Chelseaboy

As far as atmosphere goes, generally the fans of the team thats winning make the most noise! I find our support contains far too many who dont/cant sing the songs especially in games like this. Also familiarity breeds contempt for the occassion and we have had so many visits to wembley alot of our support is blase about it. As is always the case the y*ds will be desperate for some silverware and there will be far more of them in the club wembley seats. So we need to be leading to compete with them singing wise. Spurs have recently rolled over some sh*te sides, lets not get carried away with them being world beaters. Anywhere near our A game and we will be fine. Remember this mob have a massive inferiority complex against us away from their hovel in the poor part of town.

Great post, sums up that season perfectly. So many lows beforehand and this was as high as we thought it would get! Amazing unforgettable away days that were always an adventure in there own right. Obviously munich was a one off high that will never be beaten, but as a whole 83/84, was my chelsea era when i was never more proud to be chelsea.

scroll down the link mate. Hes there! lol

very annoying and totally spiteful thing to do by the police.As you say this phantom firm was just the excuse they used and tbh the ob allow countless demos and marches every year. Are they going to ban every player/fan event now? Some of the people who were going to attend may have been about when football "culture" was at its peak many moons ago, but blimey the police certainly hold a grudge on these things, and some would say in these days of public sector cuts maybe certain FIO s were looking to justify there cushy roles.

Got in a couple of away games away games on child tickets back in the day, they hardly ever checked, but i was young then, Most notably at bolton when walker scored, mind you every f**ker was getting kids tickets that day.

remember him and a few good other fellas "holding the line" down the back streets away to PSG in 2004. sad news

you are right Harrow, but once you hit 40/50.................your time has past. The youth dont embrace it now. They really dont know what they are missing. Because football without the edge is just sh*t.

sorry for the confusion fellas!

Carshalton im already there mate. Gonna be a good un. proper old school turnout

I remember seeing him about all the time mid 80s. My mate called him " bucket " dont ask me why though

Never mind carshalton, its 4 hours free bar so you wont care that you are on your own by the end of the night!

Best thing about the sh*t years was you could turn up on the day and just pay into wherever you wanted in the ground, the shed, east or west stands any section of the stand too! You could still do this up till the mid 90s.Late 70s early 80s we were pretty sh*t, tho its all relative as George says in the original post. Those awaydays when we were sh*t are up there with my favourite memories.To be near the bottom of the old division 2 and turn up at Elland Road with 5000 fans as we did in 82/83 just made you proud to be a blue. No glory hunters just proper chelsea!

They were deffo fans, and they could not in any way be called glory hunters. We were sh*t and took thousands everywhere. Different times thats all. Nevin challenges the racism on the documentary but has nothing but praise for the fans general support of the team in those days. Back then the roles were reversed. The travelling fans were champions league and the team were division 2 standard!

It was a totally different era. racism was normal for alot of fans, it happened every week. One of our proud chants pre cannoville was that we was "the only white team in London" Nazi salutes were regular on the shed with sieg heil being chanted. Every visiting black player was grunted at like they were a monkey. "you black bar steward" and "whos that up a tree - garth crookes" for that cup game v the y*ds in 82 totally normal chants for the time.It gradually diminished through the 80s but i remember the whole west stand echoing with "you black bar steward" to john fashanu as late as 89

old football! skinheads in the shed, silk scarves round the wrists, No sponsors, no adverts. masses of concrete. Even the umbro piping and logo were "cutting edge"