Amongst the enemy

[Le Juif Rouge]

Based on a post I made earlier, I have only once been stood amongst the hardcore home fans at an away game and that was when I end up in the Shed at Chelsea in 1977 because my idiot mate thought it would be funny. Cnut.

I took him to the City Ground a few times for Chelsea games and never took him in the old Trent End.

I certainly didn't enjoy an afternoon in the Shed especially as Forest lost, but what are other Trickies' experiences? Has anyone deliberately gone into the enemy ends or found themselves there by chance?

 

[siforest65]

Based on a post I made earlier, I have only once been stood amongst the hardcore home fans at an away game and that was when I end up in the Shed at Chelsea in 1977 because my idiot mate thought it would be funny. Cnut.

I took him to the City Ground a few times for Chelsea games and never took him in the old Trent End.

I certainly didn't enjoy an afternoon in the Shed especially as Forest lost, but what are other Trickies' experiences? Has anyone deliberately gone into the enemy ends or found themselves there by chance?

I stood in the Shed at our game in 1979. We'd just beaten them 6-0 at home and proceeded to beat them again on the way to them being relegated.

 

[Le Juif Rouge]

I stood in the Shed at our game in 1979. We'd just beaten them 6-0 at home and proceeded to beat them again on the way to them being relegated.

I was at that game also with my Chelsea mate. I actually felt sorry for him because his dad had died the week before. Do you remember Harris getting sent off for an evil tackle, on Woodcock I think?

 

[siforest65]

I was at that game also with my Chelsea mate. I actually felt sorry for him because his dad had died the week before. Do you remember Harris getting sent off for an evil tackle, on Woodcock I think?

Can't remember the sending off but was mesmerised at how we dominated that day. I'm sure Trevor Francis absolutely tore them apart.

 

[GOBIAS]

I'd have loved to have gone back to those days to experience forest and football generally in the 70's.

I was in the home end at Grimsby when we lost 4-3 under platt. Got two sent off. What an ill disciplined sack of shit Forest were under him. It was a very frustrating game and a hard game to sit on my hands.

 

[andover red]

I went to The Den (the original) with a Millwall supporting mate and stiod with him on the home terrace. It was around 1988/89 during their brief spell in the top league and The Den had a proper nasty atmosphere. I had to clap them off after they beat us 1-0 but my abiding memory is of a Millwall fan giving his young son (maybe 10 years old) a bit of a beating for no apparent reason.

 

[IJPS]

Back in the mid 90's i went down (15yrs old) to leicester away with a couple leicester fans.
Walked through nelson mandela park alone to the match with a NFFC union jack round my neck and stood in their end (flag back in coat pocket for match). Mindless!

Lost 1:0.

 

[alabamared]

I ended up in the Southampton end at Wembley for the league cup final.

It was OK actually one or two laughs.

 

[Alvar Hanso]

In the kop at Bramall Lane when Nigel Quashie and David Platt got sent off. That was a grim afternoon.

 

[adam09]

Away at West Ham. Think it was McAvennie's last game for them, they'd been relegated... he came on and scored a hat trick.

Away at Sheff Weds around the same time, think we got smashed 4-0. Great.

Away at Northampton in League 1. Old boy next to me cottoned on we were Forest fans and started elbowing me in the ribs saying you shouldn't be in here

 

[Bryn Gunn]

Only done it twice.

Barnsley away during the Frank Clark promotion season.
We took loads to Oakwell that day and we were the early birds that took over their main pubs at 11am. There was around 200 FEC and there was chaos all day, when we got to the ground someone said 'f*** it, let's take their end'. About 50 of us got in their kop behind the goal but we stood out, due to the lack of donkey jackets and that, and the Police pulled us out. To a vocal barrage of "scabs"!
By the end of the day there was blokes from Barnsley shaking our hands out of respect. One bloke said we've had everybody come here and no one has took the piss like Forest today, best crew we've ever seen.

Leeds a few years back.
I've got a pal up there that has a ST on the Kop, his friend was on holiday for the fixture so he invited me up with a free ticket.
It was great fun spending time with my mate but I felt uncomfortable for most of the day. Not because Forest won but because how I was dressed. I stuck out like a sore thumb in my designer gear and shoes. Every f***er was scruffy looking in tracky tops or old man wear, it was weird.

