Early Ratae

Anyone walking round the pitch in front of the Kop with hair an inch over their ears was greeted by chants of "Greeeebo, Greeeebo"
 
I remember singing both songs to a young American goalie who played for Millwall. There’s no surprise that Keller had a haircut before he joined us.
 
Hells Angels and the Barfoot Mob ran the Kop as far as knew when l first started going down as a kid. Perhaps someone can confirm. Roderick Taylor was the forst Kop leader l knew, he was a hairy fukcer but not sure f he was a Grebo.
 
Rob Twycross is "Jailer". There was also Wally Smith. And 'Kaylo' who 'invaded' the pitch single handed during the FA Cup tie at Barrow in 1968 to 'remonstrate' with the Barrow centre forward after a foul on Peter Shilton. A timely intervention by John Sjoberg managed to hold him back.
'Kop Leaders' were always a "target" for the opposition fans and it sometimes got a bit dicey. Like Click at Burnden Park when we were in the home end and the Bolton fans got behind and rushed us on the way out. Click ended up with his Harrington pulled over his head and 'immobilised' momentarily till we managed to drag him out of it. A lot of us ended up in a heap at the bottom of the exit stairs in the crush and a lad from Loughborough got his leg fractured!
Another time we were on a Motorway services at night coming home from a match. About a dozen of us in the restaurant when a full coachload of Bradford City arrived. Soon as they spotted Click you knew there was going to be trouble. They were mobbing up to follow us back across the car park when Jimmy Aitchison picked out their biggest black lad and dropped him with one punch. That gave us just enough time to continue our 'undignified retreat' back to the cars and get the fuck out of it before things got a whole lot worse!
 
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