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would not call this a scary moment,as it was a more 'what the fcuk was that moment'
leeds utd away,div2,mid 1980's i guess.
was sat on a more than packed hst inter city 125 as it was pulling into wakefield westgate.
as you looked out of the carriage window you could see three lads on the railway embankment throwing
som'ert at our carriage windows.
then you heard sound of crashing against the window and it turned out to be petrol bombs what the wakeywhites
were lobbing at the leeds bound 125 from london.
like i said 'what the fcuk was that'
'faciking typical leeds,cant fight with their hands,so they resort to throwing petrol
bomb attacks'
could be heard ov er the packed carriage.
leeds utd away,div2,mid 1980's i guess.
was sat on a more than packed hst inter city 125 as it was pulling into wakefield westgate.
as you looked out of the carriage window you could see three lads on the railway embankment throwing
som'ert at our carriage windows.
then you heard sound of crashing against the window and it turned out to be petrol bombs what the wakeywhites
were lobbing at the leeds bound 125 from london.
like i said 'what the fcuk was that'
'faciking typical leeds,cant fight with their hands,so they resort to throwing petrol
bomb attacks'
could be heard ov er the packed carriage.
aaah the football specials, arrive at Euston, St Pancras etc with loads of cans, a few games of cards, loads of banter and then on the way back word would go round the train that West Ham were waiting for you , then get home and get down the boozer happy days !
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Two trips to WHL in the early mid 70's spring to mind. On one occaision I went with my cuz and some of his mates from Stockwell, Sp*ds were parading the league cup having won it the week before. When Mullary and the players walked past the massed ranks of Chels they were greeted with a hail of coins. I also think this was the match that was sponsored by SMITH's crisps, some birds were walking round the pitch throwing packets of crisp into the crowd. The Spuds (no pun intended) scrapped over the packets whilst we kept ours and then ceromoniously slung 'em back on the pitch.
A year or two later I travelled up with a mate from Sutton, via Fulham Broadway where we joined a mob of Chels, must have been 100+. We went via tube and the overland train rather than the underground to seven sisters and walked through some housing estate. When we got to the ground there were people everywhere, all the turnstiles were crammed with people, except one! Me and my mate nipped in and could not move, finally we made our way outside onto the terrace and eventually ended up on the pitch and got swallowed up in a massive rolling brawl which resulted in us ending up in the wrong end of the ground, we stood quietly under one of the floodlightong pylons for the entire match - we got beat and, I think, relegated............... don't remember how we got out or home.
crazy days
A year or two later I travelled up with a mate from Sutton, via Fulham Broadway where we joined a mob of Chels, must have been 100+. We went via tube and the overland train rather than the underground to seven sisters and walked through some housing estate. When we got to the ground there were people everywhere, all the turnstiles were crammed with people, except one! Me and my mate nipped in and could not move, finally we made our way outside onto the terrace and eventually ended up on the pitch and got swallowed up in a massive rolling brawl which resulted in us ending up in the wrong end of the ground, we stood quietly under one of the floodlightong pylons for the entire match - we got beat and, I think, relegated............... don't remember how we got out or home.
crazy days
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What a day that was. I was stood with 'Kojak' and 'China' who was from Bristol. Me and China made our way over from Paddington on the tube and saw a few Chelsea coming away from the ground back into the tube station as we got there, which was not re-assuring. We made our way up to the Den and got in the ground just before kick off. We saw Kojak and he told us of all the trouble that had kicked off earlier. We were right next to the fence that seperated the CBL from the side enclosure. There were a few of the Millwall lads stood around us. Fotunately some of them also use to go over to Chelsea as well at the time and they knew Kojak. They were chatting to the three of us and obviously knew we were Chelsea. Each time Millwall scored they went mental and the three of us just stood there in silence. To be fair, the Millwall mob we were standing with were ok. They could have kicked the sh*t out of the 3 of us at any moment but didn't. Must admit as time went on I was feeling more and more vulnerable. Just before the final whistle me and China said our goodbye to Kojak and took our chances in the street. Getting back to the tube was a heads down, keep your mouth shut, hope for the best situation. We were making our way back to the tube and I just felt that me and China stuck out like a bulldogs boll*cks. There were lots of Millwall about looking to pick off any Chelsea. Then China said "O f*ck. Some of them know me". He had spotted a couple of Millwall further up the road he knew who also went over to the Bridge. We couldn't turn back at that point so just walked through with the crowd, fortunately undetected. We made it to the tube and I have to admit have never been so relieved to hear the sound of the doors shutting on a tube train. The next home game in the Black Bull Eccles told us of his 'adventures' that day. China had been going to Chelsea since the late sixties and knew Eccles and Greenaway quite well. Happy days, great memories.
