5th Round - confirmed Sunday 4pm kick off

[Chelsea Lad]

Ideally for us it would be on the Friday as we play Kiev the following Wednesday.

You play PSG Tuesday though so one team is going to be worse off than the other!

Yeah thats true haha

 

[MaineRoad9]

I've always liked Chelsea. First match I ever saw was at the Bridge. 2-3 Rags on Boxing Day, Cantona with a late winner for the visitors. At that point, the ground was sill mostly, but not entirely, a crumbling ruin. There's actually a picture of me standing on the old Shed prior to the match. Some ancient Chelsea steward got a kick out of my story and let me into what was, in essence, a building site. I'm sure a certain segment of their fans (ok, all of them) would have loved to have gotten their hands on my fat, American, Catholic, rear-end, but nobody attempted to assault me that day. I had tickets to a match a Maine Road that night; I still have the letter I received from Mr. Bernard Halford, enclosing my ticket, but was unaware that trains did not run on Boxing Day. It would up 1-3 to Blackburn; I think Chris Sutton actually scored several minutes prior to kickoff. A couple of nice, young gentlemen on the Rag persuasion I met at the Bridge had offered to drive me up and drop me in Moss Side. Whether I would have been left to die in a ditch in Knutsford or simply cut down upon arrival in M14 remains unclear, as I politely declined their offer, went back to some Paki-run boozer (you learn to love your Pakistani's over Christmas in London, as they own everything that's open) to drink my way through the afternoon before heading home to listen to Mr. Sutton score several times. I thought Chelsea looked good yesterday, though MKD's "defending" would have made a lot of teams look good. Still, it could literally have been 0-10. I doubt we'll give up 10, though.

 

[Chelsea Lad]

I've always liked Chelsea. First match I ever saw was at the Bridge. 2-3 Rags on Boxing Day, Cantona with a late winner for the visitors. At that point, the ground was sill mostly, but not entirely, a crumbling ruin. There's actually a picture of me standing on the old Shed prior to the match. Some ancient Chelsea steward got a kick out of my story and let me into what was, in essence, a building site. I'm sure a certain segment of their fans (ok, all of them) would have loved to have gotten their hands on my fat, American, Catholic, rear-end, but nobody attempted to assault me that day. I had tickets to a match a Maine Road that night. I still have the letter I received from Mr. Bernard Halford, enclosing my ticket. It would up 1-3 to Blackburn; I think Chris Sutton actually scored several minutes prior to kickoff, but was unaware that trains did not run on Boxing Day. A couple of nice, young gentlemen on the Rag persuasion offered to drive me up and drop me in Moss Side. Whether I would have been left to die in a ditch in Knutsford or simply cut down upon arrival in M14 remains unclear, as I politely declined their offer, went back to some Paki-run boozer (you learn to love your Pakistani's over Christmas in London, as they own everything that's open) to drink my way through the afternoon before heading home to listen to Mr. Sutton score several times. I thought Chelsea looked good yesterday, though MKD's "defending" would have made a lot of teams look good. Still, it could literally have been 0-10. I doubt we'll give up 10, though.

That Utd game you must have been in the shed temporary seats, behind it was a building site, the game was played in the 94/95 season & our first game v them after they tonked us in the cup final the season before.

 

[newposter]

It fucking best be on the Sat I've just convinced my missus that a ticket to Chelsea followed by a night out in London is a good present for her Birthday the day before!

 

[MaineRoad9]

That Utd game you must have been in the shed temporary seats, behind it was a building site, the game was played in the 94/95 season & our first game v them after they tonked us in the cup final the season before.

That is correct. They seemed quite substantial, but they must have been temporary. I was in the third tier of the East, but well down toward the Shed, so I had a great view of pretty much everything. Both of Chelsea's second half goals that reversed an 0-2, albeit briefly, were scored right in front of me. Frank Sinclair (?) with the second?

 

[Chelsea Lad]

That is correct. They seemed quite substantial, but they must have been temporary. I was in the third tier of the East, but well down toward the Shed, so I had a great view of pretty much everything. Both of Chelsea's second half goals that reversed an 0-2, albeit briefly, were scored right in front of me. Frank Sinclair (?) with the second?

John Spencer & Eddie Newton got our goals that day, think there was a mini pitch invasion or the advertising boards got pushed down in the surge after our 2nd, i was in the MH upper tier right above the goal though we like you said scored at the shed end.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Your hard core away travellers will no doubt go, so say 3,000 of those, the other 3,000 tickets would be a good chance for fans to go who dont normally do aways or cant get tickets/cant afford it like dads with their kids so i'd expect City to sell the full 6,000, that depends though if City actually take the 6,000.

Yeah it'll be poor if you dont mate.

I cannot for the life of me see us taking or selling 6k tickets for this, as we have a cup final the week after, and it's not a particularly big or important game for us given the other three fronts we are fighting on.

I'm pretty sure you took 3k to the cup game at our place last year and I expect us to do the same.

 

[MaineRoad9]

John Spencer & Eddie Newton got our goals that day, think there was a mini pitch invasion or the advertising boards got pushed down in the surge after our 2nd, i was in the MH upper tier right above the goal though we like you said scored at the shed end.

Ah, Eddie Newton. Was an odd, mad scramble sort of goal that just sort of seemed to wind up in the net. I recall it followed a rather dodgy penalty that Spencer converted. I had been drinking rather comprehensively, so that may not be accurate. Yes, there was a very small pitch-rush after the second goal, as there was very little to keep anyone in the Shed from simply wandering onto the field. There might have been 25 people involved in all, and I doubt it lasted more than a minute.

 

[Chelsea Lad]

I cannot for the life of me see us taking or selling 6k tickets for this, as we have a cup final the week after, and it's not a particularly big or important game for us given the other three fronts we are fighting on.

I'm pretty sure you took 3k to the cup game at our place last year and I expect us to do the same.

Actually mate thats a good point about your cup final i forgot about that, so money wise it might be a big cost for some to do both.

 

[Chelsea Lad]

Ah, Eddie Newton. Was an odd, mad scramble sort of goal that just sort of seemed to wind up in the net. I recall it followed a rather dodgy penalty that Spencer converted. I had been drinking rather comprehensively, so that may not be accurate. Yes, there was a very small pitch-rush after the second goal, as there was very little to keep anyone in the Shed from simply wandering onto the field. There might have been 25 people involved in all, and I doubt it lasted more than a minute.

You've got a great memory mate especially for someone who drank a lot that day ;-)