Peckham Blue

He's also yet another ex-pro who regularly features on Talksh*te. Is there a pattern emerging here?

Durham definently supports Peterborough, his son supports Chelsea. I wonder if the Milkman is a Chelsea fan too?

He supports Peterborough. Says it all, a real loser ;)

I honestly hope our fans give Bridge hell tomorrow, I would if I was going*. Make the place unpleasant to visit, anything to put him off his game. * Remember wherever Terry goes for the rest of this season, including Wembley playing for England, he's gonna get it too, with interest It's us against them fellas, backs to the wall stuff. F**k 'em all!

"Who's that coming over your wife, it's John Terry, it's John Terry."

I can't say I remember the team coming over althought I'd stopped sitting there and gone back to the Shed by those days. My memory of the benches is that it was never a popular place until one Boxing Day we were playing Leicester, probably about 1979. I don't know why, but I decided to pay the 50p transfer from the Shed but for some reason so did a lot of other people, in fact a lot of the main faces of that time. Unusually for Leicester, well unique really because up until that day their away support at the Bridge could be counted on one hand but this day they turned up en-mass but very late so it wasn't as if everyone had migrated into the benches because of the away support, everyone was already in there, of course it was easy then to get in the North Stand. From that match on it was the place to be, at least that's how I remember it.

Sad night that one, we had such high hopes. I got my ticket in the Palace section of the Holmesdale End on a Sunday morning after coming back from holiday the day before. On the night I went in quietly but soon became aware there were hundreds of Chelsea fans on that side of the fence and when Townsend scored there must have been a surrounded circle of at least 1000+ of us going beserk. As much as I hate big nosed Villa c**t these days, on that night he really did grab the team by the scuff of the neck to try and get us through and I'll always appreciate his efforts in that game, but luck and weather conditions were against us. To make things wore it took nearly two hours to get home to Camberwell which is only a few miles away.

I like the line about "He's got funny eyes" Has this northen c**t ever looked in a mirror?

I thought it was very funny when the Cardiff fans kept the ball and then threw it back just as the goal kick was about to be taken so there were two balls on the pitch. Cheeky but funny don't you think?

I really enjoyed the Cardiff match.

Nice game to watch too, very flowing. I liked the look of our No.11.

Ha ha, it's my age but I was just a witness yesterday, sod that I can't be bothered. Anyway I haven't said your support in the ground was excellent yesterday as I expected, I wish we had that repertiore of songs. We've got another prawn ''sandwich brigade in the next round if they win their replay, should be a quiet game!

You're quite right. The age of some the Chelsea blokes I saw astounded me, late fourties, even fifty.

Not at all, keeping the fans seperate avoids confrontation. I don't know who makes the desicions, maybe it's the clubs rather than the police, maybe Cheslea don't want fans kept in as the're likely to tear the place apart which from reading your messageboard is what happened the the ceiling of the stand anyway.

No of course not. A lot of the blame has to go on the police though all it needed was half an hour keeping them in the ground.

The Cardiff messageboard is saying we ran. All I saw was a scuffle outside the main entrance after the game. Our lot were next to the pub and rushed, probably what Cardiff saw, to meet a load of theirs who'd gone up the alleyway next to the flats. It all went off as both mobs met on King's Road by the railway bridge and here it lasted for about five minutes toe to toe. Shop windows got smashed as there were cones and rubble from the road works flying backwards and forwards. No-one ran here and our (geriatric) faces were congratulating each other saying they'd smashed them.

So we're now a North London team then?

' kinell you've hit the nail there. It's that smell of the beer barrel corridor, there's nothing like it, I could lick the carpet and whenever I walk past a dive pub it grabs you like a forgotten dream. After we moved to Fulham my Mitcham life moved to the Jolly Brewers in St. Dionis Road, Parson's Green similarly the packet of crisps (Smith's) and a bottle of Coke but this time before a Chelsea match. The smell of youth, holidays in caravans in Camber Sands, crap cabaret bands copying the Rubettes! And there's me these days, dragging the kids down to Dulwich Hamlet, bribing the kids with crisps and Coke just to keep them quiet from telling Mum that Dad does nothing but drink when he goes to football.

Yikes !!!! That's one nasty scar down the nose. Bay City Rollers Fan eh??

Tongue in cheek, mate. Here in Peckham we're gentrified, who'd have thought it!! I often (avoid) going through Mitcham and Sutton on my way to my parents now in Epsom but I do wonder when I drive through how my life would have been different if I'd have grown up there.

I wish we hadn't moved now.

Harwood Avenue, second or third house on the left. We lived upstairs in my Grandparents house until my Dad got a job in Fulham and the house came with it. My main memories of Mitcham are when we used to go back and visit and me and my brother would have to spend the whole saturday evening in the corridor at the back of the Black Bull while the family got pissed up in the pub. I think the Cricketers had a family room so I prefered it when we went there.

So was I, born in St.Helier lived off Love Lane, Mitcham until I was two and then we moved to Fulham.

Got mine today, glad I ordered straight away as it's now Sold Out.

Just back myself, couldn't agree more. JT was immense in defence but his passing is excellent.