Soul Crew Football Hooligans Annis Abraham & Jon Evans

[@wwfc9167]

Cardiff and Wolves had some proper proper battles! Big respect to you from all at Wolves!

[@Diego_Messi442]

2004 at Molineux was mental

[@mrdog2019]

I know many Cardiff fans had no time for the soul crew whatsoever, like most of the hooligan firms of the day, they would steam through somewhere and disappear, leaving real football fans to face the aftermath and revenge, I remember coming back from forest and the soul crew were bullying a young forest fan on the train, some older Cardiff from Merthyr put them in their place and told them to leave him alone, that’s real fans.

[@je6521]

Had they filled in the soul crew application form and got there badges?..because to be in the soul crew you have to fill in the 25page application form do a series of interviews then a 7 day escape and evade the transport police police Then we got to trace your family routes all the way back to the first century..then and only then you might get in...

[@Dave-s8y]

Real firm's never bully fans you only wanted it with your own kind or you were scum

[@michaelharrison3602]

Overweight middle aged men who want to fight after a few pints. The Eastern European hollies must be sitting themselves 😂

[@dublinsfaircity]

Great podcast. Two good lads to be fair. The story about the Zulus kicking hotel doors in Glasgow looking for Annis is poor form after Annis was asked over to talk to some of the main lads as a 'guest'. Just shows once the drink and charlie starts flowing respect can disappear fairly quick. Good respect shown to many firms like Wolves, Tranmere, Huddersfield, Boro,Newport, Bristol, Forest, Zulus, Pompey etc No problem owning up to being done. Good honest chat. Hats off to Annis and Jon.

[@BenTimpson-j1k]

Loved all the interviews with these guys, looking forward to seeing them on the same show, as a tottenham fan I can honestly say I’ve never encountered a atmosphere like the one when we played cardiff at ninian park in 2007. I’ve been to your new stadium and I cannot believe the difference in atmosphere, hope you get it back one day .

[@thecentralclub]

Topman

[@henryclarke5363]

i went late 70,s heavy stuff and that no bluff.

[@lewishegarty813]

Great game I was there watching when we set the flare off ? 😂

[@barrymccann4244]

Jon is one of the best lads you'll meet in your life. Top top lad

[@cobrakaicyberdon]

Another good podcast in the bag. Big up central club. ✌️💯

[@richardherbert8476]

1st thing i will say studio looking good this went on for hour and 36 mins he could of put a beer on the table for you both Iol , great podcast with annis and Jon good to hear 2 old school lads telling the truth about the away days and at cardiff and I got to say I have always respected them home and away great watch and recommended to have a view spot on with there opinions to annis great stuff there and Jon 2 great lads please like and subscribe, from bristol city fan rich watched after the 1-1 draw today at Ashton Gate great show looking forward to next one #annis&Jon Fantastic guys 🤝👌

[@tynan8994]

Speaking as a 60 year old who left this scene many years ago but still follow Newport home and away we had many a ding dong with Cardiff, most times we weren't even playing each other. Cardiff were always the big boys in terms of numbers but they were pleasantly surprised many times by Newport & the honest lads down there always admit it. We've all got mutual friends in both cities now & can enjoy a civilised beer together but back in the 80s it was pure hatred. Happily those days are in the past.

[@Bradfordlad-b6n]

Are you coming to Bradford tonight then

[@richardevans7035]

Always thought Newport was a much tougher area than Cardiff

[@Henricus.]

@@Bradfordlad-b6nyeah get the curry in Mo

[@Bradfordlad-b6n]

@@Henricus. too late pal your lads stayed at home and had leek soup for tea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤡

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

Newport is rough as!! Got to be one of the roughest small towns in the UK

[@cash4cat]

Great interview, like the way that they showed respect to Pompey and Boro, 2 proper firms, must be all that sea air😂

[@lukeallen8224]

Good to hear about Pompey 👌🏼

[@benw6248]

When do they talk about boro please, do you know what time on the video they start too please

[@lukeallen8224]

Good to hear respect for Pompey! 👌🏼

[@vlad7667]

