My experience of Chelsea fans has predominantly been that of once a crowd is formed, and a number of them can resultantly indulge in their group mentality, half-witted behaviour as they are supported by one another and not restricted by the usual social policing you find in private schools etc., they feel they can be themselves, which is more often then not a very narrow and restricted persona only cultivated, once again, by the little bubble in which they live their lives.

I have many fond memories and anecdotes of Chelsea fans which I have posted before but here are two for example and entertainment:

My best friend at school was a Chelsea fan, whose well over 6foot and built Dad took him along with a few of us to Chelsea vs West Ham, many years ago now . A few of their muggy rent boys jumped up in front of us shouting, amongst other embarrassing things, 'stab him' when handbags broke out on the pitch. My mate's Dad calmly placed his hands on the shoulder of two of the fellas and asked them to sit down 'as the kids can't see', they all nodded their heads silently and obligingly and without further comment returned to their seats. My mate's Dad then shook his head disparagingly. Had a lot of respect for the fella prior but after that incident it was immense.

My other was when I was in a pub in Lewisham about 10-15 years ago, and with full commitment to stereotypes a bloke pulled up in a range rover outside and came in to watch the Chelsea vs Barcelona match in the CL. Chelsea lost, the geezer who looked like Billy Bright out of The Football Factory and seemed thoroughly p!55ed after about 4 pints , then launched a verbal attack on a few genuine spanish fellas in the bar threatening to go to his car, come back, and "shoot them". 'Twas a 'Millwall Pub', where I was a lovingly welcomed Palace fan, and there was a QPR fan, for diversity reasons of course, and the Chelsea supporting gentlemen was quite kindly asked to leave before retaliating with further threats to "shoot everyone". About 30 mins later I gave my witness statement to the police as I was asked to do (unfortunately I was out having a fag at the time of course) and our Chelsea supporting visitor was promptly rushed to Lewisham hospital after showing little signs of consciousness. I will also add it was one bloke too, not the whole pub or even a couple of fellas.

Ahhh memories!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

If they played Everton in the semi they would have got hurt. Scousers don’t care about getting arrested and so many of them responding until the riot clad police do anything means a lot wouldn’t get arrested, unless they use cctv and/r splash faces all over the media, which can be personally very damaging unless you’re a scaffolder. Watch this tw@t on 30:30. Punching targets at the the back of a group grappling with each other

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Lippy boys at the stadium end of Wembley way when there was a line of police. When a big gap appeared or in fact no police it was quite amusing. Highly embarrassing.

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Bloke of late forties (edit: probably well into his 50’s but skinny) with just his 2 daughters on the platform at East Croydon sung the whole thing with a can of a strong lager and no pause for breath. He had no shirt on and didn’t look like he was going to Wembley. Probably had cold Turkey from the crack pipe on Saturday. I say late forties but the state of him could be deceiving.

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They’ve definitely gone down in my estimation after there attitude on Sunday I’d put them below the bindippers now

walking down the holmesdale road to see the palace aces!

Quite an un-eventful day with regards to Chelsea interaction.

Some light banter with them before and after on the trains and tube.
Did see the punch up, 33mins in the above vid, as we were coming down the steps at the time, yep that's me in the red top and my son in the Palace shirt!! My son just said off the cuff "someone's got their big boy trousers on" which made me laugh.

As a side did anyone see the guy outside the Roundhouse pub? Had already drunk half a bottle of Brandy, then proceeded to neck the remainder of the bottle. He was crashed out on the floor about half hour later just down the road with paramedics treating him. I told them what he had done, and they said it explained a lot.