Hardly a blade of grass to be seen in the Alan Birchenall and Peter Osgood pictures above!

Edited May 15, 20179 yr by erskblue
spelling mistake

Shot of the day: 29th April 1970: Chelsea players embrace and congratulate Peter Osgood after he scored the equalising goal during the FA Cup final replay against Leeds United at Old Trafford

The programme cover for that Hull City match back in 1976/77 shown on the previous page is a cracker.

Okay,possibly been done before.

Who was the first Chelsea player you had pinned up on your wall as a kid ?

Charlie Cooke for me.

This will obviously differ according to the respective ages of those posting replies.

Edited May 16, 20179 yr by Charles Ryder

 

 

Got my replica 83/85 today...Happy 

Something great photos posted earlier today.

Cheers.

For me it was such a shame that Paul Elliot's career was ended early, I always thought he was going to be a Chelsea great.

Another sad one was Pierluigi Casiraghi.

I thought Herman Crespo would be a brilliant player for us. Unfortunately it never worked out.

Going back in the late 1970s I remember hoping that we'd sign Stuart Pearson when he moved,unfortunately to West Ham.

43 minutes ago, Boyne said:

QPR out in numbers again?

On 2017-5-15 at 08:21, erskblue said:

Hardly a blade of grass to be seen in the Alan Birchenall and Peter Osgood pictures above!

And I bet they didn't go crying off like Charlton did in about 2004 when we had our state of the art brown pitch!!! Sod knows what Charlton would of made of our pitch in 85 when we played city in the milk cup and pat had that thunder bolt penalty saved by Alex Williams!!!!

23 hours ago, erskblue said:

Okay,possibly been done before.

Who was the first Chelsea player you had pinned up on your wall as a kid ?

Charlie Cooke for me.

This will obviously differ according to the respective ages of those posting replies.

A certain James Greaves.

11 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

For me it was such a shame that Paul Elliot's career was ended early, I always thought he was going to be a Chelsea great.

Another sad one was Pierluigi Casiraghi.

Paul would have been but for that snake Dean Saunders. 

10 hours ago, erskblue said:

I thought Herman Crespo would be a brilliant player for us. Unfortunately it never worked out.

Going back in the late 1970s I remember hoping that we'd sign Stuart Pearson when he moved,unfortunately to West Ham.

Yes mate, but wasn't Hernan's movement great off the ball? Such an intelligent player.

Today, May 17th 1997.

Chelsea 2-0 Middlesbrough.

The FA Cup was ours again,at long last.

Memories?

Sheer joy from me after the early goal and celebrated at the Final Whistle and long afterwards.

18 minutes ago, old git said:

Yes mate, but wasn't Hernan's movement great off the ball? Such an intelligent player.

Totally agree. Some of his touches were sheer class and he made some great angled runs.

 

chi blue: Re that Pat Nevin penalty v Man City at The Bridge. I can never watch it without laughing.

Barry Davies commentary on it is brilliant! Total disbelief and all credit to him for not laughing.

I always rated wee Pal as a player and Barry Davies is my favourite all time bbc football commentator along with the late Peter Jones who commentated on Sport on 2 back in the 1970s and 80s.

17 hours ago, erskblue said:

I thought Herman Crespo would be a brilliant player for us. Unfortunately it never worked out.

Going back in the late 1970s I remember hoping that we'd sign Stuart Pearson when he moved,unfortunately to West Ham.

 

7 hours ago, old git said:

Yes mate, but wasn't Hernan's movement great off the ball? Such an intelligent player.

One of Crespo's finest moments was when he scored the winning goal at Wigan in season 2005-2006.

 

Roy Bentley our first title-winning captain is 93 today.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2017/05/happy-birthday-roy--an-original-champion.html

Happy Birthday Roy – an original champion

NEWSWED 17 MAY 2017

Roy Bentley, the captain, centre-forward and leading goalscorer of Chelsea’s league championship-winning team of 1954/55 is 93 years old today.

In his eight seasons at the club, Roy played 367 games and scored 150 goals. He remains to this day our fifth-highest goalscorer.

To celebrate Roy’s birthday and in this week when the current Blues team has emulated the achievement of him and his colleagues 62 years ago, the official Chelsea website has a few of his words recalling the day the league title belonged at Stamford Bridge for the very first time.

The game was against Sheffield Wednesday at home on St George’s Day 1955, Saturday 23 April. Ted Drake’s side knew if they won and Portsmouth failed to beat Cardiff away that same afternoon then they were champions with one game to spare. Captain Bentley takes up the story.

‘Rumour has it that Ted was unable to sleep the night before and there was certainly some tension among my team-mates. Our nerves were eased when Eric Parsons headed us into an early lead but by half-time there was still only one goal in it,’ he wrote in his autobiography Roy Wonder.

‘Not long after the second half started, the Wednesday keeper was injured when I struck a hard shot at him from close range. He couldn’t continue so they were forced to put one of their outfield players in goal.’

The game quickly went further Chelsea’s way when a penalty was awarded for handball and converted by Peter Sillett who had done similar to beat reigning champions and close challengers Wolves earlier that month. Then Parsons netted his second of the game from a Frank Blunstone cross so it was time to check the score from Wales.

However, it was soon discovered that Portsmouth’s game had kicked off 15 minutes late, so there was a wait in west London for the players and many thousands who stayed in the stadium. 

‘Ted was listening on a radio and told us the latest score was 1-1,’ recalled Bentley. ‘Some of us showered while others paced around nervously. When we heard the game had finished as a draw it was hugs and back-slapping all round.’

It was time for the new champions to be reunited with their joyful public. They went out into the directors’ box in the old East Stand.  

‘The adrenalin was pumping through my veins belying the fact my body had taken an eight-month battering. No longer was Chelsea the butt of comedians’ jokes.’

‘I spoke to the crowd after Ted,’ Bentley told Chelsea TV’s Legends programme.

‘As captain I said a few words, thanking all the players for their efforts and expressing appreciation for Ron Greenwood and John Harris. They had played a significant part but weren’t involved at the end.

‘I couldn’t help but make a special mention for John. I had taken over from him as captain and he was a close friend of mine and I felt he needed that. He had not had all his promises fulfilled. He was so delighted because he had played for Chelsea since the war, and the crowd responded but that was it, there was very little else. There was no displaying of the trophy.’ 

‘The scenes will always stay with me,’ he told the book Stamford Bridge Legends.

‘Looking out over thousands of fans was a special moment. Looking at the joy on the faces of the Chelsea fans made my season complete. Winning a championship medal at Stamford Bridge, I think I am prouder of that achievement than winning my England caps.’

Happy Birthday Roy!
 

-          Chelsea TV’s Legends featuring Roy Bentley can be watched On Demand.

Bit Pete knew..

Roy Bentley was the first Chelsea player to play in the World Cup. In Brazil 1950 v Sweden.

Boyne: Cheers for posting the article.

CB: Borota was one of my goalkeeping heroes as a youngster.