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"

man united early to mid 90s. im sure they packed the north stand and even had supporters comming in the shed end and being allowed to walk straight down to front to be escorted down their end! An ariel shot was on the cover of one of the yearbooks. Liverpool 86 when they won the title. West ham always brought thousands, big day out for them and their club is not exactly a trophy magnet, so not glory boys. Worst has to be QPR. massive mouths - tiny fan base.

liverpool aint all that, chelsea played to their strengths in the first leg. We will attack, there will be no mikel slowing the play up, and believe it or not jose there will be a great atmosphere! Vermin in their place 2 or 3-0 chelsea

The game was hastily arranged, but remember, it wasnt unusual for fa cup replays to be played 3 days after the first match. From memory the crowd was a dissapointing 8/9000. I think you are over egging the rangers contribution as well but they still had about 2500 down although no doubt most of them were "exiles" living down here

oh that norwich game was unreal mate. if the old memory serves me right, we were on the verge of an uefa cup place, and had to play on a swimming pool in a monsoon! Shame as i would have loved to have played in europe with our nutty support at that time. Mind you the scousers murdered a load of italians so it was irrelevant anyway.

quality pitch lol

Shedhead has it right. Lampard, already a multi millionaire, left chelsea because of cold hard cash. His "love for the club" could not overide those pound notes.Even when his on- pitch powers are waining. Noone can take away what his contribution to chelsea has been though, so "chelsea reject" would have been harsh! Is that greed exclusive to modern football? i dont think so.

That was because at the time the press were linking him with a move to Arsenal, cant remember any details though, so dont know if he said he fancied it .

Everything about that millwall picture seems like something from a history book. Fighting, no seats, no women,no oldies, no tourists. Just young lads at the match. Great days!

Its not a new issue, plenty of games at the bridge in the 80s saw terrible support by the fans, against lesser teams.Everybody blames the tourists, but in truth, alot of the blame goes to our ST holders, proper old school fans in some cases who just go through the motions for the smaller games.For example some would rather get to the bar and miss 10 minutes of the first half. I totally agree with mourinio raising this, and he will get a reaction for the next game. Football supporting should be a participation event, but its human nature that when you feel threatened by better opposition you are going to rise to the challenge. The potential atmosphere at chelsea is way better than when we had the huge bowl with the fans miles away. So come on people, lets raise the bar. If you are not a tourist, know he songs, get behind the boys. f**k me we are good enough anyway, but imagine what it could be like if we could generally make the atmosphere better. Players and fans would enjoy the matchday experience more. its a win win.WELL DONE JOSE, And if you are offended by his comments have a look at yourself and how much effort you actually put in to supporting your club.

Went to both them leeds games and tbh we had massive turnouts but were pretty much wrapped up by the old bill. I think rumour has it that hickys coach lot had it off at leeds station at the 82/3 game while the following year 300 tried to get off the service train i was on at wakefield only for the old bill to get handy with the truncheons!