Saturday 21 April 2007

Invasion of Chelsea Supporters (and Kenny Rogers)

Thia photo is from a while back (a week or two after we moved in to our flat) and we went out to explore where we now live. I had forgotten about it - but deem it still worth posting...

Rachel has become a bit of a rugby supporter, so we stopped in to a local pub on Fulham Road to see some of the Six Nations (France barely edged Ireland this year, and Scotland took the Wooden Spoon) -- click on the link to translate that and here for 2008's fixtures.

-- anyway - all of a sudden it looked like the ugly stick had chased a group of balding people down the street and right in to the pub... it went from having 15 or so patrons to 150 in the space of two to three minutes, which was both bewildering and amusing. The photo was my surreptitious attempt at documenting the moment (and Kenny Rogers' ale drinking British cousin)-- and a moment is really what it was, because one or two quick pints each and they were all gone just as rapidly as they had appeared.

It turned out that we live within easy walking distance of Stamford Bridge, which is home to Chelsea's football club. We figured this out later that week when we ventured a bit further down the road - and there it was. (click for map)

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