On 28/08/2019 at 10:43, bluehaze said:

Michael Fish was a Chelsea groundsman who knew 😀

George Anstiss was the groundsman for years. Use to see him when I was a ball boy late 70s early 80s. His son John took over and may still be on the ground staff now.

11 hours ago, erskblue said:

  If the club reproduced all, or even some of the home programmes from say 1983/84 and or 1984/85...

  'John Neal's Blue and White Army !'

We can meet one day. I still have my complete set of Home programs for 83:84 84/85!! There isn’t a lot in them like now!

16 hours ago, In the Net said:

Whenever I see this one, I wonder what that bloke has got in his carrier bag!

Aye right enough !

  The all white away strip, at what looks like Villa Park.

 Looks like 1967 FA Cup Final.

A narrow escape at Highbury.

The Cat, Chopper Harris and I think David Webb, are our players in the picture.

 v Man City and our player is John Hollins. According to the original picture caption.

 59,919 saw a 1-0 win for us with Tommy Lawton scoring the only goal.

 A 6-2 win for us  in front of 62,118 spectators who got their money's worth that day.  Jimmy Graves scoring five, yes five, of our goals !

20 hours ago, Richard P said:

We can meet one day. I still have my complete set of Home programs for 83:84 84/85!! There isn’t a lot in them like now!

Got all home programmes and a lot of the away ones from THAT Season in a box in the attic

52 minutes ago, Shug said:

Got all home programmes and a lot of the away ones from THAT Season in a box in the attic

Met some top Chelsea boys on the beach  in Nice prior to 98 Super Cup Final. Got on like a house on fire and arranged to stay at one of me new mates  the night before we flew to Copenhagen for CL trip. ( Usher at me wedding 5 years later)

Stuck me in his spare room- had to get up at 5 AM- couldn’t help but notice on a shelf he had all Chelsea home and away programmes from about 69 onwards- Got approxiamately half hours kip that night.

 

14 hours ago, erskblue said:

The only time I stood on the North Stand terrace was this game as the shed was shut that night! Chelsea beat China 3-1 I think and it was Ray Wilkins last game and goal for Chelsea

 

 

The King

 

 We were second in this game away to West Ham back in 1931 !

 We won 4-3 in front of  62,850. Tommy Lawton got 2 of ours as did Dickie Spence. Nat Lofthouse also scored 2 . 

2-2 at HT. Moneys worth for the crowd that day.
 

 1-1 away  back in 1963.

12 hours ago, Richard P said:

The only time I stood on the North Stand terrace was this game as the shed was shut that night! Chelsea beat China 3-1 I think and it was Ray Wilkins last game and goal for Chelsea

Went in the North Stand twice. Once when we played Luton last game of the season ( they got promoted and took a good few down for once- 82 I think, big punch up after final whistle), and Man U 85- Shed was locked out so joined hundreds who went in North Stand. Kicked off and we got escorted past the benches to Shed.

1 hour ago, Ewell CFC said:

Went in the North Stand twice. Once when we played Luton last game of the season ( they got promoted and took a good few down for once- 82 I think, big punch up after final whistle), and Man U 85- Shed was locked out so joined hundreds who went in North Stand. Kicked off and we got escorted past the benches to Shed.

I was in the N/S for that Man U game, Southampton league cup 81, Birmingham 77 and I think that's it. We all knew as kids what the N/S did so no point in us being there. The Shed was a great laugh as a kid but after 83 I was only in there a handful of times and was probably more times in the temp end shed then I was on the old one. Was almost gate 13,benches,West Upper apart from games where you took what you got.

Petar Borata signing autographs.

 

Chelsea v Bristol Rovers 1979, with a young Gary Mabbutt looking to thwart Tommy Langley's efforts.