Chelsea v Wolves, 11th December 1976
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- Highlights of the Second Division match between Chelsea and Wolves on 11th December 1976.
At the time of their encounter at Stamford Bridge, both teams were vying for the championship (with Chelsea league leaders and Wolves in 4th position) and they would continue to do so up until the return fixture in the penultimate match of the season. It was at Molineux that Wolves finally secured the title and Chelsea promotion following a closely contested draw. On a poor Stamford Bridge pitch though 36,137 were present to see a thrilling six-goal encounter between the two teams with the match ending in apparent semi-darkness.
Throughout that season, Wolves manager Sammy Chung relied greatly on a number of experienced and familiar players. The likes of Derek Parkin, Frank Munro, Kenny Hibbitt, John McAlle, Mike Bailey and John Richards had all been with the club since the 1960s and they would, with the exception of Bailey (who appeared just 10 times that season), form the core of the Wolves team. In addition, Geoff Palmer, Steve Daley, Alan Sunderland were familiar faces from a few years or so previously, whilst Bobby Gould returned for a second spell at the club. Steve Kindon added further experience and midfielder Willie Carr had been signed by Chung's predecessor Bill McGarry in March 1975. Collectively, they helped ensure the promotion of Wolves as 1976-77 Division Two champions.
Wolves, with Gary Pierce an ever-present in goal, were statistically the second best defence in Division Two and leading scorers in the division with an impressive 84 goals for the season - largely shared out between top scorer Kenny Hibbitt, with 18 league goals, Alan Sunderland (16), John Richards (15), Steve Daley (13) and Bobby Gould (10 goals in just 11 games).
For much of the season it seemed as if Eddie McCreadie's Chelsea would win the title ahead of their nearest rivals. They led the league from 25th September 1976 until 8th April 1977 but an inconsistent April proved costly for their title ambitions. Captained by a youthful Ray Wilkins and with Steve Finnieston forming a useful strike partnership with Kenny Swain, Chelsea reamined undefeated at Stamford Bridge throughout the 1976-77 season.
Original broadcast by LWT's The Big Match with Brian Moore commentating.
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Ray Wilkins was never better than in those early days when he was an attacking midfielder. Chelsea's one truly class player.
I was at this game. In the Shed End. It was a good game. The pitches were really rough in those days, especially in winter. The admission price was peanuts, even in 1976.
I used to get a pound pocket money a week, for that I could get in, get a program and still have money left over for sweets.
The pitch reflects one of the hottest most extended droughts in British history.
All the way from April till the end of September, and the pitch suffered because of it so much so that Dec 1976 the pitches still had not recovered.
My dad is the referee, I was too young to remember this..Thanks for the upload...
Wow really..
Well fuck me.
Kissinger couldn’t have failed to be impressed by your dad’s solid, steady performance
@@stanmonzon5788 Brilliant thanks Stan. My dad took his best friend to the game and met up with him after in the players lounge. His mate said you'l never in a million years guess who i've been speaking with?
THE REFEREES A WANKER 😂😂👌👌👌HOW WE USED TOO SING
One of my best seasons watching the blues, quality awaydays at Wolves, Forest and Bolton and close on 30000 average gate at the Bridge, don't seem the same anymore.
Better football those days!
Great game, terrific to see those players and hear Brian Moore commentating. Great quality sound and picture too. Thanks so much for sharing.
Those were the days!
Great memories of John Richards at his best. Oh how we could do with that finishing now!!
As a Wolves fan that season it was the best season ever in my days following Wolves with Wolves, Chelsea, Forest and Bolton always up there.
My first ever game 💙❤️
I was in North Srand Chelsea ran Wolves down the side railway tracks..... crazy days then... Big following Chelsea then
I remember being at that game back in 1976. I was sitting on the benches west stand, the good old days.
I was there in the Shed and I clearly remember my mate wanting to leave when we were 3-1 down.....I must have talked him out of it and glad I did!
brilliant stuff keep em coming !
JR was a class striker !😊
Despite all comments - the best action in the match was Hibbitt's header for the second Wolves goal...he wouldn't mind if Wolves were 10 - 0 down - he just loved playing...the way all soccer players should be...
They did years ago BUT it's just for money now!
@@johnhawkins6506 ...and I've spent a fair amount of quiet time working out why that and many other aspects of current human 'social normality' are as aesthetically indifferent as they are - but that would take a fair spirit of adventure in an individual who wants to know...
Mate, by the usual standards in 1976 that was good pitch :)
Today's wimps wouldn't play on it!!
Steve Finnieston retired at just 25 years old due to injury.
