Have you supported Chelsea for long enough to say your not a glory hunter because i have supported them since i was like 4 or somehting as my uncle would dress me up in little chelsea shirts and stuff
Doubt you'll see too many people admitting to latching on after the takeover. I was ahead of it, but only by a couple of years. That's when I first had cable and the ability to watch English soccer on TV. Chelsea became my team as they were playing by far the most entertaining football at that time in my eyes.
that's why polls shoul dbe public. Turn of the millenium for me. Zola and an Arse fan made the choice easy.
had always been a big fan of Vialli and when he came to Chelsea i jumped at the chance to support an English team not named Liverpool, Arsenal or Man U.
Need to change this to pre- or post-Hoddle (1993). That's when the revolution really began. Matt Harding had a lot to do with it with the extra cash to put us over the top after Bates had taken us from bankruptcy to financial respectability (though not absolute security). Any CPO's out there? Remember the Save the Bridge campaign? This was an easy team to support when Zola was on the books from 1996. Not so easy when Casca was lacing his boots up and even that felt good compared to the wasteland of the 80's. 1984/85 season - remember helping my Dad keep his scrapbook.
Remember when the greyhound track re-opened to races? That was when I became a regular, although they were 'my team' for some years before that.
Cacarino? Wow, sometimes its easy to forget the shyte we had playing for us. Just want to throw in Joe Allon and Alan Mayes for fun as well.
It always amazed me that the firms seemed to have no problem navigating the river of mud surrounding the pitch when there was some aggro... those hooligans looked like they were on ice skates.
Got bad as early as November sometimes eh? Once the rains started late fall, that was it, the pitch never recovered, although, I used to hang about the small brick wall that seperated the east and shed end - solid back support and sound footing
always made me laugh when people used to moan about "not having any real footballers in the side". Would you want to play on that fecking quagmire week in and week out? Dont think so. I am personally amazed that Pat Nevin stuck around so long. The pitch really got bad in the early to mid 80s, absolutely shocking.
Since I was in the womb. Generations 0f Chelsea fans - with all Uncles and cousins supporting Chelsea, well all excpet one little guttersnipe who supports Millwall and nobody in the family speaks to him.
I remember a game with Norwich - last game of the season - English summer time and puddles all over the pitch, with Nevin dancing around a ball floating on a large puddle. The players needed snorkels that day.
It had it's upside - to coin an American saying - as it made players past their prime look decent. Hollins at right full for instance, anybody trying to get past him with speed was wasting their time if they wanted to take the ball with them, he'd simply jog back a yard or two, wait for the muck to slow the ball and clatter the little prat into the track How about Colin lee when he was taken from forward and put in defense - right full again wasn't it? - when we bought Speedie? He looked alright as long as the pitch was dire. Nevin bombing down the field on the outside of the line because the ground was firmer
Great days - when you could roll a ball towards an empty net only to have it stop 6 inches shy of the line because of the mud. Remember when we used to have cars parked between the Shed and the goal?
keeping in mind that there were no too many other pitches known to be putting greens- if you like there was a good reason we were so shyte up Norf