Chelsea Footballers (1976)

London.
Various shots of the long haired young boys arriving to Chelsea grounds. Most youngsters have long hair and wearing Chelsea colours. They are searched by police on arrival. Various shots of the footballers running onto grounds. Various good shots of the boys cheering, watching the match, pulling faces to camera etc.
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[@tonykehoe123]

I was 15 in 76 and was from Liverpool. I loved Chelsea and always hoped to visit London one day . I lived there for a while in the 80s and still visit at least twice a year

[@user-ne6fx6ll2b]

Football in the 70's was so fun.

[@markstedman9099]

The Chelsea strip looks better than todays version, simpler and cleaner ,more classic looking

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Looks like there all off to a bay city rollers concert 😂

[@dennisclark5206]

I thought it was too early to be 1976. Before Asian tourists, 50-50 scarves when the game was played at 3 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon with no ticket needed. Cool memories and times that will never come back to English football. Bovril, Harringtons, red white and green scarves, flight jackets. Ozzie. The game has lost its roots

[@kendodd8734]

100 % right it’s corporate and just money oriented now it’s a soulless game now the players don’t wanna know the fans there a million miles apart now in the financial area and for a fella to take his family to a game costs an arm and a leg

[@nigelmckinley9595]

Parkas green school 70s I still have some originals still great times wrangler jackets another great times

[@jamesguy1030]

Dennis Clark ~ Yeah, A Lot of the Chelsea crew were Skinheads The Skinhead Movement was to influence & inspire a Generation of Young people, One of these young people was a young man called Ian Stuart. Ian Stuart, Like so many young men dreamed of a career in Rock ‘n’ Roll But when in 1977 he formed Skrewdriver, A Punk Group Based in North West England, No one could have predicted the rollercoaster ride that he was about to endure. With two singles and an album recorded Skrewdriver were heading for the dizzy heights of rock stardom, But when their concerts became battlegrounds & gained the band a reputation that saw them Banned from London venues, Disowned by their record label and slaughtered in the mainstream music press most people would have put it down to experience & shuffled off into a Dystopian day Job. it is testament to the resilience of Ian Stuart that against staggering odds he refused to be defeated. This Remarkable Story is well documented in the fascinating book called “The Ian Stuart - Skrewdriver Biography” This records the historical journey that started as a highly rated punk vocalist mixing with the likes of The Sex Pistols, Bob Geldof, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Motörhead, Iggy Pop, Sham69, Sting from the Police, & Suggs From Chart toppers Madness. Right the way thru to National Front Demonstrators, British Movement Marches, Ku Klux Klan Leaders in the U.S, & Top Skinhead Recruits for the Blood & Honour Organisation That he founded back in 1987. The Record Shops refused to sell his albums, Yet they sold thousands, His Concerts were starved of any publicity, Yet even his enemies would admit that he could easily fill venues as big as the Royal Albert Hall. This Remarkable in-depth story traces his early beginnings in Blackpool through to his Murder as a National Socialist & Skinhead Legend in 1993. We’ve all heard stories about rebellious rock stars, But this is a Truly unique account of a Rebel with a Cause. & one who lived through the Pain, Pressure, & Patriotic Pride that was his Life. I’ll Never forget about Ian Stuart, he Gave a Generation Of Working Class Youth a Sense Of Pride & Belonging to our Once Great Nations. Even if you Revile this Movement, it’s ideas, & it’s Rock Music & Patriotic ballads , it is a very interesting & important piece of Social & Youth Culture History.

[@dontfeedthetroll294]

Ozzie Ardiles?, As much as I'm a Chelsea boy and despise Spurs with a passion, it was treat to watch him play.

[@senormosquito1114]

@@dontfeedthetroll294 …….I remember Osvaldo, a brilliant footballer. I wish Chelsea could have signed him in 1979 but at least we managed to sign Willian some decades later from under the noses of the Spuds. 😀🏆

[@davidramsay6461]

76, was when me and me mates first started attending, Chelsea home games. This really brings it home to me, how it's now, very much, a bygone era, and there's only memories

[@antonyware9887]

Cant stop thé passage of time my friend. It’s mixed emotions seeing footage like that, a reminder of lost youth.

[@Steve14ps]

In these days of a 'Gender Neutral' society, having a sign that says 'Boys' seems out of place today

[@dontfeedthetroll294]

@@antonyware9887 I'f your youth was spent carefree in the shed watching the mighty Chelsea, it wasn't wasted.

