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Roger Bannister, Chairman Brian Mears, Dave Sexton and architect John Darbourne and the new-look Stamford Bridge.

Funny how the west stand looks so much like the current east stand. The upper tier of the west in the model would have been huge

Stamford Bridge, Chelsea vs Tottenham 1913

Chelsea's flat cap firm waiting for the arrival of their rivals from North London.

Depending where the photo is from mate, copy the url open the image tag above, little green square box & paste the url in to the tag bar(hope that makes sense)

It does.....kind of. I'll practice at some stage when my brains a little more active lol

'By then Rougvie had been contacted by Chelsea, something Ferguson had got hold of. and he slaughtered the player both privately and in the media.'

 "'He called me a mercenary and told me to f**k off. So I did ! "

 

Rougvie had always wanted to sample English football and with the Blues newly promoted to the top flight, West London seemed an ideal place for the defender to embark on a new chapter of his career.'

 

'" There wasn't big difference in terms of the weekly wage, but I got a £25,000 signing on fee- which was a fortune at the time."

 

'While that was a very different Chelsea team from the present vintage, there was a vibrancy about the club following their return to the First Division. That squad was packed with well known names. The likes ok Kerry Dixon, Joey Jones and Nigel Spackman. It boasted a healthy Scottish contingent with David Speedie, Pat Nevin and Kevin McAllister on the books.'

 

" There was big Joe 'kick the ball the way you are facing ' McLaughlin, who loved himself. I had a really good time there and had a great relationship with the fans."

 

This is taken from 'The Glory that was Gothenburg.' by Richard Gordon

 

Doug Rougvie was on a basic £225 per week at Aberdeeen in 1983/84, (Who were. remember holders of the European Cup Winners Cup in 1983/84.) Appearance money and bonuses made up their wages.

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Just thinking I was in my first job, a summer one about that time and clearing £55 per week. Approximately 25% of what a Chelsea first team player earned !

 

I would today, love to earn 25% of what a Chelsea player earns a week in 2015 !

From the club website about the first Charity Shield which was played at the Bridge in 1908. £1,105, five shillings and tuppence equates to £1,104 and twenty-six pence. 

 

Chelsea's association with what was originally the Football Association’s Charity Shield is longer than that of most clubs. Stamford Bridge hosted the first ever match of its kind, played between the masters of the Football League, Manchester United, and the Southern League winners, Queen's Park Rangers.

The original meeting in April 1908 ended in a draw, but United emphatically won the late August replay, also on the Fulham Road, by four goals to nil. No Shield has been replayed since.

In Edwardian England there was transparency over where the charitable donations were made, and the details paint a vivid picture of civic society at the time.

The two Bridge matches raised enough for £1,104, five shillings and tuppence to be handed out. £300 was designated according to the wishes of the Red Devils, £100 under the direction of the Rs, and £300 distributed by the FA in this fashion: ‘£50, Lord Mayor Treloar Cripple Children’s Home; £25, St George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner; £25, Royal Dental Hospital, London; £20, Railwaymen’s Convalescent Home; £20, Church of England Home for Waifs and Strays; £20, Dr Barnardo’s Homes; £25, Royal Free Hospital; £20, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital; £50, Surgical Aid Society; £50, London Hospital; £20, Poplar Hospital; £25, St Bartholomew’s Hospital; £25, St Thomas’s Hospital; £25, Charing Cross Hospital; £20, London Playing Fields Society; £20, Lock Hospital; £12 7s 6d, Destitute Children’s Dinner Society; £12 7s 6d, London Schools Dinner Society.’

Looks like the Bovril gate CB is it ?

Looks like the Bovril gate CB is it ?

I actually think its the shed gates mate, ive seen pics of that arched sign before at the shed entrance.

The 1955 Charity Shield special from the official Chelsea site.

 

Chelsea 3-0 Newcastle

 

 

To mark our first Charity Shield appearance 60 years ago, the official Chelsea website caught up with Frank Blunstone and Peter Brabrook, two members of Ted Drake’s victorious 1955 vintage.

The match between the league winners and FA Cup holders, now known as the Community Shield, dates back to 1908, but it was not until we lifted the first major trophy in our history, the First Division, that a Chelsea team would compete for the shield.

In those days a coin was tossed to decide which team would have home advantage. Back in 1955, whoever did the duty for Chelsea, possibly manager Ted Drake, called it right. The one-off game against FA Cup winners Newcastle would be played at Stamford Bridge.

Frank Blunstone (pictured top in 1955) was an outside left and a regular in our 1954/55 championship-winning team. He played for Chelsea for 11 years, making almost 350 appearances, and here he takes up the story of our game against the team from the North-East, who included in their ranks the great Jackie Milburn.

