Chelsea, soulless, rootless club

atypical_boro said:
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.
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I guess that’s the thing with the champions league, the best team doesn’t always win it.
When Real Madrid won 3 years in a row they probably weren’t the best team in Europe in any of those seasons.
 
Chelsea fans all over the country, a lot of the older ones I know go back to the 1970 cup final. In the south east, Surrey is now a big Chelsea supporting area. South of the river they only really have Palace, Charlton and Millwall for competition so have always been the bigger supported club, remember getting pretty decent crowds when they got promoted under John Neal in 1984.

Traditional Chelsea territory was always West London and again if you look at their competitors they have always been more attractive than Fulham or Brentford and except for a brief spell in the 70s QPR. Growing up I always thought of Chelsea as similar to West Ham, with Spurs and Arsenal miles ahead!
 
Borobarmy said:
I may be wrong but I thought Croydon was Palace territory ? I understand Chelsea fan base is way out west , Chertsey area .
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Its a bit of in joke as i have a mate who is a Chelsea fan he’s from Croydon. We always wind him up he should be palace.

here is a Chelsea debate on this very subject.

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Areas you see a lot of Chelsea fans

Where do most Chelsea fans come from? Since we've starting winning things you could say just about everywhere, but where would be the highest concentrations of CFC support in the old days and now? Areas I didn't think had many Chelsea but was to suprised to discover otherwise would include Kennin...
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Where I am in Loughton(Essex) Tottenham are by far the most popular team. Makes sense though as the old spurs training ground is only a couple of mile from where I live. The college just round the corner from me is even linked with Spurs and does a training programme for people wanting to be involved with sport so regularly see groups of 3 or 4 young people with spurs training kits on.
 
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 from???
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I had the misfortune to be in Fulham yesterday afternoon and they were all out and about boozed up at around 2pm. There are quite a lot of estates around that area.
 
Malagueña what was the reaction like in spain were they surprised at how poor pep was tactically as its rare you see pep out thought in a final but he simply had no answer last night.

first time I’ve seen him look so visibly worried on the touch line as well. Not like him at all.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Chelsea in the 70's used to get huge attendances, far from soulless and rootless.
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I went to a particular game at Stamford Bridge in 88 ( 10,000 ) of us that I came to despise them . Thuggish scum starting with Ken Walker at the top right down to the loss wallowing supporters . Wouldn’t **** on them if they were on fire
 
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I can't remember why, but when I first got into football (early 70s) I liked Chelsea. I even had a Chelsea hat. I was about 6yrs old and I remember my friend's dad asking me which of the players I fancied cos there could be no other reason.
Thinking about it now, the hat must have come first and triggered it - but I don't know where it came from.
 
When I grew up Chelsea were still a bit fashionable a sort of MU of the South, but they won little and spent 9 years in Division 2 (now Championship). So there was always odd Chelsea fans all over the country. At Boro games you get Scottish Chelsea fans and there has been a Chelsea flag saying Barrow. When I lived in South London, Chelsea was probably the best supported team even though they were struggling (1988). I got the impression a lot had moved out of places like Lambeth and Battersea (that had a lot of early Victorian slums, but you could easily get to Chelsea ground from) since the London Council has been building new Council houses for the 1930s onwards on what was the edge of London then, so in places like Carshalton, Merton, Sutton, Addiscombe (in 1960s), Kingston (where there were a lot of aircraft factories). You would sometimes get pocket of council housing in quite posh areas of SW London like say Ham and that would be solid white working class back in the 1980s and into football when football was unfashionable, these clumps would be solid Chelsea. Chelsea supporters in the 1980s were known to have a lot of racist supporters, giving some awful abuse to say Paul Cannoville (their first black player).

I remember after the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1988 reading in the local London papers a large group of Chelsea fans were convicted of attacks on Boro fans, their addresses were Addicombe (which then was mainly posh former council houses that had been bought). They generally had good jobs say say working at low levels in the City, but became a bit of Weekend Warriors, to sort of prove they were masculine and working class still. A bit like in the book/film the Football Factory where the main Chelsea hooligans worked during the week in a Florist suppliers.

West London has a lot of Chelsea fans too, but there is more competition, with Fulham, QPR and Brentford.

Nowadays Chelsea is just another plastic club to me, with fans supporting them because they are one of the big five and watching them on TV, but not going to games.
 
I would add about Chelsea, I come across a few old skool Chelsea and the first thing they say is that supported Chelsea in the say 1980s. They know they are now out numbered by glory fans, same is happening at Man City. Ther clubs are now brands.
 
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