It's funny how some games are totally unmemorable, yet you remember very clearly, 40 years on, some of the details.
For me this was standing on Richmond station seeing the rain bucketing down, and also the Evening Standard headlines about the Krays being sentenced. Not that I really knew who they, or Harry Roberts, were at the time.
The other aspects of the game were that few teams really tried to mix it with us, Leeds of course, Tottenham (Osgood v Mike England was always extremely interesting, especially when Ossie got away scot free after kicking him in the chest in 1972 league cup semi) and Arsenal, with Mclintock being quite a nasty bastard, here he got away with head butting Chopper, both from referee and most surprisingly from Ron Harris..
Arsenal outplayed us for long periods but this was probably the first game in which we discovered how far Ian Hutchinson could throw a ball (Rory Delap pah, novice) and they couldn't handle it.
Somehow Chelsea won 2-1 and it was a great journey home with our Arsenal friends bleating about how they had been the better side. Did we look bovvered?
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