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That Peter Osgood diving header.

Nice to wake up on a Sunday feeling relieved we avoided the VARsenal Smugageddon.
Schadenfreude is sweet, and lasts a lot longer than the joy of winning. We’ll be dining on this for a long long time. The only team in London…….

Nice to wake up on a Sunday feeling relieved we avoided the VARsenal Smugageddon.
Schadenfreude is sweet, and lasts a lot longer than the joy of winning. We’ll be dining on this for a long long time. The only team in London…….

Nice to wake up on a Sunday feeling relieved we avoided the VARsenal Smugageddon.
Schadenfreude is sweet, and lasts a lot longer than the joy of winning. We’ll be dining on this for a long long time. The only team in London…….

Nice to wake up on a Sunday feeling relieved we avoided the VARsenal Smugageddon.
Schadenfreude is sweet, and lasts a lot longer than the joy of winning. We’ll be dining on this for a long long time. The only team in London…….

Not many teams play that well at Turf Moor. It was enjoyable to watch...which hasn’t been true for many games recently.   Excellent team performance. Ziyech is going to be a hell of a player, and with Pulisic on the other wing!    Havertz looking better and better.  Werner, clearly a bit fatigued, but a class finish.  In Chilly, we finally have a left back to rival Ashley.   My man of the match is Silva.  His calm presence,  expert positioning and decision making,  and pure quality on the ball sets the tone for the entire team.   

Not many teams play that well at Turf Moor. It was enjoyable to watch...which hasn’t been true for many games recently.   Excellent team performance. Ziyech is going to be a hell of a player, and with Pulisic on the other wing!    Havertz looking better and better.  Werner, clearly a bit fatigued, but a class finish.  In Chilly, we finally have a left back to rival Ashley.   My man of the match is Silva.  His calm presence,  expert positioning and decision making,  and pure quality on the ball sets the tone for the entire team.   

Not many teams play that well at Turf Moor. It was enjoyable to watch...which hasn’t been true for many games recently.   Excellent team performance. Ziyech is going to be a hell of a player, and with Pulisic on the other wing!    Havertz looking better and better.  Werner, clearly a bit fatigued, but a class finish.  In Chilly, we finally have a left back to rival Ashley.   My man of the match is Silva.  His calm presence,  expert positioning and decision making,  and pure quality on the ball sets the tone for the entire team.   

Not many teams play that well at Turf Moor. It was enjoyable to watch...which hasn’t been true for many games recently.   Excellent team performance. Ziyech is going to be a hell of a player, and with Pulisic on the other wing!    Havertz looking better and better.  Werner, clearly a bit fatigued, but a class finish.  In Chilly, we finally have a left back to rival Ashley.   My man of the match is Silva.  His calm presence,  expert positioning and decision making,  and pure quality on the ball sets the tone for the entire team.   

Someone at the Guardian had some time on their hands.  The 1970 FA Cup Final Replay - as it happened. Priceless. 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2020/mar/21/chelsea-v-leeds-united-1970-fa-cup-final-replay-live?CMP=share_btn_link
 
 
 
 

Yes, really good read, as are some of the comments. The game wasn't bad, either. 

Someone at the Guardian had some time on their hands.  The 1970 FA Cup Final Replay - as it happened. Priceless. 
 
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2020/mar/21/chelsea-v-leeds-united-1970-fa-cup-final-replay-live?CMP=share_btn_link
 
 
 
 

Good call mate.  I hope the guy is serious about posting highlights of this game in May.  I’ll probably shed a few tears.  I was behind the goal, and crushed like everyone else.  Getting close to 60 now, so I can’t remember exactly where I was.  To the right of the goal maybe, or was it the left? 
 Maybe the Grimsby fella has got clips of Pat’s dribble v Newcastle,  and  Flasher’s goal at Bolton the season before. 

Another great FA Cup win over Liverpool on 13th Feb 1982.
We won 2-0.
Enjoy again the match highlights.

