Part of the Bromley group. Always a lot coming off the trains from Bromley and going out towards the Kent coast.

I dont see LOTS of chelsea fans anywhere.....(and) i get about

I get envious when i pop to basildon and see 75% of beings wearing west ham shirts or hammers shirts....................I hate it in southend where i see many sperm fans.....HATTTTTEEEEE IIITTTT

I get envious when i pop to basildon and see 75% of beings wearing west ham shirts or hammers shirts....................I hate it in southend where i see many sperm fans.....HATTTTTEEEEE IIITTTT

I grew up in Slough so it was a straight choice between us and Man Utd! I now live in Romford and i live amongst West Scum and their pikey clothing. Caravans everywhere....! More Arsenal in Romford than spuds tho. See a lot of kids now wearing Chelsea so the future is bright!

70's 80's loads of us travelled all over the country from slough area.

70's 80's loads of us travelled all over the country from slough area.

One of our MK veterans is an old Slough boy, late 60s early 70s before moving to Bletchley and running his own coaches.

70's 80's loads of us travelled all over the country from slough area.

Back in the 70s the Slough boys were good mates with us Lewisham lot

I was up in north Manchester this weekend visiting the in laws (a bit of a moody area I must add) and I saw on two separate occasions 2 different teenage lads wearing the new home shirt, I was very surprised as it ain't that far from city's ground.

From my past experience of living in Manchester it tended to be the asian/african communities who supported clubs like arsenal and Chelsea, the white people were either a red or blue based on who their parents supported. Man united have alot of fans from towns like Rochdale, Oldham and Stockport too but maybe these people also support their hometown club

I remember when the Falklands went off. A bunch of lads in the Swan at Fulham Broadway were seriously looking at atlases and trying to work out how much a boat would be to get there. Lasted for a few pints then they realised how far it really was. Had the impression they though it was off the spanish coast in the med somewhere...

Also remember the time the IRA let a bomb off near Harrods, was in the benches and whole ground was singing anti IRA songs for most of the game...

Always had the chaps selling the NF paper, Bulldog (I think it was called) between the station and the ground.

We didn't have such a mixed crowd as at games today.

I am sure you never sang anti UVF songs due to your one sided view of the troubles.

In Nairobi at present and loads of Chelsea shirts here.

Guess will be lots of ...and Leicester shirts next season though....

Edited March 21, 201610 yr by Shug

I am sure you never sang anti UVF songs due to your one sided view of the troubles.

Just making observations, Also don't recall the UVF letting bombs off in London often...

Why do you say this ?

Edited March 21, 201610 yr by Shug

Just making observations, Also don't recall the UVF letting bombs off in London often...

Why do you say this ?

I was just about to post the same, obviously English football fans would sing anti IRA songs if it was them trying to kill & maim us in our cities, if it was the UVF then we'd have sung songs about them.

Ruislip was Chelsea,I went to Bishop Ramsey and we had a good number every home game meeting at Ruislip station.

Or we went South Ruislip to Notting Hill Gate and changed.As soon as you went one stop to Northolt it was QPR.

They never said boo to a goose in those early 80s,now look at them.

Talk about an inferiority complex,they all hate us.

Ruislip was Chelsea,I went to Bishop Ramsey and we had a good number every home game meeting at Ruislip station.

Or we went South Ruislip to Notting Hill Gate and changed.As soon as you went one stop to Northolt it was QPR.

They never said boo to a goose in those early 80s,now look at them.

Talk about an inferiority complex,they all hate us.

 

Out of interest, what areas were QPR? Lived a bit too north of west London to encounter them.

Northolt.I played for a Sunday league side in around Pitshangar,they were mostly QPR.

I would say from Northolt up the A40 to Shepherd's Bush,a lot around the Northfields Avenue area. Their boys all met in Jacksons which is in Northfields Avenue planning to meet Chelsea at or around Ealing Broadway for a tear up.Old bill got wind and kept them in pub for hours.

I know a few of them,couple are pals believe it or not.They hate us with a vengeance

Interesting thread this. I'm Fulham born and raised but oddly my Chelsea connection doesn't come from there. My Dad was brought up near Nottingham but the first game he ever saw on TV was the '70 final - he supported Chelsea in that because we were underdogs and the rest is history. He moved down here in his 20s, first living in Hampton Wick, and happened to find a girlfriend (my mum) who lived just round the corner from the Palmerston/Morrison. Talk about striking gold! We still live there now. 

