I would guess, and this is just pure guesswork, that the Kings Road was never a traditional area for football support, and those areas just south of the river are, or probably, were, as near a working class area handy to Stamford Bridge as the nearest to the north or west.Petingo wrote:Basualdo wrote:From what I've been told and according to this map, they mostly are based south of the ri er in the south west of London, Wandsworth, Tooting etc.Petingo wrote:Whereabouts in that London do Chelsea's hard men come from?
On the face of it, the catchment area is not the kind of environment one expects to find any bovver boys spring from.
Is there a part of London they hail from, in the main?
Mind you, I remember going away to Oxford when they were in the First Division in the 80s and thinking it would be a very pleasant trip.
And it was.....up to a point.
We walked around the college area, admiring the Dreamy Spires.......but when we got up near the ground it was by a sink estate called the Blackbird and the pubs were full of absolute six fingered mutants wanting to fight with us
Cheers, Bas.
I wonder how that came about.....Chelsea's fans being from south of t' river.
I thought that was Palace/Charlton/Man. United territory.
Come on you mouthy Lahndahn caaants, back me up or shoot me down.
As usual, Lash is AWOL when he'd be handy.
Lump on with Lash indeed.