I was born in gosport and I am a Portsmouth supporter and I have Pompey running through my blood i lived in gosport in the 70s and it was family everyone knew each other on the estate where I lived nimrod drive was ok and I have been away for years now but I have no doubt the gosport people are bad we are all Pompey
Gosport is is quite nice, Rowner and Bridgemary are the shit holes. Worse place in South Hampshire is meant to be Lee Park. Well and Weston in Southampton because it's filled with London gangs.
@Kenny Lingus Oh right good stuff I'm younger lad wasn't about in the 80's to young 90's was my era but missed the proper casual days unfortunately and hate Millwall filthy scum the amount of rucks had with them over the years done them and they've done us tit 4 tat between us
I LIVE IN PORTSMOUTH BUT I AM FROM BURNLEY AND I WILL TELL YOU NOW, PORTSMOUTH IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IT IS LIKE IN BURNLEY, POMPEY IS QUITE QUIET.
Portsmouth is as tough as a marshmallow. It is actually a great place to live. This documentary is extremely selective and focuses largely on football hooliganism which affects only... surprise, surprise, football hooligans.
Nice but rough. Most organizations offering English courses to students coming from the continent decided to move their activities somewhere else. I spent three summers in North End going to school in downtown. It was really frequent, locals looking for troubles with other countries guys at pubs and discos. It was so stressful that decided not to come back. And I liked the city.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I am from Amsterdam, have previously lived in the US. I thought that Portsmouth was lively and friendly, and used to really like it. No longer. I moved from Southampton to Southsea where anonymous people started targeting me instantly. I am now close to the hot spot area where a lot of hostile activity in Portsmouth is organized from (the area around New Road, Queens Road and Kingston Road, roughly, including the start of London Road). It's often like a guerrilla war zone. I've been in Portsmouth since the start of 2009. It eats away at your health, both physical and mental.
He is absolutely right. Portsmouth is an island off the coast of a country that is already known for its excessive insularity. Portsmouth is a pretty hostile place for anyone who isn't 'Pompey-born and -bred". I used to really like the place and learned the hard way how hostile it is toward people who aren't from here. Their lives don't matter, are totally expendable in the views of most people who are Pompey born and bred. It is also pretty hostile toward independent women (women who run businesses and so on). Southampton is dreary and dull (dead) but Portsmouth is deadly. Or at least it can be. With its stupid mafia-style intimidation tactics, its stupid one-sided "shut up or else" communications and its tendency to take every sneeze and every smile as as personal insult.
I agree. I'm from Cambridge and I've lived in Gosport and Portsmouth for 12 years. I've been made to feel welcome from most. Southampton is a bit strange though. I used to work there and my work colleagues made fun of me for having a PO postcode.
My uncle used to live in Pompey from the late 50s to the 70s, we used to spend our summer holidays with him as kids. We also had a couple of friends in the Navy stationed there. My uncle had a day job, but was also was a bouncer at the NAAFI . I had no idea Portsmouth had such a reputation. My cousins still live there. I guess I am out of touch.
Glad to hear that. I was doubtful regarding the claim that Pompey natives dislike outsiders, what with the docks etc, I imagined it was pretty diverse, and there is a sizable afro-caribbean community also.
I know Portsea Island is an island but you wouldn't know it going there. The bridge over the small bit of sea between the mainland and the island is about 15 meters long. I love PFC by the way, my club since I started following football in 1993.
Hey, Phillykid07! Dont you worry, we've just built a super hospital where the surgeons are expert at sowing peoples ears back on. If you got no halls then you can book straight into accident and emergeny. Seriously, you can come unstuck in any town or city. If your sensible you'll have a great time in pompey. As most students do. lol.
My old man ran with Pompey in the 70s in his teens. Said Cardiff was a lively date? Doesn’t talk about it much,,but I remember a few things said a few years back. Says he doesn’t recognise Pompey any more when he goes there 🤷♂️
Lived in Portsmouth 30 years Landport and somerstown are actually the best places I’ve lived In Portsmouth. Somerstown a bit grubby but the community is alright as long as u aren’t a snob, landport I grew up most my life and loved it. Although not gona lie a certain neighbour broke in to our flat and set it on fire aswell on my brothers birthday with us inside but that was still preferable to Buckland! I’ve lived in buckland on 2 seperate occasions and it’s been vile both times. Dinlo central there.😂
Charles Dickens was born in what is now Buckland. Most of the houses in the place of his birth are Grade 2 Listed and in a Conservation Area. Tourists go there and the street is frequently used by film crews. Anyone coming to Pompey now, hoping to see the mayhem of this video are likely to be disappointed although as in any city there are areas to be avoided, I agree.
