I DO NOT, I REPEAT, THINK YOUNGER FANS ARE LESS KEEN. Highbury House (LogOut/ Early days was the Northbank and then later I used to get a seat on the Upper East Stand. Connell had left school at 16 to take up scaffolding and was briefly famous when he gave an interview to Janet Street-Porter claiming to be the first black skinhead Ce n'est qu'alors que Max se dcide enfin lancer son programme internet de vulgarisation scientifique , qu'il prpare depuis plusieurs annes. He must have run over about forty motorcycles trying to get out of the parking lot, but he just kept on going., A sloth named Herman is walking through the forest one day. Hoy became a musician more by default than plan. I found this article one of the most sad and difficult to explore and put down in words this superb footballer who wore our shirt and scored so many wonderful goals will be part of our history and is honoured by the club with his shirt name around the Emirates I hope Ray has as comfortable a life as he possibly can and, if he happens to read this, I would love you to know that you are still thought of with the upmost respect and love by the Arsenal fans who were privileged to see you play for our club thank you for the wonderful memories Ray. Thanks Jon much appreciated and to everyone else who got something from the article. He then became a regular and helped win the Inter-Cities Fair cup in 1970 in a strange way really. So life at the time consisted of stealing cars and petty crime, local gang fights and fights at football matches at the weekend, hanging about in a cafe all day long and of course girls. One of the enduring chants by Arsenal fans at Highbury was: Were the North Bank. Were the North Bank, Highbury. Eventually fans in the Clock End reciprocated, and the chants would alternate back and forth. I really enjoyed your piece on the Caledonian Road / Islington gang wars, I was never a part of it myself but living in the area I was taught the art of cunning self defense I was a fast runner!! I dont believe MA will be the next / first manager to get us relegated, Im hoping he will take us back to the CL. OT: Mino Raiola just passed away. You would probably be the same age as my son. Two gang members have a big knife fight and really tear each other up. Several hours later he gathers up enough strength to go to a local police station. Two years later, he revealed in an interview, that he was suffering from loneliness and hallucinations following this, a great Liverpool supporter, Karl Coppack I believe, bought him a computer and that allowed him to converse with football fans in chat rooms. . I lived with my parents in a house that was due for slum clearance, split into two, there were my parents, me, my brother and sister upstairs, my aunt, uncle and their two kids downstairs. , My appearances will be fleeting for the mo. When the area in the Cally was due to be demolished, my parents moved to Gillespie Road. And Michael, when you move you will have the Loire wines to choose from. Thats sad. He ricocheted Limey There was a game against Everton at Highbury on one occasion when a group of blokes right at the back of the terracing started to sing Everton songs and shouting abuse. It was great to be on the Northbank that night. hooligan or hero soldier? 20 litres of decent wine a month here would bankrupt me. {{comentario[2]}}, Subscribase a las notificaciones de CRHoy.com. Unlike a lot of more straightahead blues harp player/singers, he has an eclectic set of musical and songwriting influences. The Rolling Stones, the Who, the Small Faces, the Kinks, Desmond Dekker and Tamla Motown was the music and Islington was split between four gangs. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. I HAV EOFTEN SAID THAT, IN GENERAL, YOUNGER FANS ARE FAR MORE IGNORANT OF OUR HISTORY, COMPARED TO WHEN OLDER FANS, SUCH AS I , WERE YOUNG OURSELVES. Highbury. He is almost exactly my own age and I am so very sad to see how unlucky his life has been since Parkinsons set in. The band's two releases on ToneCool have titles that are both clever references to bluefishing jargon, Trolling the Hootchy (1995) and You Gonna Lose Your Head (1996). A fan-base is all important, when valuing a football club, theres no doubt. Plus did anyone really want a world with Spurs and no Arsenal in the top flight? I wouldnt mind betting that those lads on the terraces fighting for their team, 55 years earlier they would have been the first lads joining up to go off to the front. Our local rivalries were restricted to the occasional street fight, pub fight or more regularly, the major battles were pre-arranged and fought between two gangs on Highbury Fields. Dear oh dear, and Dan thought he was innocently submitting an article which highlighted an idiosyncratic part of our history which perhaps might still gall spurs fans. has done since The Emirates opened up, buying tickets for her and her children on many occasions. Just Arsenal is an independent news service that concentrates solely on news and opinion about Arsenal FC from all around the world. With a Blues and Roots sound, the variety of the grooves in the music allow for a wide spectrum of venues. Yup, they actually thought it might happen, but instead as the decade closed we got Thatcher instead. Guess I was really into it, ya know? he commented with evident embarrassment. FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP 1981 Perhaps unsurprisingly, his rootless, lonely existence drew him towards the blues, finding rhythm in the pace of his footsteps. In 1993, Ray published his autobiography RAY OF HOPE, co-authored by the doctor who was treating him for the disease at that time. Then the tragedy hinted at struck home in such a cruel way for Ray on the 4th