The Official History of Chelsea F.C.

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00:00:00♪♪
00:00:20Star-zone badges, get in here.
00:00:22Where you coming?
00:00:24Come on, who wants one for a pound?
00:00:26One pound.
00:00:28How about all your ladies?
00:00:32One pound.
00:00:33One pound a Chelsea hat.
00:00:35Come along, don't say you bought them, say you pinched them.
00:00:38Come along now.
00:00:40Here they are.
00:00:43Hey, Celery!
00:00:47Hey, Celery!
00:00:52Programme Bridge News.
00:00:54Thank you very much.
00:00:56Thank you, Tom.
00:00:58Programme Bridge News.
00:01:00Chelsea! Chelsea! Chelsea!
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00:01:46For diplomatic reasons, I said, you've done us out of our bonus.
00:01:52A huge clearance goes upfield and Bentley takes it from here.
00:01:59I was asked, would we win the Cup?
00:02:02And I thought we might.
00:02:04But I thought we had a great chance of winning the Championship even better.
00:02:10Lumpstone, Lumpstone, back to Green.
00:02:12Went very well, he's a good jumper.
00:02:18Go on, my little diamond!
00:02:22I'll have to open out now.
00:02:25Damblin's got to do it on his own.
00:02:28And he can do it.
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00:02:46That's a wonderful save by Benedict.
00:02:52Yes! A goal!
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00:03:02This club won't die. I won't let it die. These players won't let it die.
00:03:07Wilkins, beautifully rifled in.
00:03:12It must be every fan's ambition to own a club.
00:03:16Own a club. Own a big club. Own a great club.
00:03:20Own an institution. And that's what Chelsea is. It's unique.
00:03:25Nevin with Wilson, he's got round him. Will he try one from here?
00:03:31What a super goal by Nevin!
00:03:33A lifetime supporting Chelsea has been a lifetime of promises, promises.
00:03:38Expectations aroused, only occasionally fulfilled.
00:03:42The failures have often been glorious. The successes all the more rewarding.
00:03:491989 was more joyous than many.
00:03:51A record run without defeat, promotion as champions.
00:04:14The Chelsea faithful never doubted that a return to Division One was inevitable.
00:04:20This, after all, is a club born with the highest expectations.
00:04:25It started life in the Football League and has known nothing else.
00:04:38A corner of southwest London, 1865.
00:04:42A cricket ground, an orchard, a market garden, a cemetery.
00:04:46Thirty years later, suburbia has arrived, fed by the new Underground Railway.
00:04:51Beside it, the Stamford Bridge Athletic Grounds have been established.
00:04:55The London Athletic Club headquarters was here, a venue without rivals so close to central London.
00:05:02International matches were staged.
00:05:04The 3A's championships were still being held here at the beginning of the 1930s.
00:05:09It was Henry Augustus Mears who changed its destiny.
00:05:13With his brother JT, Gus Mears owned one of London's major building contractors.
00:05:18He bought Stamford Bridge, intending to make it the country's finest stadium.
00:05:23Soil and clay excavated from the Piccadilly Line tube tunnels provided embankments.
00:05:29When the work was complete, Mears expected that Fulham, then a southern league club, would move to Stamford Bridge.
00:05:36Fulham refused, so Mears resolved to fill the new ground by forming a new club.
00:05:41Inspiration came from the enthusiasm of Frederick Parker, a former starter at the London Athletic Club, now a close friend of the Mears brothers.
00:05:49It was Parker who argued that the new club's name should be Chelsea.
00:05:53Undeterred when it became clear that the southern league wouldn't have them, Parker raised his sights.
00:05:58He persuaded the Football League to vote Chelsea into the second division.
00:06:01To match the standards set by their ground, they'd already signed a squad of experienced players.
00:06:06John Tate Robertson, from Glasgow Rangers, was player-manager. He scored Chelsea's first league goal.
00:06:12Willie Foulke, an England international with an FA Cup winner's medal, was the goalkeeper.
00:06:17Willie was 31 years old, 6 feet 2, and 22 stone 3.
00:06:25The first home fixture in the league was on Monday 11th September 1905, kick-off 5 o'clock.
00:06:35Hull City were the opponents, Chelsea won 5-1, the attendance was 6,000.
00:06:42The next game at the bridge drew 20,000. When Manchester United came in April it was 67,000, what Fulham thought isn't recorded.
00:06:51Frederick Parker's advocacy was fully justified, third place for the newcomers.
00:06:57That summer, Chelsea signed a 21-year-old forward named George Hilston from West Ham.
00:07:03He introduced himself by scoring five times against Glossop in the opening league game. His total for the season was 27.
00:07:11The weather vane, still at Stamford Bridge today, features a footballer modelled on Hilston,
00:07:16whose shooting earned him the nickname Gatling Gun, and won Chelsea immediate promotion.
00:07:22After only two seasons, they were in the first division.
00:07:26An even more celebrated name led the team out in a benefit match at the end of that season.
00:07:31It created such a good impression that Chelsea signed him on amateur forwards.
00:07:35He was George Robie, beginning an enduring link between the club and show business, even though sometimes the joke has been on Chelsea.
00:07:43In 1907, a new manager took over, David Calderhead, another Scot.
00:07:48He stayed for 26 years, surviving two relegation seizes. Both times he led the Blues back to division one.
00:07:55Chelsea also began to impress in the FA Cup. They reached the 1911 semi-final before losing to Newcastle.
00:08:02During the war, the great amateur centre-forward Vivian Woodward came back from the front line in time to play in the final itself.
00:08:09But Woodward refused to deny Bob Thompson his chance of a medal.
00:08:13Thompson wasn't fully fit, and Chelsea lost 3-0 to Sheffield United.
00:08:18The first season after the war was the club's best so far. Third in the first division, FA Cup semi-finalists.
00:08:25Had they beaten Aston Villa, they would have had home advantage in the final, played at Stamford Bridge.
00:08:31In those post-war years, no one endeared himself more to the fans than Andy Wilson, a centre-forward converted to a brilliant dribbling inside forward.
00:08:41Wilson captained the side for six second division seasons, when promotion just eluded them.
00:08:47But in 1930, after being in doubt until the very last game of the season, Chelsea rejoined the upper classes.
00:09:00Back among the Toffs, Chelsea spent like Toffs. They went for the best they could get, and never mind the price.
00:09:07Their first ever £10,000 cheque bought Hughie Gallacher, the finest centre-forward in the land.
00:09:13Although only 5'5", Gallacher had been scoring freely for Newcastle and Scotland. Chelsea, too, would get value for money.
00:09:22Alec Chain came from Aberdeen for £6,000, a winger converted to inside forward.
00:09:28Soon they were joined by Alec Jackson, a winger known as the Gay Cavalier, £8,500 from Huddersfield.
00:09:35The grass at the bridge had never seemed greener.
00:09:39Approaching the first fixture, Jackson and Andy Wilson bubbled with optimism.
00:09:45Well, Andy, there's all the people. Tell them what we're going to do next season, eh?
00:09:49Oh, well, you're one of the big noises, you know what I mean? You're the big noise, along with Gallacher and Sheen and a few more of the boys. Well, it's up to you boys.
00:09:55Oh, really, I don't know. I want the captain to set us a good example.
00:09:58Oh, well, we'll do our very best for that, then. Of course, all the boys are fit and that, and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't.
00:10:03What about the Arsenal?
00:10:04Oh, half their team hasn't signed yet.
00:10:06Hey, there's Jake Whitley coming.
00:10:08The forwards were all internationals, with the four Scots joined by England's Jackie Crawford on the right of this picture.
00:10:16Tommy Law was another who played for Scotland. The hard-tackling left-back was one of the famous Wembley Wizards.
00:10:23There were games including nine men who played for their country.
00:10:26There was an all-international half-back line, Sam Irving from Ireland, Jack Towner and Sid Bishop from England.
00:10:33Money spent brought money in. The first five home gates were all £50,000 or more.
00:10:41Arsenal, in November, drew £75,000.
00:10:44But despite a convincing cup victory over West Ham in foggy, frosty January, it was the same old Chelsea underneath.
00:10:51They finished 12th in the league and lost in the sixth round of the cup.
00:10:58The following season, Gallacher fulfilled every expectation. 41 games, 30 goals.
00:11:04His temper was as short as his stature. On one occasion, he asked if he could leave the pitch to cool down.
00:11:11But when the aggression was properly channelled, few defences could curb him.
00:11:15Against Tranmere, when Chelsea wore their striped change kit, Gallacher scored both goals in a two-all draw.
00:11:21That launched an FA Cup assault that carried them through to the last four.
00:11:34It was Chelsea's third semi-final.
00:11:40But as in the 1911 semi-final, Newcastle were too good for them.
00:11:45In 1933, Lesley Knighton became manager. But despite his experience at Main Road and Highbury, he could never lift Chelsea higher than eighth.
00:11:53Goalkeepers were often the saviours of the Blues in those inter-war seasons.
00:11:57Vic Woodley was one of them.
00:12:00But in 1934, he was sent off to England.
00:12:03He could never lift Chelsea higher than eighth.
00:12:05Goalkeepers were often the saviours of the Blues in those inter-war seasons.
00:12:09Vic Woodley was good enough to play 19 times for England in three years.
00:12:13He needed to be, because Scotland's first choice, Johnny Jackson, was in Chelsea's reserves.
00:12:20Whatever the results, the crowds kept coming.
00:12:23Nearly 83,000 saw Arsenal in October 35, a Stamford Bridge record never to be officially beaten.
00:12:30And the tradition of powerful centre-forwards continued.
