Think what many of you under 30's don't realise is that in the 70's and 80's travelling to away games was a dangerous activity. Whether you went looking for it or not, opposing fans clashed in streets, pubs and grounds all thru the divisions. Some of the worst football violence I witnessed was when following Motherwell in the 1st Div at the turn of the 80's. Trips to Raith, QoS, Dundee, Berwick, Ayr, (especially Ayr), tended to involve some sort of violence. Motherwell was/is a tough town and had several bus loads of young men prepared to swing their fists if needs be to watch their team.
I am not condoing it for one minute, but I won't deny it happened (virtually every week) and just sort of went hand-in-hand with being a scarf wearing football fan in the 15-30 age bracket at that time................ 30 years ago