22 hours ago, Richard P said:

83/84 was great on and off the field. The results and performances were great and without mobiles, internet/social media, paying on the day at the turnstiles you never knew who was going but we turned up in numbers. Many more than advertised as gates were opened at Brighton, Pompey and Grimsby to name three from memory. One reason why tickets for terracing came in to stop capacity problems.

Also if you offered a turnstile operator a tenner,  without a ticket for an “all ticket” game they would let you in. I’m coming up fifty and this will always be one of my favourite seasons.

@Richard P you mentioning about there being no mobile phones reminds me of when we would come out of the ground and if we saw someone with a radio would gather around them to hear the results or occasionally to hear a cup draw. Different times.

3 hours ago, Boyne said:

@Richard P you mentioning about there being no mobile phones reminds me of when we would come out of the ground and if we saw someone with a radio would gather around them to hear the results or occasionally to hear a cup draw. Different times.

The good old transistor radio! Had one for my 11th birthday, size of an iPhone 7 but thicker. Good old sports report on Radio 2

On 09/12/2017 at 09:33, chi blue said:

Yes, 83/84 seemed at last you could talk at school about football without armchair utd, Liverpool fans etc, taking piss, prior to that it seemed the only Chelsea excitement I got in the late 70's was buying those packets of cards with a piece of chewing gum in, and finding our players in there, superstars like David Hay or Duncan Mkensie!!!, one time though it felt like I got willy Wonka's golden ticket, inside my packet was Peter Borota!!!, If it wasn't those cards it was the figurine pannni sticker books, first one I had was Argentina 78 world cup.

The chewing gum was rank by the way!! Hubby Bubba or Bubbalicous both new at the time were much better!

Before my time:

Arsenal 1933

Old Trafford 1970

Millwall 1976

Sheff Wed 1955

Athens 1971

Since first going as a 12 yr old in 1979 I've done quite a few of the games that have gone down as legendary for various reasons - Bolton 83 (a), Leeds 83 (h & a), Brighton 83 (a), Man City 84 (a), Grimsby 84 (a), Arsenal 84 (a), Millwall 84 Milk Cup (h & a) and FA Cup, Sheff Wed 85 Milk Cup (h), Sunderland 85 Milk Cup (h & a), Man City 86 Full Members Cup, 94 Cup Final and Semi, 97 Cup Final, Stockholm 98, Arsenal (a) CL 2004, Bolton (a) 2005, various away victories at Old Trafford, Spurs and West Ham, the Steady Eddie goalkeeping display at Fulham mentioned above and so on, but these are some I missed:

Sheff Wed 4 Chelsea 4 Did so many games that season including both the home games in this incredible tie but missed this one as I couldn't find a way up there given such short notice (was it arranged for two days after the first game?) Was gutted at the time and still regret it to this day. Listened to extra time on a radio outside Plough Lane where I'd gone and watched Wimbledon knock Forest out of the Cup. There were loads of Chelsea who'd done the same. Funny thing was I'd asked someone with a radio for our score at half time (3-0 down) and had given up all hope of course.

Cardiff 3 Chelsea 3 This is the only match that season that I really wish I'd been at. I missed a few that year but did all the ones I consider important/memorable/legendary except this one.

Chelsea 4 Liverpool 2, 1997. Was at university in York for the year and relied on a mate to get me a ticket so I could come down and he f**ked up. 

Barcelona 2 Chelsea 2, would have loved to have been at this one. Can't stand Barca. Such tension and such an incredible result.

Munich. It pains me to even write this, still hurts for sure. I live in Canada now, moved here in Dec 2008. Stopped going in 2005 after watching us win the League at Bolton (after all, what was the point we'd "done it all" now, lol). I thought it was a nice symmetry, a nice place to stop, since I was also at Bolton in '83. I did come out of retirement to go to Moscow (well we hadn't done that had we?) and I hope if we ever do it again I'll be there next time but I missed our first and I'll never be able to change that. Saddest thing was I was over in the UK, just happened to have booked a trip home that May. Got myself a flight to Salzburg but never managed to get hold of a match ticket. Ended up deciding to watch it in the Imperial with a couple of mates.

5 hours ago, Cobham said:

Before my time:

Arsenal 1933

Old Trafford 1970

Millwall 1976

Sheff Wed 1955

Athens 1971

Since first going as a 12 yr old in 1979 I've done quite a few of the games that have gone down as legendary for various reasons - Bolton 83 (a), Leeds 83 (h & a), Brighton 83 (a), Man City 84 (a), Grimsby 84 (a), Arsenal 84 (a), Millwall 84 Milk Cup (h & a) and FA Cup, Sheff Wed 85 Milk Cup (h), Sunderland 85 Milk Cup (h & a), Man City 86 Full Members Cup, 94 Cup Final and Semi, 97 Cup Final, Stockholm 98, Arsenal (a) CL 2004, Bolton (a) 2005, various away victories at Old Trafford, Spurs and West Ham, the Steady Eddie goalkeeping display at Fulham mentioned above and so on, but these are some I missed:

Sheff Wed 4 Chelsea 4 Did so many games that season including both the home games in this incredible tie but missed this one as I couldn't find a way up there given such short notice (was it arranged for two days after the first game?) Was gutted at the time and still regret it to this day. Listened to extra time on a radio outside Plough Lane where I'd gone and watched Wimbledon knock Forest out of the Cup. There were loads of Chelsea who'd done the same. Funny thing was I'd asked someone with a radio for our score at half time (3-0 down) and had given up all hope of course.

