Very sad to learn of the death of Dermot Drummy, our former youth team and reserves manager. By all accounts a top bloke and someone very influential in establishing our success at the academy level.

 

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2017/11/27/16707580/former-chelsea-youth-and-reserves-coach-dermot-drummy-passes-away

Rest in Peace, Dermot.

Very sad news. RIP Dermot. 

Very sad news and totally out of the blue. RIP.

Sad news, a can't remember hearing of any illness do a real shock this. I met him once and he was an absolute gentleman, loved talking about the game.

Shocking. Always came across as a good man. Did some tremendous work here. very sad news

The club have released a statement.

Tue 28 Nov 2017

Everybody at Chelsea Football Club has been deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former Academy and reserve team coach Dermot Drummy.

Dermot, who was 56, was a popular figure at both Stamford Bridge and Cobham during his time with Chelsea between 2007 and 2014.

Head of youth development Neil Bath worked with him throughout that time. He said: ‘There are no words to convey the sense of shock and loss we all feel at this news.

‘Dermot was a good friend to many of us here at the Academy, including myself. His love and passion for football were infectious, and we will all miss him greatly.’

A youth team player at Arsenal, Dermot also appeared for Blackpool at the beginning of a career spent largely in non-league. He returned to the Gunners as a coach in 1999, helping develop a string of future first-team players, including Cesc Fabregas, before joining Chelsea in 2007.

Following Brendan Rodgers’ departure and Paul Clement’s promotion to the reserve team, Dermot took control of the youth team, and led Chelsea to our first FA Youth Cup success in 49 years in 2010.

He was appointed reserve team manager in 2011 as Steve Holland joined the first-team coaching setup, and, following the competition’s reorganisation to an Under-21 format, the Blues were crowned national champions in 2014 thanks to a 2-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford. Our goalscorers on the day were Charly Musonda and Lewis Baker, in a team also featuring Andreas Christensen, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Nathan Ake.

Following a brief spell as international head coach of the Chelsea Foundation, Dermot was appointed manager of Crawley Town in April 2016, leaving his position in May this year.

The thoughts of everybody at Chelsea are with Dermot’s family and friends at this sad time.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2017/11/dermot-drummy.html

Awful news. Was a very successful coach with us.

RIP. I hope the club have something planned to show our respects tomorrow night. 

Rest in peace Dermot

Our thoughts will be for him at tomorrows game. Terribly sad, far too young. Rest in peace Dermot.

an integral part of many of our youth player careers  

Thoughts with his family at this time.

 

RIP

Any news on how he died? Nothing has been reported on it and it seemed very sudden.