I was talking to some of the London Trickies a while ago and I asked them what attracted them to Forest. Various reasons came up but one that stood out to me was we have always been amongst the best dressers in terms of terrace culture. This is true and I forget this, but that day at Leeds was a reminder.

 

[GOBIAS]

In the kop at Bramall Lane when Nigel Quashie and David Platt got sent off. That was a grim afternoon.

Another ill disciplined Platt performance!!

 

[Rockabilly]

Only done it twice.

Barnsley away during the Frank Clark promotion season.
We took loads to Oakwell that day and we were the early birds that took over their main pubs at 11am. There was around 200 FEC and there was chaos all day, when we got to the ground someone said 'f*** it, let's take their end'. About 50 of us got in their kop behind the goal but we stood out, due to the lack of donkey jackets and that, and the Police pulled us out. To a vocal barrage of "scabs"!
By the end of the day there was blokes from Barnsley shaking our hands out of respect. One bloke said we've had everybody come here and no one has took the piss like Forest today, best crew we've ever seen.

Leeds a few years back.
I've got a pal up there that has a ST on the Kop, his friend was on holiday for the fixture so he invited me up with a free ticket.
It was great fun spending time with my mate but I felt uncomfortable for most of the day. Not because Forest won but because how I was dressed. I stuck out like a sore thumb in my designer gear and shoes. Every f***er was scruffy looking in tracky tops or old man wear, it was weird.

I was talking to some of the London Trickies a while ago and I asked them what attracted them to Forest. Various reasons came up but one that stood out to me was we have always been amongst the best dressers in terms of terrace culture. This is true and I forget this, but that day at Leeds was a reminder.

:tophat:

 

[Rockabilly]

I stood in Popside at the baseball Ground Derby when Lee Chapman stuck one past Shilton. We won 2-0, it was magic listening to those so called hard core of sheepies moaning and virtually crying during and after the game. So proud to see our fans in the away end behind the goal out sing Derby.

 

[Strummer]

I live in Germany.

Beat that.

 

[siforest65]

I stood in Popside at the baseball Ground Derby when Lee Chapman stuck one past Shilton. We won 2-0, it was magic listening to those so called hard core of sheepies moaning and virtually crying during and after the game. So proud to see our fans in the away end behind the goal out sing Derby.

That was a brilliant afternoon. Pay on the gate too. Chapman rolling that ball into an empty net in front of 5000 away fans was something I will remember for the rest of my life.

 

[Bryn Gunn]

Just remembered two other occasions...

Forest v Liverpool.
I'm sure it was a night match, late 80's, and all the home ends were full. We couldn't get in the Trent End or Colwick Road, so we headed for the away end.
There was three of us. As we queued up the Police were frisking Scousers, they were craft knives all over the floor that they'd dropped. We were always up for some trouble but the sight of dozens of knives on the floor turned our stomachs.
We got in and headed straight to the segregation gate, I told a copper we were Forest and he didn't believe me until I shown him a tattoo. He then let us through into the Colwick Road end.

Mansfield v Chesterfield.
This was again in my younger dickhead days. I knew all the Stags lot as I'm from there but had also made some friends at Chesterfield when we stopped off there before the semi final with Liverpool at Hillsborough.
So I tried to organize a meet up after the game but the Chesterfield lot thought I had a bit of a brassneck going in their end, especially as all the Mansfield lads were shouting my name from the West Stand. There was four of us, oddly two Forest two Leeds lads and we decided to just go mental if Stags scored. We were gonna get filled in anyway
But nothing happened. The second half was a non event and we drifted out.

 

[Bryn Gunn]

I stood in Popside at the baseball Ground Derby when Lee Chapman stuck one past Shilton. We won 2-0, it was magic listening to those so called hard core of sheepies moaning and virtually crying during and after the game. So proud to see our fans in the away end behind the goal out sing Derby.

One of the best football days of my life

 

[Barry]

Only done it twice.