Bank holiday Monday , Easter 1990 is the game Jonathan is on about when the jacks turned up at the Grange. They had a coach to Barry then came in on the train . One of the first times they made an effort . They were then escorted to Tudor Road and marched to the ground. After the game 30 Cardiff went to Barry and had it toe to toe with 50/60 Swansea outside the Barry hotel. Swansea’s best there but couldn’t shift the 30 Cardiff who were mostly Barry, Ely, Neath and Port Talbot

[@AnthonyCox-r5u]

I've only just stumbled on this podcast but a great listen

[@thecentralclub]

@@AnthonyCox-r5u thank you Ant! X

[@GoTellTheSpartans24]

Few good memories of Cardiff with chelsea. Can only remember some of the away games now I’m so old but remember them 👊🏻

[@sacredandthepropane]

One thing I will say for Cardiff City - They still had 1980s level turnouts up until the early 2000s, a long time after the game was dead for near every other British club. I was at the FA Cup game in 2002 when you done us, a brilliant hostile atmosphere that we won't see the likes of again. The new ground I think sadly has finished you off. Respect, a Leeds fan 👍

[@DeeEdwards-p9u]

I was there too best game of my life

[@ianlomax6717]

Top guys and top podcast i enjoy them all well done lads

[@thecentralclub]

Stay Central mate

[@TreborOne-z4b]

Best firm I’ve ever seen at selhurst park apart from Millwall.

[@martynwhitehouse6831]

Mate ur a fukin inspiration keep up the gud work ur podcasts keep me alive in my dark days and there r many

[@thebigslug939]

bumped into jonathan and nils at southampton and bristol away last year. proper cardiff.

[@raffrafferty9400]

If you are not careful Callum Annis will take over your show. Wish he'd given JE a chance to talk more.

[@joebee1558]

Cardiff always came to plymouth, but we always went there!!

[@jackcrosby9711]

Football hooligans fighting over a game whilst their country collapses

[@George-if1bf]

100% can’t agree more,

[@cardiffskating1040]

Nothing to do with a game, it’s its own scene.

[@O___629]

Nothing to do with football. It’s town with town, city vs city.

[@thecentralclub]

@@jackcrosby9711 there talking in past tense

[@George-if1bf]

Now their own cities/towns don’t belong to them.. all a distraction.

[@lixton79]

I think its about time you got some of the old skool newport lads on there and let them give there side

[@thecentralclub]

@@lixton79 love too!

[@lixton79]

@thecentralclub reach out ...there all about still 😎

[@colinstewart8047]

Always good listening to other sides of the stories.Well respected in Scotland been upto Rangers a few times for Aberdeen or Hibs

[@thebigslug939]

would love to hear a full account of the millwall 99 at NP

[@johngoddard4459]

Great podcast didnt want it to finish .Top guys Annis and Jon . I remember going to Ninian Park on a Friday night to watch West Ham play as a 17 year old .The day before Man Utd played Arsenal in the 1979 FA cup final very hostile atmosphere but that what i enjoyed about going . Keep up the great work and stay safe guys.

[@stevenwilson3636]

Always a good listen with they two

[@thecentralclub]

Stay Central Steve!

[@garethsmith8896]

Mentioning 'Dare dare'class Bruv!😂

[@WelshBoi44]

Fairplay Jonathan giving Swansea some acknowledgment, to Annis’ despair 😂 Swansea are underrated.

[@DavidMorgan-m9o]

Definitely underrated. Swansea is a rough old town

[@2TenR]

Nice studio mate 👍 Great pod too

[@neilwilliams8741]

know the 2 ..top lads ..from north wales fan [and wrexham[too many stories...loads time for the soul crew

[@waynekieft4952]

Studio is looking really nice Cullen!

[@pauladams626]

Brilliant Podcast from 2 Top Lads keep good work up Annis. YNWA

[@oddy532]

Boro set off about 3 in the morning i think for that game, parked at Neath and train to Cardiff. Loved the atmosphere at Ninian Park , proper football ground.

[@OdinzEinherjar]

You went past Cardiff to Neath to get a train back to Cardiff?

[@oddy532]

@OdinzEinherjar why not like. Ask your lads if that's what we did, would your coppers expect it, got us into Cardiff unnoticed and into the boozer out of the way, its called commitment to the cause lad.

