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My first Chelsea match was on Boxing day 1975 away at Orient-dont remember much other than seeing Maybank equalise , two pitch invasions and my uncle going on and on about how good Laurie Cunningham was. A year later or so i thought i was one of the fabled 55003, it was actually on 27th i recently found out. I went to an awful 0-0 V Bristol City but at least got to see Ossie play (actually 23rd i just realised), couple of years later i had to beg my dad to take me to see the same fixture-its bound to be a much better game i said...you guessed it 0-0 and no ossie... A few years later i saw us beat leicester at home on a boxing day 1-0 with of course a Fillery goal I remember a last minute equaliser at palace by i think le saux who had wound them up like crazy-touch of the le saux about gallagher actually After several years of not going with my dad on boxing day in 2002 i persuaded him to come to the bridge for a game with southampton, he moaned like hell about the price (40 quid i think) but was impressed with the new bridge (his first time since the rebuild) and the exciting free scoring Chelsea of that season...decided to miss a hatful of chances and draw 0-0...keeping up the family tradition 🙂

Actually just thought we may well have been sat together for this one

Was at that game right behind the goal at the North Stand. I remember trying to give Cantona some stick in sweary schoolboy french, at one point he gave me a bit of a glare...didnt think anything of it until a few weeks later he did more than that at Palace

Welcome, Im nothing if not consistent had the same user name on cfcnet. Will probably also be found more on here now too :-)

Was at those three games too, think we were in the same car up to Sheffield. We were awful in both games, Townsend who had been so good V Spurs who had been so good V spurs was invisible. At home He was so Arsenal back then old Cesc...he had manned up by the time we bought him

I think that is Nigel Spackman

beat me to it

We did love a broken crossbar back in the day 🙂

My first visit to the Bridge..

Think you mean David Webb, he's doing that holding a pint pose again 🙂

No he didnt he was sold by Ranieri

what a great read that was and so true about peoples personal recollections of matches. I had a similar thing with the infamous Charlton away game in 77 where I swore blind I had seen a Chelsea goal dissallowed due to a fan keeping the ball in play. No one I had spoken to remembered it for years and years and i had started to think perhaps I had imagined it. It wasnt in any of the old paper reports and sadly I had never asked my dad who passed away a few years back and was on that massive east terrace next to me. Then at a recent family funeral my cousin reminded me that he was also there with us and indeed a Chelsea goal had been chalked off for the reasons I had thought. He also said it was the most violent football match he had been to in 50 years of going. He and my dad had gone to the North London derby a few days after where the Ys had attacked the North Bank as well. Different times eh...

I had exactly that uniform, Stan Smiths bought on our school french trip at the cost of no ice creams or sweets for the time i was there, the adidas jacket had a sort of padded red lining, there were some with light and navy blue about but most had this colourway. And Farahs were a must for school and getting into clubs/soul dos

That's a good day/night out Soul Affair at the Burlington, went two or three times with some of my Chelsea mates a few years back. If you're a regular you would probably recognise them.

Still got one of these somewhere, not sure it still fits mind you 🙂

Great thread this, as an old 80s soul boy/casual who happened to go to Chelsea as well I remember all of the clothes and trainers mentioned. It was a youth movement which the media vwas absolutely clueless about and it has allowed a lot of rubbish to be published about it in recent years. One myth is that scousers invented'' casual...well that just isnt true, therre were two looks for starters...1- the tennis brands (Fila, tacchini, ellesse etc) with bleached jeans and trainers and then there was 2-The soulboy casual look, Golf Jumpers farahs rollnecks worn with loafers for going out to clubs and discos and with bleached and frayed lois with trainers for football. The scousers may well have popularised the 1st look that is true but the 2nd look probably pre dated it springing up originally from the soul crowd and before that the black lads who were involved with soundsystem battles etc and already wore elements of it (slacks and Gabicci knits). There was a short time perhaps less than a football season when the two looks overlapped in London then it all moved on again with London lads moving on to more expensive gear like Armani, burberry aquascutum jaeger etc...than after a while the paninaro look crept in and it was all timberlands, chipie C17 and Best Company etc but what most people seem to regard as casual (look number 1) was over and done in London well before 1985. You can see it in the photos of that era that the look number 2 lasted far longer but as mentioned mutated into something else eventually. Being over 50 it's hard to get away with tracktops these days but the polo /shirt/smart jumper with jeans and smart trainers is pretty enduring...viva la casuals...

They were worth many hundreds until a certain company started encouraging Fila to make cheap replicas in every colour under the sun. I ended up selling my collection off for peanuts for that very reason. You can still tell an original from a mile off mind you ?

I know what you mean, I had a great collection of old Ellesse, Fila and Sergio but unless it's a decent fit a tracktop doesn't look great on a 50 plus year old. I sold most of mine a while back just kept three sergio dallas (all three shades of blue) and a capomaster (blue with white stripe and collar. Plus an old ellesse which stays at my mums for when im over in the UK. Only occasional wear these days but still love them.

Bit like this one of Fillery, never wore it in a proper match

I don't get across much these days living abroad but when I do i meet my mates either in the North End Rd or Lillie Rd so come out of west Brompton and walk right past it. It's funny how a building can make you feel so nostalgic

that made me spit my coffee out...lol

In the case of Malouda he replaced Arjen Robben but was a different kind of player (less explosive ) so that contributed to him being under valued. He had a great season when we won the double i remember

Interesting to see how far back that terracing went, that bit behind the floodlight base and the hut was well overgrown by then. I know some people were allowed to stand there (in that section) for the Boro playoff game

One of my favourite old stamford bridge photos...the old scoreboard, north stand terraces, great old umbro kit and the Empress Building looming over proceedings (spent many a moment staring up at that mysterious blue and white building wondering what it was...I now know it was a police intelligence headquarters....wernt keeping much of an eye on Stamford Bridge at that time that's for sure....

Just Love this photo, it instantly transports me back in time to my early years of coming to the bridge. Newcastle to be fair were probably the most consitent away support numbers wise from outside the capital