1982-83

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDy3AdrRJg

Edited February 20, 201214 yr by Eddie Macs blue and white

Garry i also have my own hatred of West Ham, them bullying me but thankfully no violence was involved.

Chelsea v West Ham sept 80,

I went with my old man, queuing up to get in the west i was a bit confused seeing what seemed like 100's but was proberly a lot less than that young lads having their laces removed from there dms by the police.

We get in to our seats & are sat in the last block next to the shed terrace, i had a blue & white bar scarf on that had been given to me by a family friend via Peter Osgood.

The game is going on & sat behind me were two blokes & two girls i found out later they were West Ham, they spent most of the game giggling & messing about, i cant remember how long in to the game but i felt my scarf being pulled back over my shoulders i look around & sat there was one of the blokes blowing his nose on my scarf much to the amusement of the other three.

I sat there sh*tting myself because a grown man(to me) & a total stranger was acting in a disgusting way to me, a kid, also i was petrified my dad would notice & there's no doubt he'd have attacked both lads, my dad was a big fella, a builder & while quite placid most of the time i'd seen him kick off before while defending my mum so there's no doubt both lads would have got it.

I kept quiet & let it go with the four hammers still laughing about it, a bit later on i ask my dad what was the clapping for, he said thats not clapping son have a look over there, so i moved over to the wall seperating us & the shed & down below was 100s of Chelsea & West Ham fghting on the shed terrace, i went back to my seat not knowing what to think, the game carries on & we lose 1.0 to a late own goal which gave me another reason to hate West Ham.

Without going in to to many details i've had my revenge on West Ham in my adult life, my favourite time funnily enough was in the new west stand, again we lost 1.0 in about 98/99 i think, they score & up jump 3 West Ham who then get attacked near me so i jump straight in & catch one with a volley that Dixon would have been proud off, i hate bullies but being them & our(my)past i didnt give a f**k what anyone thought of me that day, we also bumped in to 10 of them up a side street after the game where they ran so fast they could have gave Seb Cole a decent race.

some pics from that day.

Edited February 21, 201214 yr by Carshalton Blue

Great stuff these clips & memories shared.Thanks for posting them chaps.

Watching post #786 vs Ipswich & looking at the tan lines on the Ipswich keepers legs, made me think he must have been on one of those new fangled 'foreign package hoildays'.

I thought I was made up if we went to Clacton once in a while!.

On a more serious point,that clip was a bit before my time following CFC,but about 10mins in,you can here the Shed singing what sounds like, 'you'll never walk alone'!! .

F*ck me!,did I here that right because I belive I've heard it on another clip posted in this thread.Isn't that a dippers song?,why the

hell is that being sung down here?.

Was it a common chant/song sung at all grounds at that time?,because it does sound kinda odd to here it at the Bridge.

Do any of the,(cough) older fellows know the answer to this?.

1981-82

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDy3AdrRJg

I remember watching Colin Lee at the Bridge in the early eighties & the lads in the Shed taking the p*ss about him not wanting to head the ball in case he got his hair dirty!.

He took that Newcastle goal well to be honest, but if my memory serves me right, he did look a p*ss poor striker for the most part.

Didn't he finish his career at Chelsea playing as a fullback?,a number 2, if i remember correctly?.

West Ham away 1981

I had a lot of contact with some old codgers in the Chelsea boozers in the 70's. Some of these had even been at Chelsea pre First World War. I was just so enthralled to hear stories of what it used to be like and the history of our club. Chelsea had a lot of showbiz fans right back to our first season. You may well know that Chelsea were the First cheque book team. Gus Mears unable to convince Fulham to move in went off round Northern England and signed up the best players he could. Unheard of in its day and not repeated anywhere on such a scale until the 1990's. These names attracted the rich and famous, the name Chelsea being synonymous with fashion, trendy and classy. It is a well known fact that King George V (reigned from 1910-1936) was a Chelsea fan. He'd often sneak out of Buckingham Palace and turn up a Chelsea in a cloth cap blending in with the others.

It is also widely known that Chelsea were a "Music Hall" joke team, that we had never won a trophy. However that he only half of the story as there were many other teams they could have used. The fact was that a large number of the Music Hall crowd were also Chelsea followers. Thus the butt of the joke was something they could relate to and the ability to laugh at one's own misgivings has always been a trait of English Humour.