November 1984, when he was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease it did not stop this man from pursuing his career both in and out of football though. He explained, As there was no one around for miles, or at least I thought there was no one around. Lawrence went on to say that he pulled over to the side of the road, picked out a pumpkin that he felt was appropriate to his purpose, cut a hole in it, and proceeded to satisfy his pressing need. Playing his harmonica in an ad hoc band at a friends wedding gave Hoy the impetus to organize a full-time line-up for his new band, Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish. Jonny Hoy. And just looking at the Honours he won in his career shows how good a player he was. (With thanks to Leigh Edwards), Arsenal Football Club I said, Excuse me sir, but do you realize that youre having sex with a pumpkin? He froze and was clearly very surprised that I was there. Or wouldnt it? Can you describe what they looked like? My earliest memory is the '88 league cup final. I knew that area like the back of my hand, what with my own milk round and rides on my grandfathers horse my cart when he was making his deliveries. In my time the Arsenal firm had become the Gooners by 1980/81 & we now made the Clockend our home,we had a fair few well documented punch ups in & around the stadium but the worst,& most adrenalin filled were the away days,no hangers on-no shirts or colours-we were mean bastards & we placed our mark on every town & city in Britain.By 1985 we were the no1 mob in the country-West ham & Millwall couldnt touch us.Most of the hardcore in our firm,including yours truly!,were full time professional criminals,we robbed anything & everything,then a major money making opportunity came along with the advent of Acid house & the club scene when a load of us football bods from various firms put our heads together & got organised,we lived like kings & ended up right at the front-all due to our street education & geographical location I reckon. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He is left at the bottom of a tree with several cuts and bruises. I dont know, the sloth says. He started as sub yet again in the first leg and he scored the vital away leg goal, after we were trailing 3-0 but Bertie didnt use him in the return leg as we claimed our first silverware in 17 years, with a wonderful 4-3 aggregate win. You obviously either bombed or sold the lot and are either celebrating or having a glass to cheer yourself up. Crazy times for football fans and the whole of society too. For an inexpensive red dinner wine we drink an Australian Shiraz which costs $12.00 a litre. Along with four other Liverpool fans, they raised over 40,000 for essential equipment and services what were the PFA doing? Probably not as I was only 6 years old when my family left in 1971,so I was only a young un,youre probably a good 10 years older than me. Its all been done before and my Sociology and Criminology degrees were based on criminal and social upbringing. We're as comfortable and experienced in a corporate or function setting as we are on a back porch or in the middle of a field. The majority of the members of the Islington gangs were also Arsenal supporters but on the Northbank local rivalries were forgotten and we were united in our support of the club and fought side by side. Cropped hair, Mohair suits, Sta Press trousers, Ben Shermans, trilbeys and Doc Martens was the style. Police work can be entertaining as well as dangerous. I guess we should be looking at Ray as an Arsenal great and there is no doubt he was one of them!!! Since that time, Arsenal fc is the only club in England to have never been relegated from the top division of English footy. BORN 28TH JULY 1951. I stole his steak, called his mother a bitch, and even poured coffee on his head. Estos son los requisitos que debe cumplir, 6:22 pm - Detienen a 5 sospechosos de secuestrar a vecino de Aserr, 6:08 pm - (VIDEO) Por primera vez aterriz vuelo chrter de esta aerolnea canadiense, 5:55 pm - Guadalupe tambin alza la voz por el arbitraje, 5:41 pm - Alajuelense toma nota de Guadalupe tras la salida de Centeno, 5:27 pm - EEUU: Rechazan liberar a embarazada que pidi excarcelacin en nombre de su feto, (VIDEO) Le buscaban reemplazo? As a small group of delinquents in my area, some friends and I used to steal cars and see who could get to 100 mph along Drayton Park Road before the sharp bend into Gillespie Road and past the Arsenal tube station. Have you ever read that famous hooligan study by Bill Buford, Among the Thugs? When you think of all the good young kids we had coming through around that time, we should have challenged for major honours throughout the 70`s. More like this, please. There is a good Arsenal book called Memories and Marble Halls by David Sims, Actually when I think back to those times, it was very close to a revolution. Its the same car I had in 1972, but mine had a black vinyl roof. I wonder whatever put the theme for this article in your mind DAN, and right now especially, after my post on your anti MA article a few days ago. I loved that huge 4 storey victorian house in Barbara st,I remember strangers knocking on the door asking for a room to rent for the night-turns out most of em were friends & family of the residents presiding at HMs hotel across the road at the Ville !-my dad used to tell em to F*** off !,I think one particular black geezer took offence & decided to creep the house at night & broke in through the basement-he crept about &then went into my little brothers bedroom,my brother woke up & called for my dad-who was a big 6ft 3 lump & a very dodgy character to say the least! 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