https://sites.google.com/site/motdlistings/home/1985-86

Found this site for good old fashioned motd listings. For you younger folk, when there was hardly any live games. You would look on football focus at lunch time to see where they were broadcasting, or arrive at the game to see a massive hoist at the North stand end to know you were on tv. On the site if it's underlined there is a link for the game, if not some one has uploaded a lot of the programmes which is how I found the Chelsea vs Blackburn game I uploaded. Happy searching.

Great Match of the Day footage from 1981/82.

Clive Walker wasn't wearing black boots ! Looks like the great man was wearing white Nike All Weather (Astro) Trainers. Which were a rare sighting in those days .

pitch was frozen, wouldn't go a head these days!

I just wonder how some of the modern day players would cope (in their multi coloured boots) on the mud bath pitches of say the mid - late 1970s

 

Or with players such as Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, and Tommy Smith, to name but three, breathing down their neck

I just wonder how some of the modern day players would cope (in their multi coloured boots) on the mud bath pitches of say the mid - late 1970s

 

Or with players such as Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, and Tommy Smith, to name but three, breathing down their neck

 

Can you imagine facing those three today. It would be frightening. Would they last the whole game?

Boyne: No chance mate

 

I think Tommy Smith said that in the modern game he'd be booked in the warm up !

 

Think of that famous Eddie McCreadie 'tackle' and I use' tackle' in it's loosest term, on Billy Bremner in the 1970 FA Cup Replay at Old Trafford...

Boyne: No chance mate

 

I think Tommy Smith said that in the modern game he'd be booked in the warm up !

 

Think of that famous Eddie McCreadie 'tackle' and I use' tackle' in it's loosest term, on Billy Bremner in the 1970 FA Cup Replay at Old Trafford...

 

Here's the clip of Eddie's 'tackle' on Bremner. I love the way that the game just carried on. Wouldn't happen now.

 

 

Found this picture this morning. Our squad from 1905.

 

The 'hardest player' my old man ever saw play football was Dave MacKay. The famous Scotland, Hearts and Spurs player.

 

He reckoned that he shaded it from the above three and I'll throw in Graeme Souness and Claudio Gentile - what a great name for an Italian central defender...

Can you imagine facing those three today. It would be frightening. Would they last the whole game?

 

The 1970 cup final was famously re-reffed by David Elleray  who said there should have been 6 reds and 20 yellows!  There was in fact only one booking!

 

Even at the time someone commented on how much the ref let go though - ‘At times, it appeared that Mr Jennings would give a free-kick only on production of a death certificate.’  I love that quote!

 

I love the ref waving play on and 'The Cat' telling Eddie Mac to get up the pitch !

Non Chelsea but I always enjoy watching the Frannie Lee v Norman Hunter fight from 1975 shown above ...

I love the ref waving play on and 'The Cat' telling Eddie Mac to get up the pitch !

 

I was about to say the same "forget him, go and do your bloody job!"

The 'hardest player' my old man ever saw play football was Dave MacKay. The famous Scotland, Hearts and Spurs player.

 

He reckoned that he shaded it from the above three and I'll throw in Graeme Souness and Claudio Gentile - what a great name for an Italian central defender...

 

There's the famous photo of MacKay grabbing Bremner by the throat after a bad tackle. The anger on MacKay's face and Bremner pleading innocence. 

Boyne: Yeah that was the one. Think it was Aug 1967 when Mackay had just returned after a leg break and Bremner had fouled him on what had been his broken leg.

 

MacKay reckoned this was deliberate and decided 'to put Bremner right about this matter'.

 

There would only have been one winner in that contest and his name sure wasn't Billy Bremner...

Edited February 19, 201610 yr by erskblue

Used to hate Billy Bremner, however as the years have gone past have mellowed, he was indeed a character that even got us fired up on the terraces.

Just got up got on with after Eddies above the shin tackle

Ah scarves round the wrists at the football, back in the mid 1970s memories.

Just read on the Chelsea Supporters Group blog that in 1976-77 a woolen scarf cost £1.50 a silk one cost 57p. Seeing as we were so skint then I don't think anyone would have objected if they had rounded it up to 60p !.

Edited February 19, 201610 yr by Passed It

Passed it: He was the type of player that you couldn't stand. But if he'd been a Chelsea player would have been a hero.

In my opinion anyway.

Passed it: He was the type of player that you couldn't stand. But if he'd been a Chelsea player would have been a hero.

In my opinion anyway.

I think you mean Nitro.

Just read on the Chelsea Supporters Group blog that in 1976-77 a woolen scarf cost £1.50 a silk one cost 57p. Seeing as we were so skint then I don't think anyone would have objected if they had rounded it up to 60p !.

My first game Jan 7 1978 v Liverpool aged 9 my brother bought me a silk scarf 75p! So they did put them up. My programme was 20p. Was the promotion season 15p??

The 'hardest player' my old man ever saw play football was Dave MacKay. The famous Scotland, Hearts and Spurs player.

 

He reckoned that he shaded it from the above three and I'll throw in Graeme Souness and Claudio Gentile - what a great name for an Italian central defender...

 

Billy Whitehurst though would have given him a run for his money.

Used to hate Billy Bremner, however as the years have gone past have mellowed, he was indeed a character that even got us fired up on the terraces.

Just got up got on with after Eddies above the shin tackle

 

These were the players we all loved to hate, you could guarantee they would go through the back of someone. Funny thing was the player who had been fouled usually got straight back up, just to prove they hadn't been hurt. You could put money on their being retribution later in the game. Great times.

The game we were supposed to have smuggled in various tools to loosen bolts and break concrete with hammers!!! We got blamed for everything!

Taken in C1922

Edited February 19, 201610 yr by Boyne