As a result many of the old Music Hall songs were heard over Chelsea. "Strollin'" and "Knee's Up Mother Brown" can be heard on the 1965 away to West Brom footage. But these songs had been around as long as anyone can remember. In Post War Britain a lot of new songs were tried out at Chelsea. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" came over in 1950. It played at the Durey Lane and a few weeks later at least two of it's hits were sung by the Chelsea faithful. Blow High, Blow Low. It's Chelsea words were....

Shout high, shoot low,

Away then we will go

We'll go away with the Chelsea away

Away we'll go

And of course the other song "You'll never walk alone" debuted at Chelsea that summer. It was sung at a lower pace than the version that you now hear. And the Chelsea words: "sweet silver cup of FA", and the words "Walk On, Walk On, Walk On, Walk On" were often sung as Chel-sea, Chel-sea, Chel-sea, Chel-sea. Although in some chants especialy if we were winning the Chel-sea would dropped for the original "Walk On."

Throughout the 50's it became something of a Chelsea anthemn, but these were the pre-tv days. It's association with Liverpool began in 1964 after Liverpudlian Jerry Marsden had recorded it. This was shown on a BBC Panorama episode and a myth was born. I mean did anyone actually think the Scousers would own something that had not previously belonged to someone else?

There are other recordings of Chelsea fans doing Bubbles 30 years before West Ham sung it. Did anyone think "like my dreams fade and die" would be the original football lyrics? No, of course not, it's always been a Chelsea song about "and like West Ham they fade and die". West Ham could not sing that so they stuck the "my dreams" back in.

I will have to look into putting Chelsea recordings on MP3. I have live tape cassette recordings from some of our games in the early 80's. One that sticks in mind that I know I have - from Östersund Sweden 1982, the team being presented with a tea-mug each in the centre circle before the game by the opposing team. We'd only bought a club pennant to give them. So Walker and Pates invited their lads out on the town for a beer after the match. The tea-mugs were placed under the trainers' bench and we - It might have been Cathy came up with - and we started to sing "We have the best set of tea-mugs in the world", I remember Norman chuckling away and turning round giving us the Thumbs Up.

Colin Lee - yes full back. I have a badge that says "Colin Lee leaps higher than Evel Knievel.

Leeds 72,thats a brilliant version much better than the one i've got ,what was off chelsea tv i think,this was printed in the following programme,i think it was a rise of 25p to 50p or maybe 50p to a £1.00 not sure

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And yes your never walk alone was sung every week with clapping in between not just chelsea but up and down the country i believe and not just Liverpool,followed by clapping inbetween "your never clapclap a walk clap clap alone clapclap

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Garry i also have my own hatred of West Ham, them bullying me but thankfully no violence was involved.

Chelsea v West Ham sept 80,

I went with my old man, queuing up to get in the west i was a bit confused seeing what seemed like 100's but was proberly a lot less than that young lads having their laces removed from there dms by the police.

We get in to our seats & are sat in the last block next to the shed terrace, i had a blue & white bar scarf on that had been given to me by a family friend via Peter Osgood.

The game is going on & sat behind me were two blokes & two girls i found out later they were West Ham, they spent most of the game giggling & messing about, i cant remember how long in to the game but i felt my scarf being pulled back over my shoulders i look around & sat there was one of the blokes blowing his nose on my scarf much to the amusement of the other three.

I sat there sh*tting myself because a grown man(to me) & a total stranger was acting in a disgusting way to me, a kid, also i was petrified my dad would notice & there's no doubt he'd have attacked both lads, my dad was a big fella, a builder & while quite placid most of the time i'd seen him kick off before while defending my mum so there's no doubt both lads would have got it.

I kept quiet & let it go with the four hammers still laughing about it, a bit later on i ask my dad what was the clapping for, he said thats not clapping son have a look over there, so i moved over to the wall seperating us & the shed & down below was 100s of Chelsea & West Ham fghting on the shed terrace, i went back to my seat not knowing what to think, the game carries on & we lose 1.0 to a late own goal which gave me another reason to hate West Ham.

I was in the Shed that day. I've never seen so many away fans in our end. They were everywhere and just started spontaneous fights all over the Shed. There was major trouble after on the Fulham Road as well.

