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.

74/75 season, its not how i remember it.I'm sure west ham took the shed with a big no man land in the middle,i remember being dragged down by the silk scarf on my wrists and took a few kicks,i was still only 13/14 at the time like a lot of the shed,and if i remember rightly it was the north stand over by the borvil side of the shed that restored some pride,the only thing i can't remember is if they stayed in there all game.There was certainly more than 30.Carshalton blue those paper cuttings you put up was in my opinion when the tide started to turn v west ham,up to then we had taken some pretty poor support over there,in my time of going anyway,but that day we actually turned up looking for it for the first time and it seem to me that the chelsea realised on that day that the icf wasn't invincable after all.

There was an initial scattering. PC plod came in and efectively put a barrier between Chelsea and the West Ham lot which was lucky for them. I thought I was about 13/14 would would have made 70/71 or 71/72 but since my memory is crap I could be wrong.

Carshalton those pics at post 802 I just get a "communication error"?

> chelsea realised on that day that the icf wasn't invincable after all.

Mark I'd put the ICF around 81-82, it was the old Mile End crew that used to run the shot at West Ham. By the time these mouthy lads in casual cloths got involved and called themselves the ICF the "takes" and the "take attempts" were a thing of the past. I certainly don't think the name "icf" was used before 81.

> There was definently a night game around 1979

Yes, but that's not what you said :)

It was 14th November 1979. A Monday night.

I once read some one say that after the Millwall game in 75/76 that the chelsea fans come of age after that game, what was very true,but west ham always seem to have the edge on us up till that game in the 80's,but yes i know what your saying Garry and your right.

> chelsea realised on that day that the icf wasn't invincable after all.

Mark I'd put the ICF around 81-82, it was the old Mile End crew that used to run the shot at West Ham. By the time these mouthy lads in casual cloths got involved and called themselves the ICF the "takes" and the "take attempts" were a thing of the past. I certainly don't think the name "icf" was used before 81.

> There was definently a night game around 1979

Yes, but that's not what you said :)

It was 14th November 1979. A Monday night.

OK got it. If 14/11/79 was the night game then the 1980 match was the one they came across the bridge.

Back to the 1977 game, we'd taken Arsenal a couple of days previously so it came as a real disapointment and shock to see the Shed on it's toes. I don't care what anyone says the Shed got taken good and proper and we never took it back, they got escorted out taken down the front and across the pitch. They came up the main stairs and apart from a few brave ones who put up a fight they got into the middle. Chelsea formed up in the white wall and west side with police seprating the sides. Coins were flying all over the place, one spammer got hit in teeth and while there may have been a few scraps there was no case of them having it taken back from them. In our defence the place was pretty empty when they came in which I think was a usual stunt of theirs, bear in mind they tried again in 1980 as I've said earlier.

We'd done the same at Highbury on Boxing Day but held it for the whole match, the next year at Arsenal over Easter we had even more in the Northbank but as we got in later there was no attempt to take it, Arsenal had already filled it.

I still say I was in there in 77 and it was not taken. This was the match the North Stand Boys came in from the tea-bar and ran the entire shed. Chelsea and West Ham run. It is possible some people thought the firm in the Shed was West Ham but it was Chelsea North

Do you lot think that in 1979 our 50-something fans were discussing who stood where in 1946. Shudder to think.

Do you lot think that in 1979 our 50-something fans were discussing who stood where in 1946. Shudder to think.

Dunno about 1946 Garry, but I do know that in 1940 200 Chelsea held off a top firm of Bayern Munich, Hamburg and Stuttgart on the beach at Dunkirk until our small boat firm turned up.

I've just been watching the first series of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". Someone is upset and nobody is talking to one of the lads, he's been sent to Coventry, Neville asks "I wonder what they say in Germany for Coventry"!, - OZ comes out with "Dresden". I laughed for 5 minutes and I am still smiling now.

