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[bluish]

As a newer Chelsea fan (~2007) I sometimes wonder what trophy meant the most to older Chelsea fans.  I would think it would be 1970 for the codgers and a toss up between 1997 and the first Premiership for people not as old.  Is it 1997 because it's the first major trophy you got to see Chelsea win?  Please share your stories.

I've obviously been lucky as a new fan with how sucessful we've been.  The Double Season is the easy choice for myself...particulary the final day against Wigan!  Hopefully we have many more trophies in the future to make this debate even harder.  Cheers!

[Zeta Orionis]

The first PL in 2005. I was too young to remember most of the others before it. Though I vaguely remember watching the '97 cup final.

[MelbourneBlue]

I'm an old bloke, but the 2007 FA Cup was my favourite Chelsea moment.  We had a depleted squad at the end of that season and were facing ManU.  We scored the only goal just about at the end of ET.  It took me about 4 days to come down from that one.  THe FA Cup means alot to us old'uns.

The league titles, we had them sown up before the game or still had games to go, so the actual game itself did not have a defining moment likes Drogs winner vs ManU.

[Seven Times]

I've got a soft spot for the 2005 Carling Cup Final against Liverpool, excellent game, and a taste
of things to come.


Aside from that, the 2000 FA Cup Final was nice, my first final and all......


However the last league title was really nice, going down to the last day, at 4-0 I started to
relax, the rest is history....

Edited by Six Times, 23 November 2011 - 07:21 PM.

[Peckham Blue]

F A Cup 1970.

[Myles_91]

2000 FA Cup Final and 2006 League.

First one because I was too young to fully appreciate the 97 cup. The 2000 final was just brilliant, my whole area is Chelsea so the place was just buzzing, was just really exciting to be involved in such a big match.

The 2005 league never really sunk in for me, as I never thought I would ever see Chelsea win the league in my lifetime, but when we retained it that's when it really sunk in that we were a real force to be reckoned with and not just a one season winder like Blackburn.

As much as wining the League for the first time in 50 years meant a lot, retaining it to me meant even more.

[jezza]

Winning the PL in '05, being in the ground to see us lift the cup and the celebrations afterwards still brings a lump to my throat!

[shedpensioner]

Either the 2nd Division in '88 or the FA cup in '97

[just]

It has to be the EPL in '05.

Going to Chelsea through the 70's and 80's thoughts of winning the top division title were a dream. I seriously never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

[Shatner's Bassoon]

1997 FA Cup

[The Moos]

The one we'll win at the end of this season!

[Alex]

The 1998 cup final against middlesborough was big for me as it was my first cup final. The league in 2005 was also massive

[shedpensioner]

shedpensioner, on 23 November 2011 - 10:33 PM, said:

Either the 2nd Division in '88 or the FA cup in '97

Obviously meant '88/'89 for the Div 2 title, its late and I've got the hump over our ineptness!! (is that a word)

[alan'82]

For me,the second division title (& trophy) from the 83-84 season.

It really felt at the time like we had walked through a sh*tstorm & survived to see the promised land!.



( I know it sounds like bollocks know, but at that time, it seamed like redemption!).

[Trafalgar Tourist]

For me the 97 cup final and the biggest ten men ever witnessed,  the whole end of the old Wembley.  This was the start of our comeback as a succesful and well organised club;  shame we seem to be slipping back in the other direction.

[shedhead]

As an older fan I guess much of what has been said above but the European Cup Winners Cup 1971 was special because we had beaten Real Madrid and I basically went a bit mental running out onto the streets screaming Chelsea over and over.

Moving on. 2009/10 DOUBLE Winners. Never thought I would see that. The game against Wigan was like manna from heaven. All the pain made worthwhile by winning the league in such style, I lost count at one point and had to ask what the score was. Followed by the FA Cup final. Watching their penalty and feeling strangely calm.

[Phillip]

The title in 1955.  I was not around then, but it is nice to know that we had a trophy long before Roman came onto the scene.

I agree with Shedhead about the 2009/2010 double winners, since that was our first time doing that.

[SHELLY]

97 Cup final, the celebrations round Fulham Broadway were great that night...I remember two drunk blokes sitting on an old sofa in the middle of the road cuddling each other....And the Adelaide was just a sea of broken glass and people buying me drinks...

1970 I was a bit too young to remember the game but my Mum took us down the Broadway to see the cup come back I was holding on to the pushchair with my younger Brothers in and then got swept away in the crowd, all I can remember is bawling my eyes out..


1977, I was just a kid but I was standing in the Shed end with my older Brother....It may not be a trophy strictly speaking, but the pitch invasion was probably the most fun i've ever had at a football match...

[sebastien]

well probably the premier league in 2005, my dad always told me how sh*t chelsea were before abramovich and sh*t our support was, once we won the league in 2005 it was great to watch the club grow, finally into something big

[Mod]

Your Dad is no Chelsea fan!