Newport v Merthyr final was 86/87 absolute chaos, after that we went out of the league in 1988 but Hartridge rugby club played in the Cup final at the Arms Park on 4 occasions, all the Newport lads went to those finals and Cardiff turned up for the dance. Crazy days but thank God they're behind us now. UTC

The book Simon was talking about was called Hooligans abroad. It was a sociology case study which wrote a piece on Frankie Humprhies and the 74 game v United. I read it in the library mid to late eighties

Currently watching and really enjoying. Would love to see a round table with fans from different clubs. So Cardiff Newport Swansea millwall Chelsea etc. All at a roundtable would be incredible

I got great memories of Cardiff during the 80's when both our clubs were sliding through the league to division 4. Had a knife pulled on me at Ninian Park as we came out the ground around 1987. Cardiff didn't have huge numbers back then but were always very game. Brought an impressive mob of around 400 to Wolves around 2003. Those days are long gone but Soul Crew were always rated very highly by us. Very enjoyable Central Club, thank you - Wolves

Another great podcast mate. More football stuff is needed.

This is legendary 🙌🙌

As a Millwall fan it’s nice to hear the stories from both sides…. Crazy times back then 😮‍💨 I seen annis when I was on my holidays in Santa ponsa he was in a restaurant with his family…. Shame I would have loved to have a chat with him about them battles of 20 odd years ago 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 But it was not the right time to start talking about football aggro!! 🤣 You had some mob back then respect, 👊🏻

Quality pod again, true tales of genuine guys. Right about people quick to get on there phones which doesn’t help by putting on so called firm platforms.

Enjoyed that.....supporting hasn't been the same for me in since 90s. Loved away days in lower leagues....

Come on boys if you did it you don’t have to talk about ! ✊🏻

I remember being on a mods outing, from the valleys to Barry in 1983. Quite a few known faces from Cardiff on our train. A bunch of guys got on in Dinas Powys I think, all casual dressers, I'd never seen it before. It was carnage within five minutes... over a Fila baseball hat one of our lot had on. The Newport Trendys they were calling themselves. I was 13.

Great lads a true inspiration to our youth. There parents must be so proud

Speaking as a Swansea supporter (not hooligan) who used to go away during the First Division days under Toshack….. I can honestly say that Swansea did not seem to have a regular/organised 'Inter-City' hooligan following like for example Leeds, West Ham or Chelsea etc where hundreds would hop onto a early arrival 'private- travel’ train(s) as opposed to a club arranged and escorted 'football special' to cause repeated chaos in other cities. But the Swans did indeed have many hundreds of hooligans who would turn up in large number(s) for cherry picked games like Cardiff. Only to then mysteriously disappear into thin air. What used to bug me was their lack of loyalty, because many were indeed casual not just in dress, but in support, to the extent where they would disappear for many months on end, only to reappear when a notorious team was playing. I used to see them on the Grange Town End and think "one or two game a season wonders". I never classed many of them as serious supporters outside of hooligan persona. If only they had turned up (not just to cause trouble) to support the club when other less notorious clubs were playing. Pop and crisps supporters rule btw.

Muppets, the lot of em!

Legends

Great interview uppa City 💙

Remember around 50 Cardiff skinheads being escorted from the cowshed to the open end at Huddersfield 72/3. Had a bit of a altercation in the same end 82/3 with a few Cardiff.

Respect from Exeter

My dad took my to ninian park in 89 when bristol city won 3 0, we took close to two thousand i reckon, and cardiff werent even getting 4000 at home, any pictures of the ground that day would prove this, good chat though i enjoyed.

Ruby,ended up living, opposite, selhurst park, home to crystal palace, where he sadly passed, away, after a long illness, during covid

Lol Mad Billy loved him

Keep them coming my bro

Alan Rawlings Cardiff legend 🙌🙌🙌

Love these 3! Done many a trip with annis with both cardiff and Wales until I lost a bit of love for the club

Spent 4 years at RAF St Athan. Was a small squad of us from St Athan followed Newcastle everywere. As Newcastle fans living in South Wales we had a few run in with Cardiff especially the Barry lads. Had a proper battle in Caroline Street after a Wales v Scotland game at Ninian Park. Didnt matter how many times we went down to Barry there squad who followed Cardiff found us and it went off. Winston Allen the British Heavyweight boxer earned his money keeping the peace as a bouncer on the Island loads of weekends.

he's got a crass tattoo, love and peace

Great interview. I am irish and i can understand every word everyone is saying 😂

the welsh are different breed. not the hardest man to man but theyve got nothing and nothing to lose.

Great one this. Watched these guys as a kid. Didn't dare speak to them then. Nice lads.

