Paul Canoville there was the first black Chelsea player. He was regularly racially abused by his own fans. He has led an interesting life. Here’s his Wikipedia page (I suspect he wrote it himself).
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Just finished the Pat Nevin book and he wrote about Canoville getting dogs abuse from Chelsea fans. Nevin got abuse from Rangers fans who travelled to Chelsea games. Chelsea sounded like a pretty nasty club in the 80s. A cunt of an owner, a cunt of a fanbase, and a bunch of cunts playing for them. I am not sure where Pat Nevin would fall within that.
Great through ball from Nevin in that video for Canoville’s second goal.
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Nevin always comes across as an alright sort. I think he used to try and look out for that Canonville lad too
I had first hand experience with Chelsea fans in world cup in France in 98. Not towards me funnily enough. I was in the eye of a storm, but the two Scottish fellas with me got awful abuse as did the rest of the French in the bar!
He looked out for a lot of people. Seemed a fairly alright sort.
Mild enough but I experienced one after their defeat of Liverpool in the CL quarters in 2009.
We’re going to Rome
We’re going to Rooome
Fuck your history!!
We’re going to Rome
He blasted this out at the top of his voice. While holding the hands of his two young kids.
I was out in Dublin a few years back. A midweek night, near the end of the night, I was sauced up and started singing the “Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea…” chant at the bar, to nobody in particular, burning the ear of the guy with me, and some English bloke down the other end of the bar shouts “shaaat it you kaaant!”
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A Pat Nevin story I love is that when Chelsea secured promotion to the First Division by beating Manchester City 0-2 at Maine Road on the evening of Friday May 4th, 1984, Pat Nevin asked the rest of the Chelsea team if any of them wanted to go to a hip, happening new nightclub in Manchester named the Hacienda.
Precisely none of them wanted to do this, so instead of getting the bus back to London with his team mates Pat went to the Hacienda on his own and then slept for a couple of hours on a bench at Piccadilly station before getting the first train back to London the next morning.
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Pat is despised by lots of Celtic supporters. He very publicly renounced his support of the club due to what he perceived as the unsavoury elements in the wider support & their songbook. He transferred his allegiance to Hibs. I’m all for being flexible with your views so he doesn’t bother me. That said, I can see why others think he’s a bit of a moralising whiny cunt for letting a bit of bucket seat/barstool republicanism bother him so much.
It still is
How many Italians did they murder?
What was the story there? Disabled parking section?
There is no other way to be against bucket seat republicanism. I would have thought Hibs would have a similar amount of barstoolers as well?
Car park for directors and players.
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