Some of the comradeship is very real and lads sticking together does remind you of Chelsea vintage supporters standing together. And a little bit of off topic trivia. The filmset for AWP was not in Germany, it was on wasteland behind the Elstree Studios. They did ten days of filmimg in Germany for the outdoor shots when they needed to be there. The buiilding site was actually turned into Albert Square and has been the film set of Eastenders ever since.

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Carshalton those pics at post 802 I just get a "communication error"?

Now sorted mate.

Now sorted mate.

Ta. Hell of thread this isn't it? I will have to post a pic of an old badge I found which may stir a few memories.

Post #811 vs West Ham (thanks Eddie Mac) makes you forget about the tough times the game was going through at the time, (in the mid eighties).

I recomend listening to the stadium announcer in the 24min 50sec part of the clip,it made me laugh & is a reminder of perhaps some of the humour (even if unintentionable) that maybe we've lost a bit from the game nowdays!.

you mean this Garry and for once your dates were wrong,sept not Aug

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Thats part of it mate. Now go back two pages...

However on the page you uploaded, in the text it refers to our great support. "around the country this eason and the next, and the next" meant 82-83, 83-84 and 84-85. In cathy's case they needed to write .... and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next and counting. (She has not missed a match home or away for 35 years!

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1983 LWT Documentary on hooliganism. Fair bit of Chelsea footage

http://80scasualsblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks for that link. At 7.20: (All the police have to worry about is the odd fan because they keep Chelsea and Cardiff apart). So why is it that 30 years later they lead the Cardiff mob out of the ground on 90 minutes and straight into Chelsea fans and then no police are around. Seven close circuit cameras are there at that spot. The police not only allowed it to go ahead, they set it up. Then they could nick them and hand out long sentences. That should be obvious to see. This proves the police where onto this problem and stopped it 30 years ago. Scandal what happened against Cardiff.

I came across these http://www.flickr.com/photos/newportcounty/page5/ Chelsea at Newport County 1983.

Our proper Shed end

That is a great photo mate.

1978-79

Actually early season we were not too bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaED1OMcQ7Y

Just sat and enjoyed this game and Ray Wilkins performance

What did u lot look like then, back in the day?

I got my COSC card on the Tuesday between Bolton 4-3 comeback and Liverpool 0-2 at Anfield. With this picture.....

And what do you look like today?

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If anyone else can find their cosc supporters card, why not put it up as your profile picture?

Probably a bad idea Garry, all that hair's a tad depressing nowadays.

> Probably a bad idea Garry, all that hair's a tad depressing nowadays.

We are watching videos with Walker and Wilkins, I'd have thought it was in place to show what we looked like at the time.

Anyone got that Rotherham 6, Chelsea 0 game.

There is a story that needs to be told about that week.

We had two friendlies in The Sudan booked for the week following this game. The players had their jabs on the Friday. (Day before Rotherham)

The result was collective drowsiness and fatigue. Me and Terry Last were due to fly out on the Monday afternoon. I had my jabs booked for Monday morning, I didn't fancy the trip to Yorkshire if I couldn't be on form and keep on my toes. You had to watch your backs up in this part of the world back then. The club thought, wrongly, that the players as fit and able athletes would be able to cope. It backfired. We even missed a penalty twice!

We were looking forward to the Sudan trip and as we would not be allowed on the team bus we had booked a camel train to get us to the next city for the second match.

On the Sunday civil war broke out and after lots of frantic phone calls we were not sure whether to go. I'd stood against Millwall at the Wembley 5's earlier in 81 and stared death in the face at West Ham in 79 and lived to see the sun rise in the morning on both occasions. So in that respect what was the mere threat of a war zone and a nuclear bomb or two for a Chelsea fan? On Sunday night Rhodes-Brown got the word out - the trip was off. About the time we'd have been landing the airport was being overrun by Guerrillas and as it turned out we'd have walked right bang into it. Me and Terry might have been out of our depth but I am sure the North Stand would have given it a go.

Anyway, glutton for punishment as I am I'd like to see the original screening of the game. (And not just the highlights on Youtube.)