Chelsea Headhunters

Chelsea Headhunters originally started as the ‘Chelsea Shed Boys’

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Chelsea Headhunters

So the Chelsea Headhunters originally started as the ‘Chelsea Shed Boys’. But the roots can be traced back to the late 60’s and 70’s, when football hooliganism was in its infancy. Then it was in its heyday during the 80’s. The headhunters were one of the original football hooligan firms in England at the time, coupled with the skinhead movement was very much on the up in England’s youth culture. This saw a new breed of youth culture on the terraces. And in addition, Chelsea fans were prepared to fight anybody and everybody. Mainly in the oppositions home end terrace.

Politics

The skinhead connection did not go hand in hand with the racism that would categorise the headhunters but from the late seventies. But despite this, it was always a predominantly a white hooligan firm. In the late 70’s and 80’s the turning point came in terms of race relations when the National Front gained dominance. In the meantime, at every Chelsea home match the National Front and the British National Party would sell their newspapers down the Fulham Road, outside the main entrances and in the local pubs. As a matter of fact, Stamford Bridge had became the new recruitment ground for the far right. Ever since then, generation’s of Chelsea fans are seen as being right wing and far right extremists.