[color=]chelpau
1st Bridge memory - Me, Phil, (brother) grandad and me old man in the old North Stand in
[color=]1968
for the Fa Cup game with WBA, lost 1-2 Tambling for us and Geoff Astle got the winner for them - it"s changed, but some of us remember the old ground and the great times in the Shed End.
[color=]GSTfusion
I remember going to an FA cup game Vs Crystal Palace as a neutral in
[color=]1976
(?)
where the official attendance was 54,000, but the place was PACKED, and in reality way more that that number. There was a surge getting in, and we ended up being made to crawl between Police horses lined head to tail one by one to get to the turnstiles. It was like Russian roulette because the horses were very nervous and pooping a lot. The two turnstile guys I saw were letting in lots of extra people by taking 5 pounds into their pockets and letting them hop the turnstile, and inside it was insane, everyone packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
It was an exciting game, and when Peter Taylor scored Palace"s third from a free-kick, I jumped up and cheered - which was unfortunate because I was with my Chelsea-supporting friend in "The Shed". There was a scrimmage of people trying to get to me, and a bunch of us fell down, so I took the opportunity to drop to my knees and crawl through the standing crowd to a completely different area, after which I kept very quiet
On the way out that bottleneck for the stairs was so intense that I had trouble breathing and raised my hands to my chest to leverage some room, at which point some bastard put his hands all over my back pocket and started levering my wallet out. We were all so packed in that I couldn"t lower my arms to stop him, so I was yelling "Hands off my ****ing wallet you c- I can feel you!" at the top of my voice. I could hear him sniggering behind me and then we were swept apart, me in one direction, and him and my wallet in the other. Happy days...
[color=]Quicknstraight
I first went to see Chelsea in November
[color=] 1978
, when they beat Notts Forest 1-0, which was no mean feat in those days. My parents were not interested in football at all and I wasn"t allowed to go until I was deemed old enough to fend for myself. I was 15 then.
I think I loved going to the Bridge more then, and in the subsequent seasons, than I do now, despite the quality of the team these days. Back then, it was a real football crowd. Now, the Bridge is largely full of the prawn sandwich brigade, who go to be seen there, rather than for the love of the football club.
Come rain or shine, everybody had their spot in the Shed End. Same spots every home game. I used to stand with the same bunch every game, people I never saw or met up with anywhere else apart from matches at the Bridge, and they were a great bunch and we had a great laugh. Great days in the Tea bar Section of the Shed.
And, over the years, there were some highs and lows....very high, very low, but you support your club, not the owner, the manager or the players. They all come and go, the club itself endures.
Days when we blew two goal leads against Palace, losing 2-3 in the end. Days when we crashed out of cup ties to Northwich Victoria. There were some bad ones.
But then, days when we knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup when they were reigning league champions, 2-0, thanks the Peter Rhodes-Brown moment of footballing fame. Regular thumpings of Newcastle and Fulham, especially Gordon Davies scoring against them. Great players over the years: from Dixon, Speedie, Nevin and co, through RDM, Gullitt, Vialli, Desailly, Lebeouf, Zola, Jimmy Floyd, through to the Roman Empire, with Drogba, Lampard, Maka and co., to today"s incarnation, with the great squad we have now.
We play some great football now, but the Bridge isn"t the same fun place it was back in the 1970s and 80s. I think the younger fans now have no appreciation of what Chelsea FC are all about. They know nothing of the struggles under the Mears and Bates eras. My son, now turned 18 and a Chelsea fan (I brought him up with the correct indoctrination!) cannot comprehend a time when the club was about to go bust, or narrowly avoided relegation to the old third division, before the late, great JohnNeal worked his magic and set the club on the path to current success.
Whether or not the Roman Empire endures, long term, or the cla goes back to being a good, top-half team, matters not one jot. As long as Chelsea FC exists, so will my support.
[color=]sunny15
I remember going to the Bridge with my father in the
[color=]early 60s
to see CFC and also being taken to the dog racing. Wonderful memories of waiting for him early one evening to be told by one fan "This isn"t The Beatles, luv". No but there was Peter Bonetti, Bobby Tambling and the Harris brothers instead as well as Terry Venables. And I saw Stanley Matthews play one of his last matches before his retirement, at the Bridge ..those were the days :-)
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