[@michaelbennett6925]

Would personally like to hear more from JE as he was always on the frontline and right in the mix. AA does most of the talking but isn’t one of the main lads

[@vlad7667]

Being a proper lad wasn’t about who the best fighter was . Standing with your firm and knowing the score is what counted

[@matthewjones6193]

The two waffles themselves😂😂 so much bullshit Bla Bla Bla

[@franklyspeakingwithfrankpo4249]

Yeah respect from Tottenham.

[@richardbrown8099]

That day we beat Forest away was pretty scary.😂😂

[@paul-jn5cb]

I went through school with cardiff striker carl Dale ..carreer cruely ended short when he was on fire and heading to one the big 3 clubs

[@peterhassett8332]

I'm a liverpool fan, when Cardiff played liverpool at Anfield, the 1st time playing Cardiff in donkeys years, I remember a Cardiff supporter sat in the main stand on his own and all the Cardiff fans were singing his name, I wonder if it was ome of your guest ?

[@jrich6322]

I doubt it. I like these 2, but why the fuck would we be singing about them?

[@nathandavies6857]

Keep up the good work cullan bro great podcast once again

[@richardevans7035]

Be better if he got different Cardiff hooligans instead of the same ones all the time

[@matthewjones6193]

It’s a well known fact Swansea have done Cardiff a fair few times and the same with Cardiff have done us a few times stop trying play it down lads ffs 😂

[@jonathandavies9641]

There was never anything in Swansea, Swansea have always run from trouble and still do now

[@matthewjones6193]

@@jonathandavies9641 okay Jonathan pal👀😂 didn’t see Swansea run to the sea and swim as for theses days Cardiff don’t turn up in Swansea Bristol shit it and so do many others only team that still has a pop are Coventry and brum

[@jonathandavies9641]

@matthewjones6193 Swansea run all the way down the canton mile, kids got chased into the sea only adults in Swansea think it's something worth bragging about chasing kids it's a bit noncey tbh

[@JackArmy-i8z]

@@jonathandavies9641 Stop talking rubbish you silly cunt

[@CallyBullock]

Swim away lol

[@catmalogen23]

Forest = 2 European Cups, which haul would you prefer?

[@ZEEPOW77]

Fucking hell that Anis can talk 😂

[@julianhughes6246]

Shit mostly,I had a good hammering down Barry 1983,bank holiday,him & his boys wouldn't even steam into Newport on the beach,even though they had more numbers,us skins did,at the end of the day when we all started to go home Newport must've had more numbers,I was talking to a boy from school who was with annis & they started to run,I turned round & I was kicked to shit by a pile of Newport boys,seen him do this a few times,am not surprised most valley boys can't stand him.

[@terrystephens8603]

Took friend in army to watch Aldershot v Cardiff he couldn't believe how crazy Cardiff were.

[@thecentralclub]

❤

[@MorganWatts-fh8uq]

Simon insole was a good mate of mine I used to play rugby with him at st Joseph’s

[@hywelreed3249]

The timing of this with the Bristol game today 🙌🙌 you knew what you were doing ! Hopefully big Jon got a couple back today

[@thecentralclub]

@@hywelreed3249 😅❤️

[@T70M43]

Legends !

[@mikeweston3514]

36 Wrexham came 95 Welsh cup final we in pub in Cardiff an u came outside we came out kicked off we hugely outnumbered but stood our ground there was a bloke working in a hole he soon disappeared lol

[@vlad7667]

Good account in Soul Crew book. Wrexham always rated by us

[@Dave-s8y]

1970s had some fun on the bob bank but admit Cardiff did come together I'm Pompey can we have our clock back

[@sanfrancity100]

Tony Rivers who authored the Soul Crew book - has he ever featured in your podcasts, maybe a nickname used?

[@vlad7667]

Tony has done a couple of other podcasts but he doesn’t go into much detail about those days . He works within homeless charities now and still writes. The latest book Magnetic is about the history of Stone Island. Doing very well

[@sanfrancity100]

@@vlad7667 Quality response mate cheers. Will check out the book. Did he have a clothes shop in Cardiff?

