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blizeH said:
It's quite depressing to see so many people on here sticking up for this lot - sure they're racist thugs who travelled the country looking for a fight, but as long as they support Chelsea it's fine, yeah?
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These blokes been supporting Chelsea when it wasnt fashionable to support them,so pipe down eh

 
"It's quite depressing to see so many people on here sticking up for this lot - sure they're racist thugs who travelled the country looking for a fight, but as long as they support Chelsea it's fine, yeah?"

If it's ok for you to label every Chelsea supporter of a certain vintage a racist is it acceptable for me to label everybody who posts crap regarding subjects they have little or no knowledge of a pompous and self satisfied windbag?

 
All part of football in the late 70s & 80s. Used to sit on the benches, but after a couple of seasons ended up in Gate 13. Loads of good lads, a few nutters, and away games were so less threatening.

Zigger Zagga, Ziiiiiggggeeeeerrr etc.

Fun at the time though

 
Great days though, used to drink in The Lord Palmerston on new kings rd. Zakash was the landlord, and used to get in straight after the match and often players were in there having a pint and a cig - well Borota the mad keeper mainly...

 
Wonderful World said:
These blokes been supporting Chelsea when it wasnt fashionable to support them,so pipe down eh
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I for one ain't suggesting the lads telling the stories of the terrace violence culture are racists are hooligans but I do believe that's just the way society was back then it ain't worth messing about at football anymore it just don't make sence I'm glad we have members on here that lived it I love the stories I just love anything vintage to do with Chelsea. Keep the stories coming thanks

 
hi blues does anyone have the picture of the police outside stamford bridge its on the chelsea fc website on a teeshirt its from the 80s it has police and prices at the shed can anyone help

 
Is this what you're after?

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Lofty 1905 said:
Is this what you're after?

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Quality pic mate where did you get it from? i found that picture amongst a few others i'd never seen before on ebay & wanted to put them on the vintage pics thread but they had a copyright across the middle, i did try to get em removed but couldnt do it as didnt know how.

Be good if they could be put on here without the copyright.

 
I'm not sure about the source of the image, I've got a folder full of old snaps that I've added to over the years from various sites.

 
Wonder if there is a tv news interview knocking about taken after a chelsea home match about 1973 ish outside the ground about football hooilgans ?

 
bluegraham said:
I for one ain't suggesting the lads telling the stories of the terrace violence culture are racists are hooligans but I do believe that's just the way society was back then it ain't worth messing about at football anymore it just don't make sence I'm glad we have members on here that lived it I love the stories I just love anything vintage to do with Chelsea. Keep the stories coming thanks
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I know my dad used to go to Stamford bridge for the fights, and to some extent was involved with the headhunters. He started this at about the age of 15, in the mid 70's. From what he's said, the headhunters were basically shafted in that documentary and made to be alot worse than what they are. Yes, a few did take it way too far, but there was no doubt these people loved their club. Unless you know the people involved, you shouldn't really comment on what you've 'heard'....

 
Amazes me how people can defend senseless violence. Bizarre, kicking f**k out of someone over a football game is pathetic.

 
EdinburghBlue said:
Amazes me how people can defend senseless violence. Bizarre, kicking f**k out of someone over a football game is pathetic.
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Why read the thread if you think terrace football violence is pathetic it was the way society was back then. Like it or not it happen it was a youth movement. I think football violence nowadays is pathetic I'd agree with you its pathetic to get involved nowadays but sh*t happens.

 
EdinburghBlue said:
Amazes me how people can defend senseless violence. Bizarre, kicking f**k out of someone over a football game is pathetic.
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We've gone through all this so many times. Much of what is referred to as "senseless violence" wasn't, and nobody here as far as I can tell is defending what senseless violence there was., I'll refer you back to a post of mine earlier in this thread, which although not definitive, may help to clear up a few things for you:

Ok. First thing to say is that you can't have a full understanding of what it was like in those days unless you were there. Going to away games was often a dangerous occupation. So it's not so much that "other people did it" is an excuse but that sticking together was a matter of safety and survival. I've been caught on my own a few times, not least at White Hart Lane (not the game I wrote about elsewhere but another occasion, details of which I don't currently wish to go into). Let's just say I was very very lucky to get home in one piece. And that was a common enough experience.

There was a racist element undeniably, but this was a societal problem. Just as there were racist policemen, racist landlords, racist employers, racism was far more widespread back then. Is this a justification? No of course it's not. Despite what Thatcher and her sycophants would have had you believe, football supporters were a part of society and as such would have reflected that society.

Dark days? Sorry I have to disagree with you again. Imagine the situation. You're a young lad, in your teens or early twenties, going to an strange town every other weekend. You look forward, not only to the match, but to the events surrounding the match, with anticipation. And no wonder, there was an incredible sense of adventure about going away. I'm not talking solely about the violence here by any means. Violence was something that happened, in some ways it was incidental, sometimes unavoidable. More so it about having the craic. Having a laugh with your mates is what it was all about. Maybe you'd meet a girl, stay for a night out, even the weekend.

There were a few dark days to be sure, but the same could be said of any walk of life. Highs and lows, it's what happens. But when I look back, even without the rose blue tint of nostalgia, I can honestly say that overall I had a bloody fantastic time.

 
Maybe you'd meet a girl, stay for a night out, even the weekend.

Do you ever wonder if these "strange towns" you visited are now populated by offspring of yours conceived in a night of senseless passion?

(Well, not ENTIRELY populated, obviously!)

 
moi said:
Maybe you'd meet a girl, stay for a night out, even the weekend.

Do you ever wonder if these "strange towns" you visited are now populated by offspring of yours conceived in a night of senseless passion?

(Well, not ENTIRELY populated, obviously!)
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I can only answer for myself, but no I can honestly say it never crossed my mind.

However, I'm sure you'll agree that senseless passion is preferable to senseless violence any day (or night) of the week.

 
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