…or a savvy contractor would get a local businessman involved?
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I think it was his grandfather: King Crod the Inhaler!
Yes and yes 
They sussed us but were fine with us (me and a mate), probably cos they won 2 nil I think. I think it was fact that we were dressed in our usual Walsall attire of donkey jackets compared to the majority of Chelsea fans who were wearing Pringle jumpers, so we stuck out like a sore wotsit
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He took your breath away, unlike his successor, King Crod the Impaler, although he did have a point.
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I can’t remember the year or the score, but it must have been in the late 60’s I went.
A couple of coachloads of us marched from the ground into town (which given the name of the place and the steelworks was surprisingly nice), singing our repertoire of Saddlers songs of the time - shadowed by the local constabulary.
Not only the score, I can’t remember anything about the game with the exception that before kick-off, a couple of girls were walking the touchline, selling programmes or ‘On the Ball’ type tickets. They were quite attractive so were getting a lot of ‘feedback’ from our end. One gave a bit of lip back and for her troubles one of ours jumped up onto the pitch, put her across his knee and spanked her bottom, much to her and her friend’s amusement…and a nearby copper.
Whoever it was (I wonder if they post here) wouldn’t get away with that now. Six months, a football banning order and a lifetime entry on the sex offenders register would be the minimum punishment. Worse still, she might have fallen for him and married him.
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That’s it, you’ve convinced me. Next match I’m on the pitch and looking for someone to spank. 
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That’s well before me. I moved to Hull in 73, The first time we played after that was 1979. Feeling Don Penn or Ian Paul scored, but I have a hopeless memory for things like that. Other than when we have played Hull it’s been my nearest trip (since the bridge opened in 81) so I was disappointed when they were relegated.
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Perhaps Tom Hanks will buy them!
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Always wish that the Chuckle Brothers had bought Rotherham.
They would have had a plan about what to do with the ball on the pitch anyway.
I could be wrong but I always thought it was Bolton who played Bristol
I think it was Sheffield, Bolton had a difficult 80s and were in the 4th division.
Chelsea were relegated from division one that season because they lost a play off to [insert name of team here] from the second division. Shame, if they had won it would have saved us an embarrassing home defeat the following season.
Defenitly Sheff Utd who Bristol City beat in the semi final. Think Bolton came up with Wolves from Fourth Division the same year. Chelsea lost to Middlesbrough.
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I can only imagine what the atmosphere was like at Ayresome Park for that game!
I only went once, the most scared I have ever been at a football match by some distance. Crazy place.
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Were all the Boro fans high-sixing each other when they scored?
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I went with a mate to watch the Wolves FA cup game in 1981 and came back with a black eye 
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They were generally just throwing objects and firing fireworks our way from memory.
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I also know a Wolves fan who was a mate of my Dad’s who went and was giving it a bit outside the ground and ended up with a broken jaw.
Never an easy place to go and come back in one piece.
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One of those places that you go to and think that you can handle yourself, then realise you ARE 3rd division 
Difficult place to go to then? Didn’t know there were any of them 
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I remember being at poly in the 80’s and an Everton fan who was on my course went to Boro away. I told him what to expect having been there in 86 but he was full of it with Everton being such a massive club etc etc. Saw him Monday after the game with one eye not just blacked but completely shut and swollen so it stuck out about 3 inches from his face, he’d turned round to celebrate an Everton goal near the fence and took a pool ball right in his eye socket, what a mess he was. Strange the Boro thing because they were pretty horrible back in those days, but Ive always found Teesside a really friendly place to go in the 30 years I’ve lived up here, my son’s even loved up with a smoggie lass right now and even he’s had a warm welcome down there…and he’s NUFC groundstaff 
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