Pompey played the game in the late 70's & 80's and were there to be counted. It's time the old boys consign it to history, clip their kids around the ear and point them in a more positive direction by putting their efforts into making the club one to be proud of for all the right reasons
@1.50 Portsmouth's dockyard was a breeding ground for proud, tough, working class men. Unfortunately, Portsmouth's football hooligans were the complete opposite of that. Real men don't need a crew or a gang to back them up, cowards do.
Im from north england, went down to portsmouth to see a friend for a few days. Full of chavvies in the bars but they were all sound. And my accent is very noticeable
I'm originally from Frant on lived just behind the football ground. I like the city, has character and loads going on. What I don't like though is people showing Pompey in a 'bad light' like these idiots making this series. Media hype.
I was brought up in the outskirts of Portsmouth. Followed Pompey from the age of 15 to 18 during the period of 1979 -1982. I went to home games and travelled away, I was no angel but I would not have called myself one of the hooligans. If the away group were attacked everyone was expected to stand and fight so it was very easy to get drawn in.
i seen pompy from the stands to the terraces .i never understood why people sit in the stands and fight on the other.if you had shit game,you get good fight.good entertanement for less than one and six,if you want more entertainment you could see the mud larks too!!!!!!!
Hostile? Ha...I'm from Pompey and I used to live in Ash Vale near Aldershot (though the locals say they live near Guildford). THAT was hostile! The local pub was like the one in An American Werewolf In London..."stay on the path"!!!! It was a real joy to come back down to Pompey at weekends where people would talk to you and not be suspicious of you. That guy commentating is very misinformed.
I have nothing against people from Havant or any where else for that matter and I have lived here all my life.. that journalist hasn't got a clue he has made it out to be a bad place :(
I used to live in Portsmouth and used to go to home away games in the late 70's and early eighties so I know what it was like. Not always herioc, some things people should be ashamed of but true they were hard bastards and some of them were almost animal like. I have been to Portsmouth recently and am amazed at how things have improved including the quality of the people
It's true that the city of Portsmouth hasn't got a very good reputation but as a native of the south coast I can honestly say that the entire region is a bit of a shithole. If you drive along the south coast you will pass through some lovely towns, but also many places filled with chavs where unemployment and poverty are rife. As a region it is probably as depressed as Merseyside or the North East.
Hey mate,just let me stop you right there.When was the last time you visited Liverpool? You obviously didnt hear the opening statement.Portsmouth is the most densely inhabited city in Britain! Liverpool is not Depressed,we are a city on the up.Where as the south coast has for years wasted millions on Tourism.Who goes to Southend,hastings eastborne when they fly here to visit? Get you to your Tory run councils and tell them to rid your lovely south coast of drug migrants.Take one look at Blackpool before you mention Liverpool.Portsmouth is one of the safest ports i have visited,im a Merchant seaman so i should know .
Have you even been to the North East or Liverpool for that matter? Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008 which was only 6 years ago and the North East has come on leaps and bounds!
I think pompey's so called reputation is nothing to be proud of. It unfairly shows the mindset of people in Pompey to be a small minded and lost in history. I found the characters in this documentary to be the ones that put me off watching Pompey. They always seemed to be at their bravest when they up against a weak target.
