Manchester United 1-2 Chelsea 1985-86 

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True mate, used to have a great laugh, win or lose back in the old days.

Couldn't agree more! I went all over the country with Chelsea back in the 80's and it was always packed in our end. I hate all-seater stadiums there's no atmosphere. Bring back terracing. Nowadays football is too glitzy I prefer the old Shed (the middle) a few pints in The Swan or King's Head at the proper time of 3 o'clock on a saturday, not 8pm on a monday night .Bloody sky has ruined football!!!

Sentiments shared, went everywhere with Leeds, stopped going in 97 just couldn't cope with sitting down & the new breed of supporters that sky tv was attracting, that along with foreign cunts coming for the money & fucking women suddenly making an appearance in the stands ...ugh!! tragic! fuck the modern game

According to Utd fans we never showed up at Old Trafford Ok dokey

clive young it’s the same united fans that don’t show up at old Trafford themselves. 😂

I was sat just above you. Despair.

Very true. United had a good record against Liverpool in the 80's as well, I seem to recall.

Newcastle

Yeah i was there too..we were singing wheres your famous stretford end to the utd lads in the paddock to the right of us..they looked gutted lol

Yeah the paddock singing your gonna get your fking heads kicked in ,then the chaos in the Stratford end and us pointing and laughing.

Jairzinho/Tostao/Pele - Nevin/Dixon/Speedie best ever Chelsea attack.

CHELSEA WEREN'T SHIT THEY JUST LACKED CONSISTENCY. IF THEY BEAT A TOP TEAM THEY WOULD LOSE AGAINST A SMALLER TEAM OR 2 AFTERWARDS. PLUS THEY WERE NO MATCH FOR LIVERPOOL, ARSENAL OR EVERTON IN THE 80'S.

Mark Sesum plus Stamford Bridge is a crap stadia now.

@Tuff Gong not biggest! The best

@Tuff Gong I'd rather drive a Porsche than a ford transit tipper.

Don't forget the 4-0 in the 60s either.

@ we are the fourth most successful club in england, and we are continuing that succession. And for you to have the time to search and write all that just for me i have to say LMAO and get a life.

@@CYFL79 Your statement here has nothing to do with your BS statement before, of, "we were always a top ten side even before abrmovich (sic)". Well done, you got a Russian's money to turn yourselves from also-rans, with one title in 100 years, to the "fourth most successful club in england (sic)". Doesn't change the fact that you were as inconsistent and only slightly more relevant than Man City before you got your unearned millions. You keep living in a Blue fantasy, and I'll keep calling out bullshit.

@ its ok you dont have to be jealous, and its not a fantasy, we actually are the fourth most successful club in england (check the trophies). Now please dont cry, dont be salty and have a good day ( :

@r que Oh, so you're a fucking expert on stadium capacity's now.? Chelsea had the WHOLE end of the stadium, terrace and seats for the cup game in 87/88.. There were also 10,000 there for the 97/98 cup match when it was all-seater. We've had this before. You seem to know your stuff on certain subjects. Where you let yourself down is making comments about events and situations you weren't even present at. I don't deem to blather on about Spurs fans 'exploits' elsewhere whether they be real, embellished or imagined because 1. If it didn't also involve my club, then I wasn't present and 2, I don't give a rats arse about them unless it involves us too. I've given you gentle reminders before. Stick to what you know and you wont keep mugging yourself off.

@r que Chelsea had all the seats behind at the Scoreboard End of the stadium too. As it was a cup game, they were entitled to 25% of the stadiums entire seating capacity. So up to 7,000 above the terrace as well. There's a lot of downsizing of stand capacity's going on to try and lessen the amount filling them. So you're saying the whole Park Lane end only held 8,000 in total max? That's little more than the poxy current stand they built at the Shed End at SB. And that's all seated !! I don't think so. The Paxton was near enough identical so that would make 16,000 behind the goals on that basis. The West Stand at WHL looked a decent size but that was because it had double decker executive boxes. It actually only held 6,500. So we're up to 22,500. WHL could hold 48,000 back then so is the suggestion that 25,500 were therefore on the Worcester Ave side? I don't think so, again. Chelsea have filled the entire Park Lane a number of times from 1978 onwards. And the videos are out there to prove it. There were no Spurs in those seats as it would have been kicking off non-stop. In 87/88, we had so many there, it was almost a Hillsborough situation. The terrace was so packed, the crush barrier nearest the front of our pen was buckled over. Plod shat themselves when fans climbed the fence to escape. The cunts wouldn't open the corner pen (below that end of The Shelf) until half-time. It's also full for the League Cup replay in 90/91. Blimey, there's was even a big following there over the two days of the Makita Cup in 93/94.

