00 »

Remember it well.
Those days of taking ends and away fans in the home end, scary times.
Travelling away was risky.

So much safer now.

Pompey were always in the Townend Cheesy
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« Reply #22 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 18:37:58 »

Pompey were always in the Townend Cheesy

The notorious 657.
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, September 27, 2024, 18:49:23 »

The notorious 657.


That’s the crew!
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