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paulhay0
Feb 24, 2022
Chelsea V Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in the F.A.Cup 3rd Round. 1978
Paul Waterhouse recalls 7th January 1978 when Chelsea played Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in the F.A.Cup 3rd Round. After a two year...
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paulhay0
Feb 3, 2022
Jack Leslie v Chelsea
Ahead of the Chelsea v Plymouth Argyle game Greg Foxsmith of the Jack Leslie Campaign tells the story of former Argyle player, Jack...
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paulhay0
Feb 2, 2022
We've Met Before – Plymouth Argyle
Paul Waterhouse of Bygone Chelsea 1905-99 looks at our past record against Saturday’s FA Cup opponents. League encounters between Chelsea...
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paulhay0
Jan 21, 2022
Chelsea’s Youngest Ever Player and Goalscorer
by @ChelseaChadder Long before foreign owners came to buy up English football clubs, teams would rely on local talent including the use...
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paulhay0
Jan 21, 2022
We've Met Before – Tottenham Hotspur
Paul Waterhouse of Bygone Chelsea 1905-99 recounts some of our famous encounters over the years with our next league opponents, Tottenham...
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paulhay0
Jan 9, 2022
Nice One, Cyril…
As Chelsea sit relatively comfortably placed after the first-leg against Tottenham, Tim Rolls takes a chance to look back on an epic...
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paulhay0
Dec 7, 2021
The Dam Busters Theme vs Take Your Father’s Gun. The Chelsea/Leeds Rivalry.
Tim Rolls recounts some infamous encounters with Leeds United. There are few footballing rivalries that merit their own Wikipedia page....
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paulhay0
Nov 24, 2021
Chelsea v Man Utd in the late 60s – Sell-Out Crowds, Massive Interest, Cracking Games
Tim Rolls reflects on three late 1960s / early 1970s Stamford Bridge encounters with Manchester United. In the late 1960s, the most...
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paulhay0
Nov 22, 2021
A missing piece of Chelsea history is discovered
Phil Carter of Bygone Chelsea 1905-1999 explains how a missing piece of Chelsea’s history was discovered. On the afternoon of 23rd August...
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paulhay0
Nov 22, 2021
Chelsea – The Party Poopers
In April 1973 Chelsea welcomed Manchester United to Stamford Bridge. The match was surrounded by the furore around Bobby Charlton making...
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paulhay0
Nov 5, 2021
We’ve Met Before – Burnley
The long history between Chelsea and Burnley in league football is also interspersed with a number of epic encounters in the F.A. Cup....
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paulhay0
Nov 5, 2021
Peter Houseman’s Sliding Door
This piece is an edited extract from ‘Sexton For God’ by Tim Rolls, available now on Amazon and eBay. 24th January 1970. Apart from the...
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