Hi, my name is Lennart Kristiansson

I am living in a town called Umeå in the north of Sweden.At the time around the 1970-71 season I where some 16-17 years of age and also played football myself, at a low club level tough. Otherwise my relationship with sport's been mainly as a supporter, and I still am a huge supporter. My favourite team is a Icehockey team, Björklöven,  whom i have most lojaly followed since 1963 and haven´t missed out on many homegames.

I still follow football and English club football on all levels, have always been close to my heart. At the beginning of season1969-70 I had the oppurtunity to see Chelsea play Ipswich at Stamford bridge. I can promise you that I was hooked after that magnifficent experince!, and of course I became a member of the Supporter Club for many years. Chelsea is still my Team, but today I have also joined the Swedish Section of Slough Town, a Non League Club playing in Ryman League Division 1 North. I must also say I´m proud to have the best Club in Europe for women in my Home Town. Umeå IK Winner of UEFA Champions League for Wimen 2003 and 6 players in World Cup 2003 winning Silver medals. Not bad as Umeå is a Town far north in Sweden with very long and cold winter seasons without football. I also must say that Jesper Blomqvist, the former Milan, Parma, Manchester United, Everton and Charlton player, comes from a village just a couple of miles from my village.  

     It where also in Chelseas souverniershop I purchased a small book containing every address to English Football Clubs. And that's really how it begun....... I'm also very glad that most of the things i collected from English football that season still remains.

About The Site

I have spent many hours working on this site. A lot of information about this single season in the past can be found here. It´s also a large collection of autographs. The collection consists of a large quantity of items to work with and as I choosen to show every signature in digital cards, this site contains of thousands of files which also give me the benefit of good order. A lot of work remains putting more autographs on the net and my ambition is to have more information with high quality too.

Acknowledgment

I'd like to especially thank Bob Dunning from Leeds. I came upon his site, the Bob´s 70-71 footballers , out of pure coincidence. It's an amazing page that Bob clearly must have put alot of effort into, and a page with great ambitions. I remained at his site for several hours, just clicking my way trough different text-pieces and various links. Stunning work! It where quite an excillerating feeling to view and remind myself of all those names from my youth which Bob ambitiously have gathered. Without Bob's homepage it sadly seems so that my collection of autographs and various items would remain somewhere in my attic still. Thank you Bob and good luck with your future work. 

I'd also like to send my gratitude some thirty years back in time, to all of those nice and generous English football players whom took some of their time and replied the letters from a supporter far away. Not only did they stamp and mail their responses, some of them added friendly letters and even sent back more materials than a young supporter ever could have dreamt of. About complimentary material from the 70´s, added to my collection in recent time, I would like to mention Mr Mark McGlynn, an Irishman who provided me with great stuff !!

Maybe someone of you, that has your signature in my collection is surfing around and find this page. Please send me a mail or sign my guestbook.

And to the old players that already been in touch .........Thanks !!!!

I´m still a supporter to you all, just 30 years older.

I hope you will enjoy your visit !

Lennart Kristiansson