Cardiff 3 Chelsea 3 This is the only match that season that I really wish I'd been at. I missed a few that year but did all the ones I consider important/memorable/legendary except this one.

Chelsea 4 Liverpool 2, 1997. Was at university in York for the year and relied on a mate to get me a ticket so I could come down and he f**ked up. 

Barcelona 2 Chelsea 2, would have loved to have been at this one. Can't stand Barca. Such tension and such an incredible result.

Munich. It pains me to even write this, still hurts for sure. I live in Canada now, moved here in Dec 2008. Stopped going in 2005 after watching us win the League at Bolton (after all, what was the point we'd "done it all" now, lol). I thought it was a nice symmetry, a nice place to stop, since I was also at Bolton in '83. I did come out of retirement to go to Moscow (well we hadn't done that had we?) and I hope if we ever do it again I'll be there next time but I missed our first and I'll never be able to change that. Saddest thing was I was over in the UK, just happened to have booked a trip home that May. Got myself a flight to Salzburg but never managed to get hold of a match ticket. Ended up deciding to watch it in the Imperial with a couple of mates.

Great post. You were at most of the games I wish I'd been to.

Munich is an easy journey from Salzburg. Like about 30000 Chelsea fans I went over without a ticket, never got near the Allianz, but wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Top 5 Aways...

Man City 84. We did loads of road trips that year in my mates Escort Estate- back seat down- couple of crates of Pils. Superb  support. When I get together with my oldest pals for some reason that's the game we talk about more than others.

After parking up we walked down a backstreet to find a group of about 20 geysers walking towards us- looked like they'd all come straight off a building site- heads down keep walking we thought...

Turns out they were Chelsea- they're were loads of chaps everywhere that night.

Ps for me 50th a mate got me a signed/ framed programme from this game.

Grimsby 84- very hot and super packed in our end. I'm not sure whether any trains were running that day but saw a massive convoy of Chelsea coaches on the A1

Portsmouth Midweek 84- Nice spring evening, afternoon on the piss in Southsea, loads of offs, great fun all round

Arsenal in the League Cup 98- not the most important game, but the first time I ever saw us win against them. We got given a big allocation- first time a lot of us had heard the now famous Arsene Wenger songs. Took the piss all night.

Super Cup v Real Madrid.

Played in Monaco, spent 5 days in Nice, daytimes sunning on the beach- night in the bars with other Chelsea. Once again, not a massively important game, but I do remember thinking at the time, we've just seen our team beat the mighty Real- had a fantastic trip- it ain't gonna get much better than this.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 20178 yr by Ewell CFC

3 hours ago, Ewell CFC said:

Top 5 Aways...

Man City 84. We did loads of road trips that year in my mates Escort Estate- back seat down- couple of crates of Pils. Superb  support. When I get together with my oldest pals for some reason that's the game we talk about more than others.

After parking up we walked down a backstreet to find a group of about 20 geysers walking towards us- looked like they'd all come straight off a building site- heads down keep walking we thought...

Turns out they were Chelsea- they're were loads of chaps everywhere that night.

Ps for me 50th a mate got me a signed/ framed programme from this game.

Grimsby 84- very hot and super packed in our end. I'm not sure whether any trains were running that day but saw a massive convoy of Chelsea coaches on the A1

Portsmouth Midweek 84- Nice spring evening, afternoon on the piss in Southsea, loads of offs, great fun all round

Arsenal in the League Cup 98- not the most important game, but the first time I ever saw us win against them. We got given a big allocation- first time a lot of us had heard the now famous Arsene Wenger songs. Took the piss all night.

Super Cup v Real Madrid.

Played in Monaco, spent 5 days in Nice, daytimes sunning on the beach- night in the bars with other Chelsea. Once again, not a massively important game, but I do remember thinking at the time, we've just seen our team beat the mighty Real- had a fantastic trip- it ain't gonna get much better than this.

 

 

 

 

Went by special for Grimsby. There were 3 trains with different coloured tickets. I only remember this as it was chaos coming back with people not have the patience to wait for the right train!! My one had people standing all the back to London!!

17 hours ago, Richard P said:

Went by special for Grimsby. There were 3 trains with different coloured tickets. I only remember this as it was chaos coming back with people not have the patience to wait for the right train!! My one had people standing all the back to London!!

There never seemed to be the same amount of people coming back from the game, as going to the game on the specials- never able to work out why?

Sometimes they'd be people up in the luggage racks, or hiding under tables or in the bog when the ticket collector did his rounds!

A bloke called Winkle whose no longer with us used to be a fixture on the trains in the early 80's. He was a good laugh but a real pain the backside RIP

I remember the name Winkle, was a tall bloke with curly hair ?

No, different bloke mate.

1. Leeds United (1970) - FA Cup Final

2. Arsenal away (1984)

3. Manchester United away (2001) - Beat them 3-0 that day.

4. Bolton Wanderers away (2005)

5. Bayern Munich (2012) - Champions League Final

35 minutes ago, Jezz said:

1. Leeds United (1970) - FA Cup Final

2. Arsenal away (1984)

3. Manchester United away (2001) - Beat them 3-0 that day.

4. Bolton Wanderers away (2005)

5. Bayern Munich (2012) - Champions League Final

Not a bad shout !