Memories of playing Chelsea

Saw us beat Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge back in 1981. I think Glavin and Banks scored, but I could be mistaken. I sat in the stand with me dad. Some dirty, horrible cockney lovely person spat on me. I was 9 years old. I hope we ******* kill 'em.

 

Really? That's disgraceful.

Stamford Bridge was a pretty disgusting place back then....

We're not all like that though.

Didn't Trevor Aylott score in that game? I'm sure he scored against us once for you lot.

 

Trevor Aylott

Ask any Barnsley supporter who was watching during Big Trev's time at Oakwell and they'll tell you of one of the best centre forwards to ever play for the club. I believe the Chelsea fans' view is somewhat different?

 

I was there that day ............ bus driver made us get off ...

...... abart a mile from the ground cos he feared for his life and his bus windows ......... remember thinking 'cheers for that pal' as about 40 of us stepped off the bus into the mass hordes of cockney lunatics! We all survived it somehow, happy days!!

 

I think he scored a couple of times in his

first few games for us. And never again. So he's not exactly a cult hero. Mind you, he was replaced by a bloke called Alan Mayes, who makes me look like a world class striker....

 

RE: I was there that day ............ bus driver made us get off ...

The bus wasn't from the Coach & Horses on Sheff Rd was it? We all got a bit of a kicking at the turnstyles and there were Chelsea fans constantly getting in the away end all game, scrapping all over the place.
The walk back to the coaches after the game was a nerve racking experience!!
Survived to tell the tale though...

 

No, it was from the old Social Club .....

......... at the back of the Ponty (when the Supporters club was run by proper supporters) but your memories of the day are the same as mine, it was rough as f*ck down there at that time

 

Amen to that. nt

 

RE: No, it was from the old Social Club .....

I think i went on the Socila Club bus to that one? Didn't we have a drink a few miles away from the ground, and then it was onto the bus and away we go? Like you said, the driver turfed everyone out quite a distance from Stamford Bridge. There was a fair bit of trouble at the return fixture on a Friday evening. i think a Chelsea supporter got run over by a police horse?

 

the old headhunter mob got hammered trying to get into the south yorkshireman that friday night.
the railway crossing went down after the game and there was carnage.
always had a large away following chelsea and many of them from the north....donny/rotherham/harrogate blues.

 

My one and thankfully only experience of football violence. Stood in the bus station waiting for the 446 back to Wakey. It was kicking off all over the place and some old lad was being slapped about by some Chelsea idiot. As this bloke was only about five foot, I thought you daft sod and nearly bust my hand on the side of his thick head. Very unlike me, I've got to say, but he was picking on this old fella just waiting for his bus home. Had to make a stand.

 

The following week's Chronicle said there were 28 arrests at the Friday night game and quie a few Chelsea fans that had appeared in court were from Huddersfield. That night quite a few Chelsea fans had a hard time behind the Main Stand at half time - there was a mounted policeman charging about in all directions.

 

you would get a 3 year banning order for that now. nt

 

anyone remember Reading away in late 70's, Chelsea game

at west brom called off so they appeared in our end, gave the lads a hard time before the train special lads arrived, after a scuffle they scarpered into the reading end

 

I was there too

but I was standing in the Shed watching the Chelsea fans attacking the Barnsley enclosure at the other end at half time. I was advised to go in the Shed end by a Chelsea fan I gave a lift to because I was a bit lost and couldn't find the ground. He said that there was going to be trouble and to go in the Shed and keep my mouth shut. He was right, it was obviously planned.

Glavin definitely got one, not sure about the other, their goal was scored by the centre back who was a bit of a Chelsea legend at the time, can't remember the name though.

 

I was on the Shed that day too...

I was directed to the turnstiles by a policeman outside, when I questioned why the people entering had blue and white scarves he just said "Go in there, it's the safest place". I quickly hid my scarf and kept quite. I was plucking up courage throughout the game to ask to be escourted to our supporters, but when Banksy scored and the Chelsea fans attacked the away end, I knew that policeman had done me a big favour. After the game I spent 20 minutes running round the darkened streets looking for the coach, I was beginning to panic as there was no sign so decided to try and find my way back to the ground. 10 minutes later I made it back to the shed just to find the police escort just starting to move off. Once on the coach it didn't end there, we were followed by a couple of cars and about four miles out as we waited at traffic lights, the occupants got out and through what they could at us. I'm sure I went with the Royal Oak Wombwell that day but I could be wrong.

 

Aylott scored...

Two goals in just over twenty appearances for Chelsea. I will have to check the record-book, but I am pretty sure that he scored the two in his first two games and then never scored again. He had a brilliant record with the reserves and I seem to remember him making one of his first appearances for Chelsea on Match of the Day and the commentator saying that he had scored bagsful for the reserves and they were expecting big things from him in th first team - but it never happened for him.

Yep! Just checked. He scored twice in his first two full games, both at Stamford Bridge, both 1-0 wins against Nottingham Forest and Bristol City and then he never scored again for the Blues.

I recall seeing him play away at Wimbledon soon after his transfer to Oakwell and he looked a class player. He was typical of a type of London forward of that time - three players rolled into one. He could be the striker on goal, especially winning headers against robust defenders; he could be the perfect target man, holding play up and playing alone up front, especially in away games; for a big lad, he had excellent close control and could lay the ball off deftly. All these attributes were developed well in his time at Oakwell and he only left because his recently married wife missed London, so he was sold to Millwall - I mean MILLWALL!!! damn it and for £150,000 - a give away.

Great memories of a confident player, big in stature, who bossed the centre-forward role well and would have been an even bigger legend had he stayed longer and got used to Barnsley bitter instead of JD Youngs.

 

I was there too, on underground somebody tried to stab me with bbq skewer. possibly all these posts make me remember why i became a "leeds fan" for one day only in 1982 when everybody knew what was happening at the end, ie everybody got out of the enclosure, walked across the pitch and took the shed, never seen 10,000 mockerney's run so quick, a fair smattering of geordies too who explained women and kids got hurt when away coaches got bricked. strange, but i don't really recall 'em coming up north much, just bullies on there own turf. strangest part of this post was april 1982 had a drink pre-match with some cfc fans, one of whom surfaced when we played in premier league and they were top guys. one even remembered me. i hope the dark days are gone and we just have some banter and everybody enjoys the day

 

RE: Trevor Aylott

i loved big Trev, didn,t look the part but what a player! best target man iv,e seen at 'well, everything stuck! (clap)

 

RE: I was there too

Chelsea legend centre half who scored could have been Micky Droy I think?