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100-119 Carvalho_R Cascarino_A Casey_LJ Casiraghi_P Castle_SR Cech_P Charvet_L Cheyne_AG Chitty_WS Chivers_G Clare_J Clarke_S Clement_N Cliss_D Coady_J Cock_JB Cock_JG Cole_A Cole_C Cole_J

80-99 Brown_JA Brown_W Brown_WY Bruma_J Buchanan_PS Buchanan_R Bumstead_J Burgess_H Burley_C Butler_D Butler_G Byrne_MT Cahill_G Calderhead_D Cameron_DF Cameron_J Campbell_R Canoville_P Carter_R Cartwright_W

60-79 Bosingwa_J Bosnich_M Boulahrouz_K Bowie_JD Bowman_A Boyd_T Boyle_J Brabrook_P Bradbury_TE Bradshaw_J Brawn_WF Brebner_RG Bridgeman_W Bridges_BJ Bridge_W Brittan_HP Britton_I Brolly_MJ Brooks_J Brown_DJ

40-59 Ben-Haim_T Benayoun_Y Bennett_WR Bentley_RT Berry_P Bertrand_R Bettridge_W Billington_HJ Birchenall_A Birnie_EL Bishop_SM Biswell_SW Block_MJ Blunstone_F Bodley_M Bogarde_W Bolland_GE Bonetti_PP Borini_F Borota_P

20-39 Bain_JA Baker_BH Baldwin_T Ballack_M Bambrick_J Bannon_EJ Barber_GF Barkas_E Barnard_D Barness_A Barota_P Barraclough_W Barrett_FK Barron_J Bason_B Bathgate_S Beasant_D Belletti_J Bellett_W Bell_JB

653 Chelsea players. I think this is all of the guys that have played at least one game for us. Note and remember that names are above players pictures. Happy memories, my Chelsea Vintage friends. Here are 1-19 (And then 20 on every posting). Abrams_LR Aleksidze_R Alex Allen_C Allen_LW Allister_JG Allon_J Allum_LH Ambrosetti_G Ambrosio_M Anderson_GR Anderton_SJ Anelka_N Argue_J Armstrong_JW Armstrong_K Ashford_JW Aylott_TC Babayaro_C

By the way, talking of Clive Thomas the ref. Clive Thomas was ref for 14 Chelsea games. First game 19/04/1969 Last game 03/03/1984 5 wins, 1 draw and 8 defeats Jack Taylor, 30 games, 11 wins, 7 draws, 12 defeats. First Game 21/11/1959 Last game 09/04/1977 Howard Webb is on 29 games First game 16/10/2004 1 win, 7 draws, 21 defeats

Who is this? Born 28th Sep 1962 Played four times, twice as sub And making it even harder.... Who is this 2 Born 27th Aug 1968 Played one game

Just four Chelsea matches have been played on 29th February 1908 Chelsea 2-1 Sunderland Div I 1964 Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 Chelsea Div I 1992 Chelsea 0-3 Sheffield Wednesday Div I 2000 Marseille 1-0 Chelsea UEFA Champions League Second Round Group D The only Chelsea players to score on this day are Ron Harris and Bobby Tambling (1964), and Fred Rouse in 1908, Chelsea had come of at half-time losing 1-0, Sunderland missed a penalty in the match, but "Freddy Ready", as he was known, banged in two great goals in this our first season in Div I. It has now been 104 years since we won on this day. In 2016 it will fall on a Monday, but following that in 2020 it will be a Saturday again (as it is once every 28 years). Let's hope our strikers can see cleary on that day in 2020*. (*See cleary, 2020, get it?). Frederick William Rouse Born 28th Nov 1881 Died 1953 Country England From Everton 1,000 To Brentford Chelsea Debut 19th October 1907 Last Match 6th February 1909 Played 42 Scored 11. Position: Inside Right. Ron Harris Born 13th Nov 1944 Country England From Youth To Brentford Chelsea Debut 24th February 1962 Last Match 3rd May 1980 Played 784 (+ 11 as sub) Scored: 14 Robert Victor Tambling Born 18th Sep 1941 Country England Total Caps 3 / When Chelsea player: also 3/ Chelsea Debut 7th February 1959 Last Match 30th March 1970 From Youth To Crystal Palace 40,000 Played 366 (+4 as sub). Scored 201

Thanks for the heads up on Ron Harris testimonial. Now, did Jimmy Greaves score the goal or not? Back on the Wimbledon issue. Yes the game that may or may not have been played was supposed to have been at Plough Lane, 25 January 1979. The programmes exists, it is for Wimbledon v "a Chelsea XI". Could just have been the reserves, but surely someone knows?

