1,643 ViewsAugust ’79 saw trouble in Northern Ireland hit the headlines once again as the IRA targeted Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Charles’ favourite uncle who was killed in a bomb attack on a boat in the Republic of Ireland, he along with other fatalities and casualties. The British Army themselves suffered many losses at Warrenpoint…
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Ever Fallen In Love With A Club (You Shouldn’t Have Fallen In Love With?)
402 Views“There’s no fun in being alone. This is no fun, it’s no fun at all. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Well, 1978 may have started with Johnny Rotten snarling those words at the audience as the Sex Pistols finally self-imploded at the end of their tour of the USA but little did…
Only green trains go to Chelsea, ya divvy!
589 Views“Elvis Presley’s died!” I exclaimed as I knocked on Mum & Dad’s bedroom door at our house in Kentish Town, north London after moving back to a form of civilisation from the wilds of Barking, Essex. I was promptly told not to joke about things like that, it was morbid and it wasn’t nice…
Dances With Wolves
676 ViewsThe summer of ’76 was a long, hot one. I would wake in the morning to Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel stating the obvious; ‘Here Comes the Sun’. I would complete a paper round around the houses and flats of Barking, Essex just to get enough cash for the weekend as I followed Chelsea…
NeVeR mInD tHe BoLtOn, HeRe’s tHe CheLSeA
1,009 ViewsAs I awoke in my bedroom around August 1975, ‘George Davis is Innocent’ newly graffitied on numerous walls and surfaces in and around London, the sounds of the chart hits of the day played out on my little transistor radio perched next to my bed just around the corner from Barking station, that hotbed…
Firestarter, Twisted Firestarter
1,036 ViewsAs the Three Degrees asked ‘When will I see you again?’, the answer for me was 17th August, Carlisle at home. Donny and Marie Osmond said they were ‘Leaving it (all) up to you’ and I agreed, leaving it all up to the lads on the pitch, hoping nobody would ‘Rock the Boat’ and…
Ray Of Light
541 ViewsAs the summer of ’73 played out to a soundtrack of smash hits, the omens for my beloved Chelsea and the new season were, it seemed, good. Indeed, Sweet said it would be a ‘Blockbuster’, Slade told us to ‘Come on Feel the Noize’, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band described our up-and-coming season as a…
You are now entering ‘The Twilight Zone’
923 Views“Nan! Nan! I’m just going up to that record shop at the Cally, y’know the one near the bridge? I’m getting that Chelsea record today. It’s called ‘Blue is the Colour’ and it’s got all the players singing on it!”. After having almost sprinted up much of ‘The Cally’, otherwise known as Caledonian Road…
Simply the Best (except for Ossie and Webby and Chopper and Hutch and…)
640 ViewsAs I would quickly learn about following my beloved Blues, invariably you’ve got to take the rough with the smooth, the good with the bad, the positives as well as the negatives. This became evident one Friday in August ‘71 as I received the news from Mum and Dad that, after much planning and…
A Visit From The Palace
504 ViewsSo, having experienced my very first Chelsea game just two weeks before, the question now was: How do I top that? How can I go one better and take things to a different level? Well, the answer was: You can’t, so don’t try. Two weeks spent asking, nagging and pleading with my family for…