Chelsea, soulless, rootless club

Could be said of many London clubs, I suppose. Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham too.

Mate of mine from Essex has mentioned how most of his schoolmates were West Ham fans, but it was their grandparents who had left Canning Town, etc. for the new world.
 
Lots of social housing in SW London. The Worlds End estate for example. In my neighbourhood it used to be solid Chelsea territory up until the 90s. The FAC defeat meant a very long fortnight or so for me while they celebrated. As I speak, there's fireworks going off but it's nothing like it used to be.. Working class people have dwindled as the right to 'inherit' council homes was abolished and the next generation move outwards to more affordable areas..
 
Randy said:
Exactly the same can be said about Man City.
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I suppose and Liverpool, I think they did a study about postcodes of season ticket holders for Liverpool and Everton and it was something like 16% of Liverpool season tickets holders lived in the greater Liverpool city area, as opposed to 64% of Everton season ticket holders.
 
the_holgate_roof said:
How do they even have any fans?? There isn’t even any estates near the ground, where do they all come
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Eh? Surely London’s one of the most densely populated cities in the world? And there’s no estates near the Riverside going by that logic.

I hate Chelsea and their fans but you’ve got to admire and respect what they’ve achieved.
 
The Card Cheat said:
Eh? Surely London’s one of the most densely populated cities in the world? And there’s no estates near the Riverside going by that logic.

I hate Chelsea and their fans but you’ve got to admire and respect what they’ve achieved.
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I’m not on about what they have achieved, more about the demographics of their fan base.
 
red_harrington said:
You hate them and admire them?

I just hate them.
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no I admire what they’ve achieved, because I’m capable of thinking and acting in an honest and unprejudiced way. The fact I personally hate them is utterly irrelevant to them achieving something remarkable. I didn’t think that was too difficult a concept to understand.

Edit-I've reread this and I sound unnecessarily sarky and a bit of a nob.
Apologies.

But just to repeat I do hate Chelsea.😁
 
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The Card Cheat said:
yeah and that’s why I addressed that point first. Did you not read that bit?
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Yeah, North Ormesby is just over the road from the Riverside but the whole catchment area for MFC stretches far and wide, it doesn’t really work like that in London, it seems to be an inherited support, passing from father to son, rather than living close to the ground.
 
Don’t like either club (more to do with City’s ownership than club itself) but found myself preferring City to win and was genuinely surprised they didn’t. Strange night really. I can’t even see Chelsea challenging for the PL next season.
 
The thing is you're all making your decision as adults on here. to a 10-year-old kid, none of that matters, just the players, the football and the good times. We are at a point now where all the 10-year-old kids who jumped on the Chelsea bandwagon in 2004 are entering their late twenties. They would have fallen in love with Drogba in the same way I did with Juninho. A 2012 CL win and some PL wins along the way has only reaffirmed that supporting them was the right decision. Those supporters are a long way from those that many of you on here would have faced in the 80's and early 90's
 
There must be plenty of genuine Chelsea fans kicking about London. It’s a city with 7 million people so how can there not be!
 
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