I can't believe it!

[lopez]

Never saw anyone wave a tricolor in the Shed in the late 80s- though neither in the North Bank, Chicken Run or Shelf, and for fairly obvious reasons. The IRA were pretty active then and it didn't do to wind up the locals.

Tricolour was brought out at Highbury at the few times I saw them in the early eighties. But then Arsenal did have seven Irish players in or about the first team. And it was either the locals or certain Arsenal fans that defaced the wanted poster for a Provo that escaped in 1980 (forgotten his name but the poster had two photos - one clean shaven, other with blanket style beard) with republican slogans as you queued to get into the East Stand. Interesting that Charlie Sargent was a Gooner, but spent most of his time at Chelsea. Gooners I know claim he was threatened long ago although this was probably for his shoulder -rubbing with the 'hunters than his far-right politics.

BTW, muchas gracias for your text of congratulations on Wednesday night.

More revisionist claptrap...Arsenal have always been an 'Irish' club in London(with tricolours).....

This is also revisionist claptrap. Arsenal are an English club, period! The fact that a fair few people of Irish descent - many who think they're as English as bad railways - does not make it Irish. My last visit to a league game in October 1981 enlightened me to this. Arsenal were playing Man Ure and I was in the North Bank listening to Frank Stapleton getting a load of abuse, much of it anti-Irish. So you can come up with HB, Con and a few others that are Gooners and Irish. What about Jerry, that old boy who hangs around with him, PC, Homer and Tony Boloney?

Most clubs have far -right supporters. The difference is that at some - principally Man Ure - they are small, keep a low profile or f*ck off and support someone whose more accomodating of their politics. After all Leeds have a reputation for racist fans but that hasn't stopped you following them. Nor do I think that Chelsea's far right links are a mirage. But I do think that this is confined to a minority, albeit one quite powerfull to attack an editor of a Chelsea fanzine in Prague, almost killing him, and get away with it. It may be the case that with Roman the Jew in charge, there are even less of them now.

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=lopez]Tricolour was brought out at Highbury at the few times I saw them in the early eighties. But then Arsenal did have seven Irish players in or about the first team. And it was either the locals or certain Arsenal fans that defaced the wanted poster for a Provo that escaped in 1980 (forgotten his name but the poster had two photos - one clean shaven, other with blanket style beard) with republican slogans as you queued to get into the East Stand.


That would be Gerry Tueate, he was from Cavan, I remember all those poster's all over London back in the early 80's, I remember people dragging the poster's down and putting them up in their room's.
As for the scum @ LR in 95 they did indeed come from every tan club not just the northern one's, the best bit's of timber i seen flying backward's and forward's that night was from the garda over a all them tan head's, just a shame they were a bit slow off the mark and did'nt do it to em while we were in the stadium.

[lopez]

As for the scum @ LR in 95 they did indeed come from every tan club not just the northern one's, the best bit's of timber i seen flying backward's and forward's that night was from the garda over a all them tan head's, just a shame they were a bit slow off the mark and did'nt do it to em while we were in the stadium.

Now, now: That's not fair Sylvo. We need to play by tan rules. How about bringing in some armoured cars and assault soldiers and shoot the f*ckers in the backs as they run for cover...just like what they did to us at Croke Park in 1920.

[sylvo]

Hopefully first sign of any antanacisim in Portugal, the local fuzz will take a zero tolarance stance with them and have the burberry body bag's ready for em along with the water cannon's, riot gear and sub machine gun's.

[Duncan Gardner]

I have never visited the Police @ SB...I was ejected in error,& allow to return,though...

1995...Relying on mutal acquaintances in the know,you fat-wit,who you have even been to see cricket & ' popular beat combos' with.....as ever,you DON'T check your facts!I have never previously mentioned the various strands of the osc SC's you allude to.....

Aye, that's right, your eviction at Stamford Bridge was mistaken identity. They thought you were Dickie Attenborough trying to blag in.

A pre-arranged off involving England's top boys, the BNP and unionist paramilitaries isn't a 'fact' of course, unless you can offer some evidence of it; but your droning on about it unfortunately is

[Paddy Ramone]

[QUOTE=sylvo]

Tricolour was brought out at Highbury at the few times I saw them in the early eighties. But then Arsenal did have seven Irish players in or about the first team. And it was either the locals or certain Arsenal fans that defaced the wanted poster for a Provo that escaped in 1980 (forgotten his name but the poster had two photos - one clean shaven, other with blanket style beard) with republican slogans as you queued to get into the East Stand.

Their manager in the early eighties a certain Terry Neill was certainly no Republican sympathiser. He signed a Unionist petition opposing the Anglo-Irish agreement. One their Northern Irish players Sammy Nelson was a Protestant. The other Irish players were all Catholic.

About Chelsea having Rangers links. I think it only dates back to 1985 when they played Rangers at Stamford Bridge in a benefit match for the victims of the Bradford fire disaster. The National Front supporters who followed Chelsea developed an affinity with the other Blues.

Back in the early seventies Chelsea had stronger Irish connections than Arsenal. Damian O'Neill the guitarist with the Undertones is a famous Catholic Chelsea fan. On the other hand Henry Cluney(Duncan Gardner knows him), the ex-guitarist with another famous NI punk band Stiff Little Fingers supports both the Gunners and Rangers.