Celery question

[Admin Steve]

I was describing the past season's celery antics to some people on another board (not football related).

The question came up as to the origin of the ritual. According to http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2007/03/britain-throwing-celery-now-incorrect.html it was Chelsea fans in the early 80s and the song is an old Chas and Dave song (with obvious lyric changes).

I thought it started at Rugby games more recently.

Can you set me straight - I figured Dave or Paul may know since they are 'seasoned' and can remember the 80s :)

[UKRaven]

I was led to believe that it was started at Chelsea FC - not sure when, may be the 80's. I am not a fan of Chas & Dave so I do not know from which song it was taken.

I first saw Celery tossing / heard the song in 1992/3 (Hull KR at Castleford). A small group of Hull KR fans kept it going until today.

The first Baltimore sighting was the KC game '03.:D