West Ham United vs. Chelsea

Good Days and Bad Games

 

Apr 9^th 66: W 6-2: Goalscorers: Harris, George 2, Venables, Tambling 2

Jan 20^th 02: W 5-1: Goalscorers: Gudjohnsen 2, Hasslebaink 2, Forssell

Apr 9^th 06: W 4-1: Goalscorers: Drogba, Terry, Crespo, Gallas

Sept 15^th 84: W 3-0: Goalscorers: Lee, Nevin, Speedie

Aug 19^th 00: W 4-2: Goalscorers: Stanic 2, Hasslebaink, Zola

Mar 29^th 86: L 0-4

Nov 28^th 64: L 0-3

Dec 26^th 73: L 2-4: Goalscorers: Britton, Hudson

Sept 9^th 72: L 1-3: Goalscorer: Garland

Sept 28^th 02: L 2-3: Goalscorers: Hasselbaink, Zola

Top appearances makers Vs West Ham Utd

Bonetti 24, Locke 9, McCreadie 13, Desailly 8, Hinton 14, Webb 8, Nevin 8, Venables 8, Osgood 16, Newton 9, Cooke 12

On This Day: So it’s Apr 9^th 66 and Sophia Loren is about to get married in Paris, but more importantly stateside the Anaheim Stadium is opening for the California Angels. On the other side of the pond Chelsea have a small matter of entertaining their rivals from the Far East, East London that is. And what a good day it was for all Chelsea fans as we run out 6-2 winner our team that day was... Bonetti, Kirkup, McCreadie, Hollins, Hinton, Harris, Bridges, Graham, Osgood, Venables, Tambling...Att 35,958

Unsung Hero: Again I ask the question Unsung or Hero. John Dempsey played 207 games for us and notched up 7 goals. He was a strong commanding center half who was at the heart of our defence from the 60’s through to the mid 70’s .Mr. Reliable as he was known. John was to become a vital part of our defence with David Webb, but his finest hour was in Athens in the Ecwc Final, scoring a vital goal in the replay. Dempsey won a few medals at Chelsea, including a Fa Cup medal; he also won 13 caps for the Republic of Ireland. He left Chelsea in March 76 to play for Philadelphia Fury, upon his return he tried management but found it not to his liking. He decided to work at a special school for handicapped kids in North London, where he still works today.

Flashback: So it’s a new season in a new Division and with a fairly new manager in charge. McCreadie’s 4^th game in charge and it’s in the 2^nd division. The beginning of the 75-76 season had us start at Sunderland, who would be the eventual Champions. And true to form we carried on from where we left off, and got beat 2-1.Our next game got us our first point, at West Brom. Our next 2 games were both at home and they brought us maximum points, with two 3-1 wins over Carlisle and Oxford Utd. Our last game in August was the start of a bad run for us as we went 8 games without a win. Our next win in Oct to Blackpool was the start of a decent run of 5 wins and 2 draws. But in the 70’s Chelsea were renowned for being inconsistent and true to form we then went on another bad run of results, winning 2 and losing 5 of the next 7 games. January saw us start we a good 1-3 win at Nottingham forest, but unfortunately we then slipped up against West Brom at home, losing 1-2.February didn’t start to well, with 2 draws  and a defeat, but the end of feb saw us start a 5 game undefeated streak, which would take us into mid March. The Plymouth away win was to be our last win of the season, and we still had 9 games to go, but saying that we only lost 2 of our last 9.We ended the season in a consolidating 11^th place. Our WDL’S were... 12, 16, 14, GF 53, GA 54...Pts 40. Ray Wilkins was our only ever present and he was also the player of the year. Our leading Goalscorer with 11 goals was Ray Wilkins as well, so pretty much a one man effort this year!!! Our average attendance was a sparse 18,956 with our best being 29,011 against Southampton.

A to Z of Chelsea FC:

A: Alternative names for Chelsea: London fc. When the Bridge was built on the old athletic grounds, London fc was a suggestion.

A: Activities other than footy at the Bridge: Athletics, Greyhound racing, Speedway, Cricket, Baseball, Midget car racing, American football

Q: Quickest league goal: Was scored by Ben Whitehouse Vs Blackburn Rovers after just 13 seconds on Dec 2^nd 1907

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