21 hours ago, bluehaze said:

And I just noticed wearing a v shaped collar. Here's a good pic from the club website.

Both teams are wearing their respective away strips in the picture above.

Was this for tv , even so our home strip and City away strip hardly clash color wise !

13 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Both teams are wearing their respective away strips in the picture above.

Was this for tv , even so our home strip and City away strip hardly clash color wise !

Favourite away kit. Yellow blue yellow

It was quite common in the 70's especially cup matches.

Peckham Cheers had forgotten.

1974/75 Chelsea's Charlie Cooke heads narrowly wide against Sheff Weds

 

Checked back. The game above was an FA Cup Third Round game played on 4th January 1975.

We won 3-2 with goals from Garland and two from Droy. We had been 2-0 down.

A crowd of 24,674 watched it.

In 1974/75 we were relegated with 33 points. Carlisle Utd were bottom with 24 points. Luton Town also had 33 points and were relegated. Spurs just stayed up with 34 points !

The average attendance at The Bridge that season was 27,380.

Not sure if this picture has been posted before.

That West Terrace was huge, does anyone know how many it held? if the capacity was 80000 it must have been well over 30000 assuming the ends held 20000 each.

I was reading the Eddie Mac Eddie Mac book last night, which is I might add is  essential reading for all generations, anyway i  got to  the Sheffield  W cup game ,as mentioned above  when we were 2-0 down and  won 3-2 and it brought back loads of memories.

My old man hated football but he came with me that day ,I was only  12 and we sat in the middle  of the Benches around the half way line  and I think even he cheered when the winner went in.

I would be lying if I said I remember much of the actual game but i do know that I left thinking our name was already on the cup ,except we lost 1-0 in the next round to poxy Birmingham city

The team that played was a real mixture of old and the new
1 John Phillips, 2 Gary Locke, 3 Ron Harris, 4 John Hollins, 5 Micky Droy, 6 David Hay, 7 Charlie Cooke, 8 Ray Wilkins, 9 Chris Garland, 10 Bill Garner, 11 Peter Houseman

Have to add that in my humble opinion Gary Locke was one of our more under rated players who rarely gets a mention but was top class  throughout his time at CFC

 

8 hours ago, erskblue said:

Checked back. The game above was an FA Cup Third Round game played on 4th January 1975.

We won 3-2 with goals from Garland and two from Droy. We had been 2-0 down.

A crowd of 24,674 watched it.

Hollins put a penalty over the bar at the North Stand which nearly ended up on the District Line.  Tons of fighting behind me, especially at the end.

9 hours ago, Boyne said:

Not sure if this picture has been posted before.

The stand held 5,000 spectators.

Trying to find out how many the West Terrace actually held.

'Club architect George Skeats accordingly drew up plans for a 'stand of the future 'on the west bank.

One of his more bizarre ideas , never realised, was for cars to park on the stand roof !

page 117 of Football Grounds of Britain by Simon Inglis.

It's confusing. Some places say that the Bridge capacity was 85,000.

Others that it was originally designed to hold 100,000 spectators.

I believe that the 100,000 capacity was a benchmark for Archibald Leitch who designed the Bridge back when we were formed.

Yeah I know The Bridge was in existence before that.

Some decent Then and Now pictures of The Bridge in The Guardian back in Dec 2014.

John has a lot less hair nowadays. 

1 hour ago, Boyne said:

John has a lot less hair nowadays. 

He didn't have much then! Shades of a Bobby Charlton/ Ralph Coates comb over.

That first picture above, to me is a snapshot of the way supporters were treated in the early to mid 1980s.

Some colourful car exhaust fumes from those cars...

I know,I know...

4 hours ago, bluehaze said:

And to think the top picture is only the family enclosure! Nice to see the ball boy in mid 80's winter wear CFC ski hat, I Wonder if it has rangers on the other side? Second picture wolves quarter final 94? Only time I can remember smoke bomb in Shed

On ‎01‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 17:06, erskblue said:

Both teams are wearing their respective away strips in the picture above.

Was this for tv , even so our home strip and City away strip hardly clash color wise !

Suspect in those days a lot of people still watching tv on black and white sets.

10 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Suspect in those days a lot of people still watching tv on black and white sets.

Sorry that did make me laugh it's like the old joke '' For those of you watching in black and white Chelsea are in the yellow''. Yellow is not going to show on a black and white set. 

http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/liverpool-v-arsenal-1971-fa-cup-kits

20 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Suspect in those days a lot of people still watching tv on black and white sets.

 

4 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

Sorry that did make me laugh it's like the old joke '' For those of you watching in black and white Chelsea are in the yellow''. Yellow is not going to show on a black and white set. 

http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/liverpool-v-arsenal-1971-fa-cup-kits

Reminds me of the famous comment by the snooker commentator, Ted Lowe:

On 1/6/2560 at 01:27, chi blue said:

About thirty years ago I got an old video for Christmas of match of the day of the 70's, played it a few days after Christmas, it was showing all the goals, this one came on, and as Ossie fired it in a roar came from behind me as my old man standing in the sitting room doorway shrieks ' get in there Ossie'!! 

That looks like Peter Simpson in the background looking crestfallen.