1973 Chelsea Cup tie - were you there ?

[wolfie]

I was in the south stand next to the camera behind the goal.

I always remember being struck how big Osgood was.

Almost as wide as he was tall!

Oh and Jimmy Hill was there!

I was under the TV scaffolding and can vividly remember JH struggling to climb the ladder to everybody's cheers.

 

[Hiney]

I was reminded by [MENTION=118]Hiney[/MENTION] 's rather wonderful programmes archive that its the anniversary of *that* 1973 cup tie at the Goldstone. Today.

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There's a great Big Match of the highlights with of all people; Jimmy Hill doing the commentary via

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5vwvaDcc0

It was my first ever Albion game. My Dad had secured me a crate to stand on. My memory is a little hazy but i think i must have been standing about here. I still sit next to my Dad in the Amex West Stand ...44 years later. Next to my sons. . No crates required.

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Anyone else on here remember going ?

That my first season of going with my mates from Bognor, rather than with my Dad. I was close to where that arrow is, mainly because it was close to the little programme booth in the NW corner. That season came to a disappointing end for me on the way back from the Nottingham Forest game.

 

[Blackadder]

i was there too .torn between my two (at that time) teams !, think we had to go to a reserves game to enable us to buy a ticket for that game , so there was about 20,000 atthe goldstone for a reserves game

Think you may be confusing this game with the Derby game a few seasons later?

 

[el punal]

I saved this photo that came up on Twitter a couple of years back, this must of been from around that time.
It said this lot were Chelsea.

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I remember this one. They were all in the Cricketers and had their first ever of pint of Watney's Red Barrel, had a sip then ran down to the prom to drink some seawater to get rid of the taste.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[el punal]

Think you may be confusing this game with the Derby game a few seasons later?

Unless it was the Chelsea cup tie of 1967. Tickets were sold at the reserves game against Notts County which had an "attendance" of 22,000+/-.

 

[el punal]

I could have sworn Chelsea played in yellow (obviously not). I could have sworn it was an evening game (obviously not), have I got the wrong fixture? Did we play Chelsea early 70's midweek with them wearing yellow? And did we lose 1-2?

However I was standing North West, pretty much where you were.

Chelsea played in an unusual strip of red shirts, white shorts and green socks.

 

[Blackadder]

Unless it was the Chelsea cup tie of 1967. Tickets were sold at the reserves game against Notts County which had an "attendance" of 22,000+/-.

Fair enough. That was before my time at the goldstone. I'm pretty sure we just bought tickets for the 1973 game.

 

[osgood]

Think you may be confusing this game with the Derby game a few seasons later?

Thinking about it , i may have been referring to the league cup game v wolves a few seasons earlier , lol

 

[wolfie]

Thinking about it , i may have been referring to the league cup game v wolves a few seasons earlier , lol

It was definitely the 1967 game. I went to both matches - remember the South Stand being rammed for the reserve match.

 

[BN9 BHA]

i was there too .torn between my two (at that time) teams !, think we had to go to a reserves game to enable us to buy a ticket for that game , so there was about 20,000 atthe goldstone for a reserves game

Unless it was the Chelsea cup tie of 1967. Tickets were sold at the reserves game against Notts County which had an "attendance" of 22,000+/-.

Just got my history book out as I remember reading about this.
Definitely 1967, you are correct el punal.

 

[luppers]

It was definitely the 1967 game. I went to both matches - remember the South Stand being rammed for the reserve match.

You are right. If I remember correctly at the replay there were over 60000 there .I was stuck at the back and needed a telescope to see the game!

 

[BN9 BHA]

You are right. If I remember correctly at the replay there were over 60000 there .I was stuck at the back and needed a telescope to see the game!

Not far off, 54,852. Just been reading about it. Massive crowd that, shame about the result.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

I went to the game in the back of a Transit van with about 10 others, I was only 9. They all shoved me to the front when we were standing in the north west. But I am so confused because I could have sworn the lights were on and Chelsea were in yellow. Oh shit I'm getting old.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I went to the game in the back of a Transit van with about 10 others, I was only 9. They all shoved me to the front when we were standing in the north west. But I am so confused because I could have sworn the lights were on and Chelsea were in yellow. Oh shit I'm getting old.

Lights would have been on, it was January.

 

[AnotherArch]

in the North Stand for that one. Remember that Steve Piper totally bossed Osgood that afternoon.

 

[osgood]

It was definitely the 1967 game. I went to both matches - remember the South Stand being rammed for the reserve match.

too young for that one ! reckon it was both then !

 

[Sussex Nomad]

in the North Stand for that one. Remember that Steve Piper totally bossed Osgood that afternoon.

The player that got me loving football, Ossy I mean. What a player.

 

[osgood]

in the North Stand for that one. Remember that Steve Piper totally bossed Osgood that afternoon.

Lol

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Lights would have been on, it was January.

Now you mention it, my mum would never have let me go to football on a school night.