The Fulham match was brilliant of course, one of the best that season.

Seeing the Cardiff match coming up reminded me once again of the lad who died at Huddersfield. The club held a minute's silence before kick off and Cardiff sang all the way through it. I was in Gate 13 so very close to them. The boys in there were not best pleased. The second the silence ended there was some serious vitriol hurled their way. I know it wasn't but I always like to think that some of what happened at Ninian Park later that season was payback for that. A scummy thing to do.

This is a few days early, or nearly 35 years late !

Saturday, 15th October 1983 at 15:00

Chelsea 2-0 Cardiff City.

HT 1-0.

Our scorers were: Pat Nevin in the 17th and Colin Lee in the 63rd minute.

Watched by a crowd of 15,549.

The win meant we are still in third position in Division 2.

 

Next up we are away, quite far away in fact.

To Carlisle Utd, managed by Bob Stokoe. the man who  took Sunderland to their famous FA Cup Final win over Leeds Utd in May 1973.

On Saturday, 22nd October 1983

 

This re running of THAT season is getting to me Ersk, filling in some paperwork in the office earlier and I dated it 12/10/1983!!!!! 

5 hours ago, chi blue said:

This re running of THAT season is getting to me Ersk, filling in some paperwork in the office earlier and I dated it 12/10/1983!!!!! 

DOH !

Some good pictures of that season, posted very recently in the Vintage Blues pictures and film thread.

I need to dig out a special edition magazine put together by Hugh Hastings. It had pictures taken throughout the season to commemorate winning the league 83/84. Will post pictures when I find it.

11 hours ago, Richard P said:

I need to dig out a special edition magazine put together by Hugh Hastings. It had pictures taken throughout the season to commemorate winning the league 83/84. Will post pictures when I find it.

Cheers mate, that'd be great.

Saturday, 22nd October 1983 at 3pm. And it was a 0-0 draw away at Carlisle Utd.

	We drop to 4th Position in Division 2. Watched by 6774 spectators.

Next up is a midweek Milk Cup 2nd Round , 2nd Leg game v Leicester City.

We are 2-0 up from the first leg and this should be a comfortable game...(where have I heard that before !)

This game is at The Bridge on Tuesday 25th October 1983.

Edited October 22, 20187 yr by erskblue

23 hours ago, erskblue said:

Saturday, 22nd October 1983 at 3pm. And it was a 0-0 draw away at Carlisle Utd.

	We drop to 4th Position in Division 2. Watched by 6774 spectators.

Went up on the special for this, took bloody ages as we couldn’t go on the fast line and the end of the journey was abit cross country. Was in the seats at the side. Does anyone remember a bloke with a chefs hat falling over the front down onto the ground below?

Chelsea 0-2  Leicester City.

Milk Cup 2nd Round , 2nd Leg game

Won 4-3 on penalties ! Phew !!

Tuesday, 25th October 1983 at 19:30 at The Bridge.

Penalty Shoot Out: Dixon-scored 1-0, Lynex-saved 1-0, Hollins-scored 2-0, English-scored 2-1, Speedie-saved 2-1, Hazell-scored 2-2, Spackman-scored 3-2, Eastoe-scored 3-3, Lee-scored 4-3, MacDonald-saved 4-3 15646 saw it. Cheers to http://www.bounder.friardale.co.uk/Results/1983.htm for the great info.

Saturday, 29th October 1983 at 15:00

Chelsea 3-2 Charlton Athletic.

Our goals came from a David Speedie double in the 24th and 32th min and then Kerry Dixon in the 78th minute.

They'd pulled it back to 2-2 with goals from Robinson 71, Moore 75 min, before King Kerry's winner 3 minutes later.

17,789 saw it

We are still in 4th place in the Promotion Race.

Edited October 29, 20187 yr by erskblue

Next up is Oldham away, on Saturday 5th November 1983.

On 23/10/2018 at 20:36, Richard P said:

Went up on the special for this, took bloody ages as we couldn’t go on the fast line and the end of the journey was abit cross country. Was in the seats at the side. Does anyone remember a bloke with a chefs hat falling over the front down onto the ground below?

 

I went to that Carlisle game and got knocked about by some chelsea lot on Leeds station ,they thought that I was dirty facking Leeds ffs.

when I got on the same train as them on Leeds station upto Carlisle they asked “ why did you facking tell us you was chelsea “ “ when you are chelsea on Leeds station it’s the type of thing you tend to keep to yer sen “ 

friendly fire was the kangeroo court ruling and as a type of compensation one of the chelsea lot gave me his copy of that >>> bulldog <<< NF paper that was doing the rounds back then.

