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Think it was the aftermath of the Bradford/Heysel/Bham disasters in 85 add trouble at our Sunderland game & Millwall at Luton the same season, gates dropped then & carried on the following season for most clubs. Near the end of the season in 86 likes of Spurs at their peak got 8/9/10,000 at a few home games only two years after winning the Uefa cup.

Saw my flag up behind the goal, couldnt see the other end on the day as there was fog.

Micky Greenaway arms aloft next to the bloke in white crash helmet.

I spend most of my time on twitter these days mate, any new photo's come up i'll post them on here.

Looking back at all the photo's, shame to see some are missing, not sure why that is? Cant believe it was so long ago i started this thread, glad to see it's still going. Anyone remember the press cutting of the loan Cardiff skinhead on the north terrace in 1980 when we won 1.0 with a late Walker goal? it was put on here yonks ago cant remember who by now, been looking for it for ages.

91/92 drew 3.3 taken from the back of the Carefree fanzine, I put it on twitter few months back, would love to see the original without the speech bubbles.

Nice to see this thread is still going strong. Some good old footage popping up from time to time.

Man City away 1984

Chelsea at Southampton

Chelsea at Arsenal 1984

Chelsea on Southampton's pitch 84/85

Chelsea at Southampton 84/85

Chelsea at Southampton 84/85

No mate i cant go got loads on at work at the minute.

Thats the 86/87 game not the 4.0 game, bloke on the left has Bates 86 badge on his ski hat, that badge wasnt used at the 4.0 game.

Cannoville scoring away to Fulham 2nd April 82/83 season, 1000s of Chelsea fans celebrating his goal.

Funny you mention Banana Bob, i was only talking about him with an older Chelsea mate on Sunday, they went to school together & lived near each other.

No its v Notts County, fans demonstrated against the board.

Chelsea employed Sarri after he had been charged, found guilty & fined for homophobic abuse towards another manager, thats ok though ? The club's double standards sicken me at times

It was Bates response to the FA charging the club for the Sunderland riot, he was interviewed afterwards & said how can we be fined when we did everything we can to stop the morons causing trouble, over 30,000 people witnessed a fan on the pitch trying to attack Clive Walker yet the culprit walked away with a fine. Do you honestly think the GLC, the FA, the Police, the fans would have accepted the electric fence being turned on? No chance.

Bates was born in a council flat, his mum died not long after he was born & his Dad did a runner, he was bought up by his grandparents, he is a self made millionaire. The electric fence was a gimmick anyone who really thinks he would have turned the power on to his electric fence is deluded.

22nd May 1971. Police struggle to contain fans of Chelsea as the team arrive at Fulham Town Hall after they had won the European Cup Winners Cup by beating Real Madrid by 2-1 in a replayed final in Athens, Greece.

22nd May 1971. Police struggle to contain fans of Chelsea as the team arrive at Fulham Town Hall after they had won the European Cup Winners Cup by beating Real Madrid by 2-1 in a replayed final in Athens, Greece.