A view from the Chelsea fans ……

The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
To be fair the gentrification of areas like Chelsea mean that normal people, normal football fans, would find it difficult to live in most of West London these days, and so the fact they come from the Home Counties isn't really that big a deal.
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I went to college in Chelsea in the late 70s. Despite the fact that there was a lot of wealth there it was a diverse community with a fair amount of council flats. I was able to rent a room in Chelsea on a student grant. It had a bohemian culture too and the Kings Road was an iconic location during the counterculture from the sixties through the eighties. It had a great many individual shops. Since then of course, the council flats have been sold off, the shops are all chains, the housing bubble has made property unaffordable except for the very rich and the counterculture has disappeared. Symbolic of the crass neoliberal age we are living through.
 
iamborome said:
I went to college in Chelsea in the late 70s. Despite the fact that there was a lot of wealth there it was a diverse community with a fair amount of council flats. I was able to rent a room in Chelsea on a student grant. It had a bohemian culture too and the Kings Road was an iconic location during the counterculture from the sixties through the eighties. It had a great many individual shops. Since then of course, the council flats have been sold off, the shops are all chains, the housing bubble has made property unaffordable except for the very rich and the counterculture has disappeared. Symbolic of the crass neoliberal age we are living through.
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Absolutley, the change in that area in particular is monumental. Dont know if you know Robert Elms (BBC Radio London broadcaster and journalist) but he talks about how his mam refers to Notting Hill as a "slum" because that's how she always thinks about it, even post Richard Curtis films and gentrification.

My mother in laws partner was there last night, and although a boyhood Chelsea fan from Elephant & Castle, he was displaced to Surrey when they cleared the slums post war. He was sat in our end last night as he uses my season ticket normally, and had divided loyalty, but said it was the best game he's been to in years in terms of the atmosphere.
 
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The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
To be fair the gentrification of areas like Chelsea mean that normal people, normal football fans, would find it difficult to live in most of West London these days, and so the fact they come from the Home Counties isn't really that big a deal.
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I imagine there will be a few Chelsea fans live in the council blocks near the North End Road area of Fulham, but the nearest most seem to live is Sutton
 
My sister lives on King's Road, but the World's End end of it not Sloane Square end. There are still has working class areas. She lives half a mile from Stamford Bridge. I do see Chelsea fans there but I suspect they're ones who can't afford matchday tickets. I've always thought of their fans as being from the home counties.
 
He's got a point about the players.... Palmer was straight down the tunnel at the full time whistle... Win or lose they should have went over to the fans.
 
How bad was the one song they sang to us “you have to live here, we can go home” (to the tune of Londons a sh1thole, I wanna go home etc). Cringey b4stards.
 
Comedy GOLD. Typical entitled saverner expecting us 'Northern Monkeys' to get whipped by whatever overpriced load of trash they put out. One billion spend doesn't automatically beat 10 Million when they have all the grit, desire and determination.
 
RavsDad said:
The bit about some having to travel for FOUR hours is a classic. Unbelievable.
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Yeah, like no other fans have to travel such a distance. Makes me laugh. So pampered with an inflated sense of their own self importance. They are now no different than an average Premier league side. Their dodgy Russian sponsor has gone and now they are in the real world.
 
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