Ewell CFC

Can you imagine the outrage if a manager said that now. Theyd lock him up in a cage and throw away the key.

Rita Spaghetti with a tache. Never seen that before

I'd hardly class Mulligan and Houston as the brightest stars in the galaxy

Think that might have been Peter Osgoods first game back in his return spell

Ha. The graveyard Banstead used to be known as! In the middle of Merland Rise council estate, with the social club full of pissheads attached. Very chilly, a bit like Chipstead FC up the road. When we had that snowy winter a couple of years back games were getting called off a couple of weeks after it had thawed out everywhere else. They’re both pretty high up by Greater London standards.

Maybe there was a famous Hughie Gallagher/ Stanley Matthews type winger playing and they wanted to be close to the action. You’d think they’d want to get in the middle and huddle up like a load of penguins, taking turns to be on the outside. Cant remember who we were playing but remember freezing my nuts off by the tea bar circa 81. There was a bloke nearby complaining that his feet were like ice cubes. Next thing he’s taken his shoes off and put his mittens on his feet which made everyone laugh. Also remember being really cold at Barnsley even though the game was in early November, and once at Craven Cottage- can get super nippy there when the winds coming off the river.

I didn’t know Ron Hockings was behind that. Possibly the most loyal Chelsea fan ever and a nice bloke

Was working up North but came back for the home leg. Was standing by the tea bar which was unusual because I’d migrated to the seats years before- was struck by how many Herbert’s were around me- it was the resurgence of the terrace spat between us and Spurs who’d battered the Ifield the previous season so a lot of chaps came out the woodwork. Townsend had a brama in the return leg, which led Bobby Campbell to saying he wouldn’t swap him for any other midfielder in the country- veiled reference to Gazza.

Think he looks more like Roger De Courcey of Nookie Bear fame.

It’s the first Cup Final I remember. After Cup Finals all the local kids used to go down the park for a twenty aside game. By far the busiest afternoon/ evening down the rec of the year. Ps I used to think it was called the wreck because it was such a sh*t park, not realising it was short for recreation ground. ( I’m sure it was the same everywhere- when the council cut the grass word spread like wildfire- it used to get that long they needed a combine harvester to chop it down)

I’d say your right. Checklist when leaving house for football.... Wallet, fags....keys...phone...tit with big nipple...

Could well be. He used to have a bar in Croydon imaginatively named Kembers. I only went there twice but decent bloke by all accounts.

He’s got a point if you agree that football fans should adhere to political correctness. Theres nothing new about risqué songs at football. What’s new is the PC agenda being applied. Its pantomime for adults, and I don’t see why the fun of many should be outlawed because some priggish killjoys are offended.

We all follow the Chelsea, Over land and sea..... And Brighton... Come along, come along, come along and sing this song. We’re the boys in blue and we fancy you and we like it up the ... Edit: Spurs have reclaimed the Y word as a means of deflating opposition fans who used it as a taunt. Maybe we should do the same? Yoohoo, Hello Sailor, shut that door, look at this mess, what a gay day etc etc

Too true about them falling off. Didn’t have a poppy CFC one this year and the match day traders around Fulham Broadway were sold out whenever I mooched around. I ended buying one pissed off a bloke I got chatting to in Richmond. He was wearing it along with numerous other badges ( bit of a trainspotter type with Young’s Brewery badges and other weird stuff), sold it to me for a tenner- turns out he bought in the superstore for £ 5 but I never go in there. Used to like the Union Jack Flag one’s with CFC through the middle in the early 80s, plus yellow and blue/ yellow and green pin badges from similar era.

Spectacular diving header. Hutchinson?

We went up in an Escort Estate. Parked up in deepest “ mind your car” territory. Turned the corner and there was about 20 older fellas waking towards us- right hard looking bastards with a fair few looking like they’d just come off building sites- one of those heads down and keep shtuum moments- ends up they were Chelsea. Someone at home taped this game for me. Think the VHS only got thrown out about 5 years ago

That’s a good point. He’s a frontrunner in horse racing terms. Off topic but just been talking to a Spurs mate, who reckons that Poch never played the same lineup consecutively for 55 games. Mind boggling stat’ if true.

Love his quote “ I’m really exited by the squad AND THE ACADEMY” No your not. Your just saying it because you’ve been a chequebook manager since forever, and in the light of SFL’s success with kids he’s hoping it will alter people’s perception of him. ( everything he says is choreographed ) Im amazed he’s got the gig. He’s a total busted flush IMO. Bet Spurs fans will really dig his groovy attacking football and constant bitching.

Pretty much every Micky Droy photo his shirt looks too small for him. Umbro obviously didn’t stock man mountain size.

Good gate that night. In me brothers long lost scrapbook the Daily Express backpage headline “ Chelsea are on their way up- and 42,000 know it” Amazing how we get that every week now and for big games could double it if we had the capacity.

I played against Cambridge University for Corinthian Casuals. The year I was there it was the least Corinthian lineup they’d ever had- the whole team were either builders, scaffolders, doormen or in the second hand car trade. We won 4- nil and kicked lumps out of them. It was an annual fixture evidently, which ended up with a formal dinner in Kings College Hall. Posh as you want and we looked right out of place. One of me me team mates got sent back to the coach early for going back for seconds and giving it the “ Please Sir, can I have some more” routine which had us all in stitches.

Working with a Geordie who recently bumped into our old mob in Magaluf- funny how Benidorm and Magaluf has jolly boys outings of old firms and where 20 years they’d knock the granny out of each of each other now they get along. Cut a long story, an old face described Geordies as “ Jocks that have had the sh*t kicked out of ‘em” which made him chuckle Along similar lines, the Salford Man U lot, met the Wandsworth/ Battersea firm in Spain a few years back. When we play at OT they stay in Manchester and get looked after, vice versa when it’s at Stamford Bridge. Kinda nice story I think

Cheers Ersk

Tony Hately there with the Doc, who didn’t pull up trees with us apparantly. He tried to big him up to Bill Shankly. TD: “ He’s a great player. A hundred thousand wouldn’t buy him” BS: “ Yeah. And I’m one of them” Edit- having looked again not sure that is TH