00:12:33George Mills, who played throughout the 30s, was the first to score 100 league goals for Chelsea.
00:12:39He was partnered for a while by Joe Bambrick, but the Irish international never quite reproduced his best form.
00:12:46Joe Payne, who had scored 10 goals in a game only two years earlier, cost £5,000.
00:12:52In wartime, Chelsea played in two Wembley Cup finals, losing to Charlton and beating Millwall.
00:12:58Billy Birrell, who'd been appointed manager in May 1939, started the post-war reconstruction by signing Everton and England's Tommy Lawton.
00:13:07In the now well-established club tradition, he paid £11,500 for the best centre-forward to be had.
00:13:15The new man's first game was a friendly, the opponent's Moscow Dynamo.
00:13:19It was no ordinary friendly.
00:13:21The Russians startled their opponents by presenting a bouquet to each man.
00:13:27Estimates put the crowd at nearly 100,000.
00:13:30They saw Chelsea lead 2-0. Dynamo made it 2-0.
00:13:34And then...
00:13:35Taylor through to Dolling. Dolling right through the centre of the penalty area for Russia.
00:13:38And in goes Lawton. Lawton hooks the ball right out of Hobage's hands.
00:13:41He comes back to Lawton, a header, and a header, a goal!
00:13:43A beautiful goal by Lawton! What a goal!
00:13:47But Lawton's delight wilted faster than his flowers.
00:13:51I'll always remember the third goal that they got, this Bob Loppy, was 10 yards offside.
00:13:55And do you know what this Commander Campbell is now? I'll never forget him.
00:13:59He was a referee. He said,
00:14:01Oh, I gave it for diplomatic reasons.
00:14:04No, I ask you.
00:14:07So, I said, Diplomatic reasons?
00:14:10I said, You've done us either by a bonus.
00:14:14Lawton scored 30 goals in 39 games as football returned to normality in 1946.
00:14:20Lawton was a magnet.
00:14:22More than a million people passed through the Stamford Bridge turnstiles.
00:14:25But somewhere, somehow, the relationship soured.
00:14:30Tommy Lawton went, Roy Bentley came.
00:14:32He cost £11,000 from Newcastle.
00:14:35Bought as an inside forward, he was soon leading scorer, wearing the number nine shirt.
00:14:41Chelsea entered the 1950s needing cup kudos to salvage another moderate first division season.
00:14:46They reached the sixth round and drew Manchester United.
00:14:4970,000 crowd Stamford Bridge for the cup tie of the season.
00:14:52Attacking the goal to your right, here is a new Chelsea.
00:14:55Fine teamwork, allied with non-stop attack, bring the Londoners an early reward.
00:15:00The man who puts the finishing touch is Bobby Campbell. And here it is.
00:15:10Nothing will go right for the men from Manchester.
00:15:12After throwing everything into the attack, they find their Wembley dreams dashed in a sudden Chelsea breakaway.
00:15:18From a Mitchell throw in, the ball goes via Gray to Roy Bentley who smashes it home.
00:15:26Look out Wembley, here come Chelsea.
00:15:33On paper it looked a cup clash of the century. In action, that's just what it turns out to be.
00:15:38Arsenal attacking the goal to your right and Chelsea make it a cup semi-final to remember.
00:15:43A huge clearance goes upfield and Bentley takes it from here.
00:15:49Arsenal hit back only to find Hughes give a repeat version.
00:15:53Once again his hefty long kick finds elusive Roy Bentley and Chelsea are two up.
00:16:03A Cox corner kick does the impossible, dropping smoothly into the net.
00:16:09With only 15 minutes to go, Chelsea seem set for their first ever Wembley.
00:16:13But Arsenal have other ideas as the Gunners throw everything into an all-out assault.
00:16:18It comes off thanks to the Compton brothers.
00:16:21From a Dennis corner, elder brother Leslie heads in the equaliser.
00:16:25The perfect ending to the perfect match.
00:16:28From a Dennis corner, elder brother Leslie heads in the equaliser.
00:16:31The perfect ending to the perfect match.
00:16:38Freddie Cox settled the replay in extra time
00:16:41and Arsenal again played box and Cox with Chelsea's cup dreams two years later
00:16:46when Freddie's goals buried them in another semi-final replay.
00:16:50In the season between, only the narrowest margin of goal average avoided relegation.
00:16:55.044 was Chelsea's advantage over Sheffield Wednesday.
00:17:10Extensions and improvements kept Stamford Bridge among the elite of British stadia.
00:17:17On the field, glamour and excitement were rarely lacking.
00:17:20But the cupboard remained bare.
00:17:22No cups, no major titles.
00:17:28Enter in 1952, Ted Drake, a new manager with new ideas about how to achieve the old ambitions.
00:17:35As a player with Arsenal, Drake had scaled the peaks.
00:17:38At Chelsea, he didn't intend to linger for long in the foothills.
00:17:43I had a feeling that they were very cup-minded.
00:17:49And I said to the players,
00:17:54I would like to win the cup, of course, but I would dearly love to win the league.
00:18:00And they really gave me the impression that they had no chance.
00:18:04Drake tackled the image first.
00:18:06Just as George Robie had begun the music hall link,
00:18:09so the club's hospitality to the pensioners of Chelsea Hospital had also backfired.
00:18:14You don't like that tag, pensioners, do you, Ted?
00:18:16Not really, Max, no.
00:18:17From the affection side, it's quite OK.
00:18:20But from the old music hall joke, no.
00:18:23I think, if I can, I'd like to replace it with something else.
00:18:27The new badge was a lion rampant.
00:18:30Drake's next objective was to make it raw.
00:18:34In his first programme notes, he asked the fans to be not just louder,
00:18:39but more committed, more partisan.
00:18:42I knew that, in time, I would eventually come to a younger side,
00:18:49because that was always my ambition.
00:18:52And you've got to get the crowd behind youngsters, haven't you?
00:18:57Among managers, the trilby was giving way to the tracksuit.
00:19:00Drake was one of the first to leave the office for the training ground
00:19:04to put skills on a par with stamina.
00:19:06And there was another policy change.
00:19:08Around the nucleus of his inherited side, Ted recruited not stars,
00:19:12but bargains from less obvious sources.
00:19:15Ron Greenwood, a wartime Chelsea player, signed from Brentford.
00:19:19Peter Sillett, a full-back from Southampton.
00:19:22Stan Wicks, who played under Drake at Reading.
00:19:25Chip Thompson from Clyde to keep goal.
00:19:28Amateur international Derek Saunders from Walthamstow Avenue.
00:19:31John McNichol, aged 27, from 3rd Division Brighton.
00:19:35Seamus O'Connell, another amateur, from Bishop Auckland.
00:19:3818-year-old Frank Blunston from Crewe.
00:19:41Plus Les Stubbs and trainer Jack Oxbury.
00:19:46Ted Drake had warned that he would need three years
00:19:49to make a serious bid for the championship.
00:19:52He was patient through two modest seasons.
00:19:581954-55 began better.
00:20:02In October, Roy Bentley scored his 100th league goal for the Blues.
00:20:06A fortnight later, Manchester United were the visitors.
00:20:09There was another huge crowd and they were not disappointed,
00:20:12even though Chelsea lost 6-5.
00:20:17Jimmy Thompson phoned up, would always phone,
00:20:19whenever he was going away watching, would always phone for the result.
00:20:23And he phoned through this time and I said to him,
00:20:29we've gone down to Manchester United 6-5.
00:20:33And I said, Seamus, I've got three, just imagine.
00:20:37And before I could say another word, he said,
00:20:40now don't worry at all, Governor, I've got a better player than any of those.
00:20:44And do you know who it was?
00:20:47Jimmy Greaves, our famous schoolboy international,
00:20:52that proved to be possibly one of England's greatest players.
00:20:58Chelsea slipped to 12th after suffering four successive defeats.
00:21:02But Drake's belief in the unlikely team he'd assembled wasn't shaken.
00:21:06He was justified by an away victory over Champions Wolves.
00:21:10Chelsea returned to the bridge for a prestige friendly against Red Banner.
00:21:14Hungary's footballers were the yardstick of the 50s.
00:21:16Outside right, Sandor is there to take the pass.
00:21:18A centre finds Hidikuti, who heads it home.
00:21:21Red Banner, one up in the 19th minute.
00:21:25The centre to Bentley, who heads it to Stubbs, and there's Chelsea's first.
00:21:31One all now, and Chelsea are off again with Brunstone in the picture once more.
00:21:35McNicol takes the centre.
00:21:39Bentley shoots, and it's a goal.
00:21:42Red Banner take control for most of the second half,
00:21:45and here they go on the raid that leads to the equalising goal.
00:21:48Palotas is the man who makes it two all, a fair result to a close contest.
00:21:54In the league, Wolves, Portsmouth, Sunderland, the two Manchester clubs,
00:21:58Aston Villa, all had hopes of the title.
00:22:01Chelsea edged upwards, a couple of wins here, a draw there,
00:22:05keeping their nerve after a setback.
00:22:07Prospects looked hopeful, but the champions still had to come to Stamford Bridge.
00:22:1175,000 saw them.
00:22:14Just imagine to beat Wolves to win the championship,
00:22:18or the setting to win the championship,
00:22:20and Wolves are a great side in those days.
00:22:23And a great match, it was a great match.
00:22:27And we had an amateur playing for us, Seamus O'Connell,
00:22:33and he fired this ball in the net.
00:22:36I thought, God, I wanted to see him.
00:22:38And Billy Wright dived and punched it over the bar.
00:22:41I'll never forget that, and it was done so neatly
00:22:44that I wondered, had the ref seen it?
