Denton was a legend 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽💯and miller, Rossi we were a top firm mate .

I was at the game in the north bank but didn't get involved as id been slashed across the back 2 weeks earlier by a yid down Tottenham high road. West ham took a hiding that day yes they had a real good go but were surprised We were proper up for it that day. Early to mid 80s we had one of the naughtiest fims around. Thats fact.

Remember this game very well , was in north bank to , yes ICF came in but from what i see they got battered by a group of greek lads who appeared to know they were coming , i was only a teen at the time and this was my first real taste of footy agro ,the buzz was amazing ..oh and the peanut seller , just carried on shouting ' roasted peanuts ' as all around him it was mayhem 😊

I was a Gooner season ticket holder for years from mid 70s to late 90s. West Ham/ICF were ruthless but the Arsenal didn't chicken out. However, I witnessed darts, kung-fu stars, sharpened 'coins', steel balls, etc being thrown into the Gooner, but some of the stuff got thrown back. 1973 Arsenal were away to West Ham and the visiting Arsenal fans, including me and my mate, were tucked away to the right of the goal, surrounded by coppers. Sure enough after Arsenal scored the missiles came in fast and hard, there were Arsenal fans with kids and some quite old Gooners too, after Arsenal scored a second the more vulnerable Gooners slipped away, as the missiles were launched again. Half time came and more Gooners took the prudent path and buggered off home. The size of the Gooner support was reducing, and when West Ham pulled one back, a sizeable part of the Gooners escaped. With about 5 minutes left me and my mate decided to do the sensible thing and head for the tube station. Well got out of the stand and were walking towards the large gates when we heard "There they are", wishing to keep our boyish good looks, we scarpered. Through the gates we ran and hopped onto a bus that was passing as the ICF came through the gate. We were lucky to get away without a scratch. There were fights and often the innocent were hurt, but at that time football violence was out of control. Weirdly it makes fond memories of all the home and away games, whether there was fighting or not. There was a sizeable crowd from around Slough that supported different clubs but as soon as we were at Paddington waiting for the train home, we were all mates, no fighting, just talking and bragging.

Remember that day well,never seen anything like that at Arsenal that day kicked off from both sides and middle of north bank.Arsenal gave ICF a proper battle that day.ICF where very organised and up for it,

Absolute bollox!!! I was in the northbank I was next to the fella who let the smoke bomb off!! Pushed arsenal down to the bottom even some got on the pitch and fair enough they come back up at us in the top corner avenell road side of the northbank and had a proper go and it was a proper tear up they were fuming and up for it !! Then another firm of West Ham (canning town) come in from the other side of the northbank and it went again with arsenal in the middle and getting attacked from both sides!! Arsenal were proper game that day but too many people have got terrible memories and yeah and that was the start of the skirmishes in Bethnal Green Hackney road etc !! Who remembers the beehive pub on Roman road arsenal got in there and got done by the under 5s smoke bomb thrown in the door and arsenal got done in there !! Arsenal caught us out at Plaistow one year and we come unstuck and they got in the west side Upton Park early doors (the only firm to do it ) and that was short lived for the herd !! But I will say Arsenal don’t get the credit they deserve and are right up there and on their day are a handful!! More then I can say about the yids

Another day i remember got a bit of a hiding myself that day but im old school chicken run ICF it brings back memories great post buddy makes me feel 21 again

Mindless idiotic violence that proves nothing

I was there. Near the Manager's dugout. Had a front row seat view of the chaos in the North Bank. Can still remember the disgust on Trevor Brooking's face when the ref was taking the players off. The worst trouble I ever saw at Highbury, it's tragic that a young man was murdered that day.

Gotta be proper saddos to think football violence is something to be proud of.

I remember getting taken out and put in the little narrow terracing bit along the side with a load more West Ham but a few were obviously still in there.