[@antonyware9887]

@@dontfeedthetroll294 mine was spent on the Shoreham street Kop at Bramall Lane but I agree with your sentiment. I’m now spending my autumn years in the same place. It never leaves you.

[@dontfeedthetroll294]

@@antonyware9887 Exactly, I still get the same goose bumps as when I 1st walked onto the terraces, especially at big games. I'm Irish so never got to go to a match in the UK back then and the league of Ireland games just aren't the same.

[@NoirL.A.]

jesus look how thin everybody was back then. nowadays at least half that crowd would be overweight or obese.

[@brucedowney9164]

We all were kids back then going in the shed end brings the memories flooding back. Once a blue always a blue Chelsea forever🔵🔵

[@stephengrainger7586]

Back in the day it was good fun going to chelsea

[@dirkbogarde44]

Do you ever see bunches of kids going to games like that now ?

[@mjh5437]

Never,its too expensive for schoolkids now.

[@cbloke2252]

Apparently we had no fans back then. Yeah right. I was too young to go in the 70s, but started going in the 80s. Loved those days.

[@stephengrainger7586]

We had a lot of fans back then and a lot of away fans good old days

[@Isleofskye]

Watch Chelsea 4 Liverpool 2 from 1970)I think) a sea of Blue and White Scarves..

[@Spectrescup]

It's amazing, isn't it? When we had no money that was apparently our natural position. When we did get money that was unfair. I've been thinking recently that every team that got screwed by starting to build a new stand when the 70's oil crisis tanked the western economies (Wolves, Burnley, Sheffield United, a little later Middlesbrough, and if I'm wrong about any of these I hope their fans will correct me) got relegated, not just to Div 3 but to Div 4. I know CFC took it close, but we never went lower than the old Division 2. However, as I say, the 'football historians' have that as our rightful place. Chelsea were big spenders right from their very formation, as befits the West End team. They were the first team to buy foreign players on big money (and by foreign players I mean the Scots who changed the way football was played in the pre-WW1 years. We always bought superstars (Hughie Gallagher, Tommy Lawton) and we always produced our home grown brilliance (has there ever been a better English teenager than Jimmy Greaves)?

[@Isleofskye]

@@Spectrescup Well said ! I know Jimmy Greaves wasn't a Winger, however: Hey ! Bonnie Jim, The Man On The Wing Cut Inside,Shoot and Score Jim was the Man who was born to be King....Scoring For Evermore...😇

[@mjh5437]

@@Spectrescup If you think Chelsea is in the West End of London you don`t know the city very well lol.......West End is the area around Oxford Street W1 not Fulham SW6

[@journeybymoonlight3216]

Watching the fans is more intresting than watching the game.

[@NoirL.A.]

i'm american and i agree completely old footage of the fans is way more interesting than the games.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

​​@@NoirL.A.American 😂Your sports are sh t

[@1963johndaly]

I was one of those kids standing on the 'big step' behind the goal, shed end.

[@carlroberts8013]

Such evocative clip. This April 1975. Chelsea were relegated a few weeks later.

[@mjh5437]

And QPR nearly won the title that year,missed it by only one point on the final day of the season.

[@carlroberts8013]

@@mjh5437 Not the final day. Liverpool hustled the FA to play their final game after QPR’s. But that Norwich away game was the problem.

[@BarryCFCOK]

This not 1976 but 1974-75 season v Man. City lost 0-1

[@annteak2669]

oh my gosh never seen so many white faces in a crowd!!

[@annteak2669]

I certainly hope not!! If we continue accepting the destruction of our people and our way of life then yes it will become a reality!! We need to fight back!! with all our might if we want our Grandchildren to live a English Way of life with English traditions etc....Our Ancestors fought to their deaths!! I will never forget the sacrifices they made to ensure our freedoms were never taken nor compromised!!

[@Evemeister12]

You've clearly not seen all the gammons at the EDL marches getting pissed and acting like complete lemons

[@annteak2669]

You mean the ones with the Machetes!! Yawn!!

[@rogerdecoursey8341]

And isn't it just wonderful. That's how it should be.

