2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

"Police separate Chelsea and Sunderland fans in the Roker End August 1975" . Probably been on befire.

It's like a little bit of 'no mans land' on that terracing.

Arsenal at The Bridge. Early 70s again.

v Everton at The Bridge Dec 1972 

Top Picture Gary Locke makes a tackle on Everton;s Joe Harper while David Webb looks on.

Choppers older brother Allan Harris.

 

 

6 hours ago, bluehaze said:

I did a; double take; at the John Terry picture

Like the bottom picture of The Bridge.

Happy Birthday to Doug Rougvie who is 64 years old today 24th May.

Focus on courtesy of matchdaymemories,com.

Hopefyully no copyright isues.

Big Doug smiling v Everton. Colin Pates looks on.

Second picture: Doug is seen 'Discussing some point' v Wimbledon at The Bridge.

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Does anybody else see a figure standing over by the white wall ? Looks like a blooming ghost 

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12 minutes ago, F1905 said:

Does anybody else see a figure standing over by the white wall ? Looks like a blooming ghost 

Yeah. I wasn't sure at first if that actually was someone !

Goal: Kerry Dixon cracks his first and Chelsea's second.   And then celebrates. 

Millwall at The Bridge, Sept 1984. Milk Cup 2nd Rd 1st leg. We won 3-1 at The Bridge.

 

15 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

From our 96/97 yearbook

I couldn’t get a ticket for the semi at Highbury.  Resorted to ringing the Wimbledon ticket office and had a chat along the lines of “ No I can’t prove that I’m a Wimbledon fan. There’s no way your gonna shift your allocation, just sell me a bloody ticket pretty please”

No dice

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2 hours ago, F1905 said:

Does anybody else see a figure standing over by the white wall ? Looks like a blooming ghost 

A bit wierd that, yes a figure is there

51 minutes ago, Ewell CFC said:

I couldn’t get a ticket for the semi at Highbury.  Resorted to ringing the Wimbledon ticket office and had a chat along the lines of “ No I can’t prove that I’m a Wimbledon fan. There’s no way your gonna shift your allocation, just sell me a bloody ticket pretty please”

No dice

Diff season if I remember correctly, 96 we got to the semis at Villa Park and lost to Utd.

97 our semi was at Highbury I was there for that and after the previous season's great atmosphere a bit of a disappointment to get Wimbledon with their more muted fans. Much better result though due to Hughes and Zola's finishing.

 

3 hours ago, F1905 said:

Does anybody else see a figure standing over by the white wall ? Looks like a blooming ghost 

No sign of his dog spot either !

Wisła Kraków 1:0 Chelsea

Our friendly in Poland on 24th May 1936.

A short Polish documentary on this match with English subtitles.

Hope nobody minds.

Team: Woodley, O'Hare, Barber, Mitchell, Craig, Miller, Spence, Argue, Mills, Burgess, Barraclough

http://stamford-bridge.com/match.php?mid=1439&opp=Wisla Krakow

Wisła Krakow v Chelsea.

The players coming onto the pitch in that friendly in May 1936.

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The Main Stand and the trees !

Looks like people tried to get a view any way they could for our match.

We were the first English Professional Team to tour Poland

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

Wisła Kraków 1:0 Chelsea

Our friendly in Poland on 24th May 1936.

A short Polish documentary on this match with English subtitles.

Hope nobody minds.

Team: Woodley, O'Hare, Barber, Mitchell, Craig, Miller, Spence, Argue, Mills, Burgess, Barraclough

http://stamford-bridge.com/match.php?mid=1439&opp=Wisla Krakow

Wow, what a brilliant video. I noticed a couple of members of the Polish Army in the crowd. One of our players sent-off for spitting at the ref. Just shows that the behaviour of players in the past was just as bad as it is now. A shame that the return leg at the Bridge didn't go ahead.

 

8 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

I couldn’t get a ticket for the semi at Highbury.  Resorted to ringing the Wimbledon ticket office and had a chat along the lines of “ No I can’t prove that I’m a Wimbledon fan. There’s no way your gonna shift your allocation, just sell me a bloody ticket pretty please”

No dice

Remember the Highbury semi, tickets were sold if I remember right to members dependant on what membership  number you had or the number on your voucher book, after the main batch was sold, there was a final 2000 tickets and if your membership number was within a certain number you had a chance for ticket, on sale 8am from the ground, I left Chichester at 1:30am and got to bridge at 3am, already about 100 or so in qué, at around 4am a bird walked past us carrying a baseball bat!!,she was serenaded with a chant of "Chelsea aggro" Anyway got my ticket and was back In doors by 7:30am as they opened box office early at 6am.

We lost to Bologna 4-1 in the Paris Exhibition Cup Final

6th June 1937.

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30th May 1937.  We drew with Marseilles 1-1 in Paris Exhibition Cup Quarter-Final

Photo above.

We certainly got around Europe and also further afield back then.

The above photograph dates from 1929. If you look at the centre panel you can see something unusual. The player with his back to the camera is plainly numbered. It's Chelsea right back George Smith, playing against Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.

Two Football League matches were played in August 1928 in which shirts were numbered, one being  Chelsea vs Swansea Town at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea didn't wear the numbered shirts in any other domestic matches that season, but the following summer they used them on their South America tour, earning the nickname Los Numerados. 

http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/2013/04/los-numerados.html

 

Programme for the FA Cup Final played at the Bridge in 1922.