Celebration

  Fulham (SW London) is home to the 2014 and 2015 Premier League champions, which is the Chelsea football club (European style, aka soccer). The 41 thousand plus seating Stamford Bridge stadium has hosted Chelsea's home games since the founding of the club in 1905 by Gus Mears. Since 1997, the club has won 17 major trophies and has the 5th highest average all-time attendance in English football history. This makes them one of the most widely supported football clubs in the world. Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has owned the club since 2003.

  Today, as their season ends, Fulham hosted a huge parade for their championship team. Helicopters flying overhead, immense crowds, players and their families riding in large trucks and a lot of loud noise made for an interesting day. This was not unlike what we have experienced in Boston for our champion teams.

This gentleman gave his all to celebrating this championship season.

Andrew Jackson's job was crowd management for the parade. He was born in Poland.

Sompong, Tipapan, Pair, and Pancake. The family is from Thailand and were here visiting Pancake who was a college student in England.

May and 11 year old Michael seemed to be enjoying the day.

One of the many souvenir booths along the parade route.

A large portion of the crowd came to this park along the parade route to watch the big screen television showing highlights of the team's season.

Steve and his 8 year old son Harry show off some of their loyalty.

Lila, Jack, and Charley stop long enough to chat briefly with us.

Trina, John, and 4 year old Coral travel the world following the team.

The team finally made it to our position with the trophy they just won.

More team members with their families.

This gentleman obviously was enjoying the day as much as the crowds, taking our picture as we took his.

Street venders tried hard to sell their wares.