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

​@@Evemeister12😂😂😂😂😂Rupert are you mad😂

[@redflag8970]

great footage of a simpler era

[@antonyware9887]

Ah the memories. Could easily have been Bramall Lane

[@federicomasset6064]

Wonderful

[@AB-tv2rm]

This looks so nice

[@kenanacampora]

Those are fans. Spectators. Not footballers.

[@marchelayal3538]

in memoriam !!

[@vordman]

It's all looks so wonderfully grotty now. I remember those days well, I'd have been about 11 myself at the time. Even at that age you could get a spanking if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. There were plenty of junior hooligans. I bet that lad in the long coat near the beginning was hoping for some aggro!

[@druidswillow1052]

Yep definitely, Remember getting a bit of a kicking from Hammers skins outside Highbury forgot to hide scarf even though I was obviously a schoolboy & at Spurs in the High Rd even my m8s dad didn't get involved even though we were in his care broken nose 2 loose teeth and this was from 3 grown men I was 15!

[@johnross2924]

Glad we've sorted haircuts out 😆

[@adamdean988]

I always bunk in , up the flood light and through the toilet windows in the shed however there was no windows lol

[@bernardmeyre]

Ha ha The public is so young! And what about the prices?!!! 25 p ?!!!!!! Ha ha ha

[@michaelpage6797]

Can see myself walking in, pretty sure this is 1975

[@tonysmith4918]

25p to get in? 50p adults? I wonder how much it is to get in at Chelsea now?

[@weyman4317]

They nearly went bankrupt- no wonder.

[@stephengrainger7586]

To much bloody money to pay for there high payed footballers

[@Keithbarber]

@@weyman4317 £3,400,000 by 1977 caused by delays to construction of the east stand in 1972/4

[@grantchallinor5263]

Nowadays the prices are approx. 100x what they were then! So "Junior" tickets cost c.£25 and c.£50 for adults......

[@patglennon9671]

4 pounds in to the shed mid eighties

[@MrGranfield]

50p to go in! Todd Boehly will have fit.

[@perrycarpenter7095]

So many kids there

[@GarethGriffiths-um1un]

When it was affordable for everyone Loads of kids The clubs future fans Players not on obscene wages When football was real

[@GVike]

Those entrances are so narrow, they are scary. Fire hazard. In that sense, stadiums got safer and better.

[@mjh5437]

Are you for real???

[@growlerthe2nd712]

50p to watch Chelsea 😂

[@TERRANOVAofficial]

yezzzzzz

[@simonwilton3546]

These were the “racists” that were concerned that immigration would change demographics and change the culture. Its hard to argue against their fears.

[@mjh5437]

They have been proved correct in the long run....

[@mjh5437]

Ireland is going the same way now.

[@yippyialeftside8351]

Not 76 74 maybe

[@carpenterb114]

NO SOUND is this just me ?

[@druidswillow1052]

That's Chelsea for you no atmosphere!

[@robtyman4281]

It's 'Cinefilm'. Basically an old fashioned small handheld 'soundless' video camera. There was never any sound, because they didn't have the technology to record sound - just visual. People made home, and holiday movies with them, and like this footage...trips to football matches. They were popular throughout the 50's, 60's, and 70's....before the video camera with sound made them obsolete, when it arrived in the late 70's.

[@robtyman4281]

@@druidswillow1052 ....I think you're confusing that with Highbury. 🤔🤨

[@Isleofskye]

@@druidswillow1052 lol

[@Isleofskye]

It's come back now 7 years later

[@petersmith4202]

When they never had two hapenys to rub together

[@GreatBlueKnight]

LOL those pants

[@johnross2924]

There called trousers here 🇬🇧

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Lol you😂

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Lol you😂

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Lol you😂

[@PaulWalshp-wx4in]

BRING BACK OH BRING BACK BRING BACK OUR CHELSEA TOO US TOO US 👌👌👌👌👌💙

[@EttoreMuti22]

/=\ Verona

[@druidswillow1052]

Charging the Urchins 25p to get in? They were ripping off fans even back then to watch that shower COYG

[@Stephen-lx9nm]

Come on you gayers?😂

[@druidswillow1052]

@@Stephen-lx9nm Just a Bit of Banter my friend✌️👍⚽

[@tomthomas9708]

Chelsea mugs.

[@roccostarbuck8069]

Your mother 👩

[@tomthomas9708]

@@roccostarbuck8069 Er yeah??