6 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Fillery, Rofe , not sure think it's Alan Mayes I love the mirror he's holding and Johnny B.

 

Edit: I think mirror man is Chris Hutchings.

6 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Fillery, Rofe , not sure think it's Alan Mayes I love the mirror he's holding and Johnny B.

 

My son has that mirror on his bedroom wall. 

I've told this story before. In the early mid 70s, my older brother went on a school trip to London, saw that mirror and bought it for me as a present. Unfortunately, he managed to leave it on the tube so I never received it.

Fast forward to 2012. My wife and I had recently joined a choir set up for people affected by cancer, and we got to know a guy who worked in the charity shop run by the charity who set up the choir. He is also a big football fan (Manure) and we often talked football. One day he told me someone had donated an old Chelsea mirror and he'd put it aside for me and my son. 

So 40 years or so later, I finally got the mirror my brother bought for me.

15 hours ago, Scott said:

This is such a nostalgic picture for me..14 yr old boy 2 yrs into being a blue....

I think ossies diving goal is the greatest goal for chelsea ive seen....M.O.O.......it still sends goose bumps to various places

1 hour ago, Mike Carefree said:

I think ossies diving goal is the greatest goal for chelsea ive seen....M.O.O.......it still sends goose bumps to various places

It's definitely up there. Interesting how some of the most iconic Chelsea goals were dramatic equalisers rather than winners: Ossie's, Drogba's, and Essien's v Arsenal.

1 hour ago, Backbiter said:

My son has that mirror on his bedroom wall. 

I've told this story before. In the early mid 70s, my older brother went on a school trip to London, saw that mirror and bought it for me as a present. Unfortunately, he managed to leave it on the tube so I never received it.

Fast forward to 2012. My wife and I had recently joined a choir set up for people affected by cancer, and we got to know a guy who worked in the charity shop run by the charity who set up the choir. He is also a big football fan (Manure) and we often talked football. One day he told me someone had donated an old Chelsea mirror and he'd put it aside for me and my son. 

So 40 years or so later, I finally got the mirror my brother bought for me.

I was going to say had your brother been drinking obviously not if it was a school trip but how did he manage to lose it must have been quite cumbersome.  Could it be a big brother story as in he told you he bought it but never did ?😁

Did we ever wear that white top and was it commercially available I don't ever remember anyone wearing it. Same as the third kit from 89-90 don't think you could buy it either. We always wore white against Shrewsbury I've got a programme cover with Dennis Rofe wearing it but it's the Le Coq Sportif one.

 

15 hours ago, bluehaze said:

I was going to say had your brother been drinking obviously not if it was a school trip but how did he manage to lose it must have been quite cumbersome.  Could it be a big brother story as in he told you he bought it but never did ?😁

Since when did a school trip rule out drinking? He'd have been about 15, so it's possible. Maybe he just put it down, got distracted and had to move quickly when the teachers shouted 'everyone off'. But your last sentence is also very plausible.

24 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Since when did a school trip rule out drinking? He'd have been about 15, so it's possible. Maybe he just put it down, got distracted and had to move quickly when the teachers shouted 'everyone off'. But your last sentence is also very plausible.

It's probably because it's something my older brother would have done ha ha. He was a massive Clash fan and I did like them but my band were The Jam when it was my birthday he bought me London Calling it was killing two birds with one stone he was buying me a present when in reality he was buying it for himself. Soon as I opened it he insisted I put it on and he knew the words of nearly every song not bad since it was a double album 😁

2 hours ago, bluehaze said:

It's probably because it's something my older brother would have done ha ha. He was a massive Clash fan and I did like them but my band were The Jam when it was my birthday he bought me London Calling it was killing two birds with one stone he was buying me a present when in reality he was buying it for himself. Soon as I opened it he insisted I put it on and he knew the words of nearly every song not bad since it was a double album 😁

My brother's a Chelsea fan, too, so he would not have objected to a Chelsea mirror in our house. Nothing wrong with self-interested present-buying!

