John Phillips.

John Phillips saving a penalty from Gerry Francis. 5th January, 1974

9 hours ago, Scott said:

He played for quite a few clubs didn't he ?

His daughter had to have a leg amputated due to cancer while she was pregnant couple of years back, I've just discovered . What a sad time it must have been for the family

On this day 2001 we signed young fat Frank.

Barry Bridges scoring v Spurs in March 1965.

Travelling to South America for the close season tour in 1929.

I’ve posted a few pictures and info on the ‘earlier Chelsea v West Brom 1905 Thread.

Just in case anyone is interested!😀

Close season friendly on 3rd June 1977.

Wolves Away.

Also went to this game probably one of the best away days ever. Again the journey started home to sheff utd the week before. A mate had gone up to Wolverhampton the week before and got 20 odd tickets, it was so easy he did a repeat journey. After buying tickets for our group of fans he put them on general sale in the Weavers on farm lane, ( a great pub in them days).

Walking to the ground all you heard was has anybody got any Wolves tickets or tickets for sale especially in around the chippy outside Fulham Broadway, a rumour went round that a certain person from the Home Counties had 250 tickets. Urban myths eh ?

Anyway on the Saturday of the Wolves game 9 of us from Malmesbury went up to Wolves with no plan. Leaving the M6 we were immediately struck by the urban beauty of the area. Passing a plastic estate pub set on a lovely estate with 2 trees we saw a van with a slough address on the side. We decided this would be our beer stop, the pub was full of Chelsea, all went well until about 2 when the landlord said he had been told to close. There was major ructions in the lounge bar as a large group of Chelsea left to get onto a coach.This was unusual as in 1977 Chelsea fans didn,t appear to use coaches much . I think the coach company had a Camberwell address or was called Grove coaches. The other unusual thing was that several Chelsea fans were wearing Pringle jumpers.

We drove into Wolverhampton and found a nice gravel carpark, near the inner ring road. In front of us was a large group of Chelsea being escorted to the ground chatting one said they had come up on the inter city, and that a special wasn,t far behind. Going into the ground nobody was concerned who we supported and once up on the Southbank it was wow.

Despite heavy police numbers you could walk around the bottom of the southbank and up behind the Wolves fans. I saw this happen twice both times the Wolves fans started heading down and away from the problem.This seemed to add an even greater police presence seperating the southbank. Anyway the game was a bit untidy the result much more tidy especially at the end when the Tottenham news came through

After joining the pitch celebrations our exit from the ground was a bit more problematic. As we left we were under bombardment from bricks masonary etc from Wolves fans Chelsea fans were up by the subway with little space below to deploy. The police bore the brunt of the bombardment trying to seperate the fans eventually the wolves fans tried a charge. A loud voice rang up Chelsea stand you might guess who that was dark hair sideburns. We stood and then charged forcing a retreat this allowed more chelsea to join in. A 2nd charge found wolves fans heading away out of the Black country .

The old bill re established some order and got us moving towards the station. This gave us an opportunity to slip away and head for home. I gather there were more problems in Wolverhampton but have no idea what happened. The journey home and subsequent lagers a bit of an anti climax.

Great players, great shirt.

When the club shop was very different.

No matter how often I look at these two pictures from the Moscow Dynamo game in 1945.

I’m always amazed and thankful, that the roof on The Shed and Main Stand didn’t give way under the weight of the spectators!

Edited June 19, 20251 yr by erskblue

Two geniuses at work!

Proper Chelsea!

Edited June 19, 20251 yr by erskblue

Stoke City goalkeeper Gordon Banks is beaten by a great chip from Charlie Cooke (second l). Original caption.

Gary Locke celebrates scoring against Southampton in Jan 1977.

Edited June 20, 20251 yr by erskblue

On 15/06/2025 at 07:11, erskblue said:

Barry Bridges scoring v Spurs in March 1965.

Look at that, the old British Rail able to run trains for fans every 10 or so minutes to Manchester. And coming home, they even considered extra time in their scheduling.

It's a hotel for the night these days and a couple of days off work .

Peter Osgood being congratulated by Eddie Mac,after equalising for us at Anfield. FA Cup Jan 1966.

We won 2-1. Bobby Tambling scoring the winner.

Against Manchester City in the semi-final of the 1970-1971 European Cup Winners Cup.

Edited June 23, 20251 yr by Boyne