Celery...

[Ray. 217]

Thanks . Congrats in advance with reaching the magical number of 1000 posts btw

Thanks, i've made it. Here's to the next 1000....

[Fulham Broadway 16,385]

Oh for fucks sake this comes up all the time.

Right, when Captain Birdseye bought the Bridge for £1 Marler Estates wanted to have the mining rights because they had discovered Celery deposits at around 1500ft below the Shed. Bates was having none of it, took them to the High Court and said that vegetables at that depth were endangered throughout the Western hemisphere, and that should the World Wildlife fund get involved, then Marler Estates would be taken to the Court of Human (and vegetable) Rights. They then sold the Bridge to Bates and he made the Chief Executive of Marler Estates run round the touch line with a bunch of celery rammed up his arse before the Wolves game. The rest is history.....

[Changingman_2000 876]

And its all true, I was there when the celery was "thrusted" deep.

[Wilson 358]

Was watching the celebrations during the parade and seen some celery! Hilarious stuff lol!

[Phil Driver 503]

Celery was first heard at the Bridge at the time when we were rubbish when Greenaway was in gate 13 ,from my recollection it was used as a riposte to away fans who were singing" Wembley ,Wembley oh were all pissed up and were going to Wembley. Wembley,Wembley etc ....................

and of course at that time the only time a Chelsea fan was at Wembley was for England games or the dogs ,hence our celery song was born .

[tizerist 6]

It's to do with Peter Selery, a goalkeeper from the 60's I think, fans would try and distract him by singing 'celery, celery' and throwing it around, and it just stuck.