7 hours ago, chi blue said:

70,362, must be wrong, it was 7,362, everyone knows we had no fans before 2003!!!

Of course it is. You are correct

7 hours ago, chi blue said:

All those years I stood in Shed and never realised it had an upper tier, or are they corporate boxes up there, bloody prawn sandwich brigade!!

"We're the corporate, we're the corporate, we're the corporate of the shed"

And those on the roof of the old Main Stand were obviously 30 years ahead of their time !

Looks like they are testing out where the next tier of the new Main Stand would be built !!

1945 War Time Cup Final Between Chelsea And Millwall Won By Chelsea 2-0. Chelsea Goalkeeper Black Saving A Shot During The South Cup Final At Wembley.

That's the original caption.

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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/about-chelsea/history/key-matches/key-match14

1944 and 1945 Football League South Cup finals

 

Wembley 1945.

From Twitter

Three more of the Moscow Dynamo game in 1945

Bottom one was posted on Twitter.

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Dec 1981.

Hugh Hastings Picture Credit.

Edited June 30, 20206 yr by erskblue

'It's your turn to go in goal !'

Hugh Hastings picture.

 

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Feb 1982. Match Report from the Guardian.

Apologies if this has already been posted on here recently. Simply missed it !

25 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Feb 1982. Match Report from the Guardian.

Apologies if this has already been posted on here recently. Simply missed it !

The first time in my life I could give it large to my mates about Chelsea, I was nearly 13, it had been a long stressful first 13 years being Chelsea at School, but 18 months later THAT team arrived. "Chelsea are back"

Vicenza and I think Real Betis.

 

 

 

 

10 hours ago, erskblue said:

Three more of the Moscow Dynamo game in 1945

Bottom one was posted on Twitter.

It's the 75th anniversary of the game in November. Would be nice if the club were to mark the occasion. 

I've mentioned before that I knew a guy who was at the game. He lived in the North End Road and bunked off school go to the game.

Is the sign a request to the fans?

4 hours ago, Boyne said:

It's the 75th anniversary of the game in November. Would be nice if the club were to mark the occasion. 

I've mentioned before that I knew a guy who was at the game. He lived in the North End Road and bunked off school go to the game.

Probably ‘quite a few’ empty spaces at schools and workplaces that afternoon.

20 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Vicenza and I think Real Betis.

 

Bottom pic front middle the bloke with the stripey shirt looks like JM of MacIntyre fame.

We used to take thousands to Europe when there was a novelty factor to it

A 2-1 win v West Ham at The Bridge in Dec 1970.

5 mins of highlights.

FA Youth Cup Final 1963/64.

We won the first leg 2-0 at The Bridge and the second leg 3-1 at Upton Park for an aggregate 5-1 win.

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

Looks like that's from the game where Gianfranco gave Dicks the runaround. 

2 minutes ago, Boyne said:

Looks like that's from the game where Gianfranco gave Dicks the runaround. 

Yeah think you are right.

3 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Yeah think you are right.

Thanks. 2.55 into this video about the great man. I was in the old West Stand for the game and had a great view of Zola tormenting Dicks,

 

1 hour ago, Boyne said:

Looks like that's from the game where Gianfranco gave Dicks the runaround. 

The report said he gave Dicks twisted blood 😆