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Has to be the 1983/84 promotion winning year for me , privileged to have been part of the travelling hordes to Newcastle,Leeds,Cardiff,Man city etc. We were unrivalled in my opinion.

As someone has mentioned Arsenal away first game of the season was quality coming from what was an Arsenal stronghold at the time

 
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For me def the 83/84 team and then the following era. As usual me and my mates were full of it, almost relegated the season before but we will def win the division 2 title this season, first time i think i've ever been right about football! The Sheffield Wednesday and Man city battles for the top spot, Leeds fans smashing up our score board and someone knocking the ref flat out at 5-0! The away days were the best for me, getting a hiding at Cambridge much to the amusement of my mates, thousands turning up at man city, Brighton and Leeds and not having to order tickets weeks in advance.

Then back in the first division and my first ever West Ham game never an experience to forget, where you learnt to have eyes in the back of your head. 3 sections of the bridge singing, the shed, gate 13 and the benches! Even the kit was better in my opinion. Oh what fun we had, lol!
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+1 on above.That was the period I started on the benches and ended up in gate 13 for that magic Leeds game.

Some great away trips to Brighton, Man City, Cambridge, Dirty Leeds etc.

 
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82-86 for me.  Great away days, almost relegated to Div 3, then we finally started playing some decent football.

 
For me, it's the 84 team- dont think many people really saw that one coming, other than Dixon no one had heard of any of the new signings- except Derek Johnson who I don't think started a game for us. Loved it all. Had moved on from the specials to a mates motor for always- escort estate with the back seats down, room for 5 of us plus two crates of pills! Talking of the specials, there was never the same amount of people going as coming back- when it got really ram jammed people would up in the luggage racks I remember- when the specials were dry everyone used to pile on with their own concoctions- we used to buy ours off Paul J from kennington-a two litre coke bottle half full with gold watch for a fiver! Anyone remember fellas on the trains with big bags of oranges they'd injected with vodka?

Back to 84, how hot was it in that end of ours- a boiling hot day a seriously overcrowded terrace- might be room for a thread there- what's the biggest crushes you've known at football- other than Grimsby in going the Boxing Day games at QPR and Cambridge in 82. Have got quite a few photos from them days ill stick up

 
Didn't make that clear- how hot was it in that end at Grimsby- I'm definately getting worse!

 
probably the late seventies early eighties team for me, always looked forward to going down the bridge seeing big Mickey Droy, Colin (Sharkey) Pates, Mickey Fillery and co, having a good drink in pubs that are sadly either gone or ponced  up without character, and hopefully getting a good cup draw hopefully beating a team in the old First Division,when we were in the old Second Division, I particularly enjoyed the season when we knocked out the then First Division and European Cup holders Loserpool  and then played Tottenham both at the Bridge, and going ballistic when we went into the lead with a Mickey Fillery free kick only to lose 3-2, but what a season when we hoped not expected to have a good cup run and maybe get promotion. Good days indeed.....  

 
Biggest Crush that I was in was FA cup relay Arsenal 2–1 Chelsea 20 March 1973. had to look up the date.

Massive Crush in the Ground but worse at Arsenal station, I got carried down the escalator without getting my feet on it, the pressure and heat was so intense that my programme was fully soaked and fell to bits.

Onto the platform and got carried into the tube train.

 
I was born in 1989, first house I lived in was across the road from the Bridge. I'd say my first Chelsea memories are from the mid 1990's, and I started going more regularly from about 1999 onwards. I'm not sure what team I'd consider to be my Chelsea, perhaps it would be the one which won the FA Cup in 2000 as this was the time when my best mate at that point (3rd generation Chelsea fan) started taking me to games in the MHL. Unfortunately we've drifted since but was fortunate enough to bump into him in the pub after Leicester the other day. 

 
I started going to games in 69/70 - my dad and grandad had season tickets in the West Stand and I used to go to evening games or when my grandad wasnt up to it - of course we won the FA cup that year and had a real flair side, a great introduction to football and a great era. i was incredibly lucky to start following the team at that point. right place, right time.

However for atmosphere in the ground it was good but not great. the main chant for example was chelsea clap clap clap. that was it.

so in a way the later seasons such as Eddie McCreadie's team or John Neal's team were even better as not only did we have a fantastic team (that we loved, even if they were never going to win the league) we had so much more atmosphere (and fun) in the ground. plus i think there is something to be said for being a fan when you are winning nothing, as anybody can latch on to a winning team and call themselves a supporter.

also, just to add, reading through the comments, that the feeling of hope rather than expectation is something i have tried to explain to many latter day chelsea fans with little success!

 
My first game I went to was around 1967 I think, it was against Leeds and If my aging memory recalls we drew that day.  Playing against Leeds was always a good rivalry.  This was especially true of the 1970 Cup Final which given the conditions and in those days a replay were enthralling to watch. These for me were the best Chelsea years and if you talk about guts and glory these were the players that gave everything for this team.  I dug this up about the FA Cup replay at Old Trafford....

The replay at Old Trafford, watched by a television audience of 28 million, a record for an FA Cup final, became one of the most notorious clashes in English football for the harshness of play, which exceeded the previous game's at Wembley. The referee in charge of both games, 47-year old Eric Jennings from Stourbridge, in his last season as a Football League referee, allowed rough play by both sides throughout, playing the advantage to its full extent. He booked only one player, Ian Hutchinson of Chelsea, during the game.

Modern-day referee David Elleray reviewed the match in 1997, and concluded that the sides would have received six red cards and twenty yellow cards between them, in the modern era of football.[7] Tommy Baldwin and Terry Cooper, admittedly two of the quieter men in the two sides, were kicking lumps out of one another, as the battle began. Not long into the game, Chelsea's Ron Harris caught winger Eddie Gray with a kick to the back of the knee, an action which neutralised the Scottish winger for the rest of the game. Norman Hunter and Ian Hutchinson traded punches while McCreadie and Johnny Giles lunged at opposition players. Charlton kneed and headbuttedPeter Osgood while Chelsea's goalkeeper Peter Bonetti was injured after being bundled into the net by Leeds' Jones, who, minutes later, rounded the limping Bonetti and scored the opener.

Ahh those were the days....no rolling on the floor having been hit by a handbag!!

 
If this is a cunning ploy to make me reveal my great age, it has succeeded!

My favourite Chelsea revolves round Ron Harris, Peter Bonetti, Peter Osgood, Bobby Tambling etc

 
moi said:
If this is a cunning ploy to make me reveal my great age, it has succeeded!

My favourite Chelsea revolves round Ron Harris, Peter Bonetti, Peter Osgood, Bobby Tambling etc
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You're wearing well.

 
My Chelsea is the 2004-05 side. I focused more on that Chelsea side than my school exams ( year 11, the best year of my life ) I have had a sticker of this team in my wallet for 10 years now. :biggrin:

 
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My Chelsea is the 2004-05 side. I focused more on that Chelsea side than my school exams ( year 11, the best year of my life ) I have had a sticker of this team in my wallet for 10 years now. :biggrin:
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Still one of my favourite sides of all time! The fact so many dreams came true with that side was unbelievable.

I still have fond memories 10 years on as well. 

 
Late 60's-Early 70's.....Bonetti, Harris, Ossie, Baldwin, Hutch, Cooke, Tambling, Hollins, McCreadie etc......playing on sh*te pitch, standing in the Shed!!!!!

 
Putting the off field activities to one side, for me its the Nevin, speedie, Dixon, time, happy days.

 
The Dave Sexton era for me, thats when I started to follow the Blues in a serious way. My fav player was Charlie Cook, he was a wizard on the wing.

 
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