1985-86

With lots of West Ham comments above, good and bad. Here is a victory that didn't help their cause when going for the title

(West Ham going for the title, now that's something you don't hear to often)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQP9oOl1RUM

And yes your never walk alone was sung every week with clapping in between not just chelsea but up and down the country i believe and not just Liverpool,followed by clapping inbetween "your never clapclap a walk clap clap alone clapclap

The disco version.

Anyone know when we stopped singing it? It was never an exclusively LFC song - Celtic claim they started singing it first. I don't think any other club go in for the pre-match YNWA karaoke,

I don't think we've sung it since the 80s.

> I was in the Shed that day. I've never seen so many away fans in our end.

Then we were at different matches. West Ham had a pop at the shed in 77 and got such a pasting they never tried it again in such numbers. I know I arrived fairly late for the 1980 clash but that would have been around 2.30. Its possible that we had already kicked them out of the end by then if indeed they did have a go. But it was all over by 2 30 as I remember how there were no West Ham in the shed, none whatsover.

5th Place is shared between Liverpool 1981-82 FAC5 and West Ham 1977-78 on 59 viewings

4th Place Southampton FAC3 1976-77 with 65 viewings

3rd Place Hull City 1976-77 with 69 viewings

2nd Place W.B.A 1965-66 with 84 viewings

1st Place and undisputed Millwall in the Shed 1976-77 with a whopping 3,123 viewings

Bit of a misleading headline there, as I'm sure you know. Millwall came in the Bovril entrance (on the west side of the Shed) and mobbed up just below it - they never got in the Shed. We noticed them from up in the Shed (North Stand boys were on Shed Defence duty that day ) , and stormed down the terrace and steamed straight into them. Millwall got a good hiding that day, and were only too glad to get a police escort up to the north end of the ground. It was kind of revenge for what happened at The Den earlier in the season, but not nearly enough - death would have been too good for 'em!.

Edited February 20, 201214 yr by BlueBeard

> I was in the Shed that day. I've never seen so many away fans in our end.

Then we were at different matches. West Ham had a pop at the shed in 77 and got such a pasting they never tried it again in such numbers. I know I arrived fairly late for the 1980 clash but that would have been around 2.30. Its possible that we had already kicked them out of the end by then if indeed they did have a go. But it was all over by 2 30 as I remember how there were no West Ham in the shed, none whatsover.

It's possible that it was before kick-off, but there were fights breaking out everywhere around me, by the Tea bar, so I can't say if they were elsewhere. It was definitely the 1980 game, with the late Graham Wilkins own goal.

Leeds 72,thats a brilliant version much better than the one i've got ,what was off chelsea tv i think,this was printed in the following programme,i think it was a rise of 25p to 50p or maybe 50p to a £1.00 not sure

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I started going the previous season and admission had gone up in 72/3 by 5p to the princely sum of 20p. Still only a shilling for a programme though.

Newcastle game is 82/83 not 81/82.Keegan mania up there. Never seen that footage before.Brilliant stuff. Remember it vividly as it was one of my first aways on the official supporters club coaches (3 ran from Stamford Bridge that day) I was 16 and went with my mate.Got up to Wsashington services and the police came on board the coach and told us the locals were waiting for us and had barricaded the Tyne bridge! With hindsight it was probably a gentle wind up, but my mate was in fear of his life and nearly got of the coach there and then. I pre booked seats in their main stand as i thought it would be safer. When Lee scored i forgot where i was and went mental. Got told to shut the f**k up, and thought my card was marked, but think i got away with it cos i looked quite young.Highlight before the game was a geordie getting hit by a bus as they goaded us. Afterwards had a lucky escape as we waited for chelsea to be let out, by where the away coaches would pick us up. Got sussed (obviously as i was wearing a trendy slazenger jumper -)) Big geordie started giving me verbals, but satisfied himself by chucking his burger at me rather than thumping me one! I really had the bug then and only missed 2 games all season.

Carshalton blue, the pics of the west ham game the second and third ones down have made me feel ill.Check out the burger seller! Forgot all about how they used to walk round with them cool box things. How they got away with classing them as a foodstuff is beyond me! All wrapped in silver foil. a bun with something brown in the middle which could have been litterally anything. Not even any sauce. EVIL!!

