Cardiff v Spurs 1977 - 3000 Spurs Yid Army Storm Cardiff's Ninian Park. Here's What Happened Next

[@Busybee65]

Was talking to some Cardiff fans in the service station, and he mentioned this game , he rated the Spurs mob that turned up, only a few of the big clubs ever took the fight to Cardiff at their place, Pompey, Chelsea, Leeds, Man Utd & City, Millwall got a mention, along with Swansea, Both Bristol clubs, and Plymouth. Ninian Park was one of the toughest grounds back in the day for away fans.

[@Isleofskye]

No noise from the Cardiff Boys at Millwall last Saturday and they went home with the tail between their legs:)

[@Walesktf]

You haven't had to endure the shite football served up by Erol Bulut all season, like we have! Also, let's face facts, football hooliganism is a thing of the past, unless you are spotty little chavvie wearing that over-priced Italian tat, Stone Island.

[@markthomas1961]

Ccfc in your pub early and 3 of your main boys came in and started shaking hands

[@Isleofskye]

@@markthomas1961 That's good to hear/ I first went to Cardiff in around 1976 and ended up being caught up in the middle of The 'ardiff fans after the match chasing my own fans towards the station. At the station that got stopped(I assume) and we carried on:)

[@coniferclose]

@@markthomas1961shut up you dreamer.

[@Isleofskye]

@@stevancollins8267 Fair enough, my friend. In my case,as I enter my 8th decade in one month, then there has been a great deal more that has gone:)

[@CarwynThomas-m5q]

Followed their special from Cardiff General to the ground ,spurs came unstuck outside the craddock pub ,but with about 15 mins to go they stood in the big reassess outside the Grange end,when a load of Cardiff charged out it kicked off big time ,remember a spurs fan having a big plastic bin slammed over his head ,the big gates of the Grange end were slammed shut and only what managed to get out and the spurs that were there battled it out it was dark and confusing for both groups, and trouble all the way back to the train station ....

[@TheBostonR]

I'm a little surprised the Cardiff supporter isn't aware of the day Chelsea took Ninian Park over. And no, I'm not a Chelsea fan, but I've seen the vid of the game twice and the SW6 outfit are everywhere, including The Grange.

[@oldschoolfootball]

He's aware, but they didn't take the Grange according to him!

[@RobertPointer-nb9ot]

I'll was there that day in 84( Chelsea fan) Yes, we did certainly had a good turn out that day! In 3 ends, but not the Grange! Chelsea did have a go at the Grange, but it was over very quickly, as OB chucked them back with the rest of us! Afterwards was naughty, evens by the end of the day...

[@davidthomas6473]

Chelsea out numbered Cardiff, 11,500 crowd six thousand were Chelsea as on their way back to the 1st division. The grange end was for away fans then. Half the grandstand Chelsea fans. A block 100 Cardiff call Chelsea over it erupts chaos all game, Chelsea moved to family section behind other goal Canton End, took it over as Cardiff in bob bank and grandstand. Chelsea tried to take bob bank but gates were locked by police, trouble before game and after in park opposite ground , car park on on way to train station. Cardiff totally outnumbered days before mobile phones was 14 standing on bob bank watching it all to many Chelsea fans for police and Cardiff to cope with just down to numbers

[@TrPortg]

They came out after game run us up to the railway station...I remember the roar...all the way to railway station

[@OwainGlyndwr1927]

I was there as a Cardiff fan for the f a cup game and the league game when Spurs were relegated to Division 2. Look, Portsmouth were in the Grange end. They were there early, if taking the Grange end by getting in there early before city fans, then yes Portsmouth did that. when the trains bringing thousands of fans from the valleys pulled into Ninian park hault. along with other city fans Portsmouth were run out of the GE. ( fair play to pompy ) they had a go. A mob of Spurs left the ground early to try and get into the Grange end. Every fan from the 70s and 80s will know that the exit gates of all clubs are opened 15 to 20 minutes before the game end's. The exit gate at the GE was open, not closed as that Spurs Boy said. I was in the Grange end when a big roar went up. It was spurs outside on the road. Any city fan who was interested in violence poured out of the Grange end and Spurs run. The Spurs Boy is right, it was a huge city mob outside. all the way to the station it was kicking off everywhere. No disrespect to Spurs but they were not in the same league as Chelsea Head hunters Who were awesome at Ninian park in 84. ( what a firm ) West ham did nothing an NP. Man utd had a huge firm in 74. Everton got battered in the fa Cup game in 77. Them days are long gone. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@oldschoolfootball]

Look, it's all very confusing in the heat of battle. Some say the gates were closed, some say open. It's simply their story and how they remember it from 47 years ago!

[@oldschoolfootball]

But saying that, if you have stories for those matches you mention, email me at [e-mail] and I will make a video of them.

[@Walesktf]

@@oldschoolfootball I was there, the gates were open!

[@Walesktf]

Hi mate, I can't recall Pompey ever being on the Grange End in the 70s. There is a famous story of them turning up early doors in season 67/68 accompanied by loads of merchant sailors and Royal Navy guys both lots on shore leave, coming up with the Pompey skins for the day to brawl with the Taffs. They arrived at the ground early, got in when the gates opened at 12.30 and couldn't be removed from the Grange End. Chelsea in that infamous game of '84 outnumbered us about 2 to 1, but they still couldn't take the Grange End.

