I missed any handbags with Chelsea at the ZDS, before during or after. I was living three stops away from Fulham Broadway and my best mate came down on the Thursday, and we just spent the next few days on the lash, we were asked if we wanted to go a pub on Shepherds Bush to meet up with other Boro on the Sunday before the game, we didn't, even though at the time I was only a couple of hundred metres from the pub, Olympia was the tube station to Fulham Broadway , - come the biggest day out in our history up to that point, me and my mate had overcooked everything and we were ****ed, it is the Boro way, we just put oor shades on and slinked into the ground, where we sat was very sedate ( fortunately ), we were in the Olympic gallery, my mate worked at ICI and had got them.complementary. Everyone was well mixed up there but there was no posturing.
On the Monday Chelsea fans at work hated us accusing Boro of being animals, I think it was a bad day for normal fans all-round, with idiots from both sides being indiscriminate in who they attacked.
I didn't like Chelsea anyway because off the playoffs, the grief I had from living and drinking in their areas and also losing the Wembley games left a bad impression on me, but gradually over the years I couldn't care less. Not sure now, if we got schlonked in the next two games then I might start to dislike them again.
, but being in the Holgate end on that night to remember (2-0 over the cockney scumbags) was probably the best night of my football life.