Newcastle game is 82/83 not 81/82.Keegan mania up there. Never seen that footage before.Brilliant stuff. Remember it vividly as it was one of my first aways on the official supporters club coaches (3 ran from Stamford Bridge that day) I was 16 and went with my mate.Got up to Wsashington services and the police came on board the coach and told us the locals were waiting for us and had barricaded the Tyne bridge! With hindsight it was probably a gentle wind up, but my mate was in fear of his life and nearly got of the coach there and then. I pre booked seats in their main stand as i thought it would be safer. When Lee scored i forgot where i was and went mental. Got told to shut the f**k up, and thought my card was marked, but think i got away with it cos i looked quite young.Highlight before the game was a geordie getting hit by a bus as they goaded us. Afterwards had a lucky escape as we waited for chelsea to be let out, by where the away coaches would pick us up. Got sussed (obviously as i was wearing a trendy slazenger jumper -)) Big geordie started giving me verbals, but satisfied himself by chucking his burger at me rather than thumping me one! I really had the bug then and only missed 2 games all season.

Cheers mate, now corrected to 82-83

My West Ham in the Shed memories in the late 70's early 80's.

27/12/77 Won 2-1. They took the Shed getting in early at about 1.45pm then got escorted out across the pitch, I can't remember any other fighting during the match anywhere in the ground.

14/11/79 Won 2-1. A big mob of them came across the Fulham Road railway bridge before the game and got to the front of the turnstile queue ages before they opened. Old bill took them down to the North Stand entrance. A few fights in the Shed before kick off here and there.

6/9/80 Lost 1-0. I think this was a night game, I can't remember them coming in at all but a mate got done badly down the alley towards Parson Green afterwards. Trust them to turn up somewhere unexpected.

15/9/84 Won 3-0. Fighting all over the Shed end before the game, fighting in gate 13, huge mob in the West who left before the end and came in through the Bovril and Main Entrance at the same time. Most impressive and organised away following at the bridge I've ever seen.

I missed the next one the 4-0 Easter defeat and have been to a few others in the 80's and later but can't remember any serious trouble at all.

Edited February 21, 201214 yr by Peckham Blue

6/9/80 Lost 1-0. I think this was a night game,

No. That was a Saturday game. I have written what happened in 77 a few pages back. They did have numbers in the shed. But their boys had not got it together. Before one shout of "we are West Ham" rang out - ie "A Take" - our North Stand - they were the Shed's defence when it was needed - stormed in and ran the entire shed, West Ham, Chelsea including myself. After they took the shed they sung "We're the North Stand, We're the North Stand, North Stand, Stamford Bridge. West Ham got a complete pasting and numbers in the shed is not a take.

I went to the others you listed except 84. I had stopped going all together in 87 but me and my mate met two Swedish Birds in the West End on the Friday night. We sneaked into the Regent's Palace with them and Saturday morning we thought they'd be doing King's Road/Oxford Street as they were just tourists and we'd probably grab a bit of breakie with them and that we'd be hitting the pub lunchtime by ourselves. However they asked if we could take them to a football match. In those days you couldn't swap facebook nicks or mobile numbers so you generally didn't say in touch with every Tom, Dick and Harry (or even Britt, and Eva) you met. Easy come, easy go being the general motto. This just happened to be 12th December 87. Chelsea v West Ham.

So we go over the Broadway. On the way to the ground the two Swedish girls decide to support one team each and buy a Chelsea scarf and a West Ham scarf. My mate had been a regular Shedite in his youth but had hardly seen a game in 10 years, he was a bit of a spiv, always ducking and diving and never really working by then, but like so many more in the day, he always had money. Anyway, in a packed shed I don't remember any violence. The girl who was to buy a West Ham scarf: We talked her out of it. It was a 1-1 draw and I must say the grope and bundle after our goal was one of the nicest I have ever experienced in the shed. :) Pity we didn't win 6-0, or maybe just as well because she might well have given birth 9 months later if we had scored 6. I even remember a night in the Punch and Judy at Covent Garden with them after the match.

Good days, no pressure or commitments, where did it all go?

As for Facebook I was added by one of these girls last year. 24 years after having last met. Quite funny that she didn't know I'd moved to Sweden and twenty years ago she'd got married and moved to a town just 50 miles from where I live today in the same county (practically next door by Swedish norms). Anyway, she still remembers the Chelsea West Ham of 87. Her only ever match!