Few of my family ( Arsenal) were in there that day . Honest account was West Ham came running down stairs kicking and punching men kids and women like they did a lot in those days. But Arsenal were ready this time , Arsenal regrouped and went ballistic bashing up all the West Ham in the northbank , the ICF were only saved by a police cordon. That’s actually truth from that day . West Ham know it too . They never tried it again . Arsenal were at Upton Park in 83/84 season and called West Ham on and both mobs went for it . Arsenal had another pop at West Ham in 85 in the stand opposite chicken run

If I remember rightly, either on the day of the match or a few days before, a newspaper (I think it was The Sun) wrote an article, where an Arsenal Top Boy was saying, "He was the Hardest fan in London". This enraged a lot of WHU fans and it caused a more than the usual, tense build up to the local Derby. We all knew something was going to happen and by witnessing the proceedings on that day, you could tell it had also been planned in advance! From standing in the safety of The Clock End, you could see The ICF & West Ham's main mob, making their way along the top of the North Bank, towards the middle. Two large pockets of fans had already established themselves high-up & either side of stand. You could tell The Arsenal were apprehensive because they were aware West Ham was in there somewhere. Just before the KO, one of the groups at the back on the left hand side let themselves be known (or they were recognised?). But Arsenal's big mistake, was to relinquished the ground behind the goal to make their way towards the trouble!................ It was the cue to throw an orange smoke bomb into the crowd & the ensuing panic, allowed The ICF to surge forward in large numbers and attempt to 'Take the End'! Many Arsenal fans ended up on the pitch & found it difficult to get back in. A mob that looked over a hundred strong, battled hard to establish the spot behind their goal. In their 'End' the ICF also had reinforcements helping from the flanks. The Arsenal fans were all over the place and unorganised but did eventually surround the WH mob, who were now mainly fighting the coppers! Many West Ham fans got onto the pitch and took the well deserved plaudits from their own fans when joining the Clock End. A jubilant (& bruised) West Ham mob remained in The North Bank, (certainly in all the first half) & found themselves completely surrounded by the police, while the home fans kept having a pop at them when ever they could. Even when the Arsenal eventually got the North Bank back, you could tell they were deflated after what went on before. It was a mad memorial day and it was mayhem outside after the game but most West Ham fans was up for it when Arsenal came looking for revenge. I was in my 20's & married but following football was my true love and it meant everything to me then. But never enough for someone to lose their life.

Why bother going to the football if you're not gonna watch the game

I remember this game, it wasn’t about the north bank at that time clock end mate, west stand, all I was looking at that day was fat icf running up the road.

Remember that game, if I'm right we lost 2-0 and the chants were Thank you very much for the North Bank Highbury, I was around 16 yrs old and in the Clock end Highbury with my mate Jim ⚒️

It's funny how West Ham are always depicted as the good guys in the films, while Arsenal, Millwall and Chelsea are the baddies..😄

“Sat down” in the North Bank?!

I remember, West Ham got in early but police just got in the middle,we came late &. had to come from the top entrance to the north bank & rushed West Ham but the police put a stop to futher violence .If was believe me ,had mates at West Ham-Balck Nat,Chelsea-One. Arm Babs,Tottenham-Brixton & dumb dumb.Seeing West Ham running away from 6-0 AFC bought tears of laughter & no one got nicked.

Bristol City were on the North Bank in I976 even though there was only 50 of them they stood their ground when Paul Cheesley scored the winner .

Think this was the game on match of the day where they briefly showed fighting at back of corner of North Bank?

Remember the East stand hammers, time has changed the reality

Think a lot of gooners' were at a different game to me, some arsenal (Dentons firm mainly) were up for it more than usual and I took a few right hands but I gave out a lot more and never got done or run. I was in Nb quiet early and lots of West ham faces around, the time came the shout went up we steamed in pushed arsenal back, old bill came into us started to smack us with truncheon charges and push us back out the cover of NB, arsenal tried twice to breach old bill as they believed the were at an advantage but old bill pushed us right over left hand side and were kicking whu out to take them up the Clock end but many of us slipped the old bill along the front and back towards middle, lots of little whu firms recognisable Essex boys Maidstone, Canning town etc started to move together, some arsenal were game started to move over dont know if the arsenal or us started next thing were all throwing left and rights and arsenal moved back but to be fair they had not run, maybe regrouping because they came back at us then the smoke bomb went off right in front of the gooner's they didn't seam to know were we were and it was a turkey shoot they run out the right side and on the pitch and about 4/500 of us right up the back in the middle hole game, arsenal tried several times to get round the back of us but to no avail, was there hole game. After the game I came out was told arsenal firm had had a go but had legged it down plimsoll lane so we followed them down to Finsbury park got on train never see any arsenal, didn't know about the feller got done till I see it on the news read somewhere he had a knife but dropped it and it was picked up and used on him but I wasn't there so dont know.

