Great post. Been going since the early 80's and can distinctly remember worse atmospheres at some matches against teams like Ipswich, leicester and Watford than some of the ones this season. One difference from the Standing kop era is when we go a goal down there definitley used to be more of a reaction from the fans into getting behind the team to help them get back into the game. As for the Chelsea game - i hold that in as much esteem as the finals i've been to. We never got onto the fact that everyone was going in early and we arrived for our pre match lubrication at the usual time, but having drank half of it and the pub being nearly empty we left them and made our way to the ground, it was like a ghost town and the fact we had 4 watches all telling us we still had plenty of time till kick off, at the back of our minds we didn't believe them and ran towards the ground . You could hear the kop roaring all the way back to the george and it was Majestic.