This poster (Tommy Docherty, Lofty etc) has been banned and has rejoined as incroyable

How nice of you to let people know. And in your very first post too. The first since this one, that is.

Blimey, it doesn't take much to get banned these days.

The final scoreboard against our local rivals in October 1983 at Craven Cottage!

I'm in there somewhere great day Pat Nevin's debut i think

I'm in there somewhere great day Pat Nevin's debut i think

Me too. Epic game. Gordon Davies got a hattrick for them.

 

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Yep, remember that game, was in the Riverside stand. Loads of Chelsea everywhere.

Not often someone scores a hat trick and ends up in the losing side

Need to catch up.

Saw 'The Cat' when he briefly played for Dundee Utd in 1979/80. Great to see one of my heroes playing.

 

 

1970 FA Cup Celebrations on the streets of London! This was a massive moment in our club's history and a big reason and catalyst for my support for the club after so many years. 

They're holding up the ECWC aren't they?

All those people and not a safety barrier in sight. If that was now the health and safety executive would be having kittens. Ps bet the old cafe on the left did a roaring trade that day

They're holding up the ECWC aren't they?

Yes.  I was there, my parents took me out of school for the afternoon, we stood by the town hall.

Almost brought a tear to my eye seeing the old souvenir shop. I bought so much stuff there especially as a kid. Mind you the last thing i remember buying there was a video of the 88-89 season which was in a plain white video box and wrapped in a brown paper bag. I was getting so many dodgy looks on the tube home i stuffed it into my jacket.

Used to buy loads of stuff in that little shop. Remember the old guy running it getting the shirts down in packets from the shelves behind the counter. Much more character than the megastore.

Did they used to sell Subbuteo in there or am I getting confused with the toy shop nearby?  The the boxes were behind the counter on the right.

Did they used to sell Subbuteo in there or am I getting confused with the toy shop nearby? The the boxes were behind the counter on the right.

Yep, sounds right..

Got a white with blue neck collar away top there from I'm guessing the 80-81 there, pllus a lambs wool navy blue v neck chelsea jumper with splendid embroided chelsea badge. Around that time- my last year at school- nearly everyone had Chelsea, Arsenal West Ham sweaters, better quality than the stuff the megastores now churn out. That sports shop on the top of the Arndale in Wandsworth was good for badges and patches and the like too. Me and me brothers all got Chelsea Mirrors for Xmas presents once. Mines still hanging proudly in the downstairs bathroom!

Did they used to sell Subbuteo in there or am I getting confused with the toy shop nearby?  The the boxes were behind the counter on the right.

Living in vanston place at the time mum was a regular in there if

I'd behaved at school and birthdays etc happy days.

On Christmas day 1937 it was fog that hung over football. The game between Chelsea and Charlton at Stamford Bridge went ahead, and both sides scored a goal, but in the second half the fog thickened and Charlton keeper Sam Bartram began to lose sight of his team-mates.

'We were on top at this time and i saw fewer and fewer figures as we attacked steadely' he remembers in his autobiography.

Bartrap paced up and down his goal-line, assuming that his side has the opposition pinned in their own half. After several lonely minutes, a figure emerged from the fog.

"What on earth are you doing here?" enquired a policeman. "The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field is completely empty!"

"When i groped my way to the dressing room," wrote Bartram, "the rest of the Charlton team, already out of the bath and in their civvies, were convulsed of laugther."

 

 

In the London transport museum nice exaggeration on the west terrace.

 

nice exaggeration of the arsenal font size also !

A half three kick off in February without floodlights too. Did the spectators have to bring candles?

No dog track either.

 

 

Ha ha, the balls in the net mate

Edited January 3, 201511 yr by Devil Dog

A half three kick off in February without floodlights too. Did the spectators have to bring candles?

fork handles!!

 

War Cup 1944!

Edited January 6, 201511 yr by Jezz

85,000 Attendance. Amazing any of those wartime cup finals ever got played when you consider the risks from the Luftwaffer, plus V1 and V2 Rockets later on.