Chelsea 76-77 season..

Frumtarn

Frumtarn

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What sort of the numbers did they bring to The Den with them?
Was hard to tell looking at the highlights the other day, and i wasn't there..
 
R.O.D said:
was that the game they wore their green and red kit?
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There didn’t seem that many to me. I think they were in the ilderton but scattered around. A small mob of them did pipe up but got kicked out and were put behind the dugouts (about 20 of them) where they were further terrorised. There were supposedly some in the CBL for a time but didn’t last long. I can’t really comment as I got to the ground just before kick off
 
Little crew made a show in the CBL on the main stand side. That was about it in the ground. Apart from our wild celebrations.
 
As others have said a small mob got battered in the cbl just before kickoff.apart from that I cannot remember them in the ground. The return game was a different story at their gaff though.
 
Mid 70s to mid 80s I done some England away games. Had a few chats with bods from different mobs one being Bolton Wanderers. That season we played Chelsea and before we played them at the Den we had played up at Bolton. Chelsea had also played Bolton at their gaff.
We had a tricky time up there. No more than 200 of us.
These Bolton fellas told me Chelsea took over Burndan Park with thousands up there. ‘Best mob’ ever they said or something like that. When I tells them it was a no show down Wall with only a few hundred tops and got smashed they wouldn’t have it.
Chelsea were and always have been terrified of Wall.
 
E1 Wall said:
Smaller firms of theirs got weighed in outside the railway tavern two hours before the kick off, out of New Cross gate station and into an hiding. Can remember being on the half way line and a mob 60 or so plotted up at the back of the CBL, amazing grace/millwall was their chant but soon diverted into “ we’re the north stand Stamford bridge” then steaming into bods reading their programmes etc. Millwall were now coming from every part of the ground and had circled Chelsea who were now forced into the corner by the seats and severely dealt with, a chant of Chelsea went up in the ilderton but it didn’t last long as they all melted into the crowd. After the game we got on the tube at New Cross gate which was packed with all their firm, they were absolutely shitting themselves, read one of their forums once and one of their old school claimed that 76 at the den was the worst hiding they had ever took.
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How many Millwall were at the return game? Didn't a copper get stabbed?
 
E1 Wall said:
Can’t recall the numbers we took but the north stand was full of our lot. Small firm of wall got in the shed loads locked out after a would be skirmish out on the street which happened to be another mob of Millwall coming from another meet, elephant I think .
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I wonder what the result would have been had the main bulk of the Millwall contingent who had planned to get in the shed had managed to
 
From the Sunday Mirror following the game at The Den.
 

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TheOneAndOnlyGazza said:
Pre-segregation days, so no actual estimates of numbers. Although certain ends were no go areas, hence the Millwall fans great health & saftey advice sang to visting fans, 1.....2....345, if you want to stay alive, keep out of Cold Blow Lane!
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I don't ever remember hearing that - probably before my time. It's brilliant!!
 
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