My first game at Stamford Bridge a massive 7-0 win against Portsmouth saw Chelsea promoted in second place behind Stoke City back into the 1st divison. please log in to view this image Looking back at those magical days every thing was right, the fashion, the music and the team and the Kings road. For me I'd quite happily live in this era watching Chelsea for ever and a day. Walking down the Kings Road full of anticipation, grabbing a hotdog before meeting up with the boys for a swift pint or two the game. So as you reminisce with me on these Good 'ld days it's obligatory that you play this whilst reading. [video=youtube;8uK-Xvrk5AU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK-Xvrk5AU[/video] please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Been enthralled at the football played and some of my notable favourites are; Chelsea 5 West Ham 5; 17 December 1966 15.00 Chelsea 5–5 West Ham United Venue: Stamford Bridge Attendance: 47,805 Goal scorers Chelsea; Baldwin 40' Hateley 51' Cooke 54' Tambling 80' (p), 90' CHELSEA: 1 Peter Bonetti 2 Joe Kirkup 3 Eddie McCreadie 4 John Hollins 5 Marvin Hinton 6 Ron Harris (c) 7 John Boyle 8 Tommy Baldwin 9 Tony Hateley 10 Charlie Cooke 11 Bobby Tambling please log in to view this image Chelsea 2 Preston NE 1 After being 2-0 up and cruising this F.A.Cup 4th round replay the floodlights failed on 72 minutes and despite us all putting our hands aloft (many hands make light work the game was called off and replayed on a freezing Monday afternoon. 1-0 down after 15 minutes Chelsea throw everything at Preston even the kitchen sink bit no joy. Preston even hit a bar on the break and all looked lost Well until the last minute of time added on when Webb & Cooke popped up to save our bacon. Chelsea 4 Liverpool 2 [video=youtube;W29hBLU8Rok]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W29hBLU8Rok[/video] What was so great about the win was that Liverpool in those days had a certain mystic about them but sadly they are now a pale sham of a once great side but at the time it was a fantastic result that Chelsea fans of a certain age knew we were coming of age as a football club. Bluemoon 2 is right about the Barcelona game but I ran out of time after a stonking night out and always intended for it to be included, so here it is and what a corker especially being 2-1 down from the fist leg. Chelsea played their part in a six goal thriller which had everything and until JT popped up with the winner nobody knew how it would pan out. [video=youtube;ik8EBqd_bxU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ik8EBqd_bxU[/video] As I am restricted by maximum content I have removed the Chelsea 5 Man U 0 video clip although it was a great result but beating United isn't a rare event
Blimey Ginge......Talk about a trip down memory lane! I was at that match and still have that programme! If I remember rightly this was one of those matches where Bobby Tambling got 4 or was it 5 goals? I have a room at home, I call my office, but its also known as the Chelsea Room, where there are amongst other Chelsea memorabilia, probably 1000+ Chelsea programmes--I've never attempted to count them. Anyway they go back to my first game Chelsea v Everton in April 1959, and one of my great heroes Jimmy Greaves was playing!(Had to sell him to pay off debts-doh!) Although I wasn't around to see the games I also have the full set of programmes from the first season after the war (1946-47) given to me by my first ever boss when I started work! I suppose I have to say the CL bombing of Barcalona at the Bridge was my greatest Chesea moment, but I suppose if I sat down and thought about it I could go on and on about how many times I've left a game on cloud 9. Its a bit like Desert Island Discs. I sort out 8 pieces of music and a month later I change it for different stuff! Anyway Ginge --I'm giving this thread 10 out of 10 as the best I've seen on here. How about that then?
I agree with blue, great feel of nostalgia and definitely the best I've seen on the whole forum let alone this board! I wish I was alive in those days, I ALWAYS say I was born in the wrong generation, not just about football but more or less everything. As much as I love how successful we've been since Roman artived, it bores the **** out of me being a Modern day younger Chelsra fan hearing the absolute ****e that gets said about our fantastic club. Anyway, I was at that 5-0 United game and the '99 Barca games (home and away with my pals, as a first lads holiday it was brilliant despite going out of the CL), that Zola free kick was magical. They are two of my favourite ever Chelsea games I've been too. BUT, my all time fave is definitely the '97 away game at the Lane, where Flo bagged a terrific hattrick in an amazing 6-1 win, b-e-a-utiful!!
So much from before my time, and in more ways than one. Being younger, I wasn't alive when a lot of it happened, but being from California access to the game in England wasn't readily available for a while as well. Still a lot of history to try to get any sense of.
Fantastic! there's so many but any win against the Spuds is wonderful and was one of sooooo many at Three-Point-Lane please log in to view this image Torn apart three goals from Flo, Christian Gross just had to go! Useless git was dull & tired so Alan Sugar said...... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Drogs, Enjoy! [video=youtube;KT1N0j_9-gg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1N0j_9-gg[/video]
Beads of joy come flooding back to memory! Ian Walker was brilliant for us that day . We're brilliant now but despite that those were the days! RUUD GULLIT'S BLUE AND WHITE ARMY!
Ian Walker Wonky do-it-yourself MFI goalkeeper, Spuds ain't had a goalkeeper since Jennings and he jumped ship.
Actually--another little titbit that would have further Chelseafied (new word--look it up in the OED) would have been a montage of Mick "Zigger Zagger" Greenaway--the creator of the Shed! I can still hear him shouting in my earhole!
