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SUGGS CHELSEA

What was the first game you ever saw live?

I think it was Fulham against Aston Villa when I was about five or six. My clearest memories of it are the smell of hot dogs and cigars, but also the sound of those huge wooden rattles. The atmosphere was great and so noisy. But the second game I went to was Chelsea against West Ham, which wasn’t nice – that was a very different atmosphere altogether. I was about 10, I went with my mate’s dad and he’d managed to get seats in the new East Stand, which was really posh. I remember looking over at The Shed, where there were Chelsea and West Ham fans, watching huge waves of people going backwards and forwards, like the murmuration of starlings. A beautiful thing to behold from a distance, but not when you’re amongst it, seeing policemen’s hats going up in the air. I went to Park Walk school, which was just off the King’s Road, and you were Fulham or Chelsea. They had the Boat Race near Putney Bridge and I found an Oxford rosette, peeled off the Oxford bit and wrote Chelsea on it, because it had the same colours. That’s what made my mind up. That side from 1967 to ’71 was a romantic thing to be involved in.