Top podcast more of this content 👀

Great watch and honest always good to hear about the good old days chelsea we always had massive numbers lads now wouldn't believe the numbers we took away everywhere !% happy days 😇

The mush with the glasses looks a rite villan 😂😂😂😂

I loved it in 2003 Soul Crew brought a top firm to us.... Went off on St Mary's Church Bramall Lane.... Good Firm I Think ⚔️

Loved it mate. But those accents arent easy to understand 😂😂😂 keep em coming. Greetings from Belgium

T.c.s., torquay cabbage squad, feared nationwide.

Loved hearing stories of Cardiff city from 3 legends 🔵⚪️🔵⚪️

Love the jelous thing fucking brilliant 🤩🦢

Now living in Hereford and got talking to Rawlings on the train on the way to Shrewsbury he was off to North Wales. Train was delayed and he had a chat with train driver top man and a gent. Had a chat about the good old days. Respect to Pompey and Millwall

Bohs, Celtic, Wrexham 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Friends across the sea

All talking over eachother done my head in

I remember urkie getting chased up railway track at tranmere one night game back in 86/87 ish. Some top top awaydays watching bluebirds

Excellent when is part 2 ?

Always mixed emotions as I was a kid in 80s and 90s and believe me it was scary at times. Swansea 93 and Millwall 99 were tense to say least! Not sure about that night Celtic played Inter..I remember being out that night and was no trouble at all and was drinking down Westgate Street and clubbing...I remember it as celtic fans were everywhere. I guess if u go looking for trouble u will find it. Whether I agree with this or not doesn't matter.. always interesting listen.

Any chance of a Simon v the Mad Yank interview it would be even funnier than the one with Tommy Robinson

What time into it do the boys start talking about away at Chelsea 👍. That’s what I’m here for, so I am 👀🥊

I remember. Alan. And. Annis

Loved this fair play, more of this to 💯

Good chat, but don’t get the one in the Hugo Boss any more airtime zzzzz

As a Birmingham fan... Going to Ninian Park was quite an experience lol

Great lad Annis known him over 20 years says it as it is no bullshit, no lies just honest and genuine as it was stories whether getting run or doing the running.Had the pleasure of standing side by side with him during the Brussels riots at Euro 2000 and would be one of the first people I’d pick to be by my side again, tough as nails and great lad !

UPPA BLUEBIRDS!

Loads more old legends you could dig up, any of the Ely lot, Richard England, Popat brothers from Whitchurch

Any chance of getting subtitles for the sheep oh sorry old bloke from Neath. Can't quite make out what hes saying.

Never mention Hereford away in welsh cup, wokingham in fa cup, bristol rovers away in 82/83. Must av been us valley boys taking the heat

I was on the pictch d9wn The Shay with these lads 83/84

That eating shit story 😂😂😂😂😂 had me in tears turd and curry 😂wtf get these lads on again makes sense a valley boy blackwood we have never been well up here

Nicolas Parsons was a Cardiff hooligan in between shooting episodes of Sale of the Century , who would thought that ? 🤔

I was on the dogems love it ! I heard the story of Cardiff visiting arsenal , walking to the ground passing black arsenal fans singing “ shiny teeth shiny teath!! “

Congratulations Cullen on your big brake face of walkers Texan bbq pizza crisps 🎉

Cullan try an get Simo,nils and Mac on mate 👍

Spot on about Bristol. As a city lad (no more) we always had the numbers but Rovers have a very decent and widely respectable mob. Although since the early 80s the casual thing in the city is a bit like the Cardiff Swans thing - we always travelled up theirs whereas they’ve been to our just once for a game, the exception being when 100 odd came to Bedminster after an away game and had a pop at out main boozer (3 lions), with little to report. Rovers are mainly north Bristol whereas city are south. Strangely, being brought up in Weston Super Vegas, it is about 50/50 there despite being 20 miles south of the city. Top listen yet again.

Arsenal were definitely the first dressers in London.Well they were certainly the first fans I witnessed that had the most dressers!

I'm Welsh and even i couldn't understand/hear the guy sat in the middle wearing glasses.

80s - Tottenham, Chelsea, Everton, United, Arsenal, West Ham

Get John evans on with a Swansea lad

All top guys especially Simeon. Rawlings talking over everyone too much. Simon should do his own interview

How embarrassing

Question for the boys besides annise how do the boys rate the port.

As a Millwall fan I have to say full respect to Simon game as fuck!!!

This is great. Id love to see 80s 90s 00s and Youth of today on the round table talking about the different eras and whos the best. Also, you need to get the Jacks on the round table with the Soul Crew lads and let them go head to head

I went to the 3-3 game against Chelsea and it was total violence. My mate was in A block with Rawlings and it certainly taught him a hard lesson. Never thought i would get home alive that day. Don't think it made the news but today it would be major stuff. Respect to Chelsea that day.

