Archive for the ‘History’ Category

• No Love Lost. How Chelsea And Leeds Teams Learned to Actively Dislike Each Other

  Dec 17, 12 • 28 Views • History, Tim Rolls • tim_rolls • 4 Comments

  There are few footballing rivalries that merit their own Wikipedia page. The hostility between Leeds United and Chelsea is one of these...

  

• Messing About By the River (Trent)

  Nov 19, 12 • 15 Views • History, Tim Rolls • tim_rolls • 2 Comments

  Saturday 20th November 1976. Nottingham Forest v Chelsea. 36 years ago to the day before my day trip to Turin. A different world for Chelsea. Top of the Second Division with a young, exciting team but with the club completely skint, reduced to collecting...

  

• “Oh Eddie Mac, When Are You Coming Back?”

  Aug 21, 12 • 7 Views • History, Tim Rolls • tim_rolls • No Comments

  Saturday 2nd July 1977. Close season, and up to that point a very happy one for Chelsea fans. After promotion back to Division One in May, Chelsea’s young team (Ray Wilkins, Steve Finnieston, Garry Stanley and the rest) were looking forward to the new...

  

• And Munich day-trippers thought they had delays? Don’t know they were born…

  May 22, 12 • 16 Views • History, Tim Rolls • tim_rolls • 3 Comments

  Booking my Munich trip inevitably recalls earlier Chelsea trips to European finals. I was too young for Athens in 1971. Moscow will be fresh in many travellers’ memories (not for the right reasons) but the first European final for many Chelsea fans was the...

  

• 1966 And All That….

  Apr 12, 12 • 13 Views • History, Tim Rolls • tim_rolls • 1 Comment

  A Chelsea team that has underachieved in the league against a background of player dissent, playing two games a week in April, with an FA Cup Semi final and a European semi final against Barcelona inside four days coming up? Sound familiar? Indeed it is....