I was in the street end that night. The crowd was only just over 10000 with its said 3000 rangers in the park end but there was more than that. Think most blues stayed away because they had a drunken reputation. A rangers lad streaked on the pitch and the coppers manhandled him off. This caused trouble in the park end. Saw a rangers forum were they said there was a big fight in our end which cleared it. But I saw nothing like that although the street end was pretty empty anyway apart from were everyone gathered to sing. When the match ended we were going down the stairs at the back and a few blues at the bottom starting shouting rangers. Caused a bit of a panic until everyone realised they were everton fans messing around. Lived in Scotland road at the time and there was some trouble. Local estates bricking rangers fans on the way back to town. Saw loads of drunken rangers fans and most were middle aged men. 2 coaches on great homer street were attacked and loads of windows smashed. These 2 had been there about 3 days with the rangers fans drinking in local pubs.
Most of the rangers fans who were arrested came from a town called corby in Northamptonshire. Seems that a large group of glaswegians moved there to work in the steel works.
There wasnt any fight at all in the St End , as you say,
3 jocks did come in at 3/4 time , all the kids ran away that was what was mostly in the pretty empty end, hence the myth about the St end getting took, even the kids ran back up
once a couple of the older Everton lads, saw what was going on and legged the Rangers down the stairs at the back and up the stairs towards the St End upper, the jocks got caught and got a hiding , that was the only fight , the jocks didnt throw a dig the whole time they were in the St End, i was standing yards from were it happened.
I was only a kid myself at the time, my bother who is a RS came up to the ground to find me to make sure i got home ok, as soon as we got by the church a local loon( same fella that stabbed the Millwall in the ST End by the boys pen) hit some rangers fella with what looked like a hatchet or something it made a right mess of him .
I along with my brother and mate ran home to Walton road double quick time.
My mate joey knocked about 15 minutes later and we sneeked out to have a mooch about there was murder everywhere, The local area gangs were out in force picking any jocks off, lambert road, opposite where the rotunda gym is now, they gave a load of them a right hiding.
Ended up heading home and just as i got the top of are road , who comes out the pub taking all comers on but my dad and his mates out of the local ( he didnt even like footy , he was into boxing) , jocks any local daft enough to get in the way where getting hammerd.
no wonder i grew up daft