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I follow a terrace culture group on Fb, not because I ever got involved but because it has always fascinated me. Anyway, a recent thread was discussing Swansea going in the home end at Millwall. A Millwall supporter was saying he remembered it and that the only other group to do it was Ipswich. I presume that was the 78 game but does anyone know if that was intentional or a terrible mistake? Did Ipswich really take it to Millwall at the Old Den?
So I was imagining hearing "Fashanu Fashanu, just escaped from London Zoo" in the North Stand?
It happened, I can promise you.
I say it never happened in the 70s for the reasons I outlined ,next to Birmingham City, Ipswich Town had in my opinion the highest percentage of black fans in the country and any chants like that and the perpetrators would have been dealt with very swiftly by the likes of Goosey, Swallow Simmy, Canute, Jerry Thorpe, Ian Wright Kyrokadies etc Anybody from Jeff Cranes crew and most of the of the North stand at the time. as I said we stood shoulder to shoulder. Quite why you want to paint 70s Town fans out to be racist is mystifying as they were anything but racist and I was there!
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Football violence on 15:01 - Oct 19 with 1617 views
I say it never happened in the 70s for the reasons I outlined ,next to Birmingham City, Ipswich Town had in my opinion the highest percentage of black fans in the country and any chants like that and the perpetrators would have been dealt with very swiftly by the likes of Goosey, Swallow Simmy, Canute, Jerry Thorpe, Ian Wright Kyrokadies etc Anybody from Jeff Cranes crew and most of the of the North stand at the time. as I said we stood shoulder to shoulder. Quite why you want to paint 70s Town fans out to be racist is mystifying as they were anything but racist and I was there!
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I was there too. I'm not painting Town fans, or any other fans, as racist but to pretend there were never racist chants from Ipswich fans is naive.
I was there too. I'm not painting Town fans, or any other fans, as racist but to pretend there were never racist chants from Ipswich fans is naive.
I'm not pretending that there were no racist chants from Town fans, I'm stating the FACT THERE WERE NO RACISTS CHANTS from Town fans from the North Stand See the link and get to 6.05 to see how big our Black following was in 1978
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Football violence on 15:16 - Oct 19 with 1569 views
I'm not pretending that there were no racist chants from Town fans, I'm stating the FACT THERE WERE NO RACISTS CHANTS from Town fans from the North Stand See the link and get to 6.05 to see how big our Black following was in 1978
I say it never happened in the 70s for the reasons I outlined ,next to Birmingham City, Ipswich Town had in my opinion the highest percentage of black fans in the country and any chants like that and the perpetrators would have been dealt with very swiftly by the likes of Goosey, Swallow Simmy, Canute, Jerry Thorpe, Ian Wright Kyrokadies etc Anybody from Jeff Cranes crew and most of the of the North stand at the time. as I said we stood shoulder to shoulder. Quite why you want to paint 70s Town fans out to be racist is mystifying as they were anything but racist and I was there!
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My old man reckons Newcastle once sang 'Bobby Robson's Black and White Minstrels' at PR because of how diverse our end was.
Football violence on 11:22 - Oct 19 by witchdoctor
nope..the line of police came later…before that it was everyone for themselves..after the line of plod and before the erection of fences the was a kind of temporary waist high no man’s land structure
That waist high fence. I was a 12 year kid in the West stand, V Norwich, Easter 78’. My first sighting of a young TS, climbing on it, twirling a Norwich scarf around his head, which he then set alight and flung across the divide and thin blue line into the Norwich fans! I can see that as if it was yesterday!
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I say it never happened in the 70s for the reasons I outlined ,next to Birmingham City, Ipswich Town had in my opinion the highest percentage of black fans in the country and any chants like that and the perpetrators would have been dealt with very swiftly by the likes of Goosey, Swallow Simmy, Canute, Jerry Thorpe, Ian Wright Kyrokadies etc Anybody from Jeff Cranes crew and most of the of the North stand at the time. as I said we stood shoulder to shoulder. Quite why you want to paint 70s Town fans out to be racist is mystifying as they were anything but racist and I was there!
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I second that.
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Football violence on 11:22 - Oct 19 by witchdoctor
nope..the line of police came later…before that it was everyone for themselves..after the line of plod and before the erection of fences the was a kind of temporary waist high no man’s land structure
Well think about that Harry Roberts song, it must have faded away by 1970, he was old news by then (the murder of three policemen took place in 1966.) But I cannot think of that chant without seeing it directed at the thick blue line of police from the back of the stand all the way down.
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