21 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Did we ever wear that white top and was it commercially available I don't ever remember anyone wearing it. Same as the third kit from 89-90 don't think you could buy it either. We always wore white against Shrewsbury I've got a programme cover with Dennis Rofe wearing it but it's the Le Coq Sportif one.

 

The white kit used 80/81 in the team pic you could buy. Chelsea used a red kit 79/80 then the Le Coq one neither of these you could get.  85/86 red kit was not for sale either. 
 

40 minutes ago, Richard P said:

The white kit used 80/81 in the team pic you could buy. Chelsea used a red kit 79/80 then the Le Coq one neither of these you could get.  85/86 red kit was not for sale either. 
 

RichardP:Cheers, saves me doing some research. Okay then,googling it!😀

45 minutes ago, Richard P said:

The white kit used 80/81 in the team pic you could buy. Chelsea used a red kit 79/80 then the Le Coq one neither of these you could get.  85/86 red kit was not for sale either. 
 

This is the red kit worn against Shrewsbury 1979-80 apparently. From the Chelsea Historical kits.

http://historicalkits.co.uk/Chelsea/Chelsea-change-kits.html

More great stories..ive got one of those mirrors...its in the Chelsea book got not got. Its in the loft as no where for it to hang,i should have brought a pub rather than a semi !

ps congratulations to Rangers on number 55 ..great achievement 

Wembley 1986.

 

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

Wembley 1986.

 

He was being over worked that day!

Cleaning up my computer some of these may have been posted before.

 

Edited March 8, 20215 yr by bluehaze

For all of us who used to go home and away this is what we had to put up with some might say the real Chelsea.

 

In the MH stand last night nice touch.

 

Edited March 9, 20215 yr by Jezz

3 hours ago, bluehaze said:

In the MH stand last night nice touch.

 

 

Read a lovely little article on David Lee, who came through the ranks. I was in the Harding stand the day he score his last goal for Chelsea and was carried off on a stretcher... Bobby Di Matteo scored one and I think Vialli in victory over spurs that day. 

25 years ago is a lifetime. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/9/6/my-blue-days--david-lee

Happy times and I loved the Hoddle revolution.

1 hour ago, cfcwomble said:

Read a lovely little article on David Lee, who came through the ranks. I was in the Harding stand the day he score his last goal for Chelsea and was carried off on a stretcher... Bobby Di Matteo scored one and I think Vialli in victory over spurs that day. 

25 years ago is a lifetime. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/9/6/my-blue-days--david-lee

Happy times and I loved the Hoddle revolution.

I recall David Lee or Rodney Trotter as some fans used to chant.

I saw him as a midfielder rather than a defender, always liked him as he had a decent shot.

He wasn't the most mobile so could understand him not playing every game.

Good interview, I must have missed the John Spencer and Julian Dicks coming together as I went to Upton Park a couple of times.

 

 

51 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

I recall David Lee or Rodney Trotter as some fans used to chant.

I saw him as a midfielder rather than a defender, always liked him as he had a decent shot.

He wasn't the most mobile so could understand him not playing every game.

Good interview, I must have missed the John Spencer and Julian Dicks coming together as I went to Upton Park a couple of times.

 

 

Thought David Lee was very under-rated. Always liked him and saw Hoddle looking to mold him as a sweeper as he was a very good passer. Was at the Spurs game when he broke his leg. Terrible shame. But respect to Spurs fans that day for the Matthew Harding tribute. 

3 hours ago, cfcwomble said:

Read a lovely little article on David Lee, who came through the ranks. I was in the Harding stand the day he score his last goal for Chelsea and was carried off on a stretcher... Bobby Di Matteo scored one and I think Vialli in victory over spurs that day. 

25 years ago is a lifetime. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/9/6/my-blue-days--david-lee

Happy times and I loved the Hoddle revolution.

@Strider6003 take away your like for this post the bloke is clearly a Spurs fan and apparently has been banned several times. Read his posts he's got nothing good to say about Chelsea and his thinly veiled hatred is easy to spot if you read between the lines.