Spire-Power, on 07 August 2017 - 07:23 PM, said:
I have limited experience of away travel by train or supporters bus. I remember being in the cack Village pub in Mansfield before the never to be forgotten 3-sides festival and being herded by police, some on horseback, to the "stadium". It seemed at the time like we had no choice.
I remember back in the early seventies they was a large contingent of us on a service train to York who were met by the Police and marched to the ground. Thing is they was a middle aged couple who were obviously there to see the sights, but no amount of trying to explain they did not want to see a match could extradite them from the procession.
Unfortunately there was no Police presence on the way back to the station, and our fans were met with a hail of rocks, stones and rubble from the city wall, where their fans lay in wait. Luckily they didn't identify us as Town fans.
The trian carriage back looked like the inside of a giant ambulance from a scene in Casulaity; open wounds everywhere.