Rhapsody in Blue

How I Fell in Love with the Great Chelsea Team of the Early Seventies

Neil Fitzsimon

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785316975
• Year: 2020

Rhapsody in Blue is a joyous celebration of growing up in the late 1960s and early 70s in the aftermath of England's 1966 World Cup victory. Neil Fitzsimon skilfully transports us to the Stamford Bridge of his youth where he fell in love with Chelsea FC. The book also explores the lost culture of street football, with no referee and no rules.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Prologue
• 1. An Innocent Abroad
• 2. The Hidden Menace
• 3. Nerves
• 4. The Two-Goal Lead
• 5. Street Football – A New Beginning
• 6. The Gear Kid
• 7. Gentleman J.D
• 8. Battering the Bumpkins
• 9. Hutch
• 10. Nobby
• 11. Mouth Almighty
• 12. The Cup at Last – Part 1
• 13. The Cup at Last – Part 2
• 14. A Brugge Too Far?
• 15. City and Real Madrid
• 16. London Boys – Part 1
• 17. London Boys – Part 2
• 18. A Night to Remember
• 19. The Gathering Storm
• 20. That Hell-Bound Train
• 21. Decline and Fall
• 22. Blue Remembered Hills
• 23. Loathe Story Part 1 – Spurs
• 24. Loathe Story Part 2 – Liverpool
• 25. The Long Hot Summer of 1970
• 26. A Warped Vision
• 27. Nemesis
• 28. Webb of Deceit
• 29. Bug’s Eleven
• 30. West Ham Away – 1970 – Part 1
• 31. West Ham Away – 1970 – Part 2 (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
• 32. Last Orders
• 33. Goodbye to All That
• Photos