Peckham Blue Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 The Shed's last stand. Sheffield Utd, final game of the season 1994. Up amongst the Sheff Utd fans in fancy dress (as Arabs). Those cars around the pitch are embarrassing, I wonder how many got damaged during the pitch invasion at the end!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 A couple of days after I change my avatar, this image appears on the Shot Of The Day: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandblue Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 this is a clip from an FA Cup game I believe, showing huge Chelsea away support and the problems it led to. The spokesman for Orient at the end of the clip is a total mug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 this is a clip from an FA Cup game I believe, showing huge Chelsea away support and the problems it led to. The spokesman for Orient at the end of the clip is a total mug. There was no trouble at this match. Our support was huge and the ground was a sh*thole. Walls collapsed simultaneously behind the goal and on the side after the early surge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutch Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 There was no trouble at this match. Our support was huge and the ground was a sh*thole. Walls collapsed simultaneously behind the goal and on the side after the early surge. That's exactly right. Back then it was the fashion among the media and anyone else to classify Chelsea fans as scum. It was always our fault. Remember the relegation battle at White Hart Lane? The one where there were more Chelsea outside the ground than in? Never mind that Tottenham got battered after the game, serves the f**kers right. The was the one where they repeatedly showed the same clip of a single Chelsea fan on the pitch at White Hart Lane getting a kicking from three or four Tottenham wearing dark blue and white Tottenham scarves, as an example of Chelsea hooliganism. I was one of relatively few Chelsea who got into the ground that day, and that was because I sneaked my way to the front of the queue. The initial pre-match "pitch invasion" was due to overcrowding, nothing to do with hooliganism. But the media have never been known to let a little thing like the truth get in the way of an opportunity of a bit of Chelsea bashing. I remember Brian Moore being particularly self-righteous in his condemnation of Chelsea fans behaviour that day, something I've never quite managed to fully forgive or forget.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 There was no trouble at this match. Our support was huge and the ground was a sh*thole. Walls collapsed simultaneously behind the goal and on the side after the early surge. Thats another of my videos i put on youtube, i thought the Orient chairman was funny as f@ck, the things he was coming out with reminded me of Alan Partridge lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Thats another of my videos i put on youtube, i thought the Orient chairman was funny as f@ck, the things he was coming out with reminded me of Alan Partridge lol! I believe that a year or two earlier our fans did kick a couple of walls down deliberately. My internet is so slow I can't play the video here but didn't he come up with something stupid like "if we put up metal fences Cheslea fans would come with oxy-acetylene and cut them down" !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 I believe that a year or two earlier our fans did kick a couple of walls down deliberately. My internet is so slow I can't play the video here but didn't he come up with something stupid like "if we put up metal fences Cheslea fans would come with oxy-acetylene and cut them down" !! Yeah he says that in that clip, something about a steel box & oxy-acetylene and cut them open !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Owl Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 The Shed's last stand. Sheffield Utd, final game of the season 1994. http://i70.photobuck...5_2878239_n.jpg This is something I definetely would've wanted to experience. The old fashioned stand looks great. Can't believe it has changed that much in just a few years, doesn't look like the same ground anymore, even though I enjoy the modern day Bridge too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 (edited) This is something I definetely would've wanted to experience. The old fashioned stand looks great. Can't believe it has changed that much in just a few years, doesn't look like the same ground anymore, even though I enjoy the modern day Bridge too! With hindsight I think that photo is a bit disappointing, we were shortly due to play in our first FA Cup final since 1970 and the place isn't even full. It was a good game though. There was great banter on the train from Earls Court with the Sheff Utd fans who as I said earlier were all in fancy dress as Arabs and there were hundreds of them in the East Upper. Before the game they were the favourites to stay up and taking an early lead put them in a pretty good position but results elsewhere were going against them although they were still safe.........until Mark Stein scored in the last minute to make it 3-2 and down they went!! Onto the pitch and then the winding up began. We'd played them last game of the season away the year before and our support up that day was magnificent at the end of a terrible season with David Webb just about keeping us up. Ten minutes to go and everyone was making there way to the front to get on the pitch for the inevitable pitch invasion and I'm sure Sheffield were preparing for the same, but the OB could see what was going to happen and prevented what could have been a right bloodbath. Edited September 9, 2011 by Peckham Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Owl Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 (edited) I assume you've seen this site? http://www.algonet.s...af1/index2.html Wow, that's amazing! There's pictures from Chelsea's tour of Sweden and Finland, even from the ground of the team I support at home. IFK Mariehamn. 1982 Edited September 9, 2011 by Eagle Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shatner's Bassoon Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 .But the media have never been known to let a little thing like the truth get in the way of an opportunity of a bit of Chelsea bashing. I remember Brian Moore being particularly self-righteous in his condemnation of Chelsea fans behaviour that day, something I've never quite managed to fully forgive or forget.. I remember Jimmy Hill having a right go at Chelsea fans on MOTD after the FA Cup game against Palace in 1976. The Chelsea fan attempting to Kung Fu kick a Palace fan in the North Stand seemed to get him very wound up I seem to recall Would love to see the film of that again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 I remember Jimmy Hill having a right go at Chelsea fans on MOTD after the FA Cup game against Palace in 1976. The Chelsea fan attempting to Kung Fu kick a Palace fan in the North Stand seemed to get him very wound up I seem to recall Would love to see the film of that again Yeah. he really went to town on that one. I've never seen so much continued violence during a match, it seemed to go on forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Blackburn away early 80s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Wow, that's amazing! There's pictures from Chelsea's tour of Sweden and Finland, even from the ground of the team I support at home. IFK Mariehamn. 1982 A lot of those Chelsea fans who went on that tour are still going now, home, away & europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Giving Palace A Welcome, not sure on the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 The shed in full pose under the instructions of Ken Bates who was stood on a step ladder with a loud speaker, this pic was for the st holders & members xmas card 1985/86, the game was v Everton we won 2.1 & Southall got sent off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Chelsea v Leeds 84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Brighton away 84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Bolton away 1982 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Blackburn away early 80s? What's going on here?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carshalton Blue Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 (edited) What's going on here?? Mad scrammble for a cup of bovril. Edited September 12, 2011 by Carshalton Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckham Blue Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Mad scrammble for a cup of bovril. At Blackburn? Nah, they're after a few pies.....each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKBlue Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Somebody mention pie mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelseaboy Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 What's going on here?? Dunno for sure, but i went up to blackburn around september 82 for a league game. We lost the match 3-0 and about 5 minutes from the end, as was quite customary around this time, a firm of CFC resplendent in a uniform of DMs and green flying jackets assembled. Gates were routinely opened near the end to let fans out, unfortunatley for Blackburn it also enabled the chelsea firm to breeze in and cause a stampede as the unsuspecting Rovers fans legged it. Weather conditions (grim oop norf) look right for that day too.Thats my guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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