 

Area around me is still staunch Chels of course despite how much the it's changed even in my lifetime. When I used to have kickabouts on the pitches at Eel Brook Common 80-90% of the replicas were Chelsea (I had a Melchiot shirt, for some reason), rest were United, Arsenal and Liverpool - hardly any other London clubs represented.

 

I wanted to ask about Fulham's fanbase, and the interface areas between us and them (if they really exist). You've got to go a long way down the New King's Road for the place to have more of a Fulham 'feel' than a Chelsea one. In my experience their only 'heartland' (i.e. where they are actually in a majority) are the streets directly around the ground off the Fulham Palace Road - the newsagents round there all used to sell their fanzine. When I was at school in Putney Fulham were the team you supported if you wanted to be a bit different and support a small club - my brother's now at school in Clapham and he says it's the same there.

 

So where would people say Fulham becomes an FFC area (if anywhere) - I always thought the Durrell Arms on the Fulham Road was their pub but a few months ago I watched an away game there and the place was packed with Chelsea fans.

 

Found that detail about Epsom having a strong Fulham support fascinating - same with South Oxhey and Gravesend being West Ham due to slum clearances after the war. I'm 21 so I haven't seen the demographics change all that much in terms of who supports who, but it seems like there are lots of ways it has changed.

Edited April 21, 201610 yr by SW6 Chelsea

I was brought up in Fulham off New Kings Road in the early 60's and hardly anyone I knew supported Fulham, practically everyone was Chelsea.  Most of us thought they were a joke until they got to the '75 cup final where we all wanted them to win against West Ham, if were them it would be the opposite.

I was brought up in Fulham off New Kings Road in the early 60's and hardly anyone I knew supported Fulham, practically everyone was Chelsea.  Most of us thought they were a joke until they got to the '75 cup final where we all wanted them to win against West Ham, if were them it would be the opposite.

 

Yep I've got a couple of Fulham mates who live within 10 minutes of the Cottage but I'd say 80% of their fanbase (maybe more) comes from south of the river. Surprising they've never struck up much of a rivalry with Wimbledon given their core support bases aren't all that dissimilar in size.

Yep I've got a couple of Fulham mates who live within 10 minutes of the Cottage but I'd say 80% of their fanbase (maybe more) comes from south of the river. Surprising they've never struck up much of a rivalry with Wimbledon given their core support bases aren't all that dissimilar in size.

Who is this Fulham you all refer to? I am not used to Sunday league sides lol

Who is this Fulham you all refer to? I am not used to Sunday league sides lol

Ha, just struck me as odd and very revealing that in 7 pages of this thread there wasn't a single mention of the club nearest to the Bridge

Funnily enough there are two Fulham supporting families in my street over here in SE London.  I think that when they got into the PL they picked up quite a lot of young fans as their parents were able to take kids to top flight tickets were easily available unlike Chelsea and other London PL clubs.

Funnily enough there are two Fulham supporting families in my street over here in SE London.  I think that when they got into the PL they picked up quite a lot of young fans as their parents were able to take kids to top flight tickets were easily available unlike Chelsea and other London PL clubs.

Yeah similar to Charlton - both targeted the family market and their gates dwarfed anything they'd seen before.

Slough has (or did have) a large following of Chelsea.

 

I (unfortunately) grew up there and it was near 50/50 split with Man Utd (as you would expect!!) so i plumped for a local team. Given i am talking about 1980-1988 I was certainly not a glory hunter.

Ha, just struck me as odd and very revealing that in 7 pages of this thread there wasn't a single mention of the club nearest to the Bridge

if you talk to people in their 70s and 80s there was a tradition to go to Chelsea one week and Fulham when we were away. Don't know when this started decline, possibly when people started to travel away.

if you talk to people in their 70s and 80s there was a tradition to go to Chelsea one week and Fulham when we were away. Don't know when this started decline, possibly when people started to travel away.

Yep, I lived in Fulham near the library, and as young teenagers we went to the bridge one week and craven cottage the next. Agree with previous poster who mentioned looking for Fulham's results, think a lot of Chelsea fans in those days sort of saw Fulham as our little brother, but their fans hated us.

Stopped going to Fulham once 17, so about 1978 and working as could get to away games then easily, as wasn't reliant on pocket money then as had cash of my own.

Edited April 23, 201610 yr by Shug