00:22:47But there was the lives goal with his flag up.
00:22:50And as arranged before the game,
00:22:54Peter Sillet was to take all the penalties.
00:22:57And Peter striding up towards the penalty spot,
00:23:01when he looked across at me, and I was in the...
00:23:04And he read my mind, and I know he did,
00:23:07and Peter crashed it past the goalkeeper,
00:23:10and that more or less won the championship for us, yes.
00:23:15But with three games to play, Wolves or Portsmouth could have stolen the title.
00:23:19Chelsea went to Fratton Park, never a soft touch.
00:23:22O'Connell couldn't play, he was at Wembley with Bishop Auckland
00:23:25winning the Amateur Cup.
00:23:27The skimpiest of offsides denied Chelsea a goal.
00:23:30It was nil-nil, one win would do it.
00:23:37Sheffield Wednesday came to the bridge already relegated,
00:23:40a sacrificial offering to celebrate Chelsea's first ever championship
00:23:44in their Jubilee year.
00:23:50Remember those jokes about the pensioners? No more of those now.
00:23:53Watch those boys go.
00:23:58The first one comes from Parsons' head,
00:24:00and doesn't that head get a ruffling by his jubilant teammates?
00:24:07A penalty goal by Sillet.
00:24:09A third goal by Parsons soon after, and it's all over.
00:24:1250 years on, Stamford Bridge at last had a centrepiece
00:24:15for the frame designed by Gus Mears.
00:24:18And that wasn't all.
00:24:20That season, the reserves, the A-team and the juniors
00:24:23all won their respective league titles.
00:24:28On behalf of the boys, I want to say thank you.
00:24:31There's no need to tell you how pleased we are to win the championship.
00:24:37But we're pleased for you, because you've been behind us
00:24:41in other years, and more so this year.
00:24:44So again, from the bottom of our hearts, I say thank you very much.
00:24:49CHEERING
00:24:52This is the happiest moment of my life.
00:24:55CHEERING
00:25:00I was asked, would we win the Cup?
00:25:03And I thought we might.
00:25:05But I thought we had a great chance of winning the championship even better.
00:25:09I was delighted. I was delighted for everybody, of course.
00:25:12I would have given my right arm to a one-sub for Chelsea,
00:25:15and I achieved it.
00:25:17I was so pleased for one bunch, and that was the players.
00:25:22This little Eric Parsons, he was the diamond of a boy.
00:25:26He got some stick from the crowd.
00:25:29In fact, they would call him Rabbit.
00:25:32John McNichol, he served me well at inside forward.
00:25:36Johnny McNichol scores the equaliser.
00:25:40Roy Bensley.
00:25:42There weren't many better centre-forwards in the world.
00:25:44He thought I was crazy that we could win the championship.
00:25:49Possibly the cheapest buy-in in life, I should think,
00:25:52was Frankie Blunstone from Crewe.
00:25:55Blunstone down to money zone, and it's a great goal!
00:25:59Fans celebrated not just the achievement,
00:26:02but the expectation of more of the same.
00:26:04But the 54-55 team was a one-off.
00:26:07They'd given everything, probably outreached themselves
00:26:10in one supreme, sustained effort.
00:26:12By the start of the following season,
00:26:14Willemsey, Parsons, Bentley and Armstrong were all 30,
00:26:17McNichol 29, John Harris at 37,
00:26:20virtually at the end of his playing career.
00:26:23Youth was still represented by Blunstone,
00:26:25and he was joined by 21-year-old Bobby Smith
00:26:28and by Ron Tindall, barely 20.
00:26:31But the magic had gone.
00:26:33Chelsea finished 16th.
00:26:37Roy Bentley was leading scorer for the eighth successive season.
00:26:40Of all the Chelsea strikers,
00:26:42few were more successful, none more durable.
00:26:47Bentley's boots didn't stay empty for long.
00:26:50A young man from East London, bursting with talent,
00:26:53had been attracting television cameras
00:26:55even before he appeared in the first team.
00:26:57And no wonder, in his last season
00:26:59before signing full professional forms,
00:27:01he scored more than 100 goals.
00:27:03His name was Jimmy Greaves.
00:27:06It first appeared on the programme for a league fixture
00:27:09in August 1957.
00:27:14The game was against Tottenham Hotspur.
00:27:25The goal he scored was the introduction
00:27:27to a career without parallel in modern football.
00:27:36Pass to Greaves.
00:27:38And it's a goal!
00:27:40Yes, Greaves has scored!
00:27:42And so, young Jimmy Greaves
00:27:45keeps up his fantastic record of a goal a game
00:27:48in his football league career.
00:27:57He'll get forward now to Jimmy Greaves.
00:27:59Greaves going through on his own.
00:28:02And he scores!
00:28:04This was one of three occasions
00:28:06when Greaves scored five in a match for Chelsea
00:28:08and Wolves were on their way to becoming champions.
00:28:16At the age of 18,
00:28:18Greaves had already won his first England caps.
00:28:22He was an international star,
00:28:24a family man with a house that proclaimed his allegiance.
00:28:28The goals came in seemingly endless profusion.
00:28:31At home, the trophies and mementos
00:28:33multiplied in proportion.
00:28:43Here comes Chelsea on the attack again.
00:28:45Brookes getting it up to Lundstone.
00:28:47Lundstone back to Greaves,
00:28:49who's hanging back very well.
00:28:58Chelsea boards crowding into the middle
00:29:00as Greaves trying to work into a shooting position.
00:29:03But, like love in the song,
00:29:05this affair was too hot not to cool down.
00:29:08In April 1961,
00:29:10Jimmy Greaves was captain for the day
00:29:12in his final game before leaving for Italy.
00:29:15He came here to Chelsea four years ago in 1957.
00:29:19He was a 17-year-old.
00:29:21He didn't know what he was going to do.
00:29:23He didn't know what he was going to do.
00:29:25He didn't know what he was going to do.
00:29:27He didn't know what he was going to do.
00:29:29He didn't know what he was going to do.
00:29:31He was a 17-year-old.
00:29:33He'd scored 100 goals for them before he was 21.
00:29:36Wolves, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion
00:29:39will all remember the five goals
00:29:41that he scored against them in a match.
00:29:43Lundstone, Greaves in the middle,
00:29:45says Braybrooke.
00:29:46Greaves gets his head down!
00:29:48And there's a great goal from Greaves.
00:29:52Braybrooke.
00:29:54Oh!
00:29:56What a tremendous cracker of a shot!
00:29:59Down!
00:30:08Greaves to Lundstone.
00:30:11Lundstone, this running ball sideways.
00:30:15Greaves!
00:30:16Oh, the hat-trick for Greaves in his last appearance.
00:30:20One wonders with some desperation
00:30:23what Chelsea will do without him next year.
00:30:26Greaves signed off with four goals.
00:30:28His season's total was 41, a club record.
00:30:31When he disappeared into the tunnel,
00:30:33the fans felt almost as though they'd seen a mirage.
00:30:37Shimmering and exciting, but too good to be true.
00:30:40The figures, though, didn't lie.
00:30:52The end of the Greaves era began the end of the Drake era.
00:30:55Ted had become the first man to win the league championship
00:30:58as a player and as a manager.
00:31:00His place of honour at Stamford Bridge
00:31:02will always be as the man who gave Chelsea the prize
00:31:05that had been coveted for half a century.
00:31:20Tonight, lads, we're going to demonstrate the throw-in.
00:31:23So make sure, and practise this movement,
00:31:25that both your hands are cut behind the ball,
00:31:27both feet on the ground, behind the line,
00:31:29the ball must be propelled from behind the head
00:31:32onto the field of play to one of your inside forwards.
00:31:35So now, from now, let's go onto the field and we'll practise this.
00:31:38Come on, now.
00:31:39Tommy Doherty had arrived as player-coach in February 1961.
00:31:45When Drake was sacked the following September,
00:31:48Doherty, aged 32 and with no managerial experience at all,
00:31:52was put in charge.
00:31:55Well, of course, I was coach one day, I was Tom, the next day I was boss.
00:31:59And I repeatedly rang up Mark Busby, Don Ravey, Joe Mercer,
00:32:03Bill Mick, Tottenham.
00:32:06If I was in a quandary at any time or then a little problem,
00:32:09they were all very, very helpful to me.
00:32:11So, really, I was thrown in at the deep end.
00:32:13It was a case of sink or swim and I had to learn very, very quickly.
00:32:16You sold a lot of players.
00:32:18Yeah, I sold a lot and we gave a lot away as well
00:32:21because they weren't good enough.
00:32:23Really, that's basically what was wrong.
00:32:25It was a team getting old together and they needed replacing.
00:32:28And we had the team at the bridge,
00:32:30we had a lot of kids at the bridge at the time,
00:32:32just waiting for Burston to get into the first team.
00:32:34When Chelsea were relegated, the young manager threw his young players
00:32:38into a bold bid to make instant recompense.
00:32:44It's a lovely centre now, can Bridges get a shot in?
00:32:47And that's the first goal.
00:32:49In their penultimate match at Sunderland,
00:32:51Tommy Harmer scored his only goal for Chelsea,
00:32:54but promotion was still in the balance.
00:32:59It all came right at home to Portsmouth.
00:33:01Chelsea won 7-0, goal average mathematics did the rest.
00:33:10Doherty's judgement of young potential was totally vindicated.
00:33:14I brought Venables in,
00:33:17Harris of course, and his brother Alan,
00:33:19a lad called Butler, Bert Murray, Barry Bridges.
00:33:23And I realised I had to get a breath of fresh air into the club
00:33:27by bringing the kids through and giving them a chance.