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i remember down in Bermondsey there was a huge bit of graffiti and it said..... It was just a dream you chelsea c...s! referring to Chelsea's visit , i thought we did quite well. I know a few that stood in the ilderton road end and got mullered. Nice story old guard!
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I think that's the typical experience of most who went that day. I went to their cup quarter final a year or so later and got talking to a few of their older blokes in the Ilderton Road End after they'd given Ipswich a bashing and they admitted Chelsea had earned a lot of respect that day unlike Spurs who the year after took a massive mob but did their typical show pony trick of meeting up en-masse at London Bridge and got escorted all the way into the away end. Unless we play Millwall I think there's generally a mutal respect between us, living over here they're a club who I always look to see how they've got on and even when Chelsea are on the box in the pubs most of them are supporting us.
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I was there in the CBL, but got turfed out by the Old Bill. In retrospect I think our biggest mistake was getting there too early, or maybe not. Difficult to say after all this time.
Outside we got chased all over the place but eventually made it to the Ilderton Road end. Not that I managed to get in. I later heard that the Ilderton was worse than the CBL because so many of the Millwall in that end were tooled up. Even during the game, it was bad enough outside with little mobs of Millwall looking for stray Chelsea fans, and finding myself pretty much stranded, I decided to shoot off out of it.
Outside we got chased all over the place but eventually made it to the Ilderton Road end. Not that I managed to get in. I later heard that the Ilderton was worse than the CBL because so many of the Millwall in that end were tooled up. Even during the game, it was bad enough outside with little mobs of Millwall looking for stray Chelsea fans, and finding myself pretty much stranded, I decided to shoot off out of it.
i went with some blokes who thought that Millwall would be a walkover as Chelsea would overwhelm them with their numbers, i had to laugh when we got near the ground their eyes were nearly popping out their heads and mouths wide open, they went in the ilderton and the rest of us in the CBL.they got annilated.
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So did the poor blokes who came out of the CBL across the pitch into the Ilderton, Millwall soon followed and so did half of their mob from the side terrace. I got in at about 1.30 stood on the side watched the whole thing and kept my trap shut.
the half way line mob were the worst of the lot. You have to put this game into context, for Millwall it was there biggest game ever, they had ab reputation to live upto, the likes of Charlton, Palace were irrelevant and nobody apart from west ham had ever been down he den
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Very similar story to mine. Small mob of us stayed in the corner of the CBL, but our numbers were falling fast as people were arrested or sneaked out. Eventually I got out of the ground, got chased all over the place, then jumped on the first bus that came along and ended up at the Elephant.
Angry scenes at our next home game when the chant went up "If you all went to Millwall clap your hands", and of course everyone clapped. There were a lot of lying b*stards there, no way did they all go. It was amazing how many people suddenly found they had to work on the day of the 'Wall match, or had other obligations that kept them from the game!
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You're right in that Chelsea fans were feared from that game onwards, you could almost smell the fear of opposition mobs when we visited their grounds
Don't agree that the Spurs game was a debacle - very few Chelsea got inside the ground and the y*ds took liberties, but their were thousands of us locked outside. After the game we ran Spurs everywhere, yet they'll never admit to it.
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