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• Peter T. Great read. Brings backo so many memories 76-77 I was 12. I did manger a few games that year too. I lived up Willesden Green way so I had the luxury of the tube to most of our London matches. The Luton game you mentioned, I happened to b visiting family relatives when reports of the town centre being destroyed by Chelsea fans on a rampage. High School was a daily battle ground, what with mostly yids, goons and cesspoolers rounding up all the Chels in the playgrounds daily. Fighting your way out was the only way. I hadn’t’t experienced ground rucks until I went to Watford. The away end erupted in chaos, old pc plod getting pelted with bottles as the came over the fence from the front, there I am ducking into the crowd hoping not to get hit by flying glass, as that was going on, a perfect circle appeared in the home support behind the goal. The circle got bigger as the Chelsea lads started working their way outwards. My dad was a ref, in 1981, he asked me if I would run a line for him at a game in Acton. I obliged, but to my horror the home team came out wearing the Chelsea Le Coqu home strip!!! It turned out to b the Chelsea Supporters team. From that point on I travelled the country with them. Saturday’s, the morning was supporter match followed by going to the stadium to watch our heros play. My last match I attended before we emigrated to Australia was the day Bates took over and we were up against Rottenham in the FA cup 6th round. Stadium jam packed, us sitting way up top of the east stand. We lost but put up a great fight. We nearly beat the then reigning FA cup holders. To wrap up the season, Batesy arranged for the supporter team to play the first team on the bridge pitch followed by a club function in the players bar in the east stand. Just what kids dreams r made of. In 2009 I got the oppurtunity while serving in the middle east for a two week break, I took my wife to Stanford Bridge for two game, Stoke and Boro. I felt things have changed. Our singing isn’t as loud as we used to b, too fractured between stands. After being in the Sydney Chelsea Supporters Club, I moved to Brisbane and started the Brisbane Chelsea Supporters Club in 2005 and r numbers continually grow. Check out our Facebook . KTBFFH

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