There were some "nutter's" that use to show up in the early eighties who probably deserved some sort of mad reputation but often they would go to the matches on their own. Looking back I am pretty sure they were suffering from some sort of serious personality disorder. They were not heroes. They were to be pitied
To be honest in this documentary they're act like other places don't have flaws yes I live here and yes there's some aggressive people but we are not always that bad and it's a pretty nice place to live in oh and actually most of us like outsiders because they are more civilised than most that are already here
dboy: regarding the British Ex=Pats. Tell Rixy, please, that their Family can buy a 3-Bedroom House on the edge of London in a very safe area for £175,000 next to 200 acres of Parkland and enough space that you could wish for. I have NOT experienced any crime in the26 years I have lived there since moving from crime-ridden INNER London. London is on your doorstep with enough attractions to fill 10 lifetimes and The Kent Countryside is only 10 minutes away! They do NOT have to go to Canada!
seriously cant believe Portsmouth is one of "Britain's toughest towns" lived her my whole life, seriously its nothing, bet you its only here due to the old football violence
its not as bad now, as it was in the 90's early 20's, when i was growing up. Good job i could run like a deer,lol. Most of them are behind bars now though But just recently there have been several knife stabbings, infact one happen about 400 meters from where I live 5 days ago and in 2007, a guy got killed by a butchers knife I think the people in the 70's, 80's and 90's children are becoming teenage thugs (chavs is lot we call them). But there become more violent. using knife instead of hands
Those were the days. I grew up in Pompey in the 70's and 80's. Fantastic people.
Many known faces in this 👌🏽 love this old school clip 💙
Pompey always in my heart...much love from South America!!!!!!!
respect
Portsmouth may be bad for hooliganism but I would say Gosport is worse in general.
I was born in gosport and I am a Portsmouth supporter and I have Pompey running through my blood i lived in gosport in the 70s and it was family everyone knew each other on the estate where I lived nimrod drive was ok and I have been away for years now but I have no doubt the gosport people are bad we are all Pompey
I lived in Gosport. 89-90. Was a tough place.
Nah bunch of inbreds
@@hollgrant8801 ok pal, your names holl grant you probably only got 3 fingers you dinlo
Gosport is is quite nice, Rowner and Bridgemary are the shit holes. Worse place in South Hampshire is meant to be Lee Park. Well and Weston in Southampton because it's filled with London gangs.
I lived in Southsea for 3 years between 1991 to 1994. Used to stand on the Fratton End. Play Up Pompey! ❤
Ah I love Portsmouth, ithere are loads of roughish people but they're nice people.
Yeah, that is what I used to think too.
I was so very wrong about that.
Yeah I live in Portsmouth lol
Always rated Pompey easily in top 5 respect from a Hammer ⚒
@Kenny Lingus Yes I know m8 are u Pompey are u ? Pompey are up they're as 1 of the best along with us lot
@Kenny Lingus Oh right good stuff I'm younger lad wasn't about in the 80's to young 90's was my era but missed the proper casual days unfortunately and hate Millwall filthy scum the amount of rucks had with them over the years done them and they've done us tit 4 tat between us
I made pompey home in 2010 and I love this town.
Oh Portsmouth We Love You!!!!!!!! Play Up Pompey!!!!!! Blue Army!!!!!!!! 💙💙💙💙🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💙💙💙💙🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
We Hate Scummers!!!!!! Sad The We’re staying up and Your Staying down!!
4-0 coyr
@@luk9220 Didn't happen though, did it???
Can we all remember this was made in 2007😂
It’s lovely to think that my grandad always one of the biggest and well known pompey hooligans in the 60-70-80s 🤘🏻
Who ? I know a good few
I LIVE IN PORTSMOUTH BUT I AM FROM BURNLEY AND I WILL TELL YOU NOW, PORTSMOUTH IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IT IS LIKE IN BURNLEY, POMPEY IS QUITE QUIET.
Portsmouth is as tough as a marshmallow. It is actually a great place to live. This documentary is extremely selective and focuses largely on football hooliganism which affects only... surprise, surprise, football hooligans.
I never went to the football but certainly remember the violence in late 70's & 80's .
There are rough areas in every town and city in the country, this is sensationalism and, unfortunately, we love love it!!!
Nice but rough. Most organizations offering English courses to students coming from the continent decided to move their activities somewhere else. I spent three summers in North End going to school in downtown. It was really frequent, locals looking for troubles with other countries guys at pubs and discos. It was so stressful that decided not to come back. And I liked the city.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I am from Amsterdam, have previously lived in the US. I thought that Portsmouth was lively and friendly, and used to really like it. No longer. I moved from Southampton to Southsea where anonymous people started targeting me instantly. I am now close to the hot spot area where a lot of hostile activity in Portsmouth is organized from (the area around New Road, Queens Road and Kingston Road, roughly, including the start of London Road). It's often like a guerrilla war zone. I've been in Portsmouth since the start of 2009. It eats away at your health, both physical and mental.
