THIS WEEKEND'S FIXTURE - -Chelsea Vs Manchester Utd So here we are up against the only team who can take away our beloved 3 in a row claim. As much as this is now a fixture we have enjoyed to watch it hasn’t always been like that, especially at the Bridge. If you count all games played (H &A) on a 3pts for a win basis, we have exactly the same amount of points won at the Bridge as we have at the HOH. 73.Our home stats are as follows…Played 64 W 19 D 16 L 29,Goals for 93 Against 112.As for scores, we had few big losses in the 30’s & 40’s ,our biggest was a 0-4 reverse in Nov 47,we were also on the receiving end of a nine goal thriller losing 3-6 in Sept 59,With P Skillet 2 & Greaves getting the other in front of a packed Stamford bridge crowd of 66,579.As for draws, there’s a lot of 0-0’s,1-1’s the best/latest high scoring draw was  in Aug 02 where four goals were shared. Wins of course there’s the classic 5-0 from Oct 99,but other high wins are hard to find and the best I can find are a 6-2 in Sept 1930 & a 4-2 in Feb 37, with goals coming from Jimmy Argue & George Mills both grabbing a brace, in front of a very poor turn out of just 16,382.

Recent Stats: I’ve picked the season we stuffed them at home 5-0 and that season is 99-00.Yes ok they won the league but we did finish a credible 5^th (& won the FA Cup!!!).Our home record was not bad, out of 19 games we won 12, drew 5 & lost just 2; we scored 35 of our 53 goals at home and only let in 12 at the Bridge. We actually didn’t let a goal in at home until Oct when we lost to “that hat trick” by Kanu. We started the season off in first place but had slipped as low as 10^th by mid Dec. We also used an incredible amount of players,32 got playing time in the league alone. Attendances: Our capacity was 35, 421, our lowest gate was 31,591, our highest was 35, 113, which brought us a healthy average of 34,532. 

 

 

Games from this week in years gone by: Apr 15^th 61 Vs Arsenal (H) W 3-1...Goalscorers...Tambling, Tindall, OG...Att 38,233

Apr 18^th 72 Vs Southampton (A) D 2-2...Goalscorer...Baldwin 2...Att 24,933

Apr 23^rd 83 Vs Burnley (A) L 0-3...Att 7,393

CHELSEA LEGEND: This week’s Chelsea legend isn’t someone who played a lot of game for us,114 to be exact, the only thing he won at Chelsea was the player of the year award in 1981.His name is Petar Borota, and I’m sure if you ever saw him play you will not ever forget his antics “in goal”. Sometimes when he was bored with playing goalie he would be further up field than the midfielders, he was probably the most eccentric player ever to wear the blue of Chelsea. He was flamboyant, erratic, brilliant all in the same game, but never predictable. He was a big big favorite with the crowd from his first game Vs Liverpool in 79,his last game was a 0-6 mauling away at Rotherham, but I would like to bet he wasn’t anywhere near his goal when half of them went in!!!.The one game I can remember him in was a 6-0 win over Newcastle, he decided he wasn’t going on goal anymore and moved to play as a holding player between the midfield and attack. I remember him speaking to Colin Lee & Gary Johnson on the half way line and they looked totally lost as to what was going on. Geoff Hurst was having a fit on the touchline, but Borota wouldn’t have any of it. Anyway he never played another game for us after Nov 81 and was replaced by a young goalie called Steve Francis, who was a good replacement, but no entertainer like Petar Borota. He returned to Yugoslavia in 85 only to be implicated in a burglary racket. I think on the back of that he may have done some jail time but I’m not to sure on that. I would love to see him as a guest at the Bridge one day as I’m sure he would return to a hero’s welcome. Petar Borota, a great entertainer and a true…CHELSEA LEGEND! 

QUIZ QUESTIONS:

THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONS:

1: Can you name 4 players who have cost over 7 million pounds each but never played for England?
2: Who is the only English player to win 2 European cup medals with 2 different English clubs?

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

1: Name 4 players who have played for 4 teams who have won the European Cup but never won it themselves...D Saunders, Ronaldo, Van hoijdonk, LBlanc
2:Everyone knows Trevor Francis was the first million pound player, but who was the first two million pound player? Answer. Mark Hughes

Until Next Time Then…….Cheerio!  Tel