[@WelshBoi44]

Jonathan trying to convince himself and others he’s done with the scene but it’s not working mate 🙈

[@je6521]

Trying mate but if its in you its in you

[@leethistlethwaite4381]

Annis says around the 30 minute mark that about the infamous Boro crew keeping themselves hidden and he says as he mentioned about Boro earlier, has that bit been cut??

[@jrich6322]

They’ve already mentioned it on 1 of the other podcasts. We don’t want to hear the same stories over and over.

[@tie808]

cant find the pic of him bloody after the scrap anywhere?

[@paulkillick527]

Good podcast lads great firm Cardiff we’re as good as anyone on their day the old ninian park was lively just like the old Upton Park and the old den Highbury etc Annis is bang on the money when he says the Olympic Stadium is poxy and I totally agree with him some of the old scraps they were involved in sounded really lively exactly how it use to be 👍⚒️

[@richardevans7035]

Highbury 😂😂 WHL a lot worse

[@Allstarbkb]

Annis face when jon mentioned the jacks in the grange pub 😅 he didn’t like tha one

[@stevenwhite9408]

We will get you in a cup one day lads. Up The County

[@BradBaston]

Game on

[@DontWatchMeTV]

They should do a film 🍿 or a docuseries

[@TheHighwayDreams]

Respect to these lads.. ALAW.

[@thecentralclub]

Stay Central

[@LlywelynapGruffydd]

CCS is rocking when Wales play there. its not the stadium, its the fans.

[@wales123100]

Its not that great really the build up okay the old arms park was better on a big game

[@garylakey5564]

How do they rate Plymouth

[@vlad7667]

Cardiff had a decent rivalry with Plymouth from 94 for a good few years after . TCE one of the only firms who came to us in the lower leagues

[@gazzz-yz7xc]

i think plymouth are a well support club down south myself sold out there away end last season

[@garylakey5564]

Thanks for reply love watching the vlogs this one is ace

[@joebee1558]

96 away at Cardiff was eventful,nice sunny day! Went back into city centre after the game should have seen the state of our 2 mini buses 😂😂

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

I was at ashton gate in 1989 when the turnstiles at the away end were ripped apart brick by brick top Day that was

[@anthonyevans1073]

Good video, now you gotta do a no2🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@dylanbruford7764]

Michael harvey is a legend my fathers good mate

[@cootz72]

Whywould Swansea fans ring the OB to tell them theyre in Cardiff 🤣Thats ridiculous and how would you know unless you're talking to coppers yourself 🤔

[@SuperRichard143]

I can categorically assure you that it’s true. A jack who travelled in one on the limo’s contacted SWP to let them know they were travelling to Cardiff. I know as I met them with my ‘friends’ on St Mary street.. Think about it…..

[@cootz72]

@@SuperRichard143 of course you're gonna say it's true you was there after all 🤣

[@Chugmeister666]

@cootz72 If Swansea are so shit why did one of them give Nils a battering at Newbury Races the one coming out covered in blood on cctv apparently look it up.Imagine the shame a swansea boy giving a Top cardiff boy a seeing to 😂😂😂😂😍

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

@@Chugmeister666 can happen to anybody when they are pissed especially if you hit them from behind and thats exactly what happened in that incident

[@JackArmy-i8z]

@@SuperRichard143 Are you sure about that? Tell me who it was that told you this if there its any truth in what you say.

[@alfiegrove7233]

I remember when I was a young lad and first watched Brighton vs Cardiff, it always stuck in my mind cuz of what Jon was sayin 1:10:10 I took one look at them and thought yeah nah these lads ain’t fucking normal… never seen so many big lads in one place and one time, Literallt everyone was built like a brick shithouse even the birds 😂😂😂 must’ve been valley boys

[@waynekieft4952]

Weekend Offender!!!😂😂😂Give over Cullen lol!

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

@@waynekieft4952 if someone sponsers you for good money you are going to wear their product and advertise it also its very nice gear that they sell

[@richardevans7035]

Great welsh brand

[@waynekieft4952]

@richardevans7035 I'm Welsh and weekend offender is garbage and poor quality!

