4 hours ago, Fruit Bat said:

If you look at that programme cover, which was the Bridge layout until West Stand was rebuilt in 65, probably 85% of a 75,000 odd capacity had zero protection from the elements.

Compared with our main London competition- Spurs, Arsenal, West Ham, we by far were the worst catered for in this regard- a lot of floating football fans back then who would turn out to watch the likes of Finney, Matthews, Lofthouse etc, who must have been put off turning up at ours if the weather forecast was a bit iffy; sod going to Stamford Bridge and getting pissy wet when they can get under The North Bank at Highbury. False economy, construction costs versus consequent revenue gains I’d say

Pretty much all the iconic terraces, Kop, Kippax, Holte End, got roofed over in the 40s or 50’s. As we know The Shed only came about to keep the bookies dry, and it didn’t cover much of the end.

Crumb of comfort- Palace, Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle home ends no roofs whatsoever

True , and we thought the West stand was going to be like arsenal and West ham's stands along the side.

Talking about the elements,We played Spurs in lashing rain and the terraces looked half empty, everyone squashed under Shed and North Stand.I reckoned about 30,000 but ..

The attendance was amazingly over 60,000 !

Mullery scored a rocket near the end for them , but if I remember we were all over em . The old days 😊

20 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

True , and we thought the West stand was going to be like arsenal and West ham's stands along the side.

Talking about the elements,We played Spurs in lashing rain and the terraces looked half empty, everyone squashed under Shed and North Stand.I reckoned about 30,000 but ..

The attendance was amazingly over 60,000 !

Mullery scored a rocket near the end for them , but if I remember we were all over em . The old days 😊

Report of game below from a Spurs fan site

coincided with one the most sustained downpours I have ever experienced. In a crowd of 61,000 most Spurs fans were crammed in the old uncovered end.

 

With playing conditions turning into quagmire, referee Pat Partridge called-together the respective skippers, Ron Harris and Alan Mullery, and asked if they each wished to carry on. Both captains agreed they should, and produced a spectacle in dreadful conditions. With 90 minutes already passed, the score was 0-0 until Mullery, then Jimmy Pearce produced injury-time goals, to the delight of us rain-soaked fans.

 

With Spurs on a winning run, it seemed likely that 70-71 would be our third successive "year one" league title. But the following week the team came back to earth with a 2-1 home defeat by Newcastle. Despite our finishing third and winning the League Cup, joy was tempered by the two other main domestic trophies going to a team whose name I forget.

 

The teams in November 1970 were

Chelsea: Bonetti Boyle Harris Hollins Hinton (sub Dempsey) Webb Weller Cooke Osgood Baldwin Houseman

Spurs: Jennings Kinnear Knowles Mulley England Beal Gilzean Perryman (sub Johnson) Chivers Peters Pearce

Att: 61,277

Regards

Paul Gibbens

Edited May 12, 20233 yr by The Rising Sun
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I know the top one has been posted on here before. So usual apologies.

Youth Squad of 1974. That’s the caption. Again,very probably been posted. 

The Big Match Revisited from 77-78 was on this afternoon. We got beat 2-0 away at Liverpool, which wasn’t too bad given the circumstances.

QPR got stuffed 1-5 at home to Everton.Stan Bowles, good touch but not much of an athlete- he recorded the worst ever points tally on Superstars around this time.

 

 

 Probably these two have already been posted, simply can’t remember!

 

Edited May 14, 20233 yr by erskblue

 

That badge is dreadful looks like the old Midland Bank Griffin.

 

 

 

9th April 1955.  Peter Sillett scores past Wolves goalkeeper Williams, from the penalty spot. A crowd of 75,043 saw it.

Sams wake will be on Sunday 28th of May, from 1.30 PM, prior to the Newcastle game at The Broadway Bar and Grill ( Previously Old Kings Head)

474-476 Fulham Road.

All Welcomr

 

Grimsby 94

1 minute ago, Fruit Bat said:

Grimsby 84

 

 

Yes I know it has been posted before…😀

Edited May 17, 20233 yr by erskblue

On 13/05/2023 at 06:02, erskblue said:

Youth Squad of 1974. That’s the caption. Again,very probably been posted. 

9 of them made the first team - Sparrow, Wicks, Langley, Aylott, Frost, Stride, Wilkins, Lewington and Walker. Les Briley didn't but had a very long pro career.

And of course the coach became our manager.

On 10/05/2023 at 12:56, bluehaze said:

Still got that mirror.

Against Sheffield Wednesday in the League Cup in 1985. 

6 hours ago, Paul70 said:

Still got that mirror.

Me too. I've told this story on here before, but I'll tell it again. In the mid 70s my older brother went on a school trip to London, saw the mirror on sale and bought it for me as a present. Only he left it on the tube and I never received it.

About 40 years later my wife and I joined a choir run by a local charity. I got to know one of the members (a ManU fan) who works in one of the charity's shops. One day he told me someone had handed in an old Chelsea mirror, which he had put aside for me. It was identical to the one my brother bought me.

So 40 years after he lost it I got my mirror.