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Loved NY Blues refreshing comments on France. Loved Trumps cameo so funny, his one of our own song should annoy many. BBC sports news unsurprisingly sneery the bin dippers friendly given greater presidence. Feels that we are heading in the right direction

Wolves Away. Also went to this game probably one of the best away days ever. Again the journey started home to sheff utd the week before. A mate had gone up to Wolverhampton the week before and got 20 odd tickets, it was so easy he did a repeat journey. After buying tickets for our group of fans he put them on general sale in the Weavers on farm lane, ( a great pub in them days). Walking to the ground all you heard was has anybody got any Wolves tickets or tickets for sale especially in around the chippy outside Fulham Broadway, a rumour went round that a certain person from the Home Counties had 250 tickets. Urban myths eh ? Anyway on the Saturday of the Wolves game 9 of us from Malmesbury went up to Wolves with no plan. Leaving the M6 we were immediately struck by the urban beauty of the area. Passing a plastic estate pub set on a lovely estate with 2 trees we saw a van with a slough address on the side. We decided this would be our beer stop, the pub was full of Chelsea, all went well until about 2 when the landlord said he had been told to close. There was major ructions in the lounge bar as a large group of Chelsea left to get onto a coach.This was unusual as in 1977 Chelsea fans didn,t appear to use coaches much . I think the coach company had a Camberwell address or was called Grove coaches. The other unusual thing was that several Chelsea fans were wearing Pringle jumpers. We drove into Wolverhampton and found a nice gravel carpark, near the inner ring road. In front of us was a large group of Chelsea being escorted to the ground chatting one said they had come up on the inter city, and that a special wasn,t far behind. Going into the ground nobody was concerned who we supported and once up on the Southbank it was wow. Despite heavy police numbers you could walk around the bottom of the southbank and up behind the Wolves fans. I saw this happen twice both times the Wolves fans started heading down and away from the problem.This seemed to add an even greater police presence seperating the southbank. Anyway the game was a bit untidy the result much more tidy especially at the end when the Tottenham news came through After joining the pitch celebrations our exit from the ground was a bit more problematic. As we left we were under bombardment from bricks masonary etc from Wolves fans Chelsea fans were up by the subway with little space below to deploy. The police bore the brunt of the bombardment trying to seperate the fans eventually the wolves fans tried a charge. A loud voice rang up Chelsea stand you might guess who that was dark hair sideburns. We stood and then charged forcing a retreat this allowed more chelsea to join in. A 2nd charge found wolves fans heading away out of the Black country . The old bill re established some order and got us moving towards the station. This gave us an opportunity to slip away and head for home. I gather there were more problems in Wolverhampton but have no idea what happened. The journey home and subsequent lagers a bit of an anti climax.

Unsung hero who soldiered on into the 70s rip.

Moved to Wiltshire in the mid 70s could not afford to see Chelsea much so went with schoolmates to watch Swindon. Used to go into the Don Rodgers sports shop anything from fishing tackle to golf clubs, the only decent shop Swindon ever had. Anyway went in their before a Swindon v Millwall game a group of blokes all mid 20s + were buying darts it was only Swindon !

Talking of Horror shows to any early 70s teenagers on this site were tank tops a warning of what lay ahead ?

Still can,t make my mind up which was my best Chelsea goal Webbie or Osgood never will.

Sorry couldn,t help myself. We are Devo E V I L .

Always thought Arse fans were the scousers of the south massive sense of entitlement. I know i, am in a minority but they are more disease ridden than the team that ends in s. As for the independent republic up north can we have our taxes back ?

Did anybody else go to Wrexham away game 79/80 season when it was snowy. Chelsea charged at Wrexham who retreated problem was it was icey and everybody went arse over.

Sorry should read when both goals went in.. Also just seen the news about Venables.

Charlie Cooke was just a great watch . Also remember the noise where i lived in hayes when both goals went. Shame on dirty Leeds.

Its getting to feel a lot like Christmas

Thought Gallagher played really well kinda of glued the team together.

Managed to get some tickets at last, like many chelsea fans don,t always leave the virtual waiting room any poorer. There are many chelsea fans who struggle big time to get tickets thus the need for a bigger stadium. And yet i remember the 70s and the started redevelopment that went so wrong, so it is a worry. For the record my last virtual waiting room success was Plymouth in the cup. Hope Carlton Fairweather is not playing !

I approach the weekend with a big smile.

I am sure Bristol rovers had rose bushes in between the pitch and the speedway track and Aldershot had a municipal garden at one end of their ground. Character and history.

When Hudson was on song we were great to watch, and he got the best ever free kick goal against the team that ends in s.

The break the net penalty against spurs in the league cup in 1971 had the bridge rocking. Also seemed a gent.

Leicester away april 1980 My brother was a student there and persuaded the landlord of his local pub to open up the back room for us at 10 in the morning .Having drunk our way up to the midlands we just carried on to our surprise when we got to Filbert street the bar in the enclosure to the left of the Leicester fans was open. This enabled us to top up as this enclosure was also full of chelsea every time i heard a loud cheer i thought Leicester had scored. By half time i thought we were 3-0 down, it was 0-0 at the time i think. Sadly the bar shut at half time so we endured a 1-0 defeat, After the game we somehow entered the middle enclosure aka the Leicester end, they seem to have moved on to the pitch.However we were few in number but it didn,t hurt and a morale victory had been achieved.My brother drove us back to wiltshire via some very nice country pubs along the fosse way.

Talking of which the Johhny Boyle picture is a great insight into what late1960s kids used to wear A hint of sub skin/mod probably hand me downs and the dreaded home knit. All available in a choice of colours

Puma attack October 1970 in Sutton somebodys pet, not the beast of benhilton. One of the incidents that led to the Dangerous animals act.

Is it Frankie goes to Hollywood ?

As the graffiti used to say near Hammersmith odeon, why not ?

Sunderland game started the day about 10 o clock, got in the queue in the North stand considerably later, seem to remember some discord near the turnstiles, the queue was almost all Chelsea. Somebody said West Ham were here many went back out onto Fulham rd further discord, our essex friends melted into the night. Got to the Pelican and they had gone, went back to try and get in and the gates had shut. Strangely seem to remember a coach load of Sunderland somehow appearing being aghast at what they had just seen. How the coach got down Fulham rd i do not know, also had to tell them the gates had shut. We then where a bit stuck and went to the Black Bull, many famous faces seemed to have chosen not to go to the game other things were happening later.

Early 70s shoes where to start . DMs , weavers, tassled weavers,loafers, tassled loafers, gibsons, boxed gibsons. Then there were Brogues, squires and I seem to remember royal brogues. I think these were brown brogues ? Freeman Hardy and Willis needed a lot of stock.