| 70's Violent chants 14:04 - Aug 6 with 4040 views | AndrewRatcliffITFC |
It might seem strange to our younger fans but the following chants were common place in the North Stand during the 1970's - makes you realise how far football has progressed.
You're gonna get your f^ cking head kicked in..
You're going home in an Ipswich ambulance.....
We'll see you all outside, we'll see you all outside we'll see you all outside..
Ello Ello Ipswich aggro...
It's time for you to run, it's time for you to run it's time for you to run.
Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough....
Beat him on the head beat him on the head beat him on the head with a baseball bat...
You'll never make the station, you'll never make the station.
There's gonna be a nasty accident...
Not surprising it used to kick off at most football matches back then! |  | | |  |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 with 932 views | WeWereZombies |
| 70's Violent chants on 18:18 - Aug 6 by flykickingbybgunn |
To put that all into context. The away fans were in the west side of the North Stand. Town fans were in the rest of it. A thin line of coppers were inbetween the two. Later they put fences up. One then two. It was great for atmosphere.
Singing against each other. Not like it is now which is a poor immitation.
What you sang was immaterial. Few meant the violence. It was, as now, about winding up the opposition.
East Anglians rarely decended into violence. Big city fans could be awful. Millwall, West Ham, Everton et al. |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 20:07 - Aug 6 with 839 views | Coastalblue |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 by WeWereZombies |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |
I can remember stuff raining over the gate by the practice pitch from United fans in the late 70's as we were waiting for it to be opened to be allowed out.
By stuff, I mean heavy things that hurt. |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 20:20 - Aug 6 with 795 views | WeWereZombies |
| 70's Violent chants on 20:07 - Aug 6 by Coastalblue |
I can remember stuff raining over the gate by the practice pitch from United fans in the late 70's as we were waiting for it to be opened to be allowed out.
By stuff, I mean heavy things that hurt. |
Sad to hear, I guess every club has its good and bad support. My middle brother went to a lot of away games and the places he really hated going were Bolton and Middlesborough. | |
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| 70's Violent chants on 20:26 - Aug 6 with 775 views | lazyblue |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 by WeWereZombies |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |
When Man Utd and Liverpool came to town they just ran riot. | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 20:39 - Aug 6 with 752 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 by WeWereZombies |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |
I remember walking past Everton supporters and recieving spit in the eye.
But normally common sense would keep you out of such situations. |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:06 - Aug 6 with 688 views | blueasfook |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 by WeWereZombies |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |
I remember when they (Everton) came to PR in 2000/01 season they were trying to start fights with town fans by the subway at the bottom of civic drive. To be fair though, was only a small number of them. Coppers quickly came along and dealt with them. |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:07 - Aug 6 with 683 views | jontysnut |
A-G
A-G-R
A-G-R-O
AGRO!
I remember the baseball one as
Hit him on the head
Hit him on the head
Hit him on the head with a baseball bat oh yeah
Bang him on the brain
Bang him on the brain
Bang him on the brain with a toilet chain oh yeah
Boots wrapped round your head
Get boots wrapped round your head
By the way, who is King of the North these days? |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:15 - Aug 6 with 657 views | SE1blue |
Do people still sing “Dig a hole and f’ing bury him’ when a player is down injured? |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:23 - Aug 6 with 634 views | Keno |
From the banks of the river Orwell to the shores of Sicily ……. |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:23 - Aug 6 with 630 views | WeWereZombies |
| 70's Violent chants on 20:26 - Aug 6 by lazyblue |
When Man Utd and Liverpool came to town they just ran riot. |
As bad as West Ham ? | |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:28 - Aug 6 with 620 views | SE1blue |
| 70's Violent chants on 20:26 - Aug 6 by lazyblue |
When Man Utd and Liverpool came to town they just ran riot. |
Yup, I can remember Liverpool fans throwing bottles us whilst they lined up to get into their part of the North Stand. | |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:33 - Aug 6 with 602 views | IndependentlyBlue |
| 70's Violent chants on 17:45 - Aug 6 by deaddogsmoking |
Even more Half Man Half Biscuit.
"Oh tiptoe
To the front row
Of the Korn show
With a submachine gun."
'It Makes the Room Look Bigger.' |
I remember that as
Tiptoe
Through the North Stand
With a razor
And a sawn off shotgun
Tiptoe through the Norh Stand with me |  |
| Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt |
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| A bit, but now also "there's nothing wrong with you, there's nothing wrong. on 21:34 - Aug 6 with 595 views | unstableblue |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:15 - Aug 6 by SE1blue |
Do people still sing “Dig a hole and f’ing bury him’ when a player is down injured? |
... with you" |  |
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| 70's Violent chants on 21:38 - Aug 6 with 575 views | north_stand77 |
| 70's Violent chants on 15:30 - Aug 6 by TexacoCup |
One to add for the Norwich home game "You've got to go through Whitton to get home!" |
Ha, no A14 then, just the A45 so they had to go down Norwich Road through Whitton. Kids would stand by the road side 'welcoming' the Away coaches.
