Posted January 19, 20169 yr Hello there.I'm writing an article about David Lee (it's a kind of Where Are They Now? thing) and I want to get fans' memories about him as a player. Any memories/stories you have - good or bad - please post them here. Doesn't even have to be a story/memory as such, could just be your general view on his time at Stamford Bridge. Especially good would be any personal memories you have of meeting him/seeing him around - stuff like that.I'd want to use some of the your quotes for the article, which will appear on the Yahoo Football website this week. So if you don't want your comments to be used then let me know, and they won't be. I should confess I'm not a Chelsea fan, I'm actually a Hammer. Feel free to abuse me for this!Cheers,Kevin
January 19, 20169 yr Rodney... Loved the lad. Fantastic passer from the back, was ahead of his time in many ways. I remember him for the penalty at home against spuds in the first game after Matthew Harding died. A very emotional day for all... I still have the. Motd highlights on vhs somewhere. If I recall he. Was. Stretchered off later that game. Good luck with the article
January 19, 20169 yr I was 18 years old standing in the shed when he scored against Man Utd to put us 1-0 up back in 93 I think. The place went nuts, was amazing. Then Cantona equalised almost immediately to piss over our chips, ended 1-1
January 19, 20169 yr Rods was one of my favourite players at the time, ridiculously skilful for a centre half but a bit like a poor mans Le Tiss, not enough bluster for them days. A bit like a really sh*t Rolls Royce in a car park full of Courtinas. Bullet free kicks though and a great range of passing. I met him a few years ago after a Chelsea old boys dinner, got talking to him at the bar in the Butchers Hook. He was telling me about his coaching so I invited him down to Essex to do a session with the boys team that I ran, he gave me his email address but nothing ever came of it. We tried to arrange it a couple of times but the weather ruined it. Wish I still had his email address, I'd ask him again.
January 19, 20169 yr Great servant of the club, decent player & rarely let the team down made even better by him coming through our youth team(remember when we used to have loads of youth coming through the ranks) Sure he scored his first ever league goal from a pen at home v Leicester in 88/89 when we won 2.1.
January 19, 20169 yr Rods was one of my favourite players at the time, ridiculously skilful for a centre half but a bit like a poor mans Le Tiss, not enough bluster for them days. A bit like a really sh*t Rolls Royce in a car park full of Courtinas. Bullet free kicks though and a great range of passing. I met him a few years ago after a Chelsea old boys dinner, got talking to him at the bar in the Butchers Hook. He was telling me about his coaching so I invited him down to Essex to do a session with the boys team that I ran, he gave me his email address but nothing ever came of it. We tried to arrange it a couple of times but the weather ruined it. Wish I still had his email address, I'd ask him again. Ask him on twitter mate https://twitter.com/davejlee69
January 19, 20169 yr Rodney... Loved the lad. Fantastic passer from the back, was ahead of his time in many ways. I remember him for the penalty at home against spuds in the first game after Matthew Harding died. A very emotional day for all... I still have the. Motd highlights on vhs somewhere. If I recall he. Was. Stretchered off later that game. Good luck with the article i was in the MH behind the goal for this game but can not remember nought other than we won and the spuds whined like f**k that they were on a hiding to nothing seeing they were first up after matthew death. thanks for reminding me
January 19, 20169 yr Rodney... Loved the lad. Fantastic passer from the back, was ahead of his time in many ways. I remember him for the penalty at home against spuds in the first game after Matthew Harding died. A very emotional day for all... I still have the. Motd highlights on vhs somewhere. If I recall he. Was. Stretchered off later that game. Good luck with the article i was in the MH behind the goal for this game but can not remember nought other than we won and the spuds whined like f**k that they were on a hiding to nothing seeing they were first up after matthew death. thanks for reminding me A great player. A wonderful passer of the ball. Saw him a few years ago and he hadn't changed a bit. Still the spitting image of Rodney. Here are the goals from the game against Spuds. A very emotional day. Was in the old West Stand for the match. I remember that a couple of Bob Dylan tunes were played before the match as Matthew Harding was a huge fan of Dylan. Can't believe that it's nearly 20 years since he passed away.
January 19, 20169 yr 20 years !! that is scary, was my time at the bridge, loved it !! wonder how that team would hold up today? say against the goons at the weekend ?
January 19, 20169 yr think he scored a good goal against palace in the rumbelows cup in 93 i think...quite skillful for a lanky lad.
January 20, 20169 yr a very decent skillfull player who was more than good enough to play with the likes of gullit and co.
January 20, 20169 yr I forgot how much he looks like Rodney!!! Gullit, Dennis, Vialli, Robbie, Hughes how I wish we had players like them now. There aren't many in the team we have now who I am proud of. Rodney, a very under estimated player, now he could hit a ball!
January 20, 20169 yr One of those legends in passing. Everyone loved him because he tried and did things that others didn't have the guts to. Was never Gullit or Leboeuf but his long passing was loved and a a tall lanky Englishman that tried to play sweeper was a novelty!
January 22, 20169 yr Author Many thanks for your replies guys - here is the published article https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/blast-past-no-25-david-155055610.html Please share with fellow Blues if you like it. Cheers Kevin
January 26, 20169 yr One Rodney Trotter, only one Rodney Trotter. A sophisticated centre back before his time. I remember he had a spell of 6 or 7 games in a sweeper role around the Gullit era and smashed it, outstanding. He got injured and never got the role or form quite the same again. My dad also sold him a second hand Ford Mondeo, he was in the first team at the time so shows you how much the contracts have changed.
February 2, 20169 yr The main thing I remember about him was that he had probably one of the hardest shots I've seen. Think he took a few penalties which were of the 'straight down the middle as hard as you like' variety. No mobility, good range of passing though with aspirations to quarterback the ball at times. Lovely bloke too.
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