Only jst came across this, Pompey has some of the best folk I've ever met, that "journalist" talking about outsiders is talking shit.
He is absolutely right. Portsmouth is an island off the coast of a country that is already known for its excessive insularity. Portsmouth is a pretty hostile place for anyone who isn't 'Pompey-born and -bred". I used to really like the place and learned the hard way how hostile it is toward people who aren't from here. Their lives don't matter, are totally expendable in the views of most people who are Pompey born and bred. It is also pretty hostile toward independent women (women who run businesses and so on).
Southampton is dreary and dull (dead) but Portsmouth is deadly. Or at least it can be. With its stupid mafia-style intimidation tactics, its stupid one-sided "shut up or else" communications and its tendency to take every sneeze and every smile as as personal insult.
I agree. I'm from Cambridge and I've lived in Gosport and Portsmouth for 12 years. I've been made to feel welcome from most. Southampton is a bit strange though. I used to work there and my work colleagues made fun of me for having a PO postcode.
Just because Portsmouth had a notorious football hooligan firm doesn't make Portsmouth a tough town!
MC Square it is a tough town though
its rough as fuck
Most are from Leigh Park, not Portsmouth
It is pretty tough 😂
They are the most goby people I have ever met maybe not the hardest though
Naming the toughest town in Britain is like naming the warmest town in Siberia.
This documentary must have been over 10 years ago as the population is now around 238,000 and not 180,000
6.57 crew- is up there with the top football firms
Its nice in the southern parts and along the coastline you only get this in the council estates
Cough I live in said estate and I am not a thug or thief.
BS
Was that martin fowler at the start kicking off :)
pompey till i die league 2 here we come
Well I've lived in pompey for 25 years it's my home
Gee. I gotta go there for a holiday. Lap up the sun and enjoy the mellow, happy vibe the people live there.
My uncle used to live in Pompey from the late 50s to the 70s, we used to spend our summer holidays with him as kids. We also had a couple of friends in the Navy stationed there. My uncle had a day job, but was also was a bouncer at the NAAFI . I had no idea Portsmouth had such a reputation. My cousins still live there. I guess I am out of touch.
Glad to hear that. I was doubtful regarding the claim that Pompey natives dislike outsiders, what with the docks etc, I imagined it was pretty diverse, and there is a sizable afro-caribbean community also.
Never been more proud
I know Portsea Island is an island but you wouldn't know it going there. The bridge over the small bit of sea between the mainland and the island is about 15 meters long. I love PFC by the way, my club since I started following football in 1993.
At 2:36 its our Rob! Top geezer, go check him as the bouncer in our film!
Hey, Phillykid07!
Dont you worry, we've just built a super hospital where the surgeons are expert at sowing peoples ears back on.
If you got no halls then you can book straight into accident and emergeny.
Seriously, you can come unstuck in any town or city.
If your sensible you'll have a great time in pompey. As most students do. lol.
My old man ran with Pompey in the 70s in his teens. Said Cardiff was a lively date? Doesn’t talk about it much,,but I remember a few things said a few years back. Says he doesn’t recognise Pompey any more when he goes there 🤷♂️
And fucking proud💙
Agrresive to people from Havant? 😂 I come from Havant and iv never had any problems from people in Portsmouth haha stupid documentary
They got that badly wrong.
I think that was to tongue in cheek
Buckland, Stamshaw, Paulsgrove, Somers Town, Landport, Fratton... plenty of neighbourhoods you'd want to keep away from if you don't know the area!