[@stevenexeter9079]

Always came to Exeter

[@EL-CHAPPO69]

I worked with a Cardiff lad a few years back. Proper old school fella. He didn't have a lot of time for some of this lot. He said Cardiff didn't have big numbers in the 80's. It grew in the 90's. But he said a lot of people were old enough to be going in the 80's but didn't fancy it cos it was on top, but when Cardiff suddenly start taking 300 everywhere in the 90's, all these superstars came on the scene when there was safety in numbers. Just what he said. He reckoned the different factions and areas all hate each other anyway. Always falling out. And most other groups didn't like Evans and his lot. I wouldn't know. Just what he told me. 🤷‍♂️

[@oddy532]

Went to chelsea in the cup in January, Its right the atmosphere was a joke, full of people recording on phones. All these new grounds are the same, very few with decent atmospheres. They are right Cardiff is dead but its the same most places, you feel like there are no home fans at Cardiff because they are miles away from ya, its a shame used to be proper. Enjoyed this one Cull, right up my street lad

[@andrewjohn2307]

Good Chat this.

[@TonyPearson-mu7yb]

TOP MAN IS ANNIS HIS PARENTS HAD A BIG NIGHT CLUB IN OUR CITY

[@thecentralclub]

Yes Tony

[@henryclarke5363]

wrexham got bit lively last few years

[@thermojo5223]

Disney fans

[@OdinzEinherjar]

Ryan Reynolds syndrome

[@benw6248]

Couldn't watch this constantly interupting the lad on the right let him speak ffs

[@carlallsopp4278]

Yep.

[@chris379202]

Jon must of took to many punches, his memory is patchy.

[@neilmoore2903]

I was at Hibs v Cardiff pre season friendly 20 years ago. Tony Rivers and his mob got battered

[@vlad7667]

😂, stop talking shit. I was with him 15 Cardiff outside the pub by the ground who held their own on the pavement against 50/60 Hibs. Nobody battered anyone. It was all over in a minute before the police got there . We only had a weeks notice for that friendly . Pity as we would have taken a load if we had the notice. I rate Hibs and know how respected they are all over the UK but there’s no need to lie

[@Oldpennyblack83]

@vlad7667 - You were not there were you?

[@vlad7667]

@@Oldpennyblack83very much so

[@anthonyjones4714]

Get this Jelly Head on and some of the other Docks boys! We need to see some of the old heads from the naughty 40! Evo knows them all, be easy to get hold of them!

[@tynan8994]

Jellyhead was a Cardiff fan from Newport, deaf & dumb lad. He passed away years ago.

[@DjCastOne1]

​@tynan8994 its a different jellyhead the one they mean is from Grangetown

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

@@tynan8994 no hes from grangetown his father was herbie the beast

[@jeremypowell8039]

I’ve followed Cardiff since the 70s and thankfully the bad old days are gone. The good thing about the firms is that they left the ordinary fans alone but would help out if u were in the brown stuff . The old days of Div 3 and 4 were better for atmosphere than it is today at CCS… Always a Bluebird

[@rjones2401]

At that bristol city game as a 16yr old. ripped the turnstiles apart singing we are evil

[@billywhizz5021]

A year or two later at a night game, you broke through the gate behind the terracing, about 50 of yours came through into the Bristol City area, that lot didn’t know what hit them, Bristol were waiting, I’ve never seen 50 lads run back through a gate so quickly 😁

[@rjones2401]

@@billywhizz5021 I was at that game. andy cole scored 4 i think?

[@antrearden1]

Great lad Annis known him years tells it as it was with no bullshit or exaggerations, his books are a great read too . Anthony R BWFC

[@Chugmeister666]

How is Nils after his battering at Newbury Races by a Swansea lad so they say 😂😂😂😂.Is that him on cctv coming out bloodied and Battered😂😂😂😂

[@thebigslug939]

he would fill you in no bother

[@Chugmeister666]

@@thebigslug939 Zzzzz😂😂😂😂

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

@@Chugmeister666 yeah they hit him from behind because thats the only way they had a chance with him cowardly jack move as usual

[@Chugmeister666]

