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Alan. Yes it won Goal of the Season. I had to google it as I had no idea who he played for or that West Ham are now known as the Pikeys. I emigrated to Sweden in 1988 so things change. Anyway here it is. (All I do here is paste the link from youtube and the site links to it like magic). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsgLQe5ms0I

What is your favourite non-Chelsea goal? My top five as follows: I would never have admitted 5 or 2 at the time but 30 years on I can appreciate the football and some of the classic goals that were around at the time. (Even if they were scored by Hoddle). Number 5 Hoddle vs Watford Number 4 Robert Carlos Free Kick Number 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFcTVlLj8Q4 Owen vs The Argentine Number 2 Hoddle vs Man Utd (League Cup 79-80. 29th August 1979). I was there as was my brother, a spurs fan. But we were on opposite sides of the ground. As the free-kick was awarded the ball had been kicked into the crowd. My brother caught it and through it to another Spurs player than the one asking for it. He maintains to this day that he had a hand in this goal. Number 1 Terry McDermott. Liverpool's 7th against Tottenham from September 1978. We had just played out a 2-2 at White Hart Lane and Tottenham fans were full of it having signed Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa that summer. They went up to Merseyside expecting to win and Liverpool tore them apart. Liverpool's 7th goal just capped it off. Liverpool scored 85 goals and let in just 16 that season. Furthermore they only used 14 players all season! Enjoy

A mate of mine in work had been recording CFC bits and pieces from 1981 which I got copied. I bought my Betamax in February 1982 and have most clips of Chelsea shown until 88. I was fairly early compared to most in owning a VCR. (It cost me £1200 which is much more in today's money).

> They even have the legendary news footage of the 4-3 comeback against Bolton in 1978-79 season in their stock I can't wait, probably the happiest 10 minutes of my youth. (On a par with the 4-2 against Liverpool in 78 and the half-time break just after Fillery's rocket against Tottenham in the 1982 q/f.) If they have Bolton then they must have the 7-3 away to The Orient in 79 when Lee Frost scored a hat-trick. I'd love to see that as would one of my Facebook friends (Lee Frost's wife). Hope they release all this soon.

Another Chelsea player who went to Leicester was of course, Keith Weller. At Leicester he was known as "Leicester's Georgie Best". However most MOTD viewers remember when he turned up for a cold winter game wearing a pair of his wife's white stockings. Dunno whether the keeper fell over laughing but they certainly worked as he scored wearing them. Leicester v Norwich, FA Cup 1979 - (Yes I know this is a Chelsea thread but this does have a Chelsea connection. I'd actually forgotten that Keith died of cancer back in 2004. His Wikipedia page reminded me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Weller

The game is likely to be Chelsea v Man City 12th April 1975. We lost 1-0. With the East Stand complete it must be 74-75 at least. And as said the programme is a 74-75 programme. However, it "could" be 76 as the young fan may have just bought an missing programme in the programme shop from the previous season. :) But interesting point about Kember, according to Wikipedia ".....and Kember moved back to the top-flight, to Leicester City, shortly after Chelsea's relegation (in 1975).

When I said we played "Arsenal in the afternoon" I meant reserves. Unrecognised first team matches are the Holy Grail of the football fan. How much can you remember about that match? I am sure we can still arrange a programme. As said the Häcken game was the last game in the world Chelsea would have printed a programme for, it was done by us fans 3 hours after the final whistle.

Blue is the colour. Recording of. Amazing footage! http://www.britishpathe.com/video/chelsea-football-team-record

What match is this? It is labelled as 1976 but it looks earlier. Video: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/chelsea-footballers/query/Chelsea+Footballers As stills http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/chelsea-footballers

1) FA Cup 1970. 2) FA Cup 1997 3) FA Cup 2000 4) FA Cup 2007 5) FA Cup 2009 6) FA Cup 2010 7) ECWC 1971 8) ECWC 1998 9) Members Cup 1985 =10) Premier league Footnote: Having grown up in the 60's its still the FA Cup over everything, I'd rather we won that than the Champions League or Premier any season.

There you are Cath. Check back in this thread, there are some more of you. Notice the picture from Västerås where I labelled some of our fans. I have noticed a mistake, I had Warren down as Eamon. Apart from that you might be able to add some input on the other names.

Easy answer to this question. 11. Eleven. Total attendence. In 83 Rhodes-Brown phoned a mate about a friendly game the following day. Terry Last was called and he phoned me, I got on to Cathy. We phoned around. On the Tuesday morning 11 of us turned up at the training ground for the Chelsea v BK Häcken friendly, Chelsea won 3-1 against these Swedish part-timers. I doubt anyone can beat this for a first-team match. The programme is on sale here. http://www.collectsoccer.com/acatalog/Chelsea_Programmes_1982-1983.html - Funny thing was we (Cathy, Terry and me) wrote down the team sheet in Cathy's car after the match. We went to Chelsea v Arsenal at the Bridge in the afternoon. Terry ran in the programme shop and had Keith run off about 100 copies of the programme. Ie, We created the programme for a match that would never have had one in normal circumstances. And now they are changing hands for £75. Amazing.

> Problem there could be a lack of fans who can still remember that far back Oh yeah, we are not "The pensioners" any more. My wish in the 70's was for our boys to take an end dressed up in those red tunics that the Chelsea pensioners wear. I hated violence but that would have been funny.

