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[secbastia]

euston 1970, there were trains leaving every half hour or so taking 25,000 , not many went by coach or jam jar in those days

[Bovis Messroom]

In London of course that Highbury game in '84 takes some beating. As well as the Clock End there were thousands in the seats and a large group on the North Bank. Big turnout there in '77 too. As well as the other games outside of London already mentioned, there's also Brighton and Portsmouth in 83/84, Derby in the FA Cup in '83(?), Man Utd on that Bank Holiday Monday in '87 when plod had to shove the mancs out of the side paddock to make room for more blues. In Europe Austria Memphis (Vienna) in '94 and AC Milan in '99 were impressive showings.

Edited by Bovis Messroom, 16 December 2010 - 10:21 PM.

[secbastia]

derby was in 83 in the cup, we also had a massive following in the fa cup semi-final at villa park in 96 where united never sold all their tickets and after the game there was a load of chelsea grouped up outside on the grass who afterwards wasted the mancs

[chels53]

has to be the replay at old trafford, 30,000 reported at the time, me and me mate came back on the players train, 1st time we won the cup, i went to moscow without me mate, we lost , we both going to munich, its gotta be an omen

[Brimstone 2]

In the old days we had massive away support everywhere...I remember being at highbury, maybe when we were relegated, had half the northbank most of the clock end and groups all over the rest of the dump

[coco]

To be fair most of the saturday away games in the 83/84 season saw masses of chelsea fans, my fav was 1984 Cardiff City, we had 10'000+ travel to Cardiff, probably about 8-9k of us got into Ninnian park, - a quarter of our home capacity all travelling away, most looking for trouble, the old bill earned their money in them days.

[Chelseaboy]

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

[Carshalton Blue]

Chelseaboy, on 12 May 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

Chelseaboy, on 12 May 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

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[Nitro]

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

[erskblue]

Nitro, on 13 May 2012 - 05:43 PM, said:

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

Wow amazing support that day at Wembley.

[shedpensioner]

Nitro, on 13 May 2012 - 05:43 PM, said:

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

Top notch day out! And the reception Kerry got was out of this world!