I was at this game we lost 2 -0 pat nevin was a sub with mickey hazard

Dont talk rubbish there was no where near 12000, lucky to have a 1000. No London clubs used to bring many to OT. Chelsea at the time used to get home crowds of less than 20000, of course when United played at Stamford Bridge your crowd would double

@@HUGHWON stop talking bollocks Chelsea fc had the biggest away following in London FACT. I should know Chelsea since 1968 👌

@@FERNYSDAD So you would remember Chelsea getting home crowds of less than 20000 and in some cases less than 10000. From my experience of going to Old Trafford since the 70s Spurs had the biggest away follewering of the London clubs and they never filled the away end. The only away teams that would fill the away end at OT when it was terraces were City, Leeds and Liverpool, Chelsea never ever brought 12000 to OT, that is laughable

@@HUGHWON Took 12k in 88 I was there my utd mate said it was one of the biggest away following I was there above the goal Spurs don't make me laugh ?

You were third in the away numbers at that time 1/ Man Utd 2/ Liverpool 3/ Chelsea In the 70's you'd been patchy, big one day, small the next.

Were not realy that good

Go back to school

What red army in the 70s you mug took away what you had at home in that shithole you still play at now pride of London my arse west ham have better fan base then you lot

@r que I'm not interested in complexes (you seem to have a bad case of obsession with all things Chelsea) but facts. Fwiw Chelsea stormed into the Stretford End in 1984, similar to West Ham in The Shed a few weeks later. My post above is simply a reply, putting someone straight on the relative away followings of certain clubs. Don't get your panties in a bunch over it.

@r que Yes, All good, thanks and hope you are well too. I sincerely hope you're not judging away followings by the crowd noise of forty year old films? Don't worry, there are Chelsea there alright and why wouldn't there be? We'd brought probably the first big mob up from London to Old Trafford in 1977. It had been billed as a face off between two firms that had bans imposed. Mayhem on both Warwick and Chester Rds. Man City's top boy readily admitted Chelsea took their manor over, including the pubs in 83/84. After Dennis Howell. the Home Secretary imposed the away ban, matches were made 'all-ticket'. Here's us at Wolves in 76/77 There were no Chelsea fans officially there. Instead there was constant scrapping on the South Bank. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TQdxBR2SP-Y.html And here we are at Forest earlier in that season, having taken over their Trent End. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u-j1Zr_jsDU.html This is Chelsea heading up from Manors Station and through Newcastle city centre in 81/82. I'm in there somewhere. twitter.com/Oldskoolawayday/status/351365877792391170/photo/1

@r que Haha. They would. They are partly right but imagine that? Having to give up your home end without resistance.

@SamprasFuryisGOAT none Liverpool rule you 2 miles apart from Liverpool

They were never solid until Mourinho came.

​@gunternetzer9621 Exactly. They were known for being a freewheeling, swashbuckling but inconsistent team for decades.

Mourinho accused Alladyce of parking the bus when he was at West Ham. Chelsea didn't park the bus, they just had an excellent defence and worked brilliantly on the counter. The only bus-parking happened when Mourinho started losing it and brought Mikel on at 1-0 up (usually to no avail).

Not going to get into the silly argument about who had the best or most away fans, but what is without doubt is that Chelsea could turn out in force for certain away games when word spread, Man City, Middlesbrough, Wolves amongst others. Every season one or two games were chosen for a show of force, even a night match away in some cases, not easy even from London.

Same at Anfield.Stopped going in 94'... just not the same anymore.

Dont think so you cockney mug whete you been in a coma and woke up to tell a story

Cos they were all grass

I knew a G. Rangers fan in late 1970's who was there when a few 'gers fans were in the Stretford End with hatchets to chop down an Irish flag the mancs were flying - big bond between Celtic and Manure, which methinks helped lead to the real animosity between Chelsea and Utd fans from then up to present day

I see it

Kerry Dixon was superb wasn't he?.. fucking hell,Speedie too!

Utd we’re averaging 45 Chelsea 24.000

@arsenal0782 arsenal first filled scoreboard jan 87 when rocky got sent off they wete top sn again 89 on a sunday. before that they were poor but most teams were bar a few

West Ham had 6-7K up OT FA Cup 85.. think the low turn out was on a sunday lunchtime few wks after.. had about 500 max up there ..

Lol shut up

@@CoolDude-jp1kj deal with truth pal. In 80s chelsea had 3rd best away following in the uk. Even in division 2. So google it and then you can shut up too cant you.

BertAtkin I was there and it was Utd behind us ... We had 4-5000 that night

15 mins before game ended we left 200 handed an went round to Stretford end ...went in an thay run off...old bill got us out an we waited outside for them to come out an done them again ...

Absolutely brilliant times supporting Chelsea in those days. Was at Old Trafford that night Dixon, Speedie combination was fantastic.