Just to be clear on the Wimbledon issue. We played them in the DG testimonial April 78. Correct. However a programme has just changed hands for £430 for Wimbledon v Chelsea XI January 25th 1979. This one has me stumped. If the game had been first team I would have gone. I know I didn't. Or I am pretty sure I didn't. If I did there is likely to be a £430 programme in my attic. As for Wilkins last game in a Chelsea shirt? Are you sure? I thought he guested for us in a testimonial or friendly some years later. Who did we play at SB on 21st April 1980? What was the game in aid of? I believe we lost 1-0 and Jimmy Greaves scored. It was the only first team game I missed for 5 years. Something's can not be opted out of for football. Did anyone else go to the 8-2 at Brentford? What a brilliant night it was. Seem to remember Droy scoring a brace.

Yep they are the games. Nice. I did all of them. Surprising that Stoke game was 1980. It fitted in so nicely with the cup rounds and both going out in 79. Note that Wilkins played and was sold to Man U a day or two later in 79. (China game). I remember the Moscow Dynamo as much was made of the famous 1945 game. Hard to think that the time difference between the classic 1945 and repeat 1978 game was 33 years and the 1978 repeat game is now 34 years ago! What about Wimbledon away on January 25th 1979? Was the game played? The programme has just changed hands for £430. Final bit of puzzle. For which of these games was the Shed Shut. My money is on the Chinese game because shed could have been undergoing work before start of new season. Eamonn Bannon - What a player! One of my favs. Now, next question, did anyone here do the pre-season games in Scotland in 1980? I did them all. I have some photos, will scan on next scan.

Cruyf played for the Cosmos. I went to these games including the Chinese team. Half of Leicester Suare went. Cosmos was 42 000 crowd, Shed open, stood in it, and only about 10 000 programmes were printed. They did a reprint but programme buffs can tell the difference and there are two prices. I used to do away testimonials and friendlies, I remember winning at Brentford 8-2 and the Brentford player the game was in favour of (Alan Nelmes) scored on own goal. I remember losing at Wimbledon 3-0 in a Dickie Guy testimonial. And the end of the 81-82 season we went away to Wigan in a testimonial and actually won. This was an after season game played on something like the Tuesday before or after cup final. I went with the usualy 6 or 7 Chelsea fans that would go to these things. Cathy, Terry Last, Punky Alan etc. Need help, but an away game at Norwich in the spring of 79? Some kind of Norfolk cup or something? I was there anyway and we had to wait 3 hours for the train home. We took about 50 and one of our lads on the walk back to the train station after the pub swung three remaining beer cans on the plastic holders which split. In a freak accident a beer can was catapulted and a Chelsea fan received a servere injury to an eye and the police stopped us thinking "hooligan". They wanted to give him stitches but his mates got him back to the train station and they sat in my compartmant with him holding his eye leaking blood, I think they wrapped it in British rail shiny bog paper. The Aztecs game was a link to Charlie Cooke. At least one of these friendlies against a European team was called off at the last minute and rearranged or called off and never played. I still want to know which game the shed was shut for. Can it have been the Chinese team? Or a Dutch team? DS79? (were they called that?).

