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What period was our mob at its peak

The mob was at its peak when i was mid teens........Then in my opinion peaked again in the 80s...Normally when i wasnt in the mob probably...hahahha

 
shedhead said:
I remember having a chat with someone who went to Chelsea games but he actually supported another team " The fighting was better with Chelsea."  Ex army.. pyscho squad.
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I knew a 'gooner' from Hayes in the 70's who went to our away games, because of this!!!. Mad times ( but great memories!).

 
When i think of the mobs ive seen from boy to ...erm.....bigger boy.........The skins in the late 60s.....Greenaway, ECCLES, BABS .....then Hickey, i feel privilaged to have lived those CHELSEA eras......The fans of today, or some of them , wont be able to grasp the magnitude of our fans especially away from home...The ends that fell to us....Some very easily and some not so.......The fun some of you boys n girls would have had would be beyond your dreams of footy related fun.......The comrads......The friendships....The love interests..AND THE LOYALTY.......We werent like vikings like i once quoted on here...We were better....Although in my near 50 years as a BLUE ive not been a part of a CHELSEA tribe that has fully taken the park lane, which would have been the pinnacle of my chelsea life, ive had bloodbursting wonderous times..I have been in a chelsea fan only in the park lane in some mickey mouse tournament which doesnt count, and with millwall when they decimated WHL...None of those count.....When i look back the sadness i have of the nostalgic feelings eats me......Goodbye to the teams we loved ,but generally were quite inefectual followed by great support most of the time......Now....Over a decade of being traumatised with the amount of trophies aquired, great fans dispersed amongst other chelsea fans of less greatness, im a dissatisfied old man..

 
It's strange really we were probably at our peak when the team was crap and a yoyo team between the divisions.

 
when we were crap...Grimsby  the seaside town awash with Chelsea .. hull city 18 thou inside 9thou Chelsea ..sheff utd  the kop full of Chelsea.... I could go on .. massive away support.....I have been watching the transfer window tonight .an everton fan said we were a small club with no history before abramovich... god that so winds me up

 
osgood57 said:
when we were crap...Grimsby  the seaside town awash with Chelsea .. hull city 18 thou inside 9thou Chelsea ..sheff utd  the kop full of Chelsea.... I could go on .. massive away support.....I have been watching the transfer window tonight .an everton fan said we were a small club with no history before abramovich... god that so winds me up
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I just laugh at them all I keep on saying to these people is who was in 3 FA.Cup final including 2000, 2 of which we won in the 90's plus Cup Winner Cup, winners and Semi - Final of champion League 

I hear this all the time from Spurs & Arsenal I just have little laugh and walk away.

 
Mike Carefree said:
When i think of the mobs ive seen from boy to ...erm.....bigger boy.........The skins in the late 60s.....Greenaway, ECCLES, BABS .....then Hickey, i feel privilaged to have lived those CHELSEA eras......The fans of today, or some of them , wont be able to grasp the magnitude of our fans especially away from home...The ends that fell to us....Some very easily and some not so.......The fun some of you boys n girls would have had would be beyond your dreams of footy related fun.......The comrads......The friendships....The love interests..AND THE LOYALTY.......We werent like vikings like i once quoted on here...We were better....Although in my near 50 years as a BLUE ive not been a part of a CHELSEA tribe that has fully taken the park lane, which would have been the pinnacle of my chelsea life, ive had bloodbursting wonderous times..I have been in a chelsea fan only in the park lane in some mickey mouse tournament which doesnt count, and with millwall when they decimated WHL...None of those count.....When i look back the sadness i have of the nostalgic feelings eats me......Goodbye to the teams we loved ,but generally were quite inefectual followed by great support most of the time......Now....Over a decade of being traumatised with the amount of trophies aquired, great fans dispersed amongst other chelsea fans of less greatness, im a dissatisfied old man..
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Great post Mike. I was only fortunate to get to as many home games as I could and some away games in and around London as I was living in Reading and although the cost of getting in the ground wasn't high, the cost of the train fare etc and a 'fun' day out ate into the wage packet, especially as a young apprentice.....anyway my point is that as I sit here 40+ years later I sometimes reflect when I read posts like yours; Was this the era that had one of the biggest impacts on the history of football...because of the fights and the way the old grounds were designed; fans standing on the terraces leaning against the railings and being pushed forward from the back etc, the feeling of the warm piss of the nutter behind you running down your leg, caused many significant changes in terms of safety and security, none of those things entered our heads then, let alone the owners.  

