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my era brings back so many great memorys of my youth.....I will try to name them back row....Hutchinson..Dempsey Hudson..hughes webb ..hinton..bonetti birchanal...mcreadie..harris...front row....not sure..mulligan..cooke not sure...hollins..houseman..tambling boyle and the king...should know the other 2 but age has caught up with me ,,feel free to fill in the blanks... I wiil guess Derek smethurst...front row

Stamford having a pre match kickabout with the shed end filling up

mourinho has made hazard into the player he is today....fergie in his yrs at old Trafford had numerous rows with players who thought they were bigger than the club...only one winner there,,and so it should be here......

the big man leading out .........

I think both costa and hazard will leave the bridge..there transfer value will be in the region of 120 million so more than enough to go to war with in the transfer market.....players come and go..and the club moves on

Chelsea v forest ..agree..with a very young ossie..the forest player to ossies left as you look at it is terry henessey...a guess the 67/68 season maybe

I have a positive feeling regarding the coming weeks...its over regarding the title ,,but as I see it 4th place is possible..i have been one who questioned if jose was the right man to steer us forward. but the club have stuck with him and I think we will now see a upturn in results ..any player power against mourinho will be fragmented and the culprits will be lepers in the dressing room...I truly believe we can go on a run up to xmas that will get us within touching distance of the top 4.....the worst is over ..the international break was a godsend...onwards and upwards for the cfc.....

no I think you are right,,, im fairly sure ossie came back on a free...the only player who came in that time and I maybe a few months out was petre borota... nearly all the others such as tommy Langley Kenny swain..mickey fillery came through the youth system.......now theres a thought.....

the last picture of the great seventies team before it split up.....deja vue maybe

was at hull when we were loosing 1,0 with seconds left the wee welsh wizard slotted home on in stoppage time to send the 8 thousand travelling support crazy.....happy days

it is the one thing that winds me up....yes the gates in the post sexton era were poor ...coupled with that ken bates[and im not knocking ken we wouldn't be here today without him]...charging inflated ticket prices to watch average football also had an effect on gates....but we have always had a massive fan base ..the away support ranked up there with anyone.. the ten biggest clubs in Britain over the last 50 yrs include the cfc...no doubt...

well it seems after todays backing we go on with jose as manager.. great credit to roman and the board for showing faith in Chelsea s greatest ever manager,,,,only time will tell if its the right decision..but for now lets all pull in the same direction ....Chelsea utd...

good post... and well done roman for sticking with the main man .....onwards and upwards ....cfc together..

haha class.....I have a son who had cancer when he was 5..... glad to say he came through it ...its a term used In everyday life....what is your point to the thread.....

now who did you say bought the Salford reds..........look guys sunday football at the parks is a fun day out........jose shut the f..k up

I think we all have had just about enough off the Chelsea soap opera...hundreds of answers to questions many of us do not know but can only speculate on....I will try to keep this short ....there is without a doubt a serious problem going on in our football club...a cancer that is currently splitting the club apart..so as I see it tonight ....the great man may have to go to for us to turn the corner ..it happens in football .....

well to say the season hasn't gone to plan would be the understatement of the year.....but the fans who attended the game tonight ....take a bow.....the vocal support in the last 10 mins for jose brought a lump to my throat ...the ground as one saluting the great man......he could well make history by turning around a club that was on the verge of a mission of explosion.....not a great performance but from little acorns..........

I wonder what this legend would think of one of our own not playing for the shirt..

spot on estimated over 55 thousand in the ground....reduced to around 35 after......happy memorys...and it seems only like yesterday...

matic is my bet.....

the shed as I knew it as a17 yr old,,,,

will make history if he turns this nightmare around...after over 50yrs following the game I am struggling to find any manager who turned around a situation like this.....it gets worse by the hour.. banned from the stadium/ a legal battle ahead for constructive dismissal against a former employee/ the worst start ever by the defending champions/ the press baying for blood players wanting to lose just to piss him off...I just cannot see any possible way the great man can come out of this and turn things round..its a nightmare I thought we would struggle to retain the title after a lacklustre investment of players in the summer anyone with half a brain could see we were running on empty from jan onwards last season...but this is very scary..and as history tells us its a long way back once you fall from the top table...

fair play to jose...looked and acted like he was back to his best in the post match interview .

another defeat ..cant possibly survive now ...I just cant see anyway he can turn this round presuming he wants to,,,,,its hard to believe what we are seeing at the moment.... a broken man with a squad that lack fight and are a million miles away from what we have come to except in the last 10 yrs or so......

too right ..........