He plays at the golf club I work at
@@yunghaidz444 Send him regards from all Chelsea fans.
I had the privilege to see Finno score a hatrick for Chelsea then later play upfront with him,great striker & a lovely man🫡🦁🍻👏🏐,hope he is well🤞
In the ground at the end about 30 non-mob Wolves ran on the touchline and out through the new stand rather than go through Chelseas mob. I remember one OB complaining to Wolves fans how Home & Away fans had to leave the same exit, and him calling out to Wolves to stay put until they cleared the Chelsea fans first (this was before holding away fans behind became procedure). Me I hid my scarf and mixed with the home fans. Some Chelsea saw me but must have thought I wasn't worth bothering with.
Was in the shed, the celebrations for each goal were insane. I remember the north stand mob charged at the Wolves fans after the game.
Haha, my team Hereford United were in the 2nd Division that season. The home games against Wolves and Chelsea were a bit scary with their fans running riot. I think the club officials and the local filth were glad when Hereford got relegated at the end of the season!
Blimey, I was at that game too. North Stand, but those were the days when segregation of the fans was not something taken too seriously. Seem to remember it was a cold day. Note the state of the pitch! Remember well Henry Kissinger being there, but never understood why... If only the games today had even only half the raw passion.
It was better those days!
I was at that same match, and gotta say, Chelsea were quite fearsome. Ran about 30 Wolves from the ground, but most Wolves stayed till the end. The ones that ran weren't a mob as such and Chelsea didn't really infiltrate the Wolves main guys. Not like we got done at Forest that same season. Now that was truly awesome!
The bloke who owned the blue mini got a good parking spot behind the goal.
Emanuelle! Dont miss it! Lots of funny details if you look of pitch!
Stamford Bridge was a part time car park back then..
The better team drew. Happy days.
The better team drew...mmm!?🤔
Look at the state of the pitch....shocking!
Remember that day got knocked down in the evening coming back from the pie mash shop in Wandsworth Road haringtons was gonna run across the road on thesaly road to get some matches outside the youth club and bang fu****g jaguar no lights on knocked me down ruined my two toned trowsers 😣
Chelsea were way clear at the top with Wolves 5th before this game. Yes it was a poor pitch, I think freezing weather with lots of other games postponed. Disappointing for Wolves when Chelsea came back in last 10 minutes but Sammy Chung said if offered a 3-3 draw before the game he would have taken it! There was hell of an atmosphere standing with the Wolves fans but it was pretty rough there! Lots of goals 1976/7 & at one time it looked like Wolves might hit 100, though they finished with 84.
What was the name of that old stand that is the pile of rubble behnd the left hand goal?
northstand
There used be a stand in the north east corner..sort of on stilts..terrace below..seats up top..was demolished due to safety concerns.
Were the floodlights not working there? dark asf
i was at this game many memories of seeing chelsea north stand chase wolves fans on to the tracks ..
The Wolves fans that ran in the ground were not lads but about 50 after the whistle who didn't want to go out the same way as the home fans so jumped on the pitch to leave through your new stand. The Wolves lads actually stood their ground though it was one of the roughest away games I went to that season.
Wolves fans behaved like animals at the Hereford away game that season, worst behaved fans I ever saw at Edgar St. They won 1-6 and were laughing their asses off as they rampaged through the town. Funny thing was though, their next home game they got hammered themselves by Southampton 2-6.
Vordman. , yes I was at the away game at Hereford but not one of those on the rampage. We were all drinking cider! I was just 18 at the time but pretty ashamed of the Wolves fans that day. Being from Cheltenham it was easier for me to get my ticket from Hereford, which meant I couldn't get in the away end so went in Merton Meadow End but the police allowed me to transfer.
I think alot of Wolves fans did that, Richard. Officially Wolves were only allocated 2,000 tickets, but in my estimation there were at least 5,000 of them in the ground. Steve Kindon was bloody incredible that day down the left wing. Hereford couldn't handle him. Amazing atmosphere...but very very scary!
Ha Kenny Swain was my PE Teacher at School!
Thomas Telford School?
Mole Maguire must be talking about something that happened outside that I didn't see. But I remember in the paper (or maybe on TV news?) Chelsea & Wolves fighting on a tube train which got smashed. The trouble I saw outside was not involving Wolves by the Chelsea club shop where I went after the game. There was fighting in the queue for tickets for their game at Luton.
think wolves got chased on train line back ground
I wonder if Henry Kissinger ever picked up some colourful language that he could use at the negotiating table?