Other major changes were ground designs, destruction of the old wooden stands and many other changes to take us to where we are today.   The fights today are rarely newsworthy unless its a big one, or a fan gets seriously hurt and even then most of this happens in Europe.  The real fans today, the blue collar lot, are being priced out of the game as its all about commercialism, big pay packets for the players and big money for the owners the real fans are steadily being forced to watch more games on the TV in the comfort of their own homes...as I do now living overseas..than going to the grounds; but IMO when I watch our games, or any other it is without doubt that the fans have made the EPL what it is today.  Take away the fans and many of the games on the pitch are no better than watching paint dry, but I bet they don't have the comradeship, and the crack like we used to, win lose or draw....and I don't mean the game :ohmy:   

 
osgood57 said:
when we were crap...Grimsby  the seaside town awash with Chelsea .. hull city 18 thou inside 9thou Chelsea ..sheff utd  the kop full of Chelsea.... I could go on .. massive away support.....I have been watching the transfer window tonight .an everton fan said we were a small club with no history before abramovich... god that so winds me up
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I dont get wound up by it anymore....We are obviously a much bigger club than in our so called sh*t days.....Its a truism.....We got lucky because we have an owner that loves his purchase as much as he can...Now these smaller clubs just cant find the quality of owner as we did...OH and erm man city did

 
Ive read bits about us at millwall in the 70s........Id like to tell it as i can remember it.......Ill start by saying i cant remember sleeping the night b4 this , for us, famous or maybe infamous match of footy and fans........I rememberfrom the point of being on  a station somewhere with around 50 plus Blues..These Blues were the biz and wanted to do the do at millwall that day......I remember many trains passing as i heard we were waiting for Bs mob to join up with........For some reason this didnt occur.....Our little following of blues made the journey to the OLD DEN...A horrid place to walk .Remember we walked under underpasses and the fear,  for me anyway, was building footstep by footstep....Getting to the ground it was obvious we had to be quiet as we entered the COLD BLOW LANE END...It was reletively early so vast numbers at that point wernt about......As we got into the CBL i noticed how ridiculous, in my opinion, it was that they had a small wooden hut that sold progs on the terrace itself...I expected us to be quiet until maybe some bigger cfc mob came in...It wasnt so............Some blokes adrenalin got the better of him and he shouted...CHEELLSSEEAA.....it went very quickly to the chelsea in attendance steaming the millwall who were in their home end...The surprise element of it meant they initially ran....They came back quickly tho...The melay that followed saw chaps of all sizes and coloursfighting in sporadic areas of the cbl..........It got so that to recognise friend from foe was difficult.....I recognised a bloke i knew as scotty....Then another who was standing there smiling like a cat...I at this point was making my way to the upper part of the terrace petrified but excited millwall had been run.....We eventually  went onto the pitch and made our way to the other end...Millwalls mob came too .....Lots of mayhem occured and i remember meeting up with a lost pal in the side terrace later...We saw a large cfc contingent enter the away fans end and i just pressumed it was Bs lot coming late....It was scary from start to finish......I was young and got myself home in thankful safety........A great day tho.......I know plenty of real hard footy boys that have never stood in the old CBL........Im proud i did even if it wasnt for very long

 
Thats about as i remember it too. We met at fb and got of the tube at surrey docks i think. Then walked through all the side streets without making too much noice.

The tension grew with every step we took and i recall we got into the ground early.

Memory might be playing tricks on me but our mob was larger than the 50 or so that day.

I was still at school and was the only one of mates who went that day, same as to spuds away a couple of years earlier in a night game where a small group of us went inyo the park lane end (i stayed in there the whole game).

Cbl was scarry. Never experienced anything like it and i was a kid at the time really.