Edited February 21, 201214 yr by GarryJones

Anyone managed to dig out the Chelsea v Leicester programme from August 82 yet? If so, check it. :)

I had a lot of contact with some old codgers in the Chelsea boozers in the 70's. Some of these had even been at Chelsea pre First World War. I was just so enthralled to hear stories of what it used to be like and the history of our club. Chelsea had a lot of showbiz fans right back to our first season. You may well know that Chelsea were the First cheque book team. Gus Mears unable to convince Fulham to move in went off round Northern England and signed up the best players he could. Unheard of in its day and not repeated anywhere on such a scale until the 1990's. These names attracted the rich and famous, the name Chelsea being synonymous with fashion, trendy and classy. It is a well known fact that King George V (reigned from 1910-1936) was a Chelsea fan. He'd often sneak out of Buckingham Palace and turn up a Chelsea in a cloth cap blending in with the others.

It is also widely known that Chelsea were a "Music Hall" joke team, that we had never won a trophy. However that he only half of the story as there were many other teams they could have used. The fact was that a large number of the Music Hall crowd were also Chelsea followers. Thus the butt of the joke was something they could relate to and the ability to laugh at one's own misgivings has always been a trait of English Humour.

As a result many of the old Music Hall songs were heard over Chelsea. "Strollin'" and "Knee's Up Mother Brown" can be heard on the 1965 away to West Brom footage. But these songs had been around as long as anyone can remember. In Post War Britain a lot of new songs were tried out at Chelsea. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" came over in 1950. It played at the Durey Lane and a few weeks later at least two of it's hits were sung by the Chelsea faithful. Blow High, Blow Low. It's Chelsea words were....

Shout high, shoot low,

Away then we will go

We'll go away with the Chelsea away

Away we'll go

And of course the other song "You'll never walk alone" debuted at Chelsea that summer. It was sung at a lower pace than the version that you now hear. And the Chelsea words: "sweet silver cup of FA", and the words "Walk On, Walk On, Walk On, Walk On" were often sung as Chel-sea, Chel-sea, Chel-sea, Chel-sea. Although in some chants especialy if we were winning the Chel-sea would dropped for the original "Walk On."

Throughout the 50's it became something of a Chelsea anthemn, but these were the pre-tv days. It's association with Liverpool began in 1964 after Liverpudlian Jerry Marsden had recorded it. This was shown on a BBC Panorama episode and a myth was born. I mean did anyone actually think the Scousers would own something that had not previously belonged to someone else?

There are other recordings of Chelsea fans doing Bubbles 30 years before West Ham sung it. Did anyone think "like my dreams fade and die" would be the original football lyrics? No, of course not, it's always been a Chelsea song about "and like West Ham they fade and die". West Ham could not sing that so they stuck the "my dreams" back in.

I will have to look into putting Chelsea recordings on MP3. I have live tape cassette recordings from some of our games in the early 80's. One that sticks in mind that I know I have - from Östersund Sweden 1982, the team being presented with a tea-mug each in the centre circle before the game by the opposing team. We'd only bought a club pennant to give them. So Walker and Pates invited their lads out on the town for a beer after the match. The tea-mugs were placed under the trainers' bench and we - It might have been Cathy came up with - and we started to sing "We have the best set of tea-mugs in the world", I remember Norman chuckling away and turning round giving us the Thumbs Up.

Cheers mate. Another learning day on here

Some time early 70's West Ham tried to take the shed game ended I think 1-1 but I certainly would not bet on that. West Ham lot just go pushed out there could not have been more than 30 of them.

6/9/80 Lost 1-0. I think this was a night game,

No. That was a Saturday game. I have written what happened in 77 a few pages back. They did have numbers in the shed. But their boys had not got it together. Before one shout of "we are West Ham" rang out - ie "A Take" - our North Stand - they were the Shed's defence when it was needed - stormed in and ran the entire shed, West Ham, Chelsea including myself. After they took the shed they sung "We're the North Stand, We're the North Stand, North Stand, Stamford Bridge. West Ham got a complete pasting and numbers in the shed is not a take.

There was definently a night game around 1979, I was knocking around with Giles in those days and it was his mates brother who got done down the alleyway. League Cup maybe?