 

thats one table that chelsea was allways on the top of back then ,as on the bulldogs back page they published a league table 

of FV 

8 hours ago, ddrblue said:

I went to that Carlisle game and got knocked about by some chelsea lot on Leeds station ,they thought that I was dirty facking Leeds ffs.

when I got on the same train as them on Leeds station upto Carlisle they asked “ why did you facking tell us you was chelsea “ “ when you are chelsea on Leeds station it’s the type of thing you tend to keep to yer sen “ 

friendly fire was the kangeroo court ruling and as a type of compensation one of the chelsea lot gave me his copy of that >>> bulldog <<< NF paper that was doing the rounds back then.

 

thats one table that chelsea was allways on the top of back then ,as on the bulldogs back page they published a league table 

of FV 

I heard a story on a train up North to a match about a friendly fire kind of incident and it involved the world cup.

Amongst a group of footy friends that frequented a Chelsea London pub was one that had got Argentina in the works world cup sweepstakes.

Anyway with the way the cup went England faced Argentina and when the Argies scored this chap cheered a bit too loudly and was taken out and given a good pasting by several top chaps.

On 30/10/2018 at 06:44, erskblue said:

Next up is Oldham away, on Saturday 5th November 1983.

Freezing cold. I stood on the terrace, our numbers for this game weren’t great. Don’t remember too much about the game but remember we scored down our end.

On 01/11/2018 at 21:49, Richard P said:

Freezing cold. I stood on the terrace, our numbers for this game weren’t great. Don’t remember too much about the game but remember we scored down our end.

This is the game when  a lady pushing a tea/ snack ern trolley down by side of the pitch and the ball took out the tea ern trolley and there was a mess down the outer track side of the pitch .also recall some chelsea lads who had taken a good beating after giving chase to some oldham into a local housing estate .was speaking to them on oldham station and one of them was in a mess.iam sure they was all chelsea from the wrexham area.

Saturday, 5th November 1983 at 14:00

Oldham 1-1 Chelsea

Our scorer: John Bumstead in the 75th minute.

Still 4th.

Watched by 5,807.

 

Next up is West Brom, in the Milk Cup 3rd Round on Wed 9th 1983 at The Bridge.

On 31/10/2018 at 10:57, ddrblue said:

I went to that Carlisle game and got knocked about by some chelsea lot on Leeds station ,they thought that I was dirty facking Leeds ffs.

when I got on the same train as them on Leeds station upto Carlisle they asked “ why did you facking tell us you was chelsea “ “ when you are chelsea on Leeds station it’s the type of thing you tend to keep to yer sen “ 

friendly fire was the kangeroo court ruling and as a type of compensation one of the chelsea lot gave me his copy of that >>> bulldog <<< NF paper that was doing the rounds back then.

 

thats one table that chelsea was allways on the top of back then ,as on the bulldogs back page they published a league table 

of FV 

I remember that league table. At the top it used to be generally us, Newcastle, Leeds and West Ham.

Narrowly avoided a friendly fire incident at Forest in 97, when a man mountain was lining me up for a dig. 

Think he got his collar felt after the Cardiff game a few years back.

On 31/10/2018 at 19:04, Strider6003 said:

I heard a story on a train up North to a match about a friendly fire kind of incident and it involved the world cup.

Amongst a group of footy friends that frequented a Chelsea London pub was one that had got Argentina in the works world cup sweepstakes.

Anyway with the way the cup went England faced Argentina and when the Argies scored this chap cheered a bit too loudly and was taken out and given a good pasting by several top chaps.

In 2002 I was working at Canary Wharf during the World Cup. There was a Celtic supporting steel erector who was so anti English he bought the replica tops of our group stage opponents- Sweden, Nigeria, and Argentina ( must have cost him a few bob)

On the day of the Sweden game I remember advising him to be careful what pub he was watching the game in- “ nae bother” he replied.

Turns out his shirt got ripped off his back within 5 minutes of kick off!

 

Wednesday, 9th November 1983 at 19:30

Milk Cup Round 3
Disappointing result.

Lost 1- 0 to West Brom in front  of 22,932.

Nest up on Saturday, 12th November 1983 at 15:00 is a game at The Bridge v fellow promotion hopefuls, Newcastle Utd.

Pretty sure for this game. I would have been listening to Radio Two's  'Midweek Sport on 2' whilst meant to/trying to do homework for my Higher History.

 

Edited November 9, 20187 yr by erskblue

Saturday, 12th November 1983 at 15:00

Chelsea 4 - 0 Newcastle Utd 

Our scorers were : Spackman in the 8th minute, Rhoades-Brown in the 36th minute and a David Speedie double, in the 46th and 67th minute.

Great win.

Newcastle had two former European Cup Winners  in Kevin Keegan and Terry McDermott. They also and Chris Waddle and Peter Beardsley in their side,

It was watched by 30,628 people.

Next up is  a short trip to  Charlton on Tuesday, 15th November 1983 at 19:45.