ANYONE EVER WIN THE CAR BY BUYING A LOTTERY TICKET 😂A COMPLETE GET UP 💙💙💙
Well I didn’t expect Henry Kissinger to be there. Moore thinks he was impressed but I don’t.
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Yeah it was pretty rough there but the Wolves fans there that day didn't run,
Not true
FFS, I was at the match. Some Wolves fans ran yes, we have admitted that, but the main guys stayed and Chelsea backed off. I would say 30 fans ran and 500 stayed.
At the return match at Wolves i saw 30 chelsea run away, does that mean Wolves done Chelsea that day? Course it doesn't, get real guys. I would have thought that the great Chelsea mob would have made a better attempt myself.
Also went to the title decider at Molineux and gotta say, chelsea stood their ground, no one wanted to back off that day and in the end I think the old bill won the day.
There were lots of wolves out for revenge after hearing you ran our kids at yours but it never quite got too nasty.
Like I said, we got done at Forest that year, but everywhere else we ruled that division.
I reckon top 5 that season were
1. Forest
2. Wolves
3. Chelsea
4. Millwall
5. Sheff Utd
Also, is it true Arsenal took the shed in the 70s, lol, how the hell did that happen?
I love this. The Top 5 were, er, only four. Well, you can't count to five but you could smash someone's face in years ago (if you had numbers on your side. Although how you managed to calculate that you had a numerical advantage, when counting to four is your limit, we can only wonder. Maybe four on one and you were brave enough. And you must, to this day, struggle with keeping score in this game. Dear god...)
southbanker17 I'm not sure I agree with your top 5 for trouble that season, Wolves did not even show their heads at Millwall (pi**ed me off as if we'd had the same following as at Bristol rovers 5 days earlier we would have held Cold blow Lane), and Cardiff should be in that top 5 rather than Sheff U, Ninian park was rough and Cardiff came to Molineux for a night game, Sheff U didn't. Only 5 clubs brought standing away fans at Molineux that season, Millwall, Forest, Notts County, Cardiff & Chelsea.
+Johnny Trollope How nice to see dinosaurs still have relevance (even if only in their own headspace)
Yer, I was just winding up the Chelsea lot. Some Wolves did leg it at Chelsea but the main firm stood their ground. But, your correct, no show at Millwall. I went but very intimidating. Worst places in order (and I went every match)
Notts Forest- We got absolutely battered (mainly coz late trains meant firms arrived late)
Millwall (No show from Wolves)
Chelsea (Some Wolves legged it at end but main lot stayed under intense pressure from the North stand lot)
Cardiff (Not much trouble but quite intimidating)
Everywhere else we ruled pretty much
Worst place by a long distance I went to in that season was Millwall. 4 September 1976. They beat us 3-0 too. Chelsea tried at least to take the CBL but Millwall had the numbers - they all turned up that day - plus many of them were tooled up. I was glad to get back in one piece. The return game at Wolves was the one I think where Chelsea fans were banned. The club didn't have an allocation of tickets so I wrote to Wolves and got two tickets sent by post. Chelsea took a few thousand to Wolves for that game. Happy days.
lol wolves ran on tracks that day
yes they did mate..i was there..got run on to the train lines get honest ffs
Chelsea aggro..Chelsea aggro allo..north stand do your job..when football was a good day out.
They all got the same haircut lol
before money ruled
It's GREED now!
lol rember north stand mob chase wolves to back tracks....great day out chelsea were chelsea then
4:00
toffs chewing bricks in the sandpit, typical.
kissenger lol chelsea umm try spurs mate lol
Football fact; Chealsea suffered their heaviest ever defeat 8-0 to the MIGHTY WOLVES
Oii !!!, Allow us to have the one goal we scored in that match in 1953/54. 8-) Wolves were a truly great team back then. That match was something of a turning point for Chelsea. They were trying to stay out of the relegation zone at the time but rallied to finish a respectable 8th. They also got some measure of revenge by winning 4-2 in the reverse fixture. The following season, they would be League Champions themselves including a crucial win against Wolves at The Bridge in front of 75,000. A few years later, a teenage Jimmy Greaves would score five in a 6-2 win against a top Wolves defence who would go on to win the title that season. Been some great encounters between the clubs. Good to see Wolves back in the top division. Always liked visiting Molineux since 76-77.
Nice to see a full house at Chelsea rather than the half filled sadium nowadays.
Eh! I was in London a couple of years ago on a business course and tried to get tickets for a Chelsea game. I was told no chance on the ticket line. Every game is sold out.
Chelsea had a terrible pitch and stadium
lol chelsea ran them all over the place lol
Chelsea mugs.