David Webb in goal

And pictured back in his usual defensive position facing George Best !

Paris 1937: Paris Exhibition Trophy Final,

Bologna 4-1 Chelsea

Venue Colombes Stadium. Venue for the 1924 Olympic Games.

BOLOGNA: Ceresoli; Fiorini, Gasperi; Montesanto, Andreolo, Corsi; Busoni, Sansone, Schiavio, Fedullo, Reguzzoni.

CHELSEA: Jackson; Barkas, Barber, Mitchell, Craig, Weaver, Spence, Argue, Bambrick, Gibson, Reid.

REFEEE Leclercq (France)

SCORERS: 14′ Reguzzoni (B), 20′ Busoni (B), 30′ Reguzzoni (B), 72′ Reguzzoni (B), 78′ Weaver (C).

From Le Figaro, 7th June 1937 

The favourites from day one Bologna have won the Paris Exhibition Trophy. They beat Chelsea 4-1 yesterday in Colombes as the Italians took the trophy. Before the match, three-quarters wouldn’t have backed Bologna after Chelsea were put on a pedestal after beating Austria Vienna on Thursday that perhaps the British side were not worthy of. That’s not to minimise the triumph of the Italians. As against Sochaux eight days ago, Bologna imposed themselves physically and with their ferocious desire to win but they also showed a sense of security which hindered the British side. Bologna gave a great demonstration of what was expected of them and it would be foolish to doubt the quality of this team or Italian football.

In this regard, there has been a tendency on this side of the Alps to doubt Italian footballers. Before the match, the Sochaux goalkeeper Di Lorto who faced Bologna the Sunday before told me “I don’t believe that this is the real strength of Bologna. Sunday’s win was because Sochaux played very badly.” Was Di Lorto made to realise his error minutes later? How many directors and football experts thought like he did and were really convinced of this? The match between France and Italy will be at the start of the next season. Yesterday’s result showed what we suspected of Italian football but it was much more physical than we expected. To take on these athletes, will we find a French side who are competitive on their level? It will be necessary to take to the pitch with fast, strong and athletic players. Quality is what we have been searching for for years in our national team and France vs. Italy seems as though it will be a very difficult match.

The first ten minutes saw the English look brilliant and inspired but their opponents were able to organise themselves and take control. Faster and more determined, the Italians completely imposed themselves. A mistake from the full-back Barkas allowed Reguzzoni to open the scoring. Six minutes later and Busoni had scored the second goal. Before the break, Reguzzoni added a third. In the second half, Bologna relaxed as they were three goals up. The English took advantage by regaining control of the match but they found themselves against Bologna’s solid difference as Ceresoli and Gasperi were particularly distinguished.  The Italians then scored another through Reguzzoni. Before the end, Chelsea restored some honour with a goal thanks to some good individual play from Weaver. Bologna’s best players were Ceresoli, Reguzzoni, Sansone, Andreolo and Fedullo and it’s noted that three of these players are from South America. Chelsea really disappointed. Only Argue and Weaver looked really determined. The others made obvious mistakes that we are not used to seeing from British sides.

Thanks to Archivio Timf- Historic research on Bologna

https://www.bolognafc.it/en/paris-1937-final-bologna-4-1-chelsea/

Can anyone help me identify this Chelsea Reserves Right Back playing against Swansea Res on 26.10.1968.

The winners were Chelsea 6 - 0

Who is he?
 

http://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26856&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

 

The question was answered by the man himself.

 

Hi All,

Fascinating item. It's definitely Derek Vaughan. I know cos it's me and I was there! Blimey, I was 17 and had just turned pro. The team sheet shows me as right back and in those days that was always number 2 as shown on the shorts. It's not Mickey Maskell or Charlie Morrison as I was much better looking than both of them!

That reserve team had some really good players in the side as I'm sure you can see.

I hope this helps.

Regards

Derek Vaughan

 

 

Found this thread interesting. Hopefully others do too.

Just doing my monthly clean up on my computer so I may have posted these before.

 

One of those schoolboys will go far !

32 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

One of those schoolboys will go far !

I recently watched a rerun of Steve Hampshire's one and only appearance. It was one of the BT Chelsea Classics, and it was definitely not a classic. It was a League Cup match against  Villa that went to extra time. He came on as a sub, and did OK.

Harley was a good left-back for us.

Edited May 25, 20206 yr by Backbiter

Greyhound racing The Bridge.

Looks like 'The Shed' is packed.

Edited May 25, 20206 yr by erskblue

 

Possibly 1979/80 ? Going by the style of home strip in the picture.

Just like this picture.

41 minutes ago, erskblue said:

Possibly 1979/80 ? Going by the style of home strip in the picture.

Just like this picture

77?

8 minutes ago, bluegraham said:

77?

Looks like Pates and Nutton, so 79 or later.

1 hour ago, bluehaze said:

 

Never seen that before. Thanks.

6 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Looks like Pates and Nutton, so 79 or later.

You know more than me I just went on the jersey . Thanks for the reply 

Edited May 25, 20206 yr by bluegraham

39 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Looks like Pates and Nutton, so 79 or later.

Cheers for confirming it.

3 hours ago, bluegraham said:

77?

Pretty sure it's last game of the season and Ron Harris's last game for us 1980 against Oldham. Bloody benches kept cheering every couple of minutes because and I'm typing this without googling (and I've had a few !) if Birmingham beat Notts County we'd have been automatically promoted if we won it ended up 3-3 but loads of people must have had radios in the benches because they were celebrating every couple of minutes. 

We needed West Ham to beat Sunderland two days after the cup final that was never going to happen. Funny enough a mate of mine who's West Ham says not a single West Ham fan went to the game not even the sort of fan who goes home and away is in the ground at 1.30 and writes the team changes on his programme.

Just now, bluehaze said:

Pretty sure it's last game of the season and Ron Harris's last game for us 1980 against Oldham. Bloody benches kept cheering every couple of minutes because and I'm typing this without googling (and I've had a few !) if Birmingham beat Notts County we'd have been automatically promoted if we won it ended up 3-3 but loads of people must have had radios in the benches because they were celebrating every couple of minutes. 

We needed West Ham to beat Sunderland two days after the cup final that was never going to happen. Funny enough a mate of mine who's West Ham says not a single West Ham fan went to the game not even the sort of fan who goes home and away is in the ground at 1.30 and writes the team changes on his programme.

Thanks for that. 

83-84 is mentioned a lot on this thread but this was my first season going regularly home and away with Chelsea and even though it had a terrible end it was still brilliant and I loved every minute of it. So many of my mates who were QPR, Spurs cockney reds changed because they were blown away by our away support we were only 13 but you felt completely safe going away with Chelsea just because of the sheer numbers (apart from West Ham ). I can remember Ian Britton's two penalties like it was yesterday even though it's 41 years ago !

 

A truly special footballer, was 'our' Charlie Cooke,

Edited May 25, 20206 yr by erskblue

I've seen Clive's other goal in this game recently will post it soon.

 

1 hour ago, erskblue said:

Anyone got a contrast button? that's got to be the worst dressed people ever in a photograph although if Chi Blue was a teenager then I could imagine him still dressing like that today 😆

Edited May 25, 20206 yr by bluehaze

Happy Birthday to Clive Walker who is 63 years old today. 26th May.

Edited May 26, 20206 yr by erskblue

Scoring v Oldham at The Bridge in May 1980.         That oh so vital goal at Bolton in May 1983.