Looking at that Newcastle photo, I've just realised. I don't know if there was a tea-bar down that end of the ground for away fans. If so, how would that have worked? A London dolly bird selling stuff to big fat Northern monkeys? Police on guard duty so she doesn't get robbed? I stood in the North end of the ground once. I call upon you Chelsea vintage detectives to help me. 2 cases: Case 1 I have already mentioned a friendly against Stoke in January (I said poss 78 or 79) where the wind lashed the rain into our faces all game. The friendly was arranged at the last minute, possibly due to 4th Round Cup day being a free day for us as I believe this match was played on a Friday night on 4th Round Cup weekend. We would therefore have had to have lost in Round 3 (and Stoke). In 1979 we lost at Man U on Monday 15th January in a tie moved because of bad weather from the 6th. Stoke's tie at home to Oldham was also called off and rearranged for Wednesday the 17th. Therefore I am now calling this quickly rearranged friendly for Friday 26th January. Chelsea played away at Man City on 20th (W 3-2). We were banned and there were no official tickets or coaches. Therefore Chelsea had no way of telling anyone that they had arranged the game. (It could not have been discussed until the morning of the 18th when Stoke were out). With only about 2000 people in the ground it was probably the worst turn out for an official first team home game in our history, friendlies and testimonials accounted for. I need confirmation that this game was played, date and score. My memory says 0-0. Case 2 We played several foreign teams in home friendlies during the late 70's. DS79 I think, New York Cosmos, and a few others. One of these games the Shed was shut and we all had to stand in the North Stand. Which game was this? (It was the only time I stood there). Can it have been Los Angeles Aztecs?

I took this picture. Who is it?

Update on Jimmy. Turns out the stroke was a couple of weeks ago but it was hushed up. The news broke when he was released this weekend. He has been operated on, lost a stone and says he feels great.

Ok, this one has me stumped, who is this?

Is this a bot? 15,990 postings, an average of 10.82 per day..... and born in 1911? Hmmmmm

Jimmy has sufferred a stroke. Breaking news on Twitter.

Please pull through this one Jimmy.

> The Shed was rammed with people trying to get under cover, and I couldn't get in there I seem to recall a night when no matter where you stood in the shed the strong wind whipped the rain into your face. We were just a few hundred in the shed. This would have been possibly Jan 79 or Jan 78 in a quickly arranged friendly against Stoke City. Not many people knew about the match, played on a Friday night, I think the crowd was just over 2000. The rain soaked you even if you were at the back of the shed. The howling wind. Score? Possibly 0-0. Anyone else remember this?

Note that "Garry Jones" (with my spelling of Garry with 2 r's) scored against us for Bolton in 1977. I was a few months shy of my 16th birthday. I wanted to apply by deed pole to change my name as I did not want the name of a person who had scored against us. However I was not allowed to by myself as I was only 15. However in January of the following year..... Bolton took the FA Cup 3rd Round replay in extra time to progress to the Fourth Round, but only after a battle by Spurs. John Ritson put the home side ahead, but Peter Taylor's late penalty - his first goal for Tottenham - gave Spurs an equaliser to take the game into an extra half-hour. Bolton were the stronger side in extra time and a GARRY JONES strike settled the match in the Trotters' favour. Teams : Bolton Wanderers - McDonagh, Ritson, Nicholson, Greaves (G. Jones), Walsh, Allardyce, Morgan, Whatmore, Train, Reid, Worthington Spurs - Daines, Naylor, Holmes, Hoddle, McAllister, Perryman ©, Pratt, McNab (Armstrong), Duncan, Lee, Taylor Attendance : - 31,314 As my little bruvver was a Tottenham fan and as we had just bunged 4 past Liverpool and knocked them out one might say it was a hell of a lot of icing on a rather large cake. In 76-77 on May 7th Chelsea had got a 1-1 draw at Wolves and promotion was certain. The same day the y*ddos went down 5-1 at Maine Road and Tottenhams relegation was certain. So Chelsea riding high in Division I having just demolished the European Champions and one of the greatest football teams of all time. Tottenham were in Division II. And Garry Jones knocks Tottenham out of the FA Cup! - You couldn't make it up. If I had changed my name in 77 I would have changed it back in 78.

> Yep thats the pub mate, we were there so often we had a few lock in's thanks to the bar staff we got to know. Already a Chelsea vintage pub for me. I saw the 8-0 home victory when we won the league there in the pub and also the cup final win the same year. Pam still works there, blond Londoner, she's been there donkey's years, Ian's just finished his 30 year stint there.

Some pics of what we have been talking about Wigan away Wigan away Rotherham 0-6 Our fans Rotherham 0-6 Our fans who had been in their end Rotherham 0-6 JB missing penalty Rotherham 0-6 JB missing penalty action replay Rotherham 0-6 Fillery walking off Rotherham 0-6 Droy walking off Weds away, England's most impressive open home end.

> I had no clue that the jabs had left our team in such a state. Remember we are Chelsea mate, without the happy jabs we might have lost 9-0!