Burger wrote:Respect due Caller, you're obviously an 'original' like many of my mates, I was bought up with many of them in West London.
It's just that every one of the 42,000 now 'claim' to be original fans, lying gits.
Appreciate you're honesty too that Chelsea is actually in Fulham
Ok, can you tell me where/when the Chelsea-Tottenham real rivalry started from ?? Where you there that night, where was it at ??
One final question, just to double check, what/where were the 'benches' at Stamford Bridge ?? That one always susses them out.
Burger
Except for the fact I'm not from West London! The benches? lower tier, old west stand. Thats the one designed to have a car park on the roof, by the way. At home games, I was a steward at door Z i.e. the nearest those that did serious damage could get to away fans.
But I was grateful to them on a few occassions, like at Cardiff once, in Stanley Prk getting back to coaches and walking through the streets of Newcastle from the station to the game and being showered by beer bottles, glasses and the like. The boys went up to the Police and said you either sort it, or we will. The Police sorted it. The only time I've been spat in the face by a middle aged women (allegedly), was there. Lovely peeps, those toons.
As for Chelsea-spurs rivalry, no-idea, hasn't it always been that way? I sadly got caught on the pitch - it was a precursor of what happened at Hillsborough - years before, at a game at WHL when there was an almighty ruck on the pitch, but the band and marching ladies kept on playing, remember that? As I jumped on the pitch, my foot got caught in the hooped railings and my chin ended up a mess, a friend of mine had already fainted by then in the crush. I watched the game, once the pitch was cleared by the touchline. Chelsea lost.
I can recollect some league cup games during the week, but nothing in particular? Maybe it meant something different to Spurs fans?
