You know I've changed my mind after thinking back to those far-off days. For all Harry Allt's deservedly fearsome reputation, snowballs wouldn't have been his thing so that story almost certainly referred to Bob Harber
Remember his voice would go higher and higher and you'd know to keep your head down and pray. They don't make 'em like that any more and come to think of it there weren't that many even then.
Well whenever you put any pressure on the current Arsenal side one of them will go down with a head injury, so it's (ahem) clearly still very dangerous.
1970, end of February with both teams pushing for promotion from the old 3rd division. We had gone top a few days before. 1-1. We'd travelled by coach so straight to the ground which meant we missed a lot of trouble in downtown Luton.