After that followd chelsea all over uk in our not so great (at least on the field) days.

Mainly went with anothe chelsea daigo who was a celtic and celta vigo fan - birri we called him and his mate mick a huge skinhead from southfields area.

Great days. Never to be forgotten and yes, i agree, fans today simply cannot comprehend what it was like week in week out - especially away.

 
Being 56 years of age now, I remember CBL also as the scariest place to be (or not to be) in the 80s. Went with other German Blues to the match and were surrounded by little rats of them (aged 15 or 16) with stanley knives and other tools. Managed to get out of this place, but it was scary there and no Old Bill to be seen for miles.

Think, as many others, the mob of the early 80s was the best. Away support seemed to me better, than home support, when troube arised. But isn´t that an indication of quality?

My last match was at home vs bloody Charlton, when we needed a win to stay in the 1st division, but couldn´t make it and were relegated. Got nicked after the match, when we were waiting for them, could escape by jumping in a passing bus.

Met an old chap a few years ago here in Germany and he told me about a currently mob of about 70 - 80 lads; quite disappointing for an old chap like me, who can remember better times.

 
This probably isnt the place to put this but WELL DONE LE ARSE FOR BEATING SPUDS AND,,,, ERM,,,,,ARRANGING THEIR HORDINGS TO SUIT THE SPITE HART LANE SCENE...

 
Arsenal make me laugh, they had a crowd of 4,000 for s night match against Leeds in the old first division in 1966, piss poor for a top flight game.

 
Ill remember with pleasure our old song...Sung to the tune of LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY....SUNG AS PRINTED...

WE ATE NOTTINUM FOOOOREST

WE ATE ARSNUL TOOOOOOO

WE ATE WEST AM UNI  ED

BUT DE CHELSEA WE LUV YOU............ALTOGETHER NOW

 
haha well if you consider that were owned by a russian mobster billionaire right now

 
if my memory still serves me well wasn't Boxing Day 1974 when Chris Garland scored 2 ? Arsenal were at their peak at the time and it was rough there ,caught the tube from Sloane Square over towards Highbury ,no Chelsea visible on the train ,pulled into one station and the biggest Arsehole imaginable got on ,long leather coat ,Aviator sun-glasses (december 26th ! ) and leather GLOVES ,i was only and young un and on my own but couldn't help but laugh at him and he weren't happy ,across the carriage from me was a lad and his girlfriend and they were Chelsea as the lad was red in the face wanting to have a go but his missus was telling very quietly to bide his time ,next station 4/5 gooners got on went straight over to the other cnut and started making arrangements to go in the clock end with him later ,he pointed at me and said summat to the other lads who then got off at the next stop leaving matey on his own again ,we were still 4/5 stops from the Arse and the next station the Chelsea lad and his missus got up as we got into the station and  the Chelsea lad nutted the Gooner plumb on the nose and he went down like a sack of sh*t and just lay there until we got to the Arse ,i walked around to the Clock end on me own and went in to see little groups of gooners all over but no faces i recognised at all ,close to kick off a couple of rows went off and Arse far out numbered us , i was just stood minding my own business when i feel a kick on me leg ,look around and theres a couple of the lads from the tube giving me daggers but unbeknown to them or me a group of about 20 Chelsea was stood right next to where i was and this big f**ker says to me "you Chelsea ? "  "yep i says " ,"well you come and stand here with us and see if they wanna start again " ,needless to say not another word was said by the Arse and we walked out at full time completely left alone by the gooners 

One of the blokes was a Black Cab driver and he told me to jump in with him ,dropped me off at Victoria and even refused my offer of a few Quid (green notes in them days ! ) for his trouble ,his parting words were " Never let them Arsenal cnuts worry you Son ,they got no bottle " 

 
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Am sure this was the game when we had very few there, for whatever reason. Remember at half time, one of ours was 'bricking it' got out a black marker pen, and wrote AFC on the back of it, before shuffling off!. Needed people like him!.
Yet 4 months later at 'that game' at Spuds, we had a massive mob that could'nt get in!.
 

 
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