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Is that you Glenn, apologies if not?

Hereford perhaps would be one of the worst grounds of that era, a truly dreadful place!

Good news indeed!

Sorry, dont know how that happened.

A bunch of us spent the pre match hours getting inebriated in the Bolton Supporters Club bar in the main stand. From there straight into the home end, no wall jumping for us. You could say it was all our fault! Great day out!

A bunch of us spent the pre match hours getting inebriated in the Bolton Supporters Club bar in the main stand. From there straight into the home end, no wall jumping for us. You could say it was all our fault! Great day out!

I was at the 1975 whl game. I'm pretty sure that's the Paxton Road end and they are Spuds fans having some fun with the old bill. I was stood a little to the left out of the picture, please correct me if I'm wrong. That wasn't one of our greatest away days.

The guy 2nd from the left partially hidden wearing glasses, balding and a brown jacket looks suspiciously like myself. Hard to say for sure but that is precisely the area I used to stand at!

Looks like blood on his shirt. I bet it wasn't his !

The Black Bull as it was known in a former life, always enjoyed a few jars in there. A shame if it shuts down.

A lot of trouble that day especially in and around the park. Plymouth is, was quite a tough town.

Me too. Drank in the Finborough got to the ground about 2. Gates locked! I wasn't a happy chappy!

Hampdens should have been much lower. My brother and I went there in 1978 to see England win 1-0. The place was a tip, one of the worst grounds I've ever been to, how they managed 134,000 without mass casualties I'll never know!

As far as crushes go there is only one contender for me. The Paxton Road in 1975 . That was quite frightening, luckily I was a big strong lad of eighteen and managed to stay at the top of the terrace, lots of people getting crushed down the bottom. If I remember correctly they closed the gates an hour before kick off with many thousands locked out.

The fear and trepidation that day had to be experienced to be believed, what a day out that was!

Thanks for that, must be me then I guess, my family seem to think so.

The guy in the glasses fifth from the left at the back looks suspiciously like yours truly, I'm not certain though. It would be nice to know the date of the pic as after October I missed the rest of the season travelling in Asia. Yes I know, I missed that season!

Dead right about those pubs. I think they were clubs for escaped nutters!

I agree that Gullit was a great influence in our rennaisance but for me Glenn Hoddle was the turning point. He completely changed the whole club, without him we would never have attracted Gullit in the first place.

My dad was at that game. He was 19 and in the army. Although a Newcastle Utd fan he went like many of the others out of curiosity about the Russians. He said it was one of the best experiences of his life!

Yes that was when we were really crap. You had to be a masochist to go to the Bridge back then, but of course we still went. I remember the PO book, I believe I discovered mine in a drawer sometime in the nineties and cashed it in, couldn't have been more than a tenner in it mind!

Chelsea obviously paid him too much judging by the car he got out of!

Looks like it is portacabins or something similar.

As you say a lively day. All in all one of the better days of following Chelsea in those days including the train breakdown at St Neots, happy days!