Was there as young tean Hammer, watched it unfold from the away end...looked messy

West ham talking more bubbles as well as blowing bubbles.

These are historical facts if facts upset you then may i suggest respectfully that you do one.

Trevor Brookings final London derby..All through the match the North Back sang "Who's the W***kers in the seats" aimed at the Hamster supporters in the West stand..they tried 2 steam the North Bank at full time but the police had already anticipated this and quickly stepped in to sqash the spanners firm..ahhhh, the good old daze..

I was in the school boy enclosure that day, remember it well. Think the game ended to 2-0

Wasn't the date may bank holiday weekend , 1 may, 1981-82 season , because Liverpool were away to spurs Monday night, 3 may. I think the dates are wrong, everything about this channel is wrong.

What a complete load of crap. Made up story and yes I was on the NB that day, right next to where the smoke bomb went off, as a school kid.

Ì was there but only a kid and have always hated westham since that day especially after we heard one of us had been murdered during probably before the game

There is a good account of this game in colin ward`s book `steaming in`.

KZfaq, a place where old West Ham knobs will lead you to believe they never lost a fight, match, card game, or thumb wrestling match.

CSF CSF!

Arsenal top firm in early 80s west ham admitted it in cass film and under 5 hella said it aswell then icf took over as arsenal went into earning money

Sad bastards.

Load of cants. 😂

Bull shit I remember we went down the North bank in w the seats were they were and they got it .and they forgot when we took liberty's at West ham we were good in the 80s

West Ham always talk BS ! And Yes Arsenal did go to west ham and in their End.

As common as having a burger 👌👌👌

Arsenal battered the ICF that day, I was only a kid but I was there. Ooh 2 Ooh 2B Ooh 2B A Gooner 👊👊👊👊

Arsenal got well and truly done that day the arsenal account is bollocks I was there ⚒️⚒️

Such mindless bragging. Here, have a medal Hammers

In 1977 Arsenal was at home to westham, we all got in the North bank around 12:30 & a big geezer called Jennings was running the show we had running battles all through the first half & still westham couldn’t take the North Bank, the only geezer I saw getting a slapping was this African chap who had the brightest red & white scarf going he didn’t have a clue about other fans & got a few digs 😂😂👍great days

Did arsenal every try and take west ham at Upton park?

Who gives a monkeys, Spurs took the Northbank ever year from 1976 to 1983.....we had thousands in there every year.

I was in the North Bank 75 we had it right off with Arsenal it kicked off in the schoolboy enclosure Tommy Taylor smashed 2 in and we went on to win the FA Cup ⚒️

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Zulu's fousands of um.

Have Arsenal even got a firm? If they have, ive never heard of them

The North Bank at the time was the largest end in English Football and held 20,000 it became famous in the late 60's early 70's with it's skinhead culture. From the late seventies and through the 1980's most of Arsenal's firms were always located in the clock end near the away fans. Never saw any away fans in the NB late sixties except for a friendly against Rangers when all hell broke loose and never saw any away fans in clock end in the late 70's or 80's..

Local WI could run the Gooners out of the North Bank LOL!

Cfc always done yu

Everyone took the North Bank

Do me a favour afc never had a firm turned over by everyone when it was the same number's mfc haha

Arsenal have never evdn had a firm or mob. Never turned up at leeds except for about 5 hundred scarfers. Complete joke.

Was there that day on the NB and as an Arsenal man got to hand it WHU but was also there for Liberties and Arsenal took the fucking piss that day

The ICF must have had some bottle to not only dislodge the Gooners from the key sections of the North Bank, but to actually hold onto their gains and remain till the end. Cas the ICF leader certainly seems to have done an excellent job in marshalling his foot soldiers to victory that day.