The end result is the same though 69!
True mate it's coming to all of us
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posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 18 hours, 51 minutes ago
All Club's big or small are capable of getting shi it attendances during bad periods. We are all ardent about our chosen Club but at times following them can be facking depressing. I was present all through our low attendance days in the '80's but believe me it was facking grim.
1981-82 and 1982-83 were particularly depressing when after many years languishing in Div 2, brassic and seeing even the likes of West Ham, QPR and also Fulham (almost) playing in FA Cup finals and getting promoted to Div 1 while we nearly (by the skin of our teeth) avoided going down to Div 3 was enough to test even my resolve.
All the big Club's (and I include Chelsea and Spurs) are also capable of putting a large number of bums on seats and packing out big stadiums at home at take huge numbers of fans away. It's one of the criteria that goes to define the big Clubs IMO.
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Strange days those, we could get 16/17/18k at home to Plymouth one week then have an away following of 6/7/8k away at places like York the following week.
There was a video about it on youtube, about how we had the 3rd largest away support (behind Yoonited and Southampton 'B'.
That being said even in the 2nd division we sometimes used to pull crowds of 55k out of the bag.
As 69 said it was a very testing time to be a Chelsea supporter!
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Reckon I went to most if not every home game those seasons...and quite a few away...back when you could just turn up anywhere...still fond memories
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 18 hours, 51 minutes ago
All Club's big or small are capable of getting shi it attendances during bad periods. We are all ardent about our chosen Club but at times following them can be facking depressing. I was present all through our low attendance days in the '80's but believe me it was facking grim.
1981-82 and 1982-83 were particularly depressing when after many years languishing in Div 2, brassic and seeing even the likes of West Ham, QPR and also Fulham (almost) playing in FA Cup finals and getting promoted to Div 1 while we nearly (by the skin of our teeth) avoided going down to Div 3 was enough to test even my resolve.
All the big Club's (and I include Chelsea and Spurs) are also capable of putting a large number of bums on seats and packing out big stadiums at home at take huge numbers of fans away. It's one of the criteria that goes to define the big Clubs IMO.
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Strange days those, we could get 16/17/18k at home to Plymouth one week then have an away following of 6/7/8k away at places like York the following week.
There was a video about it on youtube, about how we had the 3rd largest away support (behind Yoonited and Southampton 'B'.
That being said even in the 2nd division we sometimes used to pull crowds of 55k out of the bag.
As 69 said it was a very testing time to be a Chelsea supporter!
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Reckon I went to most if not every home game those seasons...and quite a few away...back when you could just turn up anywhere...still fond memories
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Just think Sheriff - we may know each other without realising it!!
Yeah...Was watching that rough cut video...looks so familiar although mostly a bit before my watching Chelsea live time (79 onwards)...I was still at home as a teen watching Pompey in those days...Fratton Park was pretty intimidating then too
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
I'm not too bothered (banter aside) what any club gets when the supporters know the team will be full of b listers. Its the gates you get when your top boys are on the pitch that define you as a club. Thats why City, Arsenal and West Ham are a laughing stock and in the Gooners and Hammers case they actually falsify attendances to appear bigger than they are.
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted 1 minute ago
I'm not too bothered (banter aside) what any club gets when the supporters know the team will be full of b listers. Its the gates you get when your top boys are on the pitch that define you as a club. Thats why City, Arsenal and West Ham are a laughing stock and in the Gooners and Hammers case they actually falsify attendances to appear bigger than they are.
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Personally it doesn't bother me at all, my club's the club I love and it's personal to me.
After all a supporter of York will love his club as much as I love mine despite the fact they will probably never get of 10,000.
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
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I stand corrected
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
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I stand corrected
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Sorry Sheriff, you sound ......................annoyed with me!
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
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I stand corrected
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Sorry Sheriff, you sound ......................annoyed with me!
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No no...the statins and gout tablets are playing havoc with the memory...you are quite right...all norvern monkeys anyway
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 41 seconds ago
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
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My first visit to Watford..maybe 82...you had to walk through an allotment to get in the away end
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 2 days ago
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
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Omly thing close to that for me, was standing in the barn at Wigan in 85
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posted on 22/9/18
The end result is the same though 69!
posted on 22/9/18
True mate it's coming to all of us
posted on 22/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 18 hours, 51 minutes ago
All Club's big or small are capable of getting shi it attendances during bad periods. We are all ardent about our chosen Club but at times following them can be facking depressing. I was present all through our low attendance days in the '80's but believe me it was facking grim.
1981-82 and 1982-83 were particularly depressing when after many years languishing in Div 2, brassic and seeing even the likes of West Ham, QPR and also Fulham (almost) playing in FA Cup finals and getting promoted to Div 1 while we nearly (by the skin of our teeth) avoided going down to Div 3 was enough to test even my resolve.