Barnsley away during the Frank Clark promotion season.
We took loads to Oakwell that day and we were the early birds that took over their main pubs at 11am. There was around 200 FEC and there was chaos all day, when we got to the ground someone said 'f*** it, let's take their end'. About 50 of us got in their kop behind the goal but we stood out, due to the lack of donkey jackets and that, and the Police pulled us out. To a vocal barrage of "scabs"!
By the end of the day there was blokes from Barnsley shaking our hands out of respect. One bloke said we've had everybody come here and no one has took the piss like Forest today, best crew we've ever seen.

Leeds a few years back.
I've got a pal up there that has a ST on the Kop, his friend was on holiday for the fixture so he invited me up with a free ticket.
It was great fun spending time with my mate but I felt uncomfortable for most of the day. Not because Forest won but because how I was dressed. I stuck out like a sore thumb in my designer gear and shoes. Every f***er was scruffy looking in tracky tops or old man wear, it was weird.

I was talking to some of the London Trickies a while ago and I asked them what attracted them to Forest. Various reasons came up but one that stood out to me was we have always been amongst the best dressers in terms of terrace culture. This is true and I forget this, but that day at Leeds was a reminder.

"I stuck out like a sore thumb in my designer gear and shoes"

Bollocks was it....It was the "NFFC R#1" foam hand that did it pal

 

[Rockabilly]

That was a brilliant afternoon. Pay on the gate too. Chapman rolling that ball into an empty net in front of 5000 away fans was something I will remember for the rest of my life.

Yes it was pay on the gate, I was in the away end before the game had started. Just before kick off I was ejected by two police officers for giving the Vs at derby fans. After I was escorted away from the ground, I nipped around to the popside, payed my £5 entry fee and had a wonderful time with those sheepies :congored:

 

[Le Juif Rouge]

I live in Germany.

Beat that.

Are there any German stadiums/grounds that you would not go into wearing a Forest shirt? Genuine question.

 

[West Beach Red]

My first visit back to the City Ground since the mid 70's (I got attacked after a Man Utd game at home in one of the underpasses on Maid Marion Way by a Forest thug who nicked my scarf!)
It was around 1993 Arsenal at home. Early October 1993 - my first trip back to UK for some years, and I took my Kiwi missus as she'd never been to a football match. It might have been the relegation season.
Anyway, for some reason I got us two seats in West Bridgford end like a numpty. Once in I realised the problem and had a chat with a steward. He wouldn't believe I was forest as he though the blue and yellow tartan lining of my Levis jacket was Arsenal away colours LOL.
He wouldn't let us move but told us to sit out of the way and behave if Forest scored - I think we drew 1-1 but we got out early just to be safe.............

She's never been to a game with me since

 

[Deleted user account]

Too many to go through. But Gladys Street End at Everton on a very wet end of season midweek match when about 100 of us managed to get in and met at the back upper left before having a little sing song.

Chelsea opposite end to Shed where supposedly all their main men would be, I was in the stands that day but about 50 of the Mad Squad (Leeds fans nickname for us)ran those guys ragged for 20 minutes before getting thrown out and returning to massive applause when they got to the stands.

Remember these were the days when it was normal?!

 

[Strummer]

Are there any German stadiums/grounds that you would not go into wearing a Forest shirt? Genuine question.

Wearing a Forest shirt wouldn't be the issue, but there are some grounds where being an away fan isn't recommended, such as Hansa Rostock (renowned as the worst mob in Germany).

Also pretty spicy are the Ruhr derbies between Dortmund and Schalke, and of course, local to me, the Baden-Württembergischen derby between VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruhe; the last one, in May, saw all sorts of scuffles, post-match.

 

[Le Juif Rouge]

Wearing a Forest shirt wouldn't be the issue, but there are some grounds where being an away fan isn't recommended, such as Hansa Rostock (renowned as the worst mob in Germany).

Also pretty spicy are the Ruhr derbies between Dortmund and Schalke, and of course, local to me, the Baden-Württembergischen derby between VfB Stuttgart and Karlsruhe; the last one, in May, saw all sorts of scuffles, post-match.

Are the old Eastern Bloc fans worse than the Western ones?