Chelsea FC - My Favourite Goal: Kerry Dixon

Kerry Dixon's Tribute Video  

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

 

Highlights of that game v Arsenal in Aug 1984.

Chelsea were back.

Memories.

That's got me in match mode Ersk, thanks, i'm off to the bridge later. "Jonny Neal's blue and white army"

Only tangentially Chelsea-related, but interesting nonetheless. One of Didier's Marseille shirts which he gifted to the city's basilica, the Notre-Dame de la Garde.

23 hours ago, chi blue said:

Yes remember wearing an icf inter celery firm t shirt to spurs away early season 87, I think we'd won first couple of games of season and bought 1000's and 1000's to the lane we lost 1-0 late on to Nico classen goal, rare Eddie mistake, that season we went down in the end with the infamous Boro play off. Remember a long and loud rendition of there's only one Micky Hazard, and another loud rendition of the politically incorrect version of one man went to ..... I do so miss that passionate support of the 80's it was something else

Remember that game. Was in the seats above the terrace, great turn out and remember Eddie’s blunder.

On 03/05/2018 at 00:11, Scott said:

 

 

 

Anyone know what games the top two pics are from?????

 

On ‎18‎/‎08‎/‎2018 at 06:31, erskblue said:

Kerry v Arsenal in August 1984.

This coming Saturday, is 26th August. 

And I can't believe it is 34 years to the day, King Kerry scoring that goal.

34 Years...Blimey !

I can’t believe it!!! I was 16 at the time, still remember being there early queuing down the hill to get in the clock end. The welcome the team got as the coach came down the street was fantastic.

Ive mentioned before on here with so many fans there it was packed by the time the first few arrived on the North bank and a big cheer went up!! 

So pleased there are pictures and footage of the game because people not there or reading about the game all these years later might think people exaggerating about the numbers. There were more in the ground than The attendance given. It was so packed and was hot as well. 

This was also the norm the previous couple of seasons I traveled away. The amount of times clubs had their biggest crowd of the season when we visited was a testament to our support.

Newcastle away. Used to find it funny, because of our numbers on the trains we were always escorted on the road and not the pavement!  Also where we had support all over the country the coaches used to get met coming of the motorway. 

I went by coach to Leeds 83/84. As we came off the motorway we had to wait and we had police outriders escort us to the ground.

We had around 40 coaches that day. The police came on board to speak to the driver and was told to ignore red lights and follow the convoy!! as we approached roundabouts the exits were blocked by the old bill to keep the coaches together it was an impressive sight. 

Shame with the allocation nowadays as these scenes won’t be repeated.

18 minutes ago, Richard P said:

I’d love to have been in the Northbank when we scored, just to see the Clockend erupt.

1 hour ago, Richard P said:

Anyone know what the capacity of the Clock End was?

The ground still held 58-60,000 back then. I stood in the North Bank with an Arsenal mate a few years earlier last game of the season when they played Villa, who won the league there- Arsenal also qualified for Europe.

No Way was the Clock End as ram jammed that day as us in 84, yet the gate was nigh on capacity.

The only other time I stood on the North Bank was the New Years Day game in 85, when West Ham away got froze off, and loads of us ended up watching Arsenal v Spurs.

It kind of went off in the clock end which made Chelsea’s presence obvious, but there were loads Chelsea scattered around the ground keeping a low one.

Competition:Football League Division 1     Position 12

Venue:Highbury

Attendance:45,329

Referee:Alan Robinson (Portsmouth)

ArsenalJennings, Anderson, Sansom, Talbot, O'Leary, Caton, Robson, Davis, Mariner, Woodcock, Allinson

   ScorerMariner 35

   Sub Not UsedHayes

   ManagerDon Howe

Chelsea1 Eddie Niedzwiecki, 2 Colin Lee, 3 Doug Rougvie, 4 Colin Pates, 5 Joe McLaughlin, 6 Dale Jasper, 7 Pat Nevin, 8 Nigel Spackman, 9 Kerry Dixon, 10 David Speedie, 11 Paul Canoville

   ScorerDixon 39

   Sub Not Used12 Tony McAndrew

   Debut PlayersDoug Rougvie

   ManagerJohn Neal

There is no way the crowd is 45,329!

What a brilliant picture of The Clock End full of our supporters.