00:33:31I'd like to emphasise that I didn't bring any of the kids there.
00:33:34Dickie Foss, who was the youth team coach,
00:33:36him and Jimmy Thompson, the scout,
00:33:38they brought them all in.
00:33:40A lad called Wolf Chitty, who used to scout for us as well,
00:33:42they were responsible for bringing those players out.
00:33:44I was only responsible for giving them an early opportunity.
00:33:47Among the new constellation, Bobby Tambling was one of the brightest.
00:33:51The way he'd taken on the Greaves role had won him two England caps
00:33:54while he was still a second division player.
00:33:57This goal was in his second international against France.
00:34:02Chelsea now were more than just a bunch of precocious teenagers.
00:34:06The new all-blue strip showed fashion sense
00:34:09and there was a stylish swagger to their play
00:34:11that made Stamford Bridge a fashionable place to be.
00:34:1464-65 was another million spectator season.
00:34:19Graham trying to get inside Murray, a goal!
00:34:25Right wing corner, so knocks the outside left to take it.
00:34:30Oh, it's a goal!
00:34:32It's a goal scored by the inside right, Graham.
00:34:35I used to think quite a few teams
00:34:37are going to have trouble with Chelsea this season.
00:34:40Onto Harris.
00:34:44It's McReady up there again with the attack now,
00:34:46this could be dangerous.
00:34:48And it's the third goal!
00:34:51Ken Shellito, laughing all over his face.
00:34:59Knocks again.
00:35:04Graham, and a lovely goal!
00:35:07Scored by Venables, right off the toe of Renner.
00:35:15Hollands to Venables.
00:35:20Johansson back in defence.
00:35:23Hunter to Collins.
00:35:25He could have put his team in trouble, Hollands.
00:35:27And a goal!
00:35:30It was in this season that Chelsea unveiled
00:35:33another smooth-cheeked youngster
00:35:35looking to become an idol at the bridge.
00:35:48Skill, great attitude.
00:35:52Two great feet, great in the air, marvellous heart.
00:35:56What more is there?
00:35:58Peter Osgood, his debut was in a fifth-round league
00:36:01cup tie against Workington.
00:36:03Won twice, then went back to the reserves.
00:36:07But Chelsea went on to win the league cup,
00:36:09then an infant competition in only its fifth season.
00:36:13Eddie McReady played centre-forward in the first leg
00:36:15of the final against Leicester, and scored.
00:36:20As the season moved towards its climax,
00:36:22the Blues were prominent on all fronts.
00:36:24Their FA Cup run took them to their first semi-final
00:36:27for 13 years.
00:36:30They played at Villa Park, a seat of football history
00:36:33destined to become entwined with Chelsea's history
00:36:36more than once during the Doherty regime.
00:36:38Their opponents in 1965 were Liverpool,
00:36:41the reigning league champions.
00:36:43I remember, we arrived at the ground,
00:36:45going into the dressing room, Terry Venables and I
00:36:47in shanks were standing at the home dressing door,
00:36:49which they'd been allocated, of course,
00:36:51just whistling away to himself.
00:36:53He looked at Terry and I and said,
00:36:55Aye son, you're good enough to win it next year, he says.
00:36:59Liverpool kick off against Chelsea
00:37:01in the semi-final at Villa Park.
00:37:03Chelsea in the darker shirts.
00:37:05The Londoners expect a win, and before long,
00:37:07Liverpool goalkeeper Lawrence is brought into action.
00:37:11Cameron takes it, and Morimer heads in for Chelsea,
00:37:14but it's disallowed.
00:37:16No score at half-time.
00:37:18And then Liverpool really come into the picture.
00:37:20A glorious goal by Thompson.
00:37:23Harris brings St John down, and this time it is a penalty.
00:37:27From the spot, Stephenson scores.
00:37:30Liverpool win 2-0.
00:37:34The season ended in disarray.
00:37:36Three defeats in the North West,
00:37:38eight players sent home for sneaking out of the team's Blackpool hotel.
00:37:43I must admit that I was too much of a sergeant major,
00:37:46I was far too strict in hindsight.
00:37:48But they went out and it was reported
00:37:51to me that they'd been out till 2 or 3 in the morning
00:37:54by the hotel porter, which I denied.
00:37:56I said it was that rugby team that was in the hotel.
00:37:58And I'd prove it to them.
00:37:59So we got the keys and we went to one of the bedrooms,
00:38:02and two of the players who were supposed to be out
00:38:04were lying in bed fast asleep.
00:38:06So I removed the top sheet and they were lying there
00:38:08with their suits and their collar and ties on.
00:38:10I don't know whether they'd just come in
00:38:12or they were ready to go back out again,
00:38:13but it was quite humorous at the time.
00:38:15Chelsea finished third in the league, Liverpool won the Cup.
00:38:18The following season, the draw brought them together again.
00:38:24There he is, Osgood Isgood,
00:38:26that's what the Chelsea fans chanted about this 18-year-old,
00:38:29a great prospect this boy is.
00:38:32The thing to watch for in this match will be
00:38:34the overlapping of the Liverpool defenders,
00:38:37this fellow, the right-back Lawler and Yates.
00:38:41Not a Liverpool forward has scored since the middle of December,
00:38:44it shows you how dangerous the defenders are.
00:38:46And now Thompson, oh it's going to be a goal,
00:38:48Zidjian Hunt, it's there.
00:38:55Corner to Chelsea being taken by Tamling.
00:39:05It is, it's an equaliser, scored by Osgood.
00:39:09Oh, the cheerleaders on the Kop are quite confident,
00:39:12they're still screaming for Liverpool,
00:39:14but it's Peter Osgood for Chelsea.
00:39:17Oh, what a beautiful mover this boy is.
00:39:23What a beautiful run.
00:39:28And it gives away my age,
00:39:29but that reminded me of David Jacket, his best.
00:39:33That's an hour still to be caught up, goes Yates,
00:39:35beautifully taken by Burnetti.
00:39:42That's a good close.
00:39:46Oh, what a goal.
00:39:49Oh, what a goal.
00:39:52Oh, what a goal.
00:39:56Oh, what a goal.
00:39:59Oh, what a goal.
00:40:02Venables.
00:40:05This is Harris, the right-back and captain to Tamling.
00:40:09Beautiful football by Chelsea.
00:40:12Comes Graham, with nothing unnoticed on the right,
00:40:14a lovely centre to Tamling, and that's a goal.
00:40:20That was a goal all the way.
00:40:33Three-kick to Chelsea.
00:40:37Remember, Leeds now with ten men back in defence.
00:40:44Up goes Osgood.
00:40:46Graham, hit the post, a goal.
00:40:52Tamling, number 11.
00:40:56Oh, what a goal.
00:40:59Oh, what a goal.
00:41:03Go on, my little diamonds.
00:41:07They'll have to open out now.
00:41:09Docherty's diamonds then trumped Shrewsbury and Hull City
00:41:12on their way to the semi-final.
00:41:14Back again to Villa Park, this time to play Sheffield Wednesday.
00:41:18It was a very, very heavy Villa Park, unfortunately,
00:41:21and it didn't suit our style of football at all.
00:41:23They had big defenders like Vic Mobley was playing,
00:41:26you know, and Gerry Young,
00:41:28and a full-back that used to chip a good wing,
00:41:30I forget his name now, but it was a heavy pitch
00:41:33and it didn't really suit the style of Chelsea football club.
00:41:36And a terrific goal greets Chelsea.
00:41:41And Chelsea looking like Inter Milan in blue and black stripes
00:41:46as they get the Real Madrid colours in Sheffield Wednesday,
00:41:50all in white.
00:41:52This is Bantam.
00:41:56It's a good one!
00:41:58Ford has scored!
00:42:00A goal!
00:42:0460 seconds to go.
00:42:11As far as the Wednesday supporters are concerned, it's all over now.
00:42:15And here's Ford.
00:42:17He's got McAleog in the middle, he's got Pugh in the middle.
00:42:20There's McAleog...
00:42:22A goal! That is it.
00:42:24McAleog has scored against his old club.
00:42:29It hurt, but there was balm for bruised pride.
00:42:33Chelsea were still pursuing a European trophy
00:42:36in their second season of Fares Cup football.
00:42:39Against Roma, Terry Venables put Chelsea ahead.
00:42:47Roma equalised, Venables scored again.
00:42:52It was a sour tie, but Chelsea reacted positively
00:42:56after Eddie McCready was sent off just before the half hour.
00:43:02A fine third goal completed Venables' hat-trick in a 4-1 victory.
00:43:07Having survived a battle in Rome in the second leg
00:43:10and then disposed of Vienna Sport Club in the next round,
00:43:13Chelsea then fell two goals behind away to Milan.
00:43:17Our watch now, 45 seconds left.
00:43:23There's Venables.
00:43:31Comes Boyle.
00:43:34Harry's breaking on the right.
00:43:38And it's a goal!
00:43:40That could do it, it's a goal scored by Henry Boyle.
00:43:44Oh! That could do it, it's a goal scored by Graham.
00:43:50And it's 15 seconds from the end.
00:43:54At Stamford Bridge, Bobby Tamblyn's corner set up
00:43:57an even more emphatic George Graham header.
00:44:02The scores were level on aggregate.
00:44:08Then came Osborne, four days before his 19th birthday,
00:44:12striking another superb goal.
00:44:18But Milan levelled on aggregate and it took a third game,
00:44:21extra time and the toss of a coin to get Chelsea through.
00:44:32Eventually they met Barcelona in the semi-final,
00:44:35losing 2-0 in the Nou Camp,
00:44:37although that first leg should have been in London.