I like the soul crew very hard mob of lads who stand and fight from what I've seen.In saying that most of the Welsh mobs can scrap no fear better a sore face than a red face with embarrassment.

15000 sland went to cardiff 70s 1 1 draw What a day as an 18 year old by train . Climbing walls to get in lots bother back to station if i remember but anis plus few more and sum of our lads good mates since 80s to this day . Always had a soft spot for ccfc sum good kids ive met over the years .

Def Rovers

My mate Jim Fortey (RIP) was staunch CCFC. Had me in stitches describing the Ayatollah.... Love Alan- lives by me-top bloke,brutally honest 😂

Annis is a show boy when's he ever thrown hands?

Well two friends of mine went to a welsh cup game in the seventies between Cardiff and Swansea at ninin Park they were both cardiff fans they said Swansea turned up in their thousands on a Tuesday night game and after the game Swansea chased cardiff all over the place all this thing about the eighties and nineties you could swear there was no fighting before then

A lot of respect for Annis, Cardiff Soul Crew, was a top top firm and one of the best I have ever seen. Respect Bwfc .

According to Newport Trevor, some Cardiff boy wanted to stab him when they filled him in in Newport, and Rawlings apparently stopped it from happening.

Pompey fan here.. you’re having a laugh.. never saw you at Fratton!

This would probebly be a good watch. But could we have subtitles please. Can't understand a word. 😂😂😂😂

This look really interesting but i just couldn't understand what they were sayi g ..cullen can this be done in a English version??

You had to walk behind the away team stand to leave Nin park, and I was no soul crew, just always joined in if the fighting started. While Millwall were throwing bricks or whatever I assume they were ripping off their stand, I was stupidly stood against the corrugated iron wall at the bottom between Millwall above at the top of their stand and the exit gully down below millwall as Cardiff were throwing things up to Millwall, and Millwall were throwing things down. Some brave cardiff hooligans climbed up and dove into the millwall stand, and likely left on a stretcher since there were some big Millwall hooligans who likely trained for such moments. So, me stood against the corrugated iron watching the millwall madness above, a full sized brick slammed into the corrugated iron skimming my ear, so someone from above threw a brick full force from an elevated position at my head, and if they were a better shot I would not be alive to be writing this now, or would had had major reconstructive surgery and/or brain damage. We go though life dwelling on the bad luck we suffered, but don't bless the good luck because we lost nothing from it. I have survived many things by luck and will to survive in my life, but listening to this made me remember that one. It's funny, because I heard about Annis (spelling) being top boy of soul crew since I was a kid, and he says the less in this podcast. The guy who said he does not want to be considered the top boy or anything special has the most the say and keeps stealing the attention. So, if I had to bet Annis has the less to prove because he has the most clout and everyone knows it.

As a Swansea fan i’m not just saying this but i can’t stand Bristol City Bristol Rovers Plymouth Birmingham West Brom Wolves Stoke Chester Shrewsbury Hereford and all them along the Boarder of Wales more than Cardiff extremely Anti welsh it’s unbelievable.

Last year I came down from North Wales to take my boy to the WWE in Cardiff. A train full of Leeds fans got off a train from London, 100 of them easily, all with Valley accents/Cardiff accents. A bit of on odd one.

I thought I tuned into last of the summer wine for a minute. Go compo,

Parsons was a great lad.

Hmmmmmm, wonder why nobody would be interested inbuying the " sleeping giant" Annis?? 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Port talbot used to be more Cardiff, now that is definitely not the case, probably split 50/50 or even more Swans there now.

Some memory issues now setting in 🥴🥴🥴🥴

Can you add subtitles please

Proper

Great watch but cor that Simon’s a argumentative bloke 😂

wish the lads had spoke about wrexham, must be some storys!

Where did Alan get his top from ! Great watch

Rawlings was a proper City legend.I was at Exeter when he steamed the home end with his boys and ran them everywhere. 80’s & 90’s were the best times to be a City fan. Respected wherever we went!!!Ginger Nick was a face I remember, always game. Caesars was the club to be in Cardiff for all the firm. Coach to Plymouth New Years Day!!!Good old days!!!

Went cardiff with luton.94 most indimidating ground been to on.a par with wall at old den

Went to funeral few years back and Simon was there, cracking bloke fairplay

I noticed that Boro are in all three's top five firms..nice one..Al says nobody took Cardiff in Cardiff but on previous pods it's mentioned that Boro took their pub and got the best outside..the only firm to do it apparently

Time to get The Jacks on, they need to explain the Swim away incident.