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It was NEVER a jam factory, it was a canning and tinsmiths! FFS!

Thank you for highlighting the fact that CPFC as it is today was formed in 1905. For the last few years, the current club have been pretending that the club formed in 1861 are one and the same. This has been done purely as a way to sell the club as one of the oldest in the world - it is simply not true.

Norwood Junction is the more popularly used station because it has more services that are faster into Central London, plus Overground and Thameslink

Excellent work... at 2.48 the 4 terraced houses at the top of the picture (Paxton Rd) and the 4 in the bottom right (Park Lane) survived after expansion right up to when both ends were redeveloped. A couple of residents refused to move house and stayed until their deaths, before the properties were consumed by expansion.

Next to the Thames its too bloody cold

Even though I am in Liverpool, I love the history of football grounds across Britain. As a kid -teen ager and adult when football match were on tv, I looked at the Grounds as well as The Match. My very first away (Division One) match was at Highbury as a 15 year old in 1980, my mates said "how do you know all the parts of the ground" ... My very first away game was at Sealand Road stadium of Chester City as a 10 year old in 1975.

Billy wasn’t the only white horse there; that was a myth.

I wonder what ever happened to Stadium Hotdog 🤔

Why hotdog? Sausage roll would be authentic.

That terrace looks massive, probably bigger than the east terrace at Charlton. I remember my dad telling me that he went to a war time cup final at Stamford bridge in 1943, Arsenal v Blackpool, official attendance was quoted as 55k, my dad said that was way off, more like 75k. This is more than believable as Stamford bridge held over 80k back then.

Even though i stopped watching arsenal in 2002, i will always miss highbury Arsene wenger and david dein totally destroyed arsenal. No highbury, no arsenal

Remember going there at start of 1990s The name the shed was very literal, as the stadium looked like a dump Amazing how it is today for those who saw it decades ago

Crystal Palace would have been easier to get to back then than Wembley is now!

Crystal Palace amateur team formed 1861 became professional team 1905 after a lot of wrangling and resistance from the Football League. Detailed analysis of the Crystal Palace football club 1861-73 including first ever FA cup competitions and the fixtures played against clubs no longer in existence, are in historian Peter Manning’s book Crystal Palace and it’s football club. ❤

Archibald Leitch also designed the South Stand at Hillsborough. It was originally sited at Olive Grove before being relocated. Since then, the stand has been upgraded but still retains the gable and the clock.

Excellent

chelsoi!

Most fans miss old WHL. Had an atmosphere all of it's own.

You should do a Bradford city old stadium thing. It has lots of history

First went in early 1960s and yes it was a pretty intimidating place. I always tried to stay away from the trouble but somehow it seemed to follow me. Cardiff game late 60s and Man utd in the 70s when they got relegated were particular ones I remember being in. And exiting as quickly as possible. Thanks for the memories 😅👍COYL

Surely Wanderers Royal Engineers etc were non league clubs as well ?

Aston Villa played there six times between 1967 and 1975. Hundreds of rough, tough working class travelled there ready for the battle. Fighting mad, they knew how to dish it out.

On my 7th birthday my grandad said you can either support fulham or qpr ! I said grandad which ones closer he said fulham ! He used to tell me how packed it was and when they would get crushed whilst celebrating one guy snapped a finger and they renamed him jerry brokefinger 😂 alot of ppl would sneak in for free and alot of latecomers would not get in despite having tickets

Im not the biggest fan of the new Wembley stadium. I mis the two towers.

North Greenwich is not too far either, would that be used a lot by fans or are most of them local to Kent to be coming from anywhere north of the river?

Without doubt the most rowdy ground & most full on intimidating atmosphere of any ground in not just England but the U.K on its night. Only Elland Road, Leeds & Ibrox comes anywhere near it. The Old Den is talked about but noise wise this has been louder. Arguably not quite as nasty but decibels wise once the chant of MILLLLLLLL… gets thundering around the ground after a goal against big game/ v bigger opponents there is nothing like it. No need for flags galore all gazette Italia style here.

Crystal Palace have been around for 119 years and still haven't won a major trophy (And, no I don't consider the Zenith Data Systems Cup as a major trophy).

Oh dear god. Pardew and his dad dancing 🤦‍♂️ I was at the Lane for the Palace loss in 2016 😡

Ducati916sps from Kettering also supported Spurs since 78 2nd div then. Also drank in the Corner Pin with all my mates the Kettering Yids.Coys.

Shame about the new ticket prices!

Oh, no. You mentioned Gary Mabbutt scoring at both ends in 91. It was 1987. I’m still a traumatised 12 year old 😢

Great Video

I was there with about 30 other Spurs fans from Kettering We didn’t have tickets but we all bribed the turnstile guy with a tenner each.What a beautiful day.Coys.

They were unlucky not to win in 1946.

One of the great FA Cup final victories.

Eight semi-final defeats since 1991 😥

Another terrific video mate. Back in the 60's behind the goal there was terracing at the front and a grass bank for the rest of the end . It was at the end where the large stand is now, I'm not sure if the other end was the same . There's pictures on TH-cam somewhere if you search for " Selhurst stadium grass terrace " or something similar , I'm gonna miss Boro v Chelsea tonight unless I come off your excellent site right now .!

As a Chelsea fan I never enjoyed going there, for one game we met Chelsea fans leaving the Den before kick off , saying to us , don't bother going , it's murder in there ! Still went and kept quiet !

Hey mate, thanks for this, a great, informed and well presented video . I'm old enough to remember the old stadium , especially the huge West terrace.

I think Thames Association had a stand designed by Archie Leitch at West Ham Stadium 🤔.

fantastic research :)

1981 was the 100th FA Cup Final, the 100th aniversary was in 1972, the discrepancy is due to the gap in war time football.

West Ham are the last team to win the FA Cup as a second division team. They should have also won the 2006 FA Cup final, Liverpool didn't really deserve to win it, that goal from Gerrard was a one in a million shot and then they win on penalties which is a lottery.

If you read social media these days the trolls and endless comments would have you thinking Tottenham have never won anything.

1982 was my first memory. All of 7 yrs old, Spurs sweatbands and Chas N Dave. Couldn’t remember the match though. Which is why I was heartbroken after 1987 and couldn’t understand (then) why we lost. 4 yrs later, we won it on a fuelled post Italia 90 euphoria. Since then, its priority faded which upsets an old geezer like me. We were synonymous with this cup so a 33 yr absence is incongruous. If we were a midtable outfit with nothing else to play for, who knows. But the cup final was THE match we wanted to reach the season pinnacle of. With wall to wall football the fans of the 21 century think success is 4th place and £££. Anyway- we’ve got Burnley in two days. Here’s hoping 🤞

2018… I was a Spurs ST that year and saw them lose to United at Wembley in the semi final. It appears Chelsea only needed a pen to beat Utd in the final. What could have been (Poch v Conte)

It would be nice to see a team other than Chelsea make the FA Cup final for once. Since the year 2000, Chelsea have appeared in the final 12 times. It gets a little bit boring I think for the neutrals out there seeing the same teams making the final almost year in year out.

It's a shame that Arsenal have won the FA Cup more than any other team.

Urrrgghhh. You knew I’d make this reaction. Can’t believe it’s “their cup” now. Need to make some new history

To see Craven Cottage's brick facade that you can still see in an old 1900s image feels so weird.😅