00:44:41We were due to play them at the bridge
00:44:43and we had two or three injuries and two very good players
00:44:46and it was raining but not that heavy
00:44:50and I arranged for the fire brigade to come in the night before
00:44:53and flood the pitch even more.
00:44:55And the referee came to examine the pitch with his wellingtons on
00:44:58and he says the pitch was unplayable
00:45:00but none of them could fathom where the rain came from
00:45:03during the night but I'd arranged that with the local fire brigade.
00:45:06When they finally played at Stamford Bridge,
00:45:08the fire brigade gave way to the police force.
00:45:11The other boys in blue were needed after Barcelona had a man sent off.
00:45:17With 20 minutes left, an own goal gave Chelsea hope.
00:45:242-1 on aggregate became 2-2, courtesy of another own goal.
00:45:28But when they met for a third time,
00:45:30there was no rain in Spain nor charity from Barcelona.
00:45:33Chelsea lost 5-0.
00:45:36During the summer, Joe Mears died.
00:45:38Chairman of the Football Association,
00:45:40he sat on the Chelsea board from 1931 and was chairman for 26 years.
00:45:46The next season started with a new look.
00:45:48Murray, Bridges and Venables had gone.
00:45:50Charlie Cook was making his league debut.
00:45:55Let's see what he's made of.
00:45:58Graham up there with him on his left.
00:46:00Oh, fine goal! Beautiful goal by Cook.
00:46:06Good ball by Boyle to Cook.
00:46:11And Tamling, a fine goal.
00:46:13Splendid effort.
00:46:19Chelsea much stronger in the tackle.
00:46:22Now it's good to Tamling.
00:46:24Tamling's got to do it on his own.
00:46:27And he can move.
00:46:30And he can move.
00:46:40The Chelsea fans really taking the mickey out of Villanueva
00:46:43by singing the tune of Strolling.
00:46:46And that really is what Chelsea are doing.
00:46:48They're strolling through this match reservedly screened a lot.
00:46:52Much the better for them.
00:46:54There's Graham.
00:46:59Graham again, maybe a shot for number four.
00:47:01Brilliant save by Tamling.
00:47:03Four.
00:47:10Oh, what a bad mistake by Tamling from the fifth.
00:47:13His own four.
00:47:17Number 10, Cook.
00:47:20And here's Boyle on the side.
00:47:23Oh, a bad mistake by Tindall.
00:47:29Oh, you cheeky monkey.
00:47:31And there's the sixth goal, the fifth for Bobby Tamling.
00:47:36On October 1st, the Blues won at Main Road.
00:47:43Peter Osgood was among the scorers
00:47:45as the unbeaten run from the start of the season extended to ten games.
00:47:49Chelsea were top of the First Division.
00:47:52But four days later, Osgood broke his right leg
00:47:55in a League Cup tie at Blackpool.
00:48:00Within days, Tommy Doherty had paid Aston Villa
00:48:03£100,000 for Tony Hately.
00:48:05It was the club's first six-figure transfer fee.
00:48:10The new man's strike rate was less than one every three games,
00:48:13but there were important goals among them,
00:48:15helping Chelsea on an FA Cup run
00:48:17that reached the semi-final for the third successive season.
00:48:23People have said to me,
00:48:24oh, it's Villa Park again for the third year running.
00:48:27I hope it's Villa Park next year again for the fourth year running.
00:48:30I always feel that if you're in a competition often enough
00:48:34and get to the last stages often enough
00:48:36and you're knocking the door often enough,
00:48:38someone might open it for you.
00:48:40One of the keys to the door is fitness,
00:48:42and Chelsea, with four days to go,
00:48:44are anxiously nursing the recently maimed.
00:48:46Bobby Tamling, 27 goals this season, has got to be fit.
00:48:50One player will be especially familiar with Villa Park,
00:48:53Tony Hately, bought from Aston Villa
00:48:55to supplement the genius of young Peter Osgood,
00:48:57whose injured leg is now strengthening.
00:48:59Today's request by Osgood for a transfer is this month's story
00:49:03at a club where most of the disagreements
00:49:05between players and management
00:49:06have been argued out in a healthy,
00:49:08though surprisingly public, fashion.
00:49:10But his players are all to Doherty.
00:49:12He's disciplined them, he's sacked them,
00:49:14he's sworn for them and been fined for it.
00:49:16He's publicly taken their side against the Chelsea board
00:49:19and been censured for it.
00:49:21He's worked many of them so hard that they've left.
00:49:23Yet he's warm, instantly likeable,
00:49:25and, one hopes, about to become a successful manager.
00:49:30One wonders whether a Chelsea team and its manager
00:49:33could withstand a third semi-final defeat in three years.
00:49:36Chelsea will have no illusions about Leeds United,
00:49:39but I feel that this time they might even beat their opponents
00:49:42and lay the ghost of Villa Park.
00:49:44Now MacReady.
00:49:49Now Cook boxing them all.
00:49:53Great dribble of this boy.
00:49:57Higley, a great goal!
00:50:04A minute to go, Giles with a free kick.
00:50:07Lorimer, a goal!
00:50:09He's scored, a great goal!
00:50:12No, he's disallowed it!
00:50:14He has disallowed it!
00:50:17He's disallowed it!
00:50:20Oh, really?
00:50:24It looks as if Chelsea are there.
00:50:27Third time lucky, the Highs were the most successful.
00:50:3019 minutes are up and then Chelsea are in the final.
00:50:34Third time lucky.
00:50:37Chelsea have done it.
00:50:50Right over to the wing.
00:50:55Chelsea's first Cup final for over 50 years
00:50:58and their first ever final at Wembley.
00:51:00It's also the first final between two clubs from London.
00:51:03Spurs in white, Chelsea in blue.
00:51:09Dave McKay of Spurs, Ron Harris of Chelsea
00:51:12and referee Mr Dagnall from Lancaster.
00:51:16No score until less than a minute before the interval.
00:51:22And here comes goal number one for Spurs.
00:51:25Muller is shot, rebounds to Jimmy Robertson.
00:51:36Chelsea's attack couldn't match their defence
00:51:39but even that defence was to crumble again.
00:51:42A superb goal from Saul with his back to the net.
00:51:53Two goals down, Chelsea's John Hollins proves
00:51:56that they're not down and out.
00:52:00And suddenly they're only one goal down.
00:52:05A dramatic score by Bobby Tamblyn but Spurs held them off
00:52:08and held on to a record only achieved once before.
00:52:11Five times Cup finalists, five times victorious.
00:52:15Chelsea's hopes deflated like a balloon.
00:52:18In October 1967, Tommy Docherty left,
00:52:21typically in controversial fashion.
00:52:23Wherever he went in football, he generated a new dynamism,
00:52:27an element of flair on the field
00:52:29and a feeling that any day something unforgettable might occur.
00:52:32Chelsea was no exception.
00:52:34With a little luck, he would have given them the FA Cup as well.
00:52:42The man summoned to steady a rocky boat was Dave Sexton.
00:52:46He was the player's choice as well as the board's.
00:52:49Dave had been at the club before,
00:52:51working in the coaching background under Tommy Docherty.
00:52:55In the first weeks of the season,
00:52:57Chelsea had already conceded five goals to Newcastle,
00:53:00six to Southampton, seven to Leeds.
00:53:02They were relegation candidates.
00:53:05Sexton's return brought no miracles overnight
00:53:08but at least Osgood was back and scoring.
00:53:10I put on two stony weights, which didn't help,
00:53:12obviously, just sitting around.
00:53:14Unfortunately, I could never lose that weight.
00:53:16It was a big disappointment to me
00:53:18because I honestly don't think I ever got back
00:53:20to that sort of style of play I used to play then.
00:53:23But recalling the goals he did score
00:53:25simply begs the question, how good might he have been?
00:53:29Osgood.
00:53:34What a good goal!
00:53:37What a good goal!
00:53:45Osgood, back to Osgood.
00:53:48Bouldering Osgood, a fine move and the second goal!
00:53:57Webb.
00:53:59Osgood!
00:54:01That's 2-1.
00:54:07Osgood!
00:54:12Baldwin, Osgood coming in.
00:54:15Almost an accident, but it's a goal.
00:54:20And Osgood's face says it all.
00:54:24The smiles became contagious
00:54:26as Sexton lifted Chelsea remarkably to sixth,
00:54:29the next season, fifth, the following year, third.
00:54:32In November 1967,
00:54:34he had signed Alan Bertchenall from Sheffield United,
00:54:37fee £100,000.
00:54:40Hancock's not back on the line yet.
00:54:42And there it is.
00:54:44Bertchenall the scorer.
00:54:48In February 1968,
00:54:49David Webb arrived from Southampton in an exchange deal.
00:54:53Oh, what a great save, but it's a goal.
00:54:57Goal scored by Webb.
00:54:59By Webb.
00:55:02July 1968, Ian Hutchinson,
00:55:05a £2,500 snip from Cambridge United.
00:55:17Now he's presenting it to Osgood.
00:55:20Good running by Osgood, side foot shot.
00:55:23In comes Hutchinson.
00:55:26Number three.
00:55:30January 1969, John Dempsey from Fulham for £70,000.
00:55:44The newcomers represented solidity
00:55:46to underpin some of the more mercurial talents Sexton inherited,
00:55:50not least the unpredictable genius of Charlie Cook.
00:55:55My main contribution can be to create something from maybe nothing.
00:56:01But apart from that, I've tried hard
00:56:03to make myself a much better professional into the bargain.
00:56:08Dempsey have been able to carve out many chances for themselves in this match,
00:56:12if any at all.
00:56:13Now Cook on a beautiful ball to Boyle.