‘It was on a Wednesday afternoon,’ remembers Blunstone. ‘There were no floodlights in those days and the weekends were full because it was played after the season started.

‘That is why there weren’t many people there. We normally had big crowds back then, we got 74,000 against Wolves the season before. We were disappointed it was not at Wembley because you didn’t get many chances to play there in those days.’
 

Frank Blunstone and Peter Brabrook pictured centre talking to manager Ted Drake in 1959. On their left is Jimmy Greaves.
 

There were 12,800 people at Stamford Bridge that afternoon and they saw 17-year-old Peter Brabrook play inside-right with Eric Parsons wider. It was not to be Brabrook’s permanent position, as he explains.

‘I started off as a midfield player, inside right, and then I got moved to the wing when Eric Parsons got injured,’ he says.

‘I was very quick and Ted Drake thought I would do well out there. It helped that I was young because it was a tough old game and being on the wing kept me away from some of the tough lads. That’s why I went out there because of my pace and trickery and that’s where I ended up playing.’

The match itself proved fairly one-sided with Chelsea impressively running out 3-0 winners, Blunstone among the scorers. An own goal and one from captain Roy Bentley completed the scoring.

‘We had a full team out,’ says Blunstone. ‘We were pleased to win it. We were on 10 to 12 quid a week so any win bonus was good. We relied on those, we would have been out to win all right, and so would have Newcastle!

‘We always did well against Newcastle in them days. And it was Roy’s former team so a bit more for him to play for. They had Jackie Milburn who was also very famous at the time. He was a cult figure at Newcastle, a good out-and-out goalscorer, good in the air and took chances. But we didn’t see him a lot because games weren’t on telly. You knew more from what you read.’

And even though the match was 60 years ago, Brabrook retains one memento from the day.

‘I have still got my shield - it’s a small version of the big one the team gets given. All the winning players got one.’

 

 

 

Chelsea XI

 

Match Report

Newcastle were our opponents in the 1955 FA Charity Shield following their 3-1 victory over Manchester City in the FA Cup final a few months earlier.

Unlike the present day's version of the fixture, this particular game was played at Stamford Bridge as opposed to Wembley, somewhat strangely on a Wednesday afternoon, and was scheduled eight games into the season, transpiring to attract a paltry crowd of only 12,802.

The game itself was billed as a battle of the two star centre-forwards on show: for the Blues, Roy Bentley, and for the Magpies, Jackie Milburn.

Milburn was seen as a legend by the Newcastle supporters, and still is to this day, but by his own standards he endured a quiet afternoon, largely down to the performance of the Chelsea defence who were marshalled impressively by Ken Armstrong.

Unfortunately for the visitors, however, they were unable to keep Bentley at bay and the Chelsea striker, who had previously played for Newcastle, was a constant threat throughout.

Chelsea took the lead in the second half when Alf McMichael misjudged the bounce on a Frank Blunstone cross, diverting the ball past John Thompson in the Newcastle goal to put us in the ascendancy.

We soon doubled our advantage following a quick counter attack, and when the ball was played out to Eric Parsons wide on the right, he crossed for Bentley to fire home.

Blunstone put the seal on a memorable afternoon when he scored the goal his performance deserved in the 80th minute, ensuring we had won the FA Charity Shield for the first time.

 

Match day programme:

 

 

at Highbury, 90's

Thats my Ginger head at the bottom of the pic! Happy days!

ive gotta be there somewhere surely

ive gotta be there somewhere surely

Blimey your eyes are getting bad .............you are right behind the bloke with the scarf.............

September 5th 1959. Nice view of the old East Stand as Chelsea keeper Reg Matthews saves at close range from Ray Pointer of Burnley. The match finished Chelsea 4-1 Burnley.

 

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Blimey your eyes are getting bad .............you are right behind the bloke with the scarf.............

Of course.....how could i miss me lol

Spoke to a female spammer in basildon on friday.......Shes moving to worthing and says that steve wicks lives there and is in the biz of expertly laying wooden flooring....My hearing is not so good so im hoping she didnt say WICKS does flooring in worthing.......Secondly. A bloke in his 60s piped up after seeing the tat on the back of my neck.....67 SHED BOYS...........He was a well presented fellow looking like a banker or similar...He spoke of his beloved Northbank of the day and how he , like me, hates the way grounds are nowadays..A northbank chap that had a scene with our Greenaway....We spoke for a few mins about the past times , shook hands and parted company.....I enjoyed it

Great picture of that Sept 5th 1959 game v Burnley

Wembley 94 Final, say no more...

 

 

 

Chelsea v City 1972 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2015/jul/04/history-of-chelseas-stamford-bridge-in-pictures