@@Tigerbaysoulcrew Always some excuse lol

[@Tigerbaysoulcrew]

@@Chugmeister666 nah mate just the truth You would get knocked out by one of his slaps

[@theshed70]

Yeh good honest chat fellas, fair play,, I'm Chelsea boy , couple good memories you lot, just missed 84 at yours,,yrs bk based in West Country, my pals we're B City, I'd go to the big offs wit em, was at that 89 game v Cardiff, was a goodun

[@theshed70]

PS , I don't go t Chelsea much now after 44 seasons, but I've never seen blokes in suits eating popcorn 😂😂😂all the best

[@SilureSamuel]

Get Sam Hamman on!

[@richardmills7103]

I remember a Newport boy put a Cardiff top boy through the window I was there bloke called Ian w

[@thecentralclub]

😮

[@richardmills7103]

Pub called the sovereign

[@MrJohndory111]

Never understood all this hooliganism stuff, just seems to me like men who need therapy rather than travel all over the shop on Saturday's for a scrap. No disrespect if I'm not understanding it properly, but that's my take on it

[@thecentralclub]

@@MrJohndory111 that’s fair mate, I think a lot of men enjoy it; away from there hard earned graft all week what better way than to let some steam off by going to the footy, few points, sing songs and a punch up? I know it’s better than n being coked wanking yourself to death which a lot now do

[@Carl-l7h]

Annis let JE talk and answer the questions he was being asked you haven't let him speak all the podcast

[@simoncook3325]

youll never take the cromwell

[@josephhickman1087]

Annis Abraham’s never had a fight in his life lol

[@Bobdillinz]

53 minutes in talking about my first away game with the city I went up by train had a long walk to the ground and yeah Bristol wasn't around the other side of the park in escort haha 💙💙 chanting to that fat fooker in the ground and yeah probably the best cardiff away I've done 💙

[@lucylexilottie1]

Ask the lads had they come across a certain Cardiff football intelligence officer Sgt Webber...nicked and charged me 2002 leeds at ninnian park...came to interview arrest me in darlington few months after Cardiff played Huddersfield night game ...saw him a couple years later wales v england in Cardiff

[@nathandavies6857]

Id be up for Cardiff city to go down to division 1 the atmosphere down city is shit at the moment ask Jonathan and annis and i bet they miss ninian park as i do

[@TonyBowes-u5d]

darlo ring any bells

[@mikeweston3514]

You talk about little colin alot annis is he still with us

[@vwt2gel751]

Annis is desperate to have a hooligan reputation, even hanging around the coat tales of England fans. Any cardiff fan worth his weight knows Annis was always in the tent looking out while everyone else was getting p1ssed on. His weird obsession with Swansea City is weird, nice to know we live his head YJB 😊

[@curthicks9810]

Stop content this👏🏻

[@richiedread7589]

We battered them in that lane, the old bill saved them. As we got off the train there were Cardiff police, we pushed past them, there was a black lad following us so we pulled him he said he hadn't seen a good firm in Bradford for years, so he took us to their pub, as we got there they shot a few flares at us but we dodged them then served them up. The boys are kind to them, I moved up there the following year and they greatly respected Cardiff. Muffy knows we chased them around a car park in the centre. The 2 minutes under the grandstand against Millwall was epic, we hammered them.

[@ZoumasCat]

Have they swapped shoes?

[@Martin-ow4py]

Forrest was rough

[@spud-652]

Bradford and Plymouth 😅

[@vlad7667]

What’s so funny? Both rated firms. But if you knew the score you’d already know that?

[@jamesaaron2111]

As famous as my cat.

[@bfyrth]

Watching a ball of air being kicked around a field, chuckle

[@daveroberts6791]

We were in the Neville. My Forest mates with me, one of their other lads was there, an Indian lad. When we heard there was a mob in the Ninian it was belting down with rain so nobody moved, but the indian lad said they werent really looking for it. So nobody moved. Not in that rain lol Then...... OH SCABBY SCABBY SCABBY NOTTINGHAM was blasted out by the whole boozer.. Forest lads were looking at the floor, nowhere to hide lolol.... But all in good spirits, they got a good few beers bought for them after. good lads