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28th January 1984 one of the great games of our history, the 1-0 win at Fratton Park, I can't believe that it's been 42 years since this game, the same time frame on that day would have been 1942 and the middle of WW2.
So who went from on here and what was your story from that day
Satisfying The Bloodlust Of The Masses In Peacetime
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 10:22 - Jan 28 with 484 views
Just the adulation and euforia of when that goal goes in. And the lack of organisation in getting us back to the coaches afterwards with a couple of skates trying to goad the hoards of Saints fans which worked and they did not come off very well .......
I went down there that day on the back of my mates motorbike. I remember walking to the ground and in front of us was a couple of Pompey guys one of whom turned to the other and said ' if we win today I'm sleeping in this shirt' The normal nonsense in the ground,good turnout by us that day. Someone outside our end lobbed a piece of concrete on to where I stood and hit someone could have been serious but wasnt. We had some good players that day,Armstrong,Shilton,Wright,Wallace,Worthington etc. At the end I remember small fires at the Fratton End,no idea what they were burning. Scummers, Summers here we come Whoops! (lol) No problem on return but for my mate driving so fast he nearly lost me off the back..
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 17:00 - Jan 28 with 299 views
A group of the London Saints met up pre-match at a pub near Eastleigh station and travelled together (back in time) to Portsmouth. No problems on the train from Eastleigh. When we arrived, a train from Southampton had arrived a few minutes earlier and the police escorting the group of Saints fans from that train were ahead of us. The knuckle dragging muppets from what I think was the BRSA club on the opposite side of the road en route were hurling pool balls across the road at the Saints fans. We were able to keep out of the way thankfully. No problems inside the ground, ripped the lining in my ski jacket style coat celebrating the goal, absolutely worth it though! We were about halfway between the goal and the big terrace, as was, in the stand on the right as you look at the pitch from behind the goal. I do remember there was a massive surge of skates towards the dividing fences between us and them but fortunately they were not able to breach the divide, would have been carnage if they had. Similarly, no issues for our group going back to London by train although as Salisbury Saint has already said others were not so lucky. Likewise, I cannot believe it was 42 years ago. Final point, a special mention for Lawrie Mac, as is well documented, the inbreds were racially abusing Danny Wallace & Reuben Agboola even lobbing bananas at them, and they were also throwing coins - with Mark Dennis being hit on the head by one just before the goal. When Jimmy Hill interviewed Lawrie after the game his first comment was,"We got a good result, £4.50 in small change and 2lb of bananas." Classic!
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 18:02 - Jan 28 with 228 views
Incredible day out. Strange to think that apart from the addition of a few seats and some cheap roofs, the Old Slag's hardly changed at all since 1984. And the mentality of the locals doesn't appear to have changed much either.
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 20:46 - Jan 28 with 94 views
I was 14 and This was my 1st Pompey v Saints Derby my dad drove over and parked down the eastern road somewhere.
Remember walking up with my Saints hat on then as we got nearer the ground my dad took it off me, it was then I noticed a group of lads all dressed up, I thought at 1st they were Saints fans but as they were dressed how some Saints fans dressed at the time. It was only when we walked past and they were saying how scummers chased pompey away at 1st I realised.
Went into the ground and it was packed and remember being on the fence at the back of the Milton end looking around . Saw a load of lads must have been a good 200 or 300 coming down the road that led from the station to the away turnstiles and thinking bloody hell thay are all Saints lads.
The game it’s self is a bit of a blur but them singing scummers here we come thinking they got a replay just as Steve Moran nipped in to score absolute mayhem !
Got kept in by what seemed ages then walked back to the car and witnessed a couple of lads get a kicking to this day I’ve no idea if they were us or them.
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 21:02 - Jan 28 with 74 views
Met at the Wagon. We had 400 tickets courtesy of a mate who worked in a printers for the Fratton End. Set off in a convoy of Luton vans and transits. Up towards Winchester, across country to avoid plod and up the Eastern Road. Parked out of the way and got to pretty much within sight of the ground, before we were rumbled. Old bill herded us straight into our end, so plan to capture their end was over. What a feeling when Steve Moran scored ! What I have realised to be quite normal after - skates throwing everything they could pick up at us, managing to smash their own windows, but despite the bravado, not many of them up for hand to hand combat. Plenty of the lads nicked, but no big sentences or banning orders back then. What a day out - so good when we win there 👍🏻
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Southampton At Portsmouth 1984 on 21:44 - Jan 28 with 25 views
I didn’t go to that game but imagine I must now be one of the few contributors to the ugly who witnessed the last time we won there in the league, fifty years ago in 1976.
If memory serves, it was a mid week game shortly before either the F A Cup Semi or Final and Lawrie sidelined some of our better players who had been naughty. What they had done wrong I can’t remember.
Anyhow, we played a weakened team and it was a dreadful game. Micky Channon scored a very late winner and I didn’t even see it,having decided to walk back to the station early to avoid any problem.
The skates weren’t happy and decided to throw whatever they could find at the train as it left.
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