Cheers mate. Lucky find.  Couldn’t believe it.  I think we should all go to that Twitter posting and thank the GrimsbyTown lad for posting that....and encourage him to get the match highlights up as soon as possible.  Crazy, brilliant day. Coach from Fulham Broadway, drinking all the way.  Sunny, warm day.  I remember the strong smell of fish getting off the coach in Cleethorpes.  So many of us there as usual, but no sense of trouble..apart from one scuffle on the field... it was a party atmosphere.  Memories fade...and details become blurry.  I was behind the goal..but no idea if I was to the left or right. I remember the pen miss vaguely, but I couldn’t tell you how we scored....unlike the following game at Highbury.  I do remember the crush and the sheer bloody ecstasy.  Great times. The greatest.  I count those seasons...83/84 and the ones before and after...as the best ever, for different reasons, and the memories I have are some of the best in my life.  I moved abroad a few years after and follow the Blues (as religiously)from a distance.  I get to go to a couple of games now and again with my lads, and we always go to the summer friendlies if Chels come to the East Coast. Big thanks to the lads who started this thread and continue to keep it alive.     #COYB #carefree #this threadi

The three specials went to a station down the road from the ground. It had no roof on either platform.I remember the three specials as when we got to I think St Pancras you had to board the train with the right coloured ticket. 
There were also normal trains going up to Grimsby. Ken Bates mentioned that he’d never seen so many coaches on the motorway. I did a few games by coach that season, with coaches going from the bridge and all the various supporters clubs a lot of games there were as many as 40 coaches. They used to hold everyone at the motorway exit and give a police escort to and from the ground.
After game there were a few fans on the platform throwing coins at Grimsby fans giving it large behind a fence. A copper was telling the local kids to pick the money up! All of a sudden it was raining money in a nice way with fans laughing at these kids running round picking it up!

I mentioned this another thread we hired a car my mate's mate drove us up he had no interest in football at all and waited for us outside fair play to him. We got politely and I mean really politely asked to leave this pub after we got caught smoking Bob Hope on the way up. The governor said in a voice that made Hugh Grant sound like Phil Mitchell '' Excuse me gentlemen could you leave my establishment and take your narcotics with you ''.

We drove up. Managed to find a pub garden to knock a few back. Did have a picture of us but it perished in my shed. Hot and packed in the end, but the rest of the ground wasn’t full if I remember right.
A mate came with us who was more into playing than watching- he ended up turning pro- whenever I see him he mentions what a good craic that day was.
Another mate that still goes mentioned in the car he’d met a decent bird during the week in Zenons nightclub- he’s now been married to her for about 30 years- funny how things stick in your head...
Top find that video.

Brilliant ,as said I have never seen that footage ,I knew it was rammed and I remember it being rammed but not sure I recall it being as bad as it looks !
I remember it being pretty good natured all day before during and after the game ,for obvious reasons celebrating an unbelievable promotion put us in a good mood ,what I can’t remember is after the game ,what I did ,I think I just got the train back at some time ,I can’t recall going on the piss locally or anything ,just headed back to London...which in hindsight seems all very dull but I think that was how it was (for me anyway )
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cheers mate. Lucky find.  Couldn’t believe it.  I think we should all go to that Twitter posting and thank the GrimsbyTown lad for posting that....and encourage him to get the match highlights up as soon as possible.  Crazy, brilliant day. Coach from Fulham Broadway, drinking all the way.  Sunny, warm day.  I remember the strong smell of fish getting off the coach in Cleethorpes.  So many of us there as usual, but no sense of trouble..apart from one scuffle on the field... it was a party atmosphere.  Memories fade...and details become blurry.  I was behind the goal..but no idea if I was to the left or right. I remember the pen miss vaguely, but I couldn’t tell you how we scored....unlike the following game at Highbury.  I do remember the crush and the sheer bloody ecstasy.  Great times. The greatest.  I count those seasons...83/84 and the ones before and after...as the best ever, for different reasons, and the memories I have are some of the best in my life.  I moved abroad a few years after and follow the Blues (as religiously)from a distance.  I get to go to a couple of games now and again with my lads, and we always go to the summer friendlies if Chels come to the East Coast. Big thanks to the lads who started this thread and continue to keep it alive.     #COYB #carefree #this threadi

Good call mate.  I hope the guy is serious about posting highlights of this game in May.  I’ll probably shed a few tears.  I was behind the goal, and crushed like everyone else.  Getting close to 60 now, so I can’t remember exactly where I was.  To the right of the goal maybe, or was it the left? 
 Maybe the Grimsby fella has got clips of Pat’s dribble v Newcastle,  and  Flasher’s goal at Bolton the season before. 

Norwich away in Oct 1984.