Our next home game in Dec 76 saw a huge crowd of 55,003 attend. We beat Fulham 2-0. 27th December 76.

Some crowd for Division 2.

Some crowd for Division 1!

22 hours ago, Devil Dog said:

Steve Francis, I liked him always looked like he could have just wandered in off the terraces and stood in the goal. 

 

That speedie pic was from a testamonial wasnt it, became a strange sort of ritual after that I remember Beasant doing it at another testamonial

58 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Our next home game in Dec 76 saw a huge crowd of 55,003 attend. We beat Fulham 2-0. 27th December 76.

Some crowd for Division 2.

Some crowd for Division 1!

i was there. George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh played for Fulham that day.

9 hours ago, bluehaze said:

That's Chris Matthews with the players...................I think!

7 hours ago, Backbiter said:

i was there. George Best, Bobby Moore and Rodney Marsh played for Fulham that day.

Bobby Moore had captained Fulham in the 1975 FA Cup Final v West Ham.

Didn't all three go and play in the North American Soccer League that summer?

10 hours ago, erskblue said:

Our next home game in Dec 76 saw a huge crowd of 55,003 attend. We beat Fulham 2-0. 27th December 76.

Some crowd for Division 2.

Some crowd for Division 1!

Some crowd for a club with no fans pre roman!!!

16 hours ago, chi blue said:

Some crowd for a club with no fans pre roman!!!

Liverpool,who won Division 1 and the European Cup had three League games with a bigger attendance than 55,003.

Is this 55,003 a record for second tier of English football? Or did Man Utd get bigger attendance when they were in Division 2 in 1974/75 ?

19 hours ago, chi blue said:

Some crowd for a club with no fans pre roman!!!

42,000 for the league match against Southampton in October 76 also.

Kerry celebrating his goal at three point lane 84/85

Chelsea vs Man U 84/85 and Chelsea up at Blackburn early 80s

Anyone been watching the big match revisited on BT sports.

They've been showing the 76-77 season

1 hour ago, Devil Dog said:

Anyone been watching the big match revisited on BT sports.

They've been showing the 76-77 season

Watch the Chelsea vs Blackpool game. Ian Britton kicked off the ball and 3 or 4 fans come on the pitch to sort out the culprit!! 

1 hour ago, Devil Dog said:

Anyone been watching the big match revisited on BT sports.

They've been showing the 76-77 season

Hope soon they will show 76/77 pn itv4.

Just now, erskblue said:

Hope soon they will show 76/77 pn itv4.

Interesting that BT are showing The Big Match which was shown Sunday afternoons when I was a kid. They must have bought The rites to it, am assuming that ITV can still show their own footage. BT also do a programme of the best goals of each season back in the 70s and 80s that is both BBC and ITV

1 hour ago, charierre said:

I maybe in the minority here, but for me Crespo was a great forward. The press need to be ashamed for ridiculing him as a flop, which he was not. Opening day at Wigan, what a strike !!

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by Osgood is Good

2 hours ago, Richard P said:

Watch the Chelsea vs Blackpool game. Ian Britton kicked off the ball and 3 or 4 fans come on the pitch to sort out the culprit!! 

My second ever Chelsea game 2-2 stood in the side bit of the Shed basically straight up the stairs from the main entrance and down a bit.

47 minutes ago, Osgood is Good said:

I maybe in the minority here, but for me Crespo was a great forward. The press need to be ashamed for ridiculing him as a flop, which he was not. Opening day at Wigan, what a strike !!

Quality player, great movement off the ball, bit like vialli, what they must of been at there peak?

46 minutes ago, Osgood is Good said:

I maybe in the minority here, but for me Crespo was a great forward. The press need to be ashamed for ridiculing him as a flop, which he was not. Opening day at Wigan, what a strike !!

Totally agree with you. I just wonder just how good a player he could have been for us. He'd some touch and was technically brilliant.

Edited July 26, 20178 yr by erskblue

The press never rated our chances last season and not many of them rated Antonio Conte at the start,so their opinions mean nothing to me.

10 hours ago, erskblue said:

Liverpool,who won Division 1 and the European Cup had three League games with a bigger attendance than 55,003.

Is this 55,003 a record for second tier of English football? Or did Man Utd get bigger attendance when they were in Division 2 in 1974/75 ?

Utd got a 60k and a couple of 50k that season, but they had only won the European cup 6 years before, so were as always a big draw

 

 

" I had fun at Chelsea. I loved London. I would run all the way back if I had the chance to go back there."

Herman Crespo in a 4-4-2 interview on his time at Chelsea.

2 minutes ago, chi blue said:

Utd got a 60k and a couple of 50k that season, but they had only won the European cup 6 years before, so were as always a big draw

 

 

Cheers mate. Kind of thought they had big crowds that 1974/75 season in Division 2.

Jose Mourinho never rated Crespo. When he was Inter Milan coach,he didn't include Crespo in the Inter Champions League squad of I think 25 players in 2008/09 !