All the big Club's (and I include Chelsea and Spurs) are also capable of putting a large number of bums on seats and packing out big stadiums at home at take huge numbers of fans away. It's one of the criteria that goes to define the big Clubs IMO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Strange days those, we could get 16/17/18k at home to Plymouth one week then have an away following of 6/7/8k away at places like York the following week.
There was a video about it on youtube, about how we had the 3rd largest away support (behind Yoonited and Southampton 'B'.
That being said even in the 2nd division we sometimes used to pull crowds of 55k out of the bag.
As 69 said it was a very testing time to be a Chelsea supporter!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Reckon I went to most if not every home game those seasons...and quite a few away...back when you could just turn up anywhere...still fond memories
posted on 22/9/18
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 18 hours, 51 minutes ago
All Club's big or small are capable of getting shi it attendances during bad periods. We are all ardent about our chosen Club but at times following them can be facking depressing. I was present all through our low attendance days in the '80's but believe me it was facking grim.
1981-82 and 1982-83 were particularly depressing when after many years languishing in Div 2, brassic and seeing even the likes of West Ham, QPR and also Fulham (almost) playing in FA Cup finals and getting promoted to Div 1 while we nearly (by the skin of our teeth) avoided going down to Div 3 was enough to test even my resolve.
All the big Club's (and I include Chelsea and Spurs) are also capable of putting a large number of bums on seats and packing out big stadiums at home at take huge numbers of fans away. It's one of the criteria that goes to define the big Clubs IMO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Strange days those, we could get 16/17/18k at home to Plymouth one week then have an away following of 6/7/8k away at places like York the following week.
There was a video about it on youtube, about how we had the 3rd largest away support (behind Yoonited and Southampton 'B'.
That being said even in the 2nd division we sometimes used to pull crowds of 55k out of the bag.
As 69 said it was a very testing time to be a Chelsea supporter!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Reckon I went to most if not every home game those seasons...and quite a few away...back when you could just turn up anywhere...still fond memories
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just think Sheriff - we may know each other without realising it!!
posted on 22/9/18
Yeah...Was watching that rough cut video...looks so familiar although mostly a bit before my watching Chelsea live time (79 onwards)...I was still at home as a teen watching Pompey in those days...Fratton Park was pretty intimidating then too
posted on 22/9/18
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
posted on 22/9/18
I'm not too bothered (banter aside) what any club gets when the supporters know the team will be full of b listers. Its the gates you get when your top boys are on the pitch that define you as a club. Thats why City, Arsenal and West Ham are a laughing stock and in the Gooners and Hammers case they actually falsify attendances to appear bigger than they are.
posted on 22/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
posted on 22/9/18
comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted 1 minute ago
I'm not too bothered (banter aside) what any club gets when the supporters know the team will be full of b listers. Its the gates you get when your top boys are on the pitch that define you as a club. Thats why City, Arsenal and West Ham are a laughing stock and in the Gooners and Hammers case they actually falsify attendances to appear bigger than they are.
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Personally it doesn't bother me at all, my club's the club I love and it's personal to me.
After all a supporter of York will love his club as much as I love mine despite the fact they will probably never get of 10,000.
posted on 22/9/18
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
posted on 22/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I stand corrected
posted on 22/9/18
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I stand corrected
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Sorry Sheriff, you sound ......................annoyed with me!
posted on 22/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 6 minutes ago
75 to 85 was 'My time' Sheriff, I used to go to every game then.
After joining the Navy in 85, subsequently getting married and kids things became more of an opportunity basis for me.
Time diminishes the memories but never the fact of how much you loved those times!
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Yeah was RAF from 79-92...used to go to all the tips of the old div 2...Burnden park Oldham was particularly memorable..as the Baseball ground
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You mean Boundary Park Oldham Sheriff!
Burden Park was Bolton's away ground, both of which I went to several times.
And fluck was that big open terrace at Boundary Park cold on a Tuesday night!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I stand corrected
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Sorry Sheriff, you sound ......................annoyed with me!
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No no...the statins and gout tablets are playing havoc with the memory...you are quite right...all norvern monkeys anyway
posted on 22/9/18
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
posted on 22/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 41 seconds ago
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
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My first visit to Watford..maybe 82...you had to walk through an allotment to get in the away end
posted on 24/9/18
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 2 days ago
The 1st time I went to Boundary Park (away in the League Cup - when it was just called the League Cup) There were sheep grazing on the terrace opposite the Chadderton Road End!
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Omly thing close to that for me, was standing in the barn at Wigan in 85
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