CF11 Rondo wrote:skiprat wrote:Abergavenny wrote:J1927 wrote:Jimmy Scoular wrote:What has always been my way of thinking on this if morons want to fight hire a facility a large factory unit for example and ask theses heroes to meet via mobiles et al and once agreed see how many turn up. Have local old bill to lock them in for 30 minutes. Most would shit themselves period. All I see are overage fat twats hopping up and down making pricks of themselves.
I watched CCFC in the late 60's when all this was starting and wondered as a kid what is all this about?
Absolutely and then leave the doors locked for good - hated it in the 70s and 80s and delayed me taking by boy to some games in the 90s just cos it wasn't worth it
Sure the culprits are in the pub or. McDonald's dependant on age bigging it up and planning their books of their amazing exploits
Yes these are some of the idiots who complain our crowds should be bigger but during 70/80 through their actions they kept a generation of potential supporters away from the club as parents would not take their kids I went to Rumney High and I was only one of a few in my whole year who ever went down to a game in the 80s and most cited the trouble was not worth it
Must have been the same all over the country not just a Cardiff thing as football crowds were small everywhere In the 1980s.
We definitely have a reputation as being one of the worst clubs for hooliganism and it’s a reputation that still hinders our club today. On the Wikipedia article about football hooliganism in the UK, we’re mentioned by name “Cardiff City whose hooligan element, known as the Soul Crew, is one of the most infamous football hooligan firms.”
Exactly as I said in my post, WE have some who to this day revel in the "hooligan" side of things, yet some are the very ones who moan that nobody wanted or to a degree, still wants to buy us from tan, bar the usual certain fans fav, Sam Harman, who to a degree, enjoys that bad boy club image, AND revels in it.
We are still known for what went on decades ago, even in Turkey, when they saw my shirt 2t yrs back, was "ohhhhh, cardiff city"! Then them telling me they had heard of the soul crew!!! I was like whaaaaat? Really expected the opposite the, like WHO? As many still thought WALES was a district of london
I AGREE, it still hinders us till this day.so whilst almost every club back then had some sort of crew, the notorious one here were known ALL over, AND most you would never have heard of, unless that was your thing, to beat another person up, based on the fact they don't support a club(ours in this case) from a city that isnt their own, or the shirt they where?? I really struggle to get my head around the whole concept, of random acts of violence, against a person you know 0 about most likely.stfanhe behaviour imho.