00:56:16And now a splendid goal.
00:56:20And there was another brilliant teenager
00:56:22tuning up in the Stamford Bridge forecourt.
00:56:25Alan Hudson, born and bred just round the corner.
00:56:31I hesitate to praise him too much
00:56:34because, after all, he is just 18 years old
00:56:37and he's only been in the league side for three or four months.
00:56:41But I must say that in those three or four months,
00:56:45I must say that in those three or four months,
00:56:47he really has made very rapid strides.
00:56:55And number eight, Hudson, it's a beautiful one.
00:56:58And Osgood, he's scored.
00:57:02Over those three seasons,
00:57:04Sexton's developing side became opponents to respect.
00:57:16Oh, he deserved it! He deserved it!
00:57:23Poor boys.
00:57:25He's had a good chance slip then.
00:57:29And Harris really showing why he's got a hard man.
00:57:32Not flinching at all, leaving few hurt.
00:57:36It's not few, in fact.
00:57:39And a goal by Hudson!
00:57:421970 saw the departure of Bobby Tambling.
00:57:45No player has scored more goals for Chelsea.
00:57:49And about that time, Dave Sexton put into words
00:57:52a sentiment that echoed from decades past.
00:57:55Well, obviously, I hope that we'll,
00:57:57for the first time in Chelsea's history,
00:57:59we'll be bringing the Cup back to London.
00:58:02Birmingham, Burnley, Crystal Palace,
00:58:04Queen's Park Rangers were all beaten.
00:58:06Osgood scored in every round
00:58:09as Chelsea swept to their 10th FA Cup semi-final.
00:58:12Hudson!
00:58:14And Dempsey right up!
00:58:16And it's down by Webb!
00:58:18David Webb!
00:58:20Hutchinson in turn laying it off for Hudson.
00:58:24There's Housman outside him, Osgood in the middle.
00:58:28And Osgood! Peter Osgood!
00:58:31Still he goes, he's got a pretty tough left foot,
00:58:34is Housman. Still he goes on.
00:58:36And a goal by Housman!
00:58:40Hudson again, oh, through his legs.
00:58:44And now to Osgood.
00:58:46Hutchinson.
00:58:48Still Hutchinson.
00:58:50There he goes, number four!
00:58:53Hutchinson, oh, a nice little one-two there for Housman.
00:58:56There it is, number five!
00:59:08And the 1970 Cup Final is just about to begin
00:59:12and it doesn't look like it's going to be easy.
00:59:15It's going to be tough.
00:59:17It's going to be tough.
00:59:19The 1970 Cup Final is just about to begin
00:59:22and it does begin on this soft, sanded pitch
00:59:26which looks rather like the Goodwin sands.
00:59:34It's a corner, it's a corner.
00:59:37And Charlton again in the custom position on the goal line.
00:59:41McReady with him and Osgood.
00:59:4320 minutes gone, no score.
00:59:46And it's a goal!
00:59:48It's a goal!
00:59:50I think it's Charlton.
00:59:5620 minutes, Leeds have taken the lead.
01:00:04Leeds had everybody up and attacked,
01:00:06now they're packed in defence.
01:00:08Hollands, Hutchinson, Osgood!
01:00:11It's Charlton, almost put through his own goal.
01:00:14Osgood, looking at what he has to do to score.
01:00:20So five minutes from half-time,
01:00:22Jackie Charlton was the scorer for Leeds.
01:00:29Housman, a pure score!
01:00:3641 minutes and Spreakers let in a sitter.
01:00:41Clarke on the left wing.
01:00:45Clarke and Jones have moved to clear the gap in the middle.
01:00:49A wonderful save by Benetti.
01:00:52Again, 4-5 yards out of his goal to narrow the angle.
01:00:58Osgood.
01:01:00Hutchinson.
01:01:04And what... Oh, no!
01:01:06Leeds are in trouble. Hutchinson.
01:01:08Baldwin.
01:01:09Housman.
01:01:13Hutchinson!
01:01:14And again, great goalkeeping.
01:01:16It's Osgood!
01:01:19And it's...
01:01:21Gray was fouled from behind,
01:01:23but two great saves by Sprake.
01:01:30Gray.
01:01:34Oh, he's hit the bar!
01:01:37Well, he did the right thing in the end.
01:01:43Remnant of Giles.
01:01:45Clarke is in the post!
01:01:49A goal, Jones!
01:01:53Jones has done it.
01:01:58So, five minutes left.
01:02:00Five minutes between Leeds and the Cup.
01:02:05And now then, it's a free kick to Chelsea.
01:02:10Remnant calling his men back.
01:02:12Hunter-Hollands with the free kick.
01:02:16Hutchinson!
01:02:17A goal!
01:02:22And Leeds players have gone flat out,
01:02:25but watch this as Hutchinson gets to the near post,
01:02:28gets right up to it,
01:02:29and Sprake has got no chance.
01:02:31A great near post goal by this youngster,
01:02:34Ian Hutchinson.
01:02:36And it's a draw in 1970,
01:02:38the first time since 1912,
01:02:41a great match has ended.
01:02:43Well, we'll be moving Ronnie Harris across to right back
01:02:46because I think that Ronnie can do a good job on Eddie
01:02:51and sort of keep that flank quite there.
01:02:55In fact, I'm sure he can.
01:03:01Is this Gray?
01:03:04Joe, Joe!
01:03:05What a great save by Benetti.
01:03:07What a tremendous save by Benetti.
01:03:11Madeley.
01:03:14Jones.
01:03:18And Benetti is hurt.
01:03:35A goal, Jones!
01:03:39Great tragedy for Peter Benetti.
01:03:43Here's Cooper.
01:03:48Oh, what a save from Benetti!
01:03:52Oh, ten out of ten,
01:03:54and one for neatness for Benetti for that save.
01:04:00Osgood.
01:04:02Osgood.
01:04:03Now Hutchinson.
01:04:05Cook.
01:04:08And Osgood!
01:04:11Brilliant response from Osgood.
01:04:13Ran beautifully off the ball.
01:04:19And Charlie Cook, the man who made it.
01:04:26And Hutchinson building up the position
01:04:28for one of his famous long runs
01:04:30near to the penalty box,
01:04:31and up go Dempsey and Webb
01:04:34as Hutchinson prepares to take the throw.
01:04:46And then...
01:04:47A goal!
01:04:48Yes!
01:04:49A goal!
01:04:50Webb!
01:04:53Webb is scored.
01:04:57What a throw that was!
01:05:00Dave Sexton much happier now.
01:05:02That's Marvin Hinton, the substitute, on his left.
01:05:06But Dave Sexton always looks serious.
01:05:12And what an epic, memorable cup final this has been.
01:05:17Great game at Wembley, a great game here.
01:05:19Chelsea coming from behind!
01:05:22Chelsea have won it!
01:05:25Chelsea have won it!
01:05:27Chelsea!
01:05:28Chelsea!
01:05:29Chelsea!
01:05:30Chelsea!
01:05:31Chelsea!
01:05:32Chelsea!
01:05:33Chelsea!
01:05:34Chelsea!
01:05:35Chelsea!
01:05:36Chelsea!
01:05:37Chelsea!
01:05:38Chelsea!
01:05:39Chelsea!
01:05:40Chelsea!
01:05:41Chelsea!
01:05:42After 65 years, the Cup was won at last.
01:05:45Where others had come so close and failed,
01:05:48Sexton had succeeded.
01:05:51At one time I knew that Chelsea were going to win the FA Cup.
01:05:55You know, you just had a feeling that we were definitely going to win it.
01:05:58It was about 20 minutes to go when Dave Webb scored the goal.
01:06:02It was the first time I saw the Leeds players be behind in the tyres we'd had.
01:06:07At Wembley they went in front twice, we came back twice.
01:06:10They went in front again at Old Trafford.
01:06:12And when we went in front, they laid down.
01:06:14They couldn't match us.
01:06:15They said, we can't beat this squad.
01:06:17London, South West 6, a focal point of the swinging 60s,
01:06:21staged an old-fashioned knee zone.
01:06:24Next season, the Cup winners were back in Europe
01:06:26with a new £100,000 signing in the squad,
01:06:29Keith Weller from Millwall.
01:06:35Beautiful ball, Weller!
01:06:45First in the Cup Winners' Cup came Aris Salonika.
01:06:48Hopeful after a draw in Greece,
01:06:50hammered at the bridge 5-1,
01:06:52including two goals from John Hollins.
01:06:56Paddy Mulligan now leaving it for John Hollins.
01:07:00Bearing in fast with a left foot drive!
01:07:07Then CSKA, beaten 1-0 in Sofia, 1-0 at Chelsea,
01:07:11scorer David Webb.
01:07:15In the third round, Bruges took a 2-0 lead in the first leg,
01:07:18but Chelsea won through to knock out Manchester City,
01:07:21the holders.
01:07:23That booked a return to Greece, where the trail had begun.
01:07:26This time, to Athens to play Real Madrid.
01:07:30We were winning 1-0, courtesy of Mr Osgood again,
01:07:32he'd scored another goal in the final,
01:07:34and there was about 10 seconds to go.
01:07:36It was absolutely ridiculous.
01:07:37I mean, they'd even brought the Cup out to present it,
01:07:39and they equalised.
01:07:40I mean, it was absolutely ridiculous.
01:07:42And, of course, we had another replay.
01:07:44So we had to stay over, and on the Thursday,
01:07:46I just went down to the Hilton with Charlie Cook and Tommy Baldwin,
01:07:49and we just got pie-eyed, really.
01:07:51I thought, our name's not on this one, we can't win it.
