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There's me telling my kids and other youngsters that they should of been a teenager in the 80's as it was the greatest decade and then that appears! I best hide now

we have sold out league cup and fa cup games consistently for the last 10 years, 40k plus crowds everytime with games against teams such as Southend, Maccelsfield, Gillingham, Sc**thorpe, Peterborough etc etc, but never mentioned by media, while clubs like Liverpool, Villa, Spurs, West Ham, Newcastle, city have had some appalling crowds in the cups. Also our away followings in these cup ties always sell out as well.

Yes any win will do here, gonna be very tough, stoke haven't lost to arse or united at home this season, my first away of the season so I don't want a crap performance and loss as it's a long drive home

Yes totally agree, i think it was a blessing that the 20k cologne fans were playing Arsenal last Thursday as the gooners support hardly has an aggressive bone in them unless they are behind a computer screen, imagine if cologne turned up at Chelsea, West ham or millwall, that would of been interesting!

Remember it well, sat in sitting room with my son's who were 10 and 7 at time, bridge scored jumped up and as the camera panned along showing stunned gooners, I had my middle finger raised about an inch from the TV screen shouting you f**king mugs!!!, Not what a respectable father should do, but hey I had lost it!!

For me being down in West Sussex, Brighton were the local team, with usual Liverpool, utd, forest, few Ipswich, spurs and arse, 82/83 when we nearly went down, Brighton got to the cup final, my life was hell!! Most of my mates went to Wembley, was i relieved when they got stuffed in the replay, the following august bank holiday we bought 8 to 10k down to Brighton, took the piss and won 2-1, the rest is history as they say, don't mind Brighton now, except when we play them this season

I will second that ersk, one of the few times we could give it back to those Herbert's back then, can still remember it now, me and some mates had arranged to meet at my house to go down park to play football, as we were getting on our bikes, a huge shout came from our bathroom window where my old man was decorating the bathroom, 1-0 Rhodes brown, we all went off to park, Liverpool supporting mates as well, no way of keeping up with score as we had no radio, as we arrived back at our house at 5pm, me fearing we had lost and mates convinced we would, my old man came jigging out the side gate 2-0! I turned to my mates who were already scuttling away on their bikes, i gave them an escort all the way home taking piss!! Didn't see em again until Monday morning!

Yes when we won the cup in 97 I was so proud, remember driving back from Wembley that evening with scarf out car window, got back to Chichester and pulled up at a roundabout, a great big motor bike swerved in front of me at the junction, I thought here we go what does he want, road rage coming I thought? He glared back at me, lifted his visor, looked at my scarf out the window, then put his thumbs up!! "When wise went up to lift the fa cup"

On the head son!

Now your taking this topic 'one step beyond' old git

Frustrated pilots I reckon mate

Rumour has it, it was going to be in the wham last Christmas video, not sure if that's George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley standing up there?

Mates at school couldn't really believe it, not to many Chelsea lads at my school back then and to have a blonde lad at school who supported Chelsea with Kerry as first name, who went to bridge to watch games and then Chelsea sign a blonde striker with same unusual first name, a bit weird really....."England's number 9"

Reading his book up front at moment, he was always my hero, when he signed I was made up, as he had the same first name as me, which is obviously unusual for a bloke, the only other bloke I had heard of was Kerry packer the Aussie business tycoon who did the cricket, even today when I say my name to people of a certain vintage, they will reply Kerry Dixon!