Battle of Stamford Bridge (Guardian)

I was in the Boro end with my late father - and the MOTD Boro video/dvd released a few years after he died shows us clearly at the end of the game. So that was a nice memory
Felt totally safe in the Boro end - there was no way the yobs were going to jump in there. Was a case of keeping our heads down going from the ground to the car though
 
Was behind the goal when they came across the pitch and just had to smile as they started to slow at the 18 yard box. They knew they would have bern mauled if they had tried to scale our fence.
Was liviing in Reading at the time and had to share a train full of Chelsea fans on the way back from Paddington. Obviously i am still alive as i was wearing neutral colours :)
 
indeedido said:
Close mate was married in Nottingham the day of the second leg of the Play Offs.
Probably saved me a hiding.
Still gutted we all missed it.
About to set off in an hour for this one.
I'll take a thump for the same outcome as back then.
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Hope you have a great evening and that the Boro can deliver the goods. I’m nervous as hell, barely done a lick of work yet. It’s a day purely for reminiscing about the mighty Boro tbh. Should’ve put a day’s holiday in.
 
Remember my dad telling me about this game when I was only young and getting into football for the first time, I naively suggested he got me a Chelsea shirt as they were the best team at the time (2004/05).
 
Before the game there was plenty of fighting. Steve Clarke - Chelsea captain had told Chelsea fans to make the Kings Road hell for Boro. It was in the London editions of the tabloids, but not the Northern editions. I was working in the London area. Saw Boro fan coaches attacked with glasses, bottles and one Chelsea fan ran out of a pub with the fire extinguisher threw it at a bus of family member Boro fans, luckily it bounced off the window of the coach. There were no Police and that was on the Kings Road.
 
Although it was a bit of a fuss with their fans on the pitch at the end I agree with the posters above that you never felt any threat in the Boro end, they just ran around carrying on for a bit.

I had a Brighton supporting mate with me that day and he loved it, Boro have been his second team ever since.
 
As a number have said above...hitting kids and families, picking off people outside when they had the numbers. Not one of the oh so hard lads actually tried to scale that fence did they?
 
To think if Chelsea had scored an equaliser there would have been a penalty shoot out to decide who got home advantage for a third game!

(See Bristol City v Walsall same season)
 
Davey_C said:
Our neighbours up the road got the same treatment in 1985 when they knocked Chelsea out the Semi Final of the League Cup at Stamford Bridge

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On This Day - 4 March 1985: Sunderland off to Wembley after night of violence at Stamford Bridge

36 years ago today the Milk Cup semi final second leg descended into chaos, with dozens injured as Chelsea fans rioted following Sunderland’s winner.
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It has to be said this sounds even worse than the Chelsea Boro game!😱
And the Ken Bates quote.🤦
 
I was another one in the seats and it all kicked off when they scored, we got marshalled out and taken to where the rest of the Boro were behind the goal, as it was full near the back, we walked down the steps and ended up near the front, a good view for when they decided to March partially across the pitch at the end…😁
 
I was at the old Wembley same day as a young un watching a schoolboy international, England v Brazil. Went on a trip with the team I used to play for, maybe Cleveland Juniors or similar at that time I think. We listened the the game on the coach on the way home. Utb!
 
bencha said:
Behind the goal aswell, remember some Boro stewards at the front ripping their steward jackets off, jumping climbing over the fence and squaring upto the Chelsea fans on the pitch.🤣
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Kind of remember that too. I didn’t know he was a steward, but a big lad near us (blond mullet and tasche) climbed over and offered them a chat. Don’t remember the Chelsea fans getting too close, but they were hurling bricks into the pens. Chunts
Fulham Broadway was a bit naughty for a while.
 
Borotommo said:
Kind of remember that too. I didn’t know he was a steward, but a big lad near us (blond mullet and tasche) climbed over and offered them a chat. Don’t remember the Chelsea fans getting too close, but they were hurling bricks into the pens. Chunts
Fulham Broadway was a bit naughty for a while.
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I remember this too. There were a couple of their lads who had made it the length of the pitch and were in front of us and then this big Boro lad, curly mullet, looked a bit like a singer in a band, just started climbing the massive fence, managed to get over it and began taking on the Chelsea lads. Think he gave them a few boots before getting nicked.
 
There was a Chelsea steward with long blond hair at the front leading the few Chelsea who dared to approach the Boro end.

Then I saw some Boro lad wearing a bandana fly over the fence towards the steward and got some digs in before being carted off by the police.

The blond steward who got slapped, swapped his bib with 22 on it with another steward to try and hide his identity.

The whole thing was orchestrated by the vvanker Ken Bates.

Me, my dad and our kid went to Putney after the game and were sat at a table outside a pub with a big f'cough bottle of champagne. We got a few glares, but that was it.
 
alanmoodysdog said:
Came down to the Bridge on a Cleveland Transit bus which was in big white letters on the side . Bus stopped at traffic lights maybe Kings Road right bang outside a pub ,,, soon there were chairs been thrown at the windows and guys trying to open the front doors .... crazy times
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Alan I think I was on the same coach after the game the driver as odd us to take our Boro scarves .com from the Windows so that we don't get bricked ,some wag retorted have you got some black paint as we have
Cleveland transit in six foot letters on the side of the bus
 
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