Good old Somers town 🍻
Lived in Portsmouth 30 years Landport and somerstown are actually the best places I’ve lived In Portsmouth. Somerstown a bit grubby but the community is alright as long as u aren’t a snob, landport I grew up most my life and loved it. Although not gona lie a certain neighbour broke in to our flat and set it on fire aswell on my brothers birthday with us inside but that was still preferable to Buckland! I’ve lived in buckland on 2 seperate occasions and it’s been vile both times. Dinlo central there.😂
Charles Dickens was born in what is now Buckland. Most of the houses in the place of his birth are Grade 2 Listed and in a Conservation Area. Tourists go there and the street is frequently used by film crews. Anyone coming to Pompey now, hoping to see the mayhem of this video are likely to be disappointed although as in any city there are areas to be avoided, I agree.
we dont hate havant wtf
Pompey played the game in the late 70's & 80's and were there to be counted. It's time the old boys consign it to history, clip their kids around the ear and point them in a more positive direction by putting their efforts into making the club one to be proud of for all the right reasons
@1.50 Portsmouth's dockyard was a breeding ground for proud, tough, working class men.
Unfortunately, Portsmouth's football hooligans were the complete opposite of that.
Real men don't need a crew or a gang to back them up, cowards do.
Portsmouth isn't Crap. I Live there!
Im from north england, went down to portsmouth to see a friend for a few days. Full of chavvies in the bars but they were all sound. And my accent is very noticeable
I'm originally from Frant on lived just behind the football ground. I like the city, has character and loads going on. What I don't like though is people showing Pompey in a 'bad light' like these idiots making this series. Media hype.
Fellow Froddington Frog 🐸❤️
I was brought up in the outskirts of Portsmouth.
Followed Pompey from the age of 15 to 18 during the period of 1979 -1982.
I went to home games and travelled away, I was no angel but I would not have called myself one of the hooligans.
If the away group were attacked everyone was expected to stand and fight so it was very easy to get drawn in.
Yeah what every batty boy, I'm pompey till i die mate. Born in st Mary's Hospital, and breed in pompey. Blue army, blue army
has anybody got the video of NORTH LONDON, on britains toughest towns??? plz post it up.
i seen pompy from the stands to the terraces .i never understood why people sit in the stands and fight on the other.if you had shit game,you get good fight.good entertanement for less than one and six,if you want more entertainment you could see the mud larks too!!!!!!!
Hostile? Ha...I'm from Pompey and I used to live in Ash Vale near Aldershot (though the locals say they live near Guildford). THAT was hostile! The local pub was like the one in An American Werewolf In London..."stay on the path"!!!! It was a real joy to come back down to Pompey at weekends where people would talk to you and not be suspicious of you. That guy commentating is very misinformed.
Is there still a UVF?
Pompey play up!!
I have nothing against people from Havant or any where else for that matter and I have lived here all my life.. that journalist hasn't got a clue he has made it out to be a bad place :(
it's not that bad, lived in Portsmouth for 16 years and have never got beaten up or stabbed or even witnessed stuff like this
You have take into concideration that its the most densely populated city in England. 180000 people living in 15 squared miles
wats the name of the song from 3:56 onwards
I used to live in Portsmouth and used to go to home away games in the late 70's and early eighties so I know what it was like. Not always herioc, some things people should be ashamed of but true they were hard bastards and some of them were almost animal like. I have been to Portsmouth recently and am amazed at how things have improved including the quality of the people
It's true that the city of Portsmouth hasn't got a very good reputation but as a native of the south coast I can honestly say that the entire region is a bit of a shithole. If you drive along the south coast you will pass through some lovely towns, but also many places filled with chavs where unemployment and poverty are rife. As a region it is probably as depressed as Merseyside or the North East.
Hey mate,just let me stop you right there.When was the last time you visited Liverpool? You obviously didnt hear the opening statement.Portsmouth is the most densely inhabited city in Britain! Liverpool is not Depressed,we are a city on the up.Where as the south coast has for years wasted millions on Tourism.Who goes to Southend,hastings eastborne when they fly here to visit? Get you to your Tory run councils and tell them to rid your lovely south coast of drug migrants.Take one look at Blackpool before you mention Liverpool.Portsmouth is one of the safest ports i have visited,im a Merchant seaman so i should know .
Have you even been to the North East or Liverpool for that matter? Liverpool was European Capital of Culture in 2008 which was only 6 years ago and the North East has come on leaps and bounds!