01:07:54Definitely a match in which Chelsea have been in full control
01:07:57throughout the whole of the first half-hour.
01:08:00And now here's Webb on the break from Weller.
01:08:04And the corner kick.
01:08:07Well taken by the goalkeeper, Poirot.
01:08:10Tommy Baldwin there to put him under pressure.
01:08:13Cook to take the corner.
01:08:17And Dempsey will score!
01:08:28And there it is.
01:08:29Delighted Chelsea fans,
01:08:30and that's no more than Chelsea deserve.
01:08:33And this, the European Cup, Winners' Cup, final replay.
01:08:37They take the lead after 32 minutes.
01:08:39John Dempsey, the scorer.
01:08:41Baldwin.
01:08:42Back to Harries.
01:08:46Number 8, Baldwin.
01:08:48Osgood.
01:08:51And he scored!
01:08:52Osgood has done it!
01:08:54That was a beautiful shot.
01:08:55I thought he'd have gone wide, but he fixed his spot,
01:08:57and Osgood fell, leaning down, and just waving at the crowd.
01:09:03And so, after 32 minutes, the European Cup is over.
01:09:07Well, they've got a quarter of an hour to go.
01:09:09Two substitutes to use, but now Freitas for Real Madrid.
01:09:15He's done it!
01:09:16He scored!
01:09:17Real Madrid have scored.
01:09:19Freitas has got one in with 15 minutes to go.
01:09:24That's it.
01:09:25That's it.
01:09:26That's it.
01:09:27That's it.
01:09:28That's it.
01:09:29That's it.
01:09:30That's it.
01:09:31That's it.
01:09:32That's it.
01:09:33That's it.
01:09:34That's it.
01:09:35That's it.
01:09:36That's it.
01:09:37That's it.
01:09:40That's it.
01:09:41That's it.
01:09:42That's it.
01:09:43That's it.
01:09:44That's it.
01:09:45That's it.
01:09:46That's it.
01:09:47That's it.
01:09:48That's it.
01:09:49That's it.
01:09:50That's it.
01:09:51That's it.
01:09:52And it's over.
01:09:53The whistle has gone.
01:09:54Chelsea have won the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time in
01:09:57the club's history.
01:10:00Chelsea's reputation as exciting, nearly men was being demolished.
01:10:03This was the second trophy in two years.
01:10:05It inspired, in 1971-72, a prolonged campaign
01:10:09in pursuit of another cup.
01:10:13Hollands.
01:10:16Osgood had never stopped going.
01:10:19And he's got it to him, and he's given.
01:10:24Osgood again to take it.
01:10:25WHISTLE BLOWS
01:10:30Yes, Holland!
01:10:32His first goal for Chelsea.
01:10:35Hudson.
01:10:37Number two Mulligan.
01:10:41WHISTLE BLOWS
01:10:42Mulligan's given.
01:10:45A penalty, John Hollands to take it.
01:10:48Four and a half minutes left.
01:10:51Two goals each.
01:10:54Three-two.
01:10:56CHEERING
01:10:58A 5-4 aggregate after two legs
01:11:01took Chelsea to their second league cup final.
01:11:03By now, a Wembley showpiece.
01:11:05They met Stoke City.
01:11:08Peter Dobing, then, with the throw for Stoke City.
01:11:12Smith is right up at the near post for Stoke.
01:11:14And Osgood had come back with him,
01:11:16and it was the fist of Bonetti.
01:11:17Turned in again.
01:11:18And now, Queen after looking for it, and Conroy!
01:11:22Terry Conroy!
01:11:26The little chip there again towards Webb, and Osgood,
01:11:28and Webb won't get a shot in, will he?
01:11:30Osgood on the ground!
01:11:31And he's done it, Osgood!
01:11:34While he was on the ground, he's got the equaliser.
01:11:37The first goal Osgood's ever scored at Wembley.
01:11:43Redshirts are waiting to pounce now, Conroy going past Webb.
01:11:46A delicate chip there, a deep one towards Ritchie,
01:11:48knotted down again, and a good save!
01:11:50And Eastham!
01:11:51George Eastham!
01:11:54The old man has done it.
01:11:56MUSIC
01:12:02It was nearly 70 years since Gus Mears had built his Superstadium
01:12:07and founded a club to fill it.
01:12:09Now Chelsea had a team starting to win prizes,
01:12:12they planned to build a new stadium to house it.
01:12:15But what was intended, with the best of motives,
01:12:17to be the glory of the 70s,
01:12:19became a major factor in a decade of many disappointments.
01:12:23Financing the rebuilding and the disruption to the ground
01:12:26created problems that inevitably affected the playing side,
01:12:29through lack of atmosphere, if nothing else.
01:12:32Players like Hudson and Osgood soldiered on for a while.
01:12:38Hudson for Chelsea.
01:12:41It's locked.
01:12:42It's called, and Hudson heard him.
01:12:46Osgood.
01:12:47Camber, and it's carried away, Osgood!
01:12:501-0!
01:12:52But the camaraderie born of success was under pressure.
01:12:55Peter Osgood departed for Southampton.
01:12:57The indelible memories he left behind
01:13:00are reinforced by the figures in the club annals.
01:13:05Soon, Sexton himself,
01:13:07the most successful manager in Chelsea's history, went too.
01:13:12Well, it's very sad, you know.
01:13:14But I haven't got any complaints, you know.
01:13:16They've been very good, a great club to work for.
01:13:19Ron Seward, who had a 16-year association with the club,
01:13:22became manager,
01:13:23but this was the start of a very unstable period.
01:13:30Seven months later, the job passed to Eddie McCready.
01:13:33For many years, Chelsea's left back.
01:13:37His long-time partner on the field, Ken Shelito,
01:13:40became his successor as manager.
01:13:44Irish international Danny Blanchflower
01:13:46spent nine months in charge,
01:13:48but with no money available, couldn't avoid relegation.
01:13:53Having been coach under Blanchflower,
01:13:55Geoff Hurst inherited the manager's chair,
01:13:57but just missed getting the club back to the First Division.
01:14:02It wasn't, though, a time of unbroken gloom.
01:14:05Eddie McCready had no option but to blood the youngsters,
01:14:08led by Ray Wilkins, already mature beyond his years.
01:14:12The new East Stand was open,
01:14:14leaving Chelsea nearly £3.5 million in debt.
01:14:17But the raw playing talent was good enough to win promotion in 1977.
01:14:21Wilkins with the long ball.
01:14:23What a good one it was, too, to Bassett.
01:14:25Charles comes across, good cross by Bassett, and Swain!
01:14:36On by Rourkes!
01:14:38And Feleston scores!
01:14:40CHEERING
01:14:45Stanley! Oh, and Chelsea have snatched one back immediately!
01:14:51Ray Wilkins was Chelsea's youngest ever captain at 18.
01:14:55Given his ability, he should probably have scored more goals.
01:15:00A lovely goal by the Chelsea skipper.
01:15:03But the range of skills and the intuitive awareness
01:15:05glowed in every game.
01:15:07Somehow, though, the promise of this generation
01:15:09suffered in the general blight of the 70s.
01:15:12The end of the decade saw the final appearances
01:15:15of two loyal and much-admired servants.
01:15:17Peter Bonetti had kept goal in 729 senior games.
01:15:21Not for nothing, as he called the cat.
01:15:26Peters!
01:15:27CHEERING
01:15:29Oh, what a game Bonetti has played!
01:15:32And after 19 seasons,
01:15:34during which he set a club record of 795 appearances,
01:15:38Ron Harris departed.
01:15:40He didn't often trouble goalkeepers,
01:15:42but when he left, forwards all over the country rested a little easier.
01:15:47Harris!
01:15:49Beautifully head-shot by Ron Harris!
01:16:01John Neill became manager in 1981.
01:16:04Wilkins had long gone for £875,000,
01:16:07then a Chelsea record,
01:16:09but the restraint on buying players remained.
01:16:12I walk in here every day and you look out there
01:16:14and you get a tingling down your back.
01:16:16It's a tremendous set-up, tremendous supporters.
01:16:18It's all there to be done.
01:16:20It's just a case of getting the team right.
01:16:22That's the most important thing of all.
01:16:24First, it came right only in odd matches,
01:16:26mainly in the FA Cup.
01:16:33Neill.
01:16:35Back to Everts.
01:16:41And Lee.
01:16:42And away goes Roach Brown.
01:16:44Now, has he got the nerve to hold on?
01:16:46He has!
01:16:47Chelsea ahead!
01:16:48Roach Brown, the scorer,
01:16:50his first goal of the season,
01:16:52and he puts the underdogs into the lead.
01:16:57Play there for Walker.
01:16:59Can Chelsea find something here?
01:17:01Oh, Kovalevic's handled down!
01:17:03Colleen Lee!
01:17:05Chelsea couldn't sustain that fall.
01:17:07They scored twice against Spurs in the sixth round,
01:17:10but lost.
01:17:171982.
01:17:19A new chairman, Ken Bates,
01:17:21a man prepared to put his money where his mouth was,
01:17:24and never reticent about putting his mouth
01:17:26where his money was.
01:17:29A man who was going to make Chelsea noticed again,
01:17:31but wasn't prepared to put them
01:17:33through the bankruptcy court to do it.
01:17:35Well, to start with, it wasn't a football club,
01:17:37it was a social club,
01:17:39with a bit of football played on Saturdays occasionally.
01:17:41It wasn't run as a business.
01:17:43There were far too many people on the payroll
01:17:45who weren't working.
01:17:47Even down, I think we had the only lottery
01:17:49in the league that lost money.