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

@@Walesktf They came on the Grange ,30 to 40 maybe

[@leslierowe2337]

What a load of bollocks i was at that game Cardiff did them big time just like they did Everton later in another end and spurs fans were not in the bob bank they were under the grandstand in the non seating area

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Butvyou never came to goodison 😂

[@CarwynThomas-m5q]

Never played everton at everton​@@Stephen-lx9nm

[@DannyG-cv8so]

I love Ginger Bobs story about Millwall away at Cardiff in March 1976. It sounded very similar to Man Utd away at Cardiff in 1974, except there were far more United fans in Cardiff. Those Welsh lads defend their land with a passion.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

But do they travel ?😂

[@bobbybuckle986]

Not my recollection of what happened, and we did turn up for the league game, if you read the “Tottenham Boys We Are Here” book you’ll see the pictures! So get the facts straight.

[@britishqueen94]

Only a year apart but the firm at 76 and 77 two different mobs....the ones who went to both games said we did better in 77 than 76....my recollection was there were a lot of to and fro's outside...On the whole we run their masses but whenever we run into Cardiff's hard men they were impressive....in those days there were many battles at a game so difficult to say who came out on top....in the return Cardiff brought only 2 coach loads to WHL...About 15 of us terrorised them in the coach park At Northumberland Park

[@drezlove]

77 i was 20 on leave from the army, at the end of the game the grange end gates were opened, as i was one the first out and somehow i dont think i was hit but ended up on my ass , just as a mob of spurs came charging towards the gates, a hand from nowhere grabbed me and pulled me up and back inside as the stewards shut the gates agian. People were claiming spurs were throwing little bottles of amonia , cardiff were ontop turnstiles throwing stuff sours backed off then the gates opened and the grange end emptied. Yes chelsea had a big mob in 80's but prob the biggest mob i had witnessed was sunderland i think the crowd was around 18000 and they brought around 15000, PROMO last away match.

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

I was there for that game,Spurs had about 100 maximum,around 40 of them came on the Grange 10 minutes before the end some fighting then chased off

[@oldschoolfootball]

100 fans for a 3rd round fa cup tie doesn't sound right does i?. This is 1977 when the fa cup was huge!

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

@@oldschoolfootball I was there mate ,100 maximum they put them in the enclosure,I can remember watching them,they didn’t have any interest in the game they were looking at the Grange constantly,didn’t do any singing either

[@oldschoolfootball]

@davidjones-wt2qq so their firm was 100 strong but they had normal fans I take it?

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

@@oldschoolfootball Nearly all firm,the 2 or 3 who led the charge onto the Grange we’re wearing butchers coats with the others behind them

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

@@oldschoolfootball I went with Cardiff away to Spurs Jan 78,a year later,they done us tbh,Spurs came in the away end with us,fighting all game more or less

[@grahamemcfarquhar3268]

Tottenham had a good mob in the 70s especially in fa cup games away.

[@markjenner7199]

Shame only 93 cardiff went to leeds after the infamous cup game the previous season

[@Walesktf]

What a load of bollocks Cardiff fan Craig spouts. No way did Birmingham, Leicester or Vila EVER have the Grange End to themselves. Football specials for the valleys arrived at Ninian Park Halt from about midday not just before ten to three!! The gates use to open at 12.30 so the Grange End filled up slowly from then until the 3pm kick off. Portsmouth did NOT take the the Grange End in 1973, He's talking out of arse! Portsmouth did however, take the Grange End in season 67/68 as they arrived en mass (via a direct train from Pompey to Cardiff Central) and were outside the ground by midday, waiting for the gates to open at 12.30. Despite City's attempts to regain it Pompey managed to hold the Grange. It was a little bit before I became a Grange Ender but that Portsmouth match was part of the Grange End/Cardiff City folklore. For this cup game, Spurs arrived with the biggest firm seen ar Ninian Park, since Man Utd in August '74. I'd say things were pretty much a draw that day, hooligan wise, although we did seem to have the upper hand in the pitched battles that took place all along Ninian Park Road and Tudor Road on the way back to Cardiff Central train station. Rory is out of his mind if he thinks those on the Grange End would have panicked and run onto the pitch, if the gates had been open, and Spurs had got in. For a start City fans as one would have defended the Grange End with their life. Secondly, fences had been erected stopping fans getting on the pitch so it would been impossible to run onto the pitch. This comment makes me think this bloke Rory wasn't even at the game that day! Also he would have definitely known which end was our end that day, if he had been there in person. The Grange End was a terrace whereas the other end, The Canton Stand was all seater. That would have been plain to see if he was on our Bob Bank that day, which I doubt very much that he was.

[@PaulWalshp-wx4in]

WAS HARVEY BORN THEN ??????

[@TrPortg]

Craduck remember it well the booser rite dindgy place house of holland on corner the good old days

[@martinfarmer8569]

Cmon Pompey 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@paulpugsley3971]

In that famous cup run I was a 15 year old Everton fans on the grangend hide there scarves and one by me pissed himself 100% true Everton shit themselves thought they were coming to a tinpot football club 😂😂😂 soon found out cardiff were mental

[@damiansneddon]

The numbers are just stupid,doesn’t give your video any credibility