18 hours ago, Richard P said:

I was in the seats next to our terrace section. Some old faces had bought up tickets and were selling before the game. 
 

Portsmouth at home was the first time we wore sponsored kit.

I seem to think that Portsmouth at home on Boxing Day delivered another display of how not to take penalties - others may remember better but I think we missed two that day - a 12 noon kick off, ‘kin freezing and King Kerry in a short sleeve Le Coq shirt - happy days.  How about a a thread for worst penalty miss?  Pat Nevin against Man City a strong contender, but Dixon at QPR when we wore the minging green (jade?) shirts takes it for me.  The ball landed up in the top tier of the stand behind the goal, and the week after the fanzine did a spot the ball skit with the A to Z page of Shepherds Bush and to had to put an x where the ball landed.   We lost 1-0 and come to think of it we played rubbish every time we wore that green strip.

This is the first post on this thread got a little bit more of the game here. Our support was magnificent as always and they had a good team then Newcastle, Keegan, McDermott, Beardsley, Waddle yet we slaughtered them at the Bridge. That game was the highlight of 83-84 great atmosphere I can even remember I was wearing a white Tachinni tracksuit top and of course Pat Nevin's run. It was a pity there were no cameras especially as we had a habit of thrashing them 4-0 and 6-0 in previous seasons.

 

8 hours ago, Fruit Bat said:

We were also in the seats. Don't remember buying them from a tout; back at those glorious pay at the gate days you could pretty much sit where you wanted- wasn't it just brilliant when you could get a phone call from a mate on a Saturday morning " so and so's driving up to Sheffield, d'you fancy it..."

Back to that game, we'd only just sat down when I saw this herd of raggamuffins heading over and I remember saying  " Heads up, we might be in trouble here"

PJ from Kennington " Not with this lot behind us we wont!"

Cue load of faces on average 8 years older and 3 stone heavier!

Happy times   

They weren’t from a tout. From some known Chelsea boys!

Eddie Mac playing for Scotland.

 

Edited May 30, 20224 yr by erskblue

5 hours ago, erskblue said:

Eddie Mac playing for Scotland.

 

Looks like Jim Baxter Eddie is talking to.

Boyne:Good shout re Eddie Mac and Jim Baxter.

Owners

Mears Family (1905-1982) = Founder(s) of the club.

 

Ken Bates (1982-2003)

 

Roman Abramovich (2003-2022)

 

Todd Boehly and co (2022-Present)

Edited May 31, 20224 yr by Jezz

£50 for a ST. Now it costs about £50 for a seat in the MHU.

1 hour ago, Boyne said:

£50 for a ST. Now it costs about £50 for a seat in the MHU.

Weird how our season tickets wee cheaper than QPR, Cardiff and Swansea. But this was 1981 when we were sh*t.

Equates to roughly £160 today

Not sure of the year.

11 hours ago, Boyne said:

Not sure of the year.

Doesn’t matter what year, it’s definitely QPR at home

On 28/05/2022 at 17:05, bluehaze said:

This is the first post on this thread got a little bit more of the game here. Our support was magnificent as always and they had a good team then Newcastle, Keegan, McDermott, Beardsley, Waddle yet we slaughtered them at the Bridge. That game was the highlight of 83-84 great atmosphere I can even remember I was wearing a white Tachinni tracksuit top and of course Pat Nevin's run. It was a pity there were no cameras especially as we had a habit of thrashing them 4-0 and 6-0 in previous seasons.

 

You can’t beat a nice white Sergio tachinni track top!

10 hours ago, chi blue said:

You can’t beat a nice white Sergio tachinni track top!

The very one mate 😁

The stand was a massive part of Chelsea’s decline in the 70s. After the old stand was demolished the average attendance dropped 10,000, as building costs for the new stand rocketed. Due to the spiralling costs, Chelsea didn’t buy a single player between August 1974 and June 1978

1 hour ago, bluehaze said:

The stand was a massive part of Chelsea’s decline in the 70s. After the old stand was demolished the average attendance dropped 10,000, as building costs for the new stand rocketed. Due to the spiralling costs, Chelsea didn’t buy a single player between August 1974 and June 1978

It literally buggered up our finances for about 3 decades, directly led to two relegations in 75 and 79, nearly saw us go out of existence, and led to the Mears family selling the freehold to the Bridge which meant the threat of eviction hung over us until Bates managed to buy it back after years of legal battles, the Save the Bridge campaign etc.

Some brilliant pics of Chelsea fans on this site https://lowerblock.com/articles/john-ingledew-and-now-are-you-going-to-believe-us/

Who can see themselves?

 

 

Copyright: John Ingle

The Shed End. Chelsea vs Oldham Athletic, 1982. Copyright: John Ingledew  

The lad in the foreground ( 3rd from the left) looks like 'Archer' from Scum

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Copyright: John Ingle

The Shed End. Chelsea vs Oldham Athletic, 1982. Copyright: John Ingledew  

The lad in the foreground ( 3rd from the left) looks like 'Archer' from Scum

Agree, he does. A great film. I wonder if the lad in the Shed isn't wearing footwear.

2 hours ago, charierre said:

Copyright: John Ingle

The Shed End. Chelsea vs Oldham Athletic, 1982. Copyright: John Ingledew  

The lad in the foreground ( 3rd from the left) looks like 'Archer' from Scum

Mecca Archer ? Mecca ! 😆

1 minute ago, bluehaze said:

Mecca Archer ? Mecca ! 😆

Class film  from when the BBC made great drama

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Class film  from when the BBC made great drama

The BBC original had the bloke from Shameless who's name escapes me in the Archer role. Some great lines in it '' Davis give me your snout on payday'' Davis '' I don't smoke '' Pongo '' You do now poofta no f**king Dolly Mixture in here '' 🤣

21 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

The BBC original had the bloke from Shameless who's name escapes me in the Archer role. Some great lines in it '' Davis give me your snout on payday'' Davis '' I don't smoke '' Pongo '' You do now poofta no f**king Dolly Mixture in here '' 🤣

David Threlfall