30 Years Since Our Last Promotion

Believe me harle, I've forgotten more than I remember!

It's strange how some games stick in your head and others get lost in the sands of time.

I put it down to going to every game back in the day, there was far to much to remember.

Or perhaps that just sounds better than the truth - I'm getting old and the grey matter's fading!

Half the time I can't remember who we played last.

I struggle to remember who we have coming up. The past is the easy bit 😂

comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 21 hours, 48 minutes ago
comment by CFC: FFP Champions (U20729)
posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
comment by bluespensioner (U6049)
posted 22 hours, 20 minutes ago
Hi Brummie
Just posted the original article to remind everyone of our extraordinary success over the past 30 years ...... as it just seems to be washed away by "Chelsea in Turmoil" headlines

So tired of the negativity in the Press and on this board
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Did you go to Maine Road 89 during our promotion run, big turnout.

We all went raving at the hacienda that night. Good weekend
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Yeah, I went to that game. 3 nil up and they pulled 2 back to make it a nervy last few minutes.

If I remember correctly we broke the Division 2 points record that year!

Not sure but I think Gordon Durie got a couple.

That was the last time I ever went to Maine Road before they left.
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The tache Wilson scored not Judas Dukebox I think

Dixon, Kev Wilson and Dorigo apparently!



Prior to our March 1989 meeting City had been undefeated at home since the opening game of the season. There was little chance of that record surviving their comedy of errors that lunchtime. ‘City were so busy making life difficult for themselves that Chelsea, now 21 League games unbeaten, were required to do very little and in the end they were reduced to City’s level,’ reckoned the Guardian’s acid-tongued Cynthia Bateman.

Andy Dibble came for and missed a 15th-minute Peter Nicholas corner, leaving a close-range tap-in for the grateful Dixon. The centre-forward turned provider for the second before half-time, muscling past Brian Gayle to set-up strike partner Kevin Wilson for a side-foot finish.

It was 3-0 to the visitors after Paul Lake stumbled on the ball in the Chelsea half and Tony Dorigo hared half the field, rounded goalkeeper Dibble and finished in style to the delight of thousands of travelling fans of the Londoners


As I said, my memory is not to be relied upon any longer!

comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
Dixon, Kev Wilson and Dorigo apparently!



Prior to our March 1989 meeting City had been undefeated at home since the opening game of the season. There was little chance of that record surviving their comedy of errors that lunchtime. ‘City were so busy making life difficult for themselves that Chelsea, now 21 League games unbeaten, were required to do very little and in the end they were reduced to City’s level,’ reckoned the Guardian’s acid-tongued Cynthia Bateman.

Andy Dibble came for and missed a 15th-minute Peter Nicholas corner, leaving a close-range tap-in for the grateful Dixon. The centre-forward turned provider for the second before half-time, muscling past Brian Gayle to set-up strike partner Kevin Wilson for a side-foot finish.

It was 3-0 to the visitors after Paul Lake stumbled on the ball in the Chelsea half and Tony Dorigo hared half the field, rounded goalkeeper Dibble and finished in style to the delight of thousands of travelling fans of the Londoners


As I said, my memory is not to be relied upon any longer!

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I was in Platt lane when Dorigo scored, we went bonkers.

We went out got hammered, met some mates at Uni, went to the Hacienda, did pills all night, went to the pub all day in Manchester, and got the train home in teh evening. Epic weekend

Pub all day and pills all night CFC,
and you can still remember it !..........
you're a better man than me mate . <laugh

Not sure what the end I was in was called but it was the one all the Chelsea were in with the Kippax on the right as you looked at the pitch.

I've never taken an uncontrolled substance in my life harle - hasn't helped my memory much though!

comment by harlequinHebdo (U16981)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Pub all day and pills all night CFC,
and you can still remember it !..........
you're a better man than me mate . <laugh
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Proper 36 hour bender

comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 55 minutes ago
Not sure what the end I was in was called but it was the one all the Chelsea were in with the Kippax on the right as you looked at the pitch.

I've never taken an uncontrolled substance in my life harle - hasn't helped my memory much though!
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Same end as me. We had a great turnout. Pleased I wasn't in the corner of Kippax. Away fans stitched up in those days with Manchester rain, although we had so many fans there we reached the covered section