OnePeterOsgood

How on earth can we find a genuine replacement for Fernandez? Some one who has no real pace, can’t tackle, is unable to unpick defences, no leadership skills, folds under pressure, way overpriced, no team spirit, racist … It’s a tough act to follow but if anyone can find such a gem we can rely on our intrepid SD’s!

How on earth can we find a genuine replacement for Fernandez? Some one who has no real pace, can’t tackle, is unable to unpick defences, no leadership skills, folds under pressure, way overpriced, no team spirit, racist … It’s a tough act to follow but if anyone can find such a gem we can rely on our intrepid SD’s!

How on earth can we find a genuine replacement for Fernandez? Some one who has no real pace, can’t tackle, is unable to unpick defences, no leadership skills, folds under pressure, way overpriced, no team spirit, racist … It’s a tough act to follow but if anyone can find such a gem we can rely on our intrepid SD’s!

How on earth can we find a genuine replacement for Fernandez? Some one who has no real pace, can’t tackle, is unable to unpick defences, no leadership skills, folds under pressure, way overpriced, no team spirit, racist … It’s a tough act to follow but if anyone can find such a gem we can rely on our intrepid SD’s!

How on earth can we find a genuine replacement for Fernandez? Some one who has no real pace, can’t tackle, is unable to unpick defences, no leadership skills, folds under pressure, way overpriced, no team spirit, racist … It’s a tough act to follow but if anyone can find such a gem we can rely on our intrepid SD’s!

Some names there that I had forgotten - we signed Bobby Evans towards the end of his distinguished career for Celtic and Scotland. We signed Johnny Brooks from Tottenham in the deal that too Les Allen to Spurs, and Sylvan Anderson came from Reading and was quite a decent player. I don’t remember much about Charlie Livesley and I have previously mentioned Reg Matthews on this forum - the man who made other goalies look sane!

Some names there that I had forgotten - we signed Bobby Evans towards the end of his distinguished career for Celtic and Scotland. We signed Johnny Brooks from Tottenham in the deal that too Les Allen to Spurs, and Sylvan Anderson came from Reading and was quite a decent player. I don’t remember much about Charlie Livesley and I have previously mentioned Reg Matthews on this forum - the man who made other goalies look sane!

If I remember right, the opening game of the season was away to West Ham who paraded their three World Cup winners before the teams came out. Also, I think this was Charlie Cooke’s league debut and the first chance to watch him live. We won fairly comfortably, I think, and CC showed glimpses of what was to come!

It’s good that Chris Sutton is commentating as he can nip down to the pitch and hand over his very own worst centre forward in the history of Chelsea Football Club trophy to Liam Delap!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

I suppose the one big disadvantage of not being in the CL next season is that we won’t be able to attract quality players like Garnacho, Gittens, Delap and Bunonotte!

Yes, it was just a friendly to mark the opening of the floodlights. I thought it was 3-0 so I was close! I love the wording ‘Fooodlight Match’ on the front of the program! Before then, matches in winter usually started at about 2.15 so they could finish before it got dark!

Yes, it was just a friendly to mark the opening of the floodlights. I thought it was 3-0 so I was close! I love the wording ‘Fooodlight Match’ on the front of the program! Before then, matches in winter usually started at about 2.15 so they could finish before it got dark!

I also remember going to an away match at West Ham as a child and sitting on my own amongst all the WH fans .. yes really! I did have mates of course but they were all Tottenham supporters so I was often on my own at matches … getting to the Bridge was not a problem but how did I get to Upton Park? Anyway, the game was only memorable because of the really toxic atmosphere made even worse when one of our players clattered into their star player, Phil Woosnam, who had to go off injured … remember this was in the days before any subs. But after an absence of maybe 10 minutes Woosnam emerged from the dressing room and took up his position on the field … cue absolute bedlam with the most visceral and hate-filled noise from a football stadium that I’d ever heard mixed with unbelievable delight that he had returned. Funnily enough I remember feeling quite shaken by the scale of it but never frightened or vulnerable... It just wasn’t like that in those days …. no one had a dig at me or said anything really … today??

Sorry, mate, I was in the “posh seats!”

The match to celebrate the new floodlights took place on my 9th birthday, March 19, 1957. Although it was a school night I was allowed to go … you couldn’t really have stopped me! An evening match against …. foreigners! Whatever next? The opposition was Sparta Prague and I think we won 3-0?

The match to celebrate the new floodlights took place on my 9th birthday, March 19, 1957. Although it was a school night I was allowed to go … you couldn’t really have stopped me! An evening match against …. foreigners! Whatever next? The opposition was Sparta Prague and I think we won 3-0?

The match to celebrate the new floodlights took place on my 9th birthday, March 19, 1957. Although it was a school night I was allowed to go … you couldn’t really have stopped me! An evening match against …. foreigners! Whatever next? The opposition was Sparta Prague and I think we won 3-0?

The match to celebrate the new floodlights took place on my 9th birthday, March 19, 1957. Although it was a school night I was allowed to go … you couldn’t really have stopped me! An evening match against …. foreigners! Whatever next? The opposition was Sparta Prague and I think we won 3-0?

I also remember going to an away match at West Ham as a child and sitting on my own amongst all the WH fans .. yes really! I did have mates of course but they were all Tottenham supporters so I was often on my own at matches … getting to the Bridge was not a problem but how did I get to Upton Park? Anyway, the game was only memorable because of the really toxic atmosphere made even worse when one of our players clattered into their star player, Phil Woosnam, who had to go off injured … remember this was in the days before any subs. But after an absence of maybe 10 minutes Woosnam emerged from the dressing room and took up his position on the field … cue absolute bedlam with the most visceral and hate-filled noise from a football stadium that I’d ever heard mixed with unbelievable delight that he had returned. Funnily enough I remember feeling quite shaken by the scale of it but never frightened or vulnerable... It just wasn’t like that in those days …. no one had a dig at me or said anything really … today??