It's not like it is portrayed on this documentary. Maybe donkeys years ago back in the 80's when I was a kid but not anymore
So let me get this straight, people get violent, beaten, stabbed and killed over the results of a sporting event?
not surprised theres so many scummers on here givin it large; on a computer theres no chance of a slap and you don't even need to run away like usual!
damn im startiung uni there next month and i dont have halls :O...hope i wont get mugged or anything lol...damn should of chose somewhere else!!
ok josh....... what ever u say " home boy " lol
I'm an argie bargie but I support Pompey!!👊👊
No, i was just being sarcastic. Im a mellow dude!! All the best, man!
I live in Portsmouth it’s not even that bad as long as you don’t try and act hard cause people hate that here lol
Lmao, more like the people who live in pompey try to act hard, even the pre-pubescent off spring act tough
I think pompey's so called reputation is nothing to be proud of.
It unfairly shows the mindset of people in Pompey to be a small minded and lost in history.
I found the characters in this documentary to be the ones that put me off watching Pompey.
They always seemed to be at their bravest when they up against a weak target.
By tough, do they mean thick?
Yep, thick and very special!
I just thought it was full of ships
Same I agree.
There were some "nutter's" that use to show up in the early eighties who probably deserved some sort of mad reputation but often they would go to the matches on their own.
Looking back I am pretty sure they were suffering from some sort of serious personality disorder. They were not heroes. They were to be pitied
To be honest in this documentary they're act like other places don't have flaws yes I live here and yes there's some aggressive people but we are not always that bad and it's a pretty nice place to live in oh and actually most of us like outsiders because they are more civilised than most that are already here
This video, is about football violence or violence in the city?
Both!
dboy: regarding the British Ex=Pats.
Tell Rixy, please, that their Family can buy a 3-Bedroom House on the edge of London in a very safe area for £175,000 next to 200 acres of Parkland and enough space that you could wish for.
I have NOT experienced any crime in the26 years I have lived there since moving from crime-ridden INNER London.
London is on your doorstep with enough attractions to fill 10 lifetimes and The Kent Countryside is only 10 minutes away!
They do NOT have to go to Canada!
Not many people like us
That's just the way it is.
That guy in the middle at :19, mmm reminds me of my ex, wish I saw more guys like that more around here
yeh mainly.
Haha that's what I was thinking
WOW this video really does twist the facts.. they make it look like an awfully over populated city..
Never believe what you see on TV.
Anyone !!!
How did Fish die????
The hostility is not to "outsiders" these days its normally EDF that gains our wrath.
I was speaking generally, not just about you!
im from pomey reyyyy
@TheCheekycc Point taken.
seriously cant believe Portsmouth is one of "Britain's toughest towns" lived her my whole life, seriously its nothing, bet you its only here due to the old football violence
pompey til we die!
i lived there for 4 years and i can say the same. also can say F*king Scumhampton! :P
Yeah, you seem just lovely.
Maybe if people in Boro riot like Scousers did then the community centres will reopen and money will get spent on Boro people
We Sent The Scummers Down! Blue Army!!!!!!!!
When? But aren't Saints in the top league? Was that before they spanked you 4 0 at home?
ye where the hell do u live in portsmoth
657 ha .earliest train time , probably more like couldn't count properly 567
its not as bad now, as it was in the 90's early 20's, when i was growing up. Good job i could run like a deer,lol. Most of them are behind bars now though
But just recently there have been several knife stabbings, infact one happen about 400 meters from where I live 5 days ago and in 2007, a guy got killed by a butchers knife
I think the people in the 70's, 80's and 90's children are becoming teenage thugs (chavs is lot we call them). But there become more violent. using knife instead of hands
don't suprise me!!
oh dear
@2012eyeswideopen2012 to @fcmiddlesborough " BIG MAC AND CHIPS PLEASEMATE"
@sepiasilence Wouldn't quite say that much, but i was joking anyway.
Blue Army💙🇬🇧🇬🇧.
I'm sure the city in general is fine , but it is in England which does make it shit hole .
pompey aint that bad !!!!
play up pompey!
Lol this is great as I'm a saint
@elmarcorulz portsmouth is something like 90% white british?
If you go to Stamshaw or Buckland you'll get aggro. Otherwise, Pompey is like any other city.