They were called The Whitton Indians!! |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:45 - Aug 6 with 549 views | jontysnut |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:15 - Aug 6 by SE1blue |
Do people still sing “Dig a hole and f’ing bury him’ when a player is down injured? |
Let him die, let him die, let him die... | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:46 - Aug 6 with 550 views | BluedanW |
Another one.
Norwich (or whoever) sing, I dont know why,
Coz after the game they're gonna die! | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:52 - Aug 6 with 532 views | jontysnut |
One of our neighbours was in the police and came round to tell my mum that he'd seen me singing 'kill, kill, kill the bill' and didn't think I was that sort of lad | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 23:29 - Aug 6 with 422 views | gosblue |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:07 - Aug 6 by jontysnut |
A-G
A-G-R
A-G-R-O
AGRO!
I remember the baseball one as
Hit him on the head
Hit him on the head
Hit him on the head with a baseball bat oh yeah
Bang him on the brain
Bang him on the brain
Bang him on the brain with a toilet chain oh yeah
Boots wrapped round your head
Get boots wrapped round your head
By the way, who is King of the North these days? |
'Beat him on the brat with a baseball bat'
'I'm forever throwing bottles'
I remember A.G.R.O. used to wind me up as a misspelling of Aggro.
Nowadays, the one that winds me up is 'Champions of Europe'
When the feck were we champions of Europe.
It was funny at Leicester though when they sang 'Champions of England, you'll never sing that.'
We started to sing our 'Champions of England in 1962' song.
The younger Leicester fans could be spotted searching on their phones and I saw one kid mouth 'Oh F'ck' | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 23:48 - Aug 6 with 385 views | StNeotsBlue |
| 70's Violent chants on 19:10 - Aug 6 by WeWereZombies |
I don't remember Everton as being a bad bunch of supporters, quite the opposite. A game in the mid 1970s (which we won 2-0) had The Vaults half full of them and half full of us and the atmosphere was excellent. Similarly, Manchester United supporters around that time were entirely different from how they are today and a pre-match drinking session a year or two earlier in The Swan was also a great time, even when one of them inadvertently put his elbow through one of the sixteenth century stained glass windows... |
One of my brother's got nicked for going on the pitch when Kiwomya scored a disallowed goal against Utd in 93(?) , he was only 15 at the time and so halfway through the 2nd half there was a message over the tannoy "Could StNeotsblue pick his younger brother up from Ipswich police station after the game" much to the amusement of our mates who made everyone in our vicinity aware of who I was.
Anyhow, when I got to the plod station and waiting for my brother to be released there was a group of cops discussing how to proceed with one of the Utd fans in the cells, for violent disorder, as apparently he was a solicitor so they wanted everything done by the book and were determined to get him charged with no chance of him getting off on a technicality. |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 06:31 - Aug 7 with 244 views | allezlesbleus |
| 70's Violent chants on 21:06 - Aug 6 by blueasfook |
I remember when they (Everton) came to PR in 2000/01 season they were trying to start fights with town fans by the subway at the bottom of civic drive. To be fair though, was only a small number of them. Coppers quickly came along and dealt with them. |
They caused trouble all over town that day.
We were in the Cock and Pie, over an hour after the end of the game and they bottled an Ipswich fan in the toilets, so it kicked off in there. Apparently, it went off a couple more times after that too in town. |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:30 - Aug 7 with 108 views | Bluemike31 |
Makes me wonder how we used to get away with the "Ipswich Republican Army" song. | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:36 - Aug 7 with 100 views | MattinLondon |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:30 - Aug 7 by Bluemike31 |
Makes me wonder how we used to get away with the "Ipswich Republican Army" song. |
In what context was that song or chant sang? |  | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:37 - Aug 7 with 93 views | Bluemike31 |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:36 - Aug 7 by MattinLondon |
In what context was that song or chant sang? |
Not really sure of the context being a young lad but the line "we are the IRA" certainly used to rile up some sets of fans. | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:45 - Aug 7 with 77 views | swede |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:37 - Aug 7 by Bluemike31 |
Not really sure of the context being a young lad but the line "we are the IRA" certainly used to rile up some sets of fans. |
I was only a young teenager in the early 70's and hated to hear town fans singing "I.R.A. Ipswich Republican Army" It was utterly inappropriate and insensitive back then with all the troubles in Northern Ireland and pub bombings in England.
Whoever thought that was a good idea? | | | |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:53 - Aug 7 with 66 views | Radlett_blue |
| 70's Violent chants on 10:45 - Aug 7 by swede |
I was only a young teenager in the early 70's and hated to hear town fans singing "I.R.A. Ipswich Republican Army" It was utterly inappropriate and insensitive back then with all the troubles in Northern Ireland and pub bombings in England.
Whoever thought that was a good idea? |
The Villa fans definitely didn't appreciate it being sung during the FA Cup game in February 1975, less than 3 months after the IRA Birmingham pub bombings had killed 21 people and injured 200 more. |  |
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