Totally agree, no way was the crowd 45,329 !

Don't know if that was the official capacity of Highbury back in August 1984 ?

 On 2nd May 1981, Villa visited Highbury and despite losing 2-0 ,they won the 1980/81 Division 1 Title.

The attendance is given as 57,472

Edited August 21, 20187 yr by erskblue

11 hours ago, erskblue said:

What a brilliant picture of The Clock End full of our supporters.

Totally agree, no way was the crowd 45,329 !

Don't know if that was the official capacity of Highbury back in August 1984 ?

As it was pay as you entered that day, reckon many turnstile operators made enough cash for a new car & a holiday??.

12 hours ago, The Leigh Limpet said:

As it was pay as you entered that day, reckon many turnstile operators made enough cash for a new car & a holiday??.

Yeah and on many occasions the crowd ws simply a guess to the nearest 1,000 or even 5,000.

I was at Hampden a few times in the late 1970s/early 1980s when they gave out the official attendance over the tannoy

 I remember my old man simply laughing at the official attendance ! He'd been in the 100,000 crowds there back in the 1960 and early 1970s.

Edited August 22, 20187 yr by erskblue

12 hours ago, The Leigh Limpet said:

As it was pay as you entered that day, reckon many turnstile operators made enough cash for a new car & a holiday??.

Or certainly a new VHS Video recorder, which were about £400 back then !

2nd March 1966 .AC Milan  1 Chelsea 1

Inter Cities Fairs Cup . The goals on the AC Milan Channel

Chelsea 1-1 Everton in the League on 14th October 1967  

Attendance: 34,206

Highlights on MOTD

And a brief rendition of  'You'll Never Walk Alone'  at the very end !

Honest !!

On 20/08/2018 at 17:39, Peckham Blue said:

I’d love to have been in the Northbank when we scored, just to see the Clockend erupt.

I was in the North Bank in 1996 when we drew 3-3 against the Gooners with Wise scoring the equaliser in the last minute. He scored in front of the North Bank. I could see the celebrations in the Clock End. All the Arsenal fans in the North Bank were going crazy and I thought to myself that if I start celebrating I wouldn't get out of the ground alive.

4 hours ago, Boyne said:

I was in the North Bank in 1996 when we drew 3-3 against the Gooners with Wise scoring the equaliser in the last minute. He scored in front of the North Bank. I could see the celebrations in the Clock End. All the Arsenal fans in the North Bank were going crazy and I thought to myself that if I start celebrating I wouldn't get out of the ground alive.

I was in there the previous year when the won 1-0 with Wright scoring.  It was constantly kicking off but I’d already decided to jump up if we scored.  I had a vintage Chelsea shirt on too.  

1 hour ago, Peckham Blue said:

I was in there the previous year when the won 1-0 with Wright scoring.  It was constantly kicking off but I’d already decided to jump up if we scored.  I had a vintage Chelsea shirt on too.  

1994 the Makita Tournament at Highbury-  we were placed in the new Clock End-it kicked off in one of the executive boxes above, next thing people from the adjoining boxes jumped over these partition rails and joined in.

Pretty sure we were playing in that rotten orange and grey away kit.

We’d qualified for Europe via the back door virtue of loosing FA Cup finalists to Man U- remember very noisy “ We didn’t win the football league we didn’t win the cup, but we’re all going to Europe”

 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, Boyne said:

I was in the North Bank in 1996 when we drew 3-3 against the Gooners with Wise scoring the equaliser in the last minute. He scored in front of the North Bank. I could see the celebrations in the Clock End. All the Arsenal fans in the North Bank were going crazy and I thought to myself that if I start celebrating I wouldn't get out of the ground alive.

I was there once with a chap I had just met at Charing Cross at 1-4 down he started shouting and threatening and Arsenal started to come up around us. I thought of moving over to a small rump of CFC pushed to a corner surrounded by police (probably Garrison and his chaps) yet realising we were three down decided to call it a day. Can't remember the circumstances yet came close to kicking off outside even though we left early too.

Edited August 22, 20187 yr by strider6004

18 hours ago, erskblue said:

2nd March 1966 .AC Milan  1 Chelsea 1

Inter Cities Fairs Cup . The goals on the AC Milan Channel

It looks like Barry Bridges poked that one home. Good move in the lead up, though.