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 ‘Cash For Chelsea’ on special trains and in the ground.
You Just Can’t Ban A Chelsea Fan – Eddie McCreadie’s Blue & White Army (Part 2) I have read accounts of this day, and the build up, that differ slightly from mine, perhaps unsurprising given that it was over 34 years ago. This is as I remember it, assisted slightly by two of those I [...]
“Do you know you’re 3-0 down?”….”Joseph Jones, Joseph Jones, Joseph Jones, Oh Yah”….”I don’t ever want you in my pub again”….”Just go up that alley, lads”….”That’ll be a fiver each mate”….”Can you please not go on the pitch until the end of the game”….”There’s people in there without tickets”….”They’re more pissed than we are”….”Get yourself [...]