Thats the way I remember it. However the losing the music-hall joke tag was at least mentioned in 1950. I wonder if any older fans can shed some light on this.

I dug out some footage of Harry Medhurst playing. Its the q/f cup 4th March 1950. Chelsea v Man Utd http://www.britishpathe.com/video/wembley-here-we-come/ (We lost the semi to Arsenal in a replay). What is interesting is that I have believed a myth for 41 years ever since I read it in a Chelsea book printed in 1969 edited by Albert Sewell. He states that "Chelsea were the butt of music hall joke until Ted Drake took over in 1952". In this film from 1950 the commentator makes that actual remark, saying Chelsea - for so long the butt of music-hall jokes are now to be taken seriously. Seems Albert had it wrong, at least by a couple of years and as we know Billy Birrell was manager until the summer of 52. Nice on Billy. I always said he was responsible for the foundations of the team that Drake took over.

Get on facebook, we are about 150 Chelsea fans that have added each other and we exchange chat lines, posts and old memories regularly. The Blackpool lad was in Sweden in 81. On the pre-season of 82 he suddenly turned up in Strömsund for the one game and we met him in the town before kickoff, but we didn't see him at the game or afterwards or ever again. But we had these fans back then based around the country. Also hidden in that picture are the 3 lads from Selby that used to go home and áway. Then we had the nealy blind fan with the white stick that we used to see all over the country. Not to mention Keith from Leicester (so I wont). But this is a great photo of Cathy and Teena at the IFK Mariehamn v Chelsea game on the Finnish island of Åland. Chelsea won 6-1. We did a conga on the pitch at half-time. Just behind Cathy on the bench (and it really was a bench) you can see physio Norman Medhurst, Chelsea star forward Alan Mayes and that might just be Micky Nutton or Gary Chivers behind and just to the left of Norman. (Now who remembers the name of Norman's father who used to play in goal for us, and does anyone remember the chant "Norman, Norman give us a wave" everytime he had been on the pitch and was passing us as he walked back along the sidelines to the Chelsea dugout?)

Haha, of course I know Cathy is on Facebook, we often post on each other's walls. I often comment on her threads anyways. Paul Feeney, yes he was in Sweden. Here is another shot of the crowd from August 11th 1981. And a picture taken 30 years on to the minute. 18.15 August 11th 2011. Can you help me name or identify anymore in this picture? And 2011..

Just found this. An early animated gif of mine before all these proffessional image programs came out. I have outlined the fans from the shed and moved them slightly to create several new images. Then by merging and looping I created the following effect. In reality it is just one picture, which I took seconds after Rhodes-Brown scored against Liverpool, F.A. Cup 5th Round 13th February 1982. Having set a record of 6 q/f's in 6 seasons (1964/65-1969/1970), Chelsea missed out on the q/f in 1970/71 only to return in 1971/72 making in 7 out of 8. Incredibly the next 19 seasons then saw us making the q/f on just one occasion. This was the day, in the hunt of major honours this was as successful as it got for 20 years. I made this picture in 1997, these fans have now been cheering that goal for 14 years. I

I have a mirror of the site, just in case the old address goes down. http://members.tripod.com/~Chelsea76_83/

Shed end 81/82 From Shed End after Sheff Weds 5th December 1981. (W-2-1) Entry to ground (81/82)

That day - 11th August 1981 was the day it all began for me. I emigrated to Sweden in 1988. Sweden has been good to me and I have kids here and a great job. I recall that Chelsea trip that opened new horizons for me. I live 300 km from Västerås. Last summer I went on a personal journey and revisted the town and the ground 30 years on to the very day. I bought three flowers for three special people and took the following photo at kick-off time 30 years on to the very minute. I observed a minute's silence. For the fallen. For the Chelsea, players and fans that are no longer with us.

The first match of the 1981 tour of Sweden was against IFK Västerås at the Arosvallen ground. I took these pictures that night. August 11th 1981

And here is Fillery taking a corner in that game away against Cambridge University.

I was alerted to this thread because my site (missing link) is mentioned. I see some of my old photos on here and its great to see them. In 1981 I went to Sweden on pre-season tour. On return to the UK we met up in Exeter for the pre-season friendly. I had some tour photos with me and some people requested copies. During the next few weeks I kept on swapping photos. I took my camera to first away of season, (Cardiff) and on return I met up with Cathy M and Terry Last in Canon Street. (We all had city jobs back then). Terry suggested I took photos at every away game that season. Nuff said. Taking pictures at away games I had copies made and then sold them in the pubs around Chelsea the next home game. Not wanting to rip fans off I sold photos at cost or even (dunno why) at a loss. More and more fans asked for copies and It just escalated. A home game would start at 11.00 in the Swan and I would make my way around the "home" pubs. I sold on the specials and pushed out around 12 000 photos that season. Here are two pages with some examples. http://www.garryjones.se/cfc/ and http://www.garryjone...cfc/index3.html Cathy (right) and Teena (left) on tour in Sweden 30 years ago. (Strömsund prior to the Strömsund 0 Chelsea 8 game, 1st August 1982). And our "crew" at Cambridge University away, (23rd November 1981) Back row, left to right: Chelsea Steve, Terry Last, Dean Self (RIP) Front row, left to right: Punky (Telford) Alan & (Punky) Steve Tombs I might one day get back onto that missing link site. I have hundreds more photos anyway....