01:17:51While the chairman made sure the club didn't go bust,
01:17:53the manager was having a hard time
01:17:55keeping the team afloat.
01:17:57It was a partnership with a common ambition,
01:17:59but their first season together
01:18:01tested it to the limit.
01:18:03Following a draw at Craven Cottage in April,
01:18:05Chelsea took only three points
01:18:07from the next six games.
01:18:09In fact, from Easter onwards,
01:18:11we'll be saying, as soon as we're safe,
01:18:13we'll put the kids in,
01:18:15and blood the kids and give them a chance.
01:18:17But our lot were so bad,
01:18:19they couldn't even get us safe by Easter.
01:18:21So we just had to hang in there.
01:18:23And on a wet Saturday afternoon,
01:18:25and on a wet Saturday afternoon at Bolton,
01:18:27a Clive Walker goal staved off relegation.
01:18:29Nevertheless, Chelsea finished
01:18:31in the lowest place in their history.
01:18:33The following season,
01:18:35money was at last available for players.
01:18:37There were six signings.
01:18:39Eddie Niedzwiecki, Joe McLaughlin,
01:18:41Nigel Spackman, Pat Nevin,
01:18:43and John Hollins back at the bridge
01:18:45after eight years away.
01:18:47And there was Kerry Dixon,
01:18:49reviving memories of a long line
01:18:51of idolised number nines.
01:18:54The season started at home to Derby.
01:18:56Dixon scored twice.
01:18:58Chelsea won 5-0.
01:19:00And that was only the beginning.
01:19:02Flick on by Dixon for Speedy.
01:19:04That's good play by Chelsea.
01:19:06David Speedy.
01:19:10Chelsea must be looking for something here.
01:19:12It's Nevin.
01:19:14And here's Kerry Dixon with a great chance.
01:19:16And somehow,
01:19:18he's made it!
01:19:20Dixon the target here.
01:19:22Nevin.
01:19:30Oh yes!
01:19:32Speedy.
01:19:34Dixon!
01:19:36What a fantastic goal!
01:19:38Well,
01:19:40that was perfection!
01:19:42Chelsea were short of promotion
01:19:44with three games to play.
01:19:46The championship was still to be decided.
01:19:49We just parted coach after coach
01:19:51after coach after coach.
01:19:53It was like the Armada.
01:19:55Ships are stern.
01:19:57We're going to Grimsby.
01:19:59Kerry Dixon headed the goal
01:20:01that rewarded all their labours.
01:20:03John Neill, the architect,
01:20:05couldn't bear to watch
01:20:07and retired for a cup of tea.
01:20:09After five years in the second division,
01:20:11Chelsea were champions.
01:20:13The East stand filled again
01:20:15to see how the Blues would cope
01:20:17with the new charge.
01:20:19The shed had little doubt.
01:20:29So is Dixon.
01:20:31Speedy!
01:20:33Yes!
01:20:35Nevin.
01:20:37Yes!
01:20:39Moving up a division
01:20:41did nothing to check
01:20:43the flow of Dixon goals.
01:20:45They also spilled over
01:20:47into the milk cup.
01:20:49Nevin, great play.
01:20:51Teasing cross too.
01:20:53And that's another.
01:20:55Dixon gets his hat-trick.
01:21:03But first,
01:21:05they had to go to Hillsborough
01:21:08where they found themselves
01:21:10three down at half-time.
01:21:37Speedy for Chelsea.
01:21:39Mickey Thomas.
01:21:43Kerry Dixon wasn't offside.
01:21:45Is this number 28?
01:21:47Kerry Dixon
01:21:49took that awfully well.
01:21:51A quality finish
01:21:53from a quality player.
01:21:57Spackman battling for possession.
01:22:01Speedy
01:22:03to Nevin.
01:22:05Nevin
01:22:07forced a turn by
01:22:09McLyons.
01:22:11Magic goal
01:22:13by Mickey Thomas.
01:22:15And incredibly
01:22:17Chelsea have pulled it back.
01:22:19It's three apiece.
01:22:25A ball for Dixon to chase
01:22:27and he'll get there.
01:22:29Oh, he's found Cannonville!
01:22:31Chelsea have done it!
01:22:36But still
01:22:38there was time for a Wednesday
01:22:40penalty equaliser.
01:22:42Chelsea won the second replay
01:22:44but the semi-final was a minefield.
01:22:46Joe McLaughlin dislocated his elbow
01:22:48in the first leg at Roker Park.
01:22:50Sunderland converted two penalties.
01:22:52In the second game,
01:22:54Clive Walker scored twice against his former club.
01:22:56Beaten 5-2 on aggregate,
01:22:58Chelsea's misery was compounded
01:23:00by crowd violence during and after the game.
01:23:02In May,
01:23:05David Speedy won his first cap for Scotland.
01:23:07And the following season,
01:23:09his scoring feats lent distinction
01:23:11to a little-considered competition.
01:23:13Chelsea won the nine-goal final
01:23:15of the full-members' cup.
01:23:17Chelsea in possession with McAllister
01:23:19looking for Nevin.
01:23:21Far side, away, not very far.
01:23:23Another chance for Speedy!
01:23:27Nevin so skilful on the ball
01:23:29and gets round Reid.
01:23:31It might go in.
01:23:34Chelsea are the first winners
01:23:36of the full-members' cup final.
01:23:38By now, John Hollands
01:23:40had been put in charge.
01:23:42The Blues finished sixth
01:23:44for the second successive season.
01:23:46But the man who'd been such a favourite
01:23:48as a player couldn't carry the fans
01:23:50with him as a manager.
01:23:52Discontent on the terraces
01:23:54became hysteria in the headlines.
01:23:56Bobby Campbell took over
01:23:58with Chelsea heading for the relegation playoffs.
01:24:00Despite Gordon Dury's second-leg goal
01:24:02against Middlesbrough,
01:24:04they couldn't avert the drop.
01:24:06As if that were not enough,
01:24:08the hooligan element again
01:24:10made their unwanted contribution.
01:24:24Bobby Campbell knew
01:24:26there was no easy way back.
01:24:28He needed experience, steel
01:24:30and a leader on the field.
01:24:35He bought them in a package from Rangers.
01:24:37Graham Roberts to skipper the side
01:24:39and marshal the defence.
01:24:41Then he turned to Aberdeen for Peter Nicholas
01:24:43to do a similar job in midfield.
01:24:47The start wasn't good.
01:24:49Three points from six games.
01:24:51That was followed by an upturn
01:24:53and then a flourish against Plymouth.
01:24:57Terry Dixon was among the scorers.
01:25:01And so was Gordon Dury,
01:25:03a still-maturing striker
01:25:05brought to the club by John Hollins.
01:25:15He doesn't know how good he could be.
01:25:25People say he's going to be this, he's going to be that.
01:25:27They don't know how good he's going to be.
01:25:31Because when you live with him,
01:25:33and you see him in training,
01:25:35and you see his assets and his quality,
01:25:37he doesn't know how good he's going to be.
01:25:41And once he reaches maturity
01:25:43at the age of 23, 24,
01:25:45he will be somewhere.
01:25:49Here at Walsall, Dury became
01:25:51the first Chelsea player since Bobby Tamling
01:25:53to score five goals in a league game.
01:25:56When Bobby Campbell
01:25:58paid the club's biggest fee, £725,000,
01:26:00for goalkeeper Dave Besant,
01:26:02Chelsea were already well into
01:26:04a club record sequence,
01:26:0627 league games without defeat.
01:26:10Tony McLaughlin also brings height
01:26:12to the Chelsea set-pieces.
01:26:14Dibble is impeded.
01:26:16And the goal counts,
01:26:18and it's Terry Dixon's.
01:26:21That's Dixon.
01:26:24As he got away from Gale, he has.
01:26:26It's Wilson in the centre, 2-0 to Chelsea.
01:26:32Blake, dispossessed.
01:26:34And it's an amazing break by Chelsea.
01:26:37And Tony DiRigo,
01:26:40who goes round Dibble,
01:26:42and finishes it all in style.
01:26:48April 22nd.
01:26:50The visitors to Stamford Bridge, Leeds United.
01:26:53One more win would seal promotion.
01:26:55Once again, the old rivals met
01:26:57in a game of more than ordinary significance.
01:27:02Dixon will keep it in.
01:27:06Blake's been pulled wide.
01:27:08Kerry Dixon, the turn by Wilson.
01:27:10Bumstead, Chelsea are ahead.
01:27:12John Bumstead, their longest serving player.
01:27:161-0 guaranteed promotion.
01:27:18Manchester City's defeat at Main Road
01:27:20the same day meant that Chelsea
01:27:22were champions too.
01:27:24They took delivery of the trophy
01:27:26at the end of the final home game.
01:27:40When the party was over,
01:27:42the chairman returned to a serious issue
01:27:44that had clouded Chelsea's long-term planning
01:27:46for several years.
01:27:48Chelsea had owned Stamford Bridge.
01:27:50Negotiations to buy it had been tortuous.
01:27:52But the board had pressed ahead
01:27:54with plans for yet another new bridge.
01:27:56Plans that would surely get the nod
01:27:58from the shade of Gus Mears,
01:28:00whose vision started it all.
01:28:02What Stamford Bridge is going to be
01:28:04for our supporters is home for home.
01:28:06Whatever they would expect to find in their home,
01:28:08they will find at Stamford Bridge.
01:28:10When?
01:28:12When is a good question.
01:28:14I can't answer that.
01:28:16Because we haven't resolved the legal position
01:28:18over the ground yet.
01:28:20But it is inevitable.
01:28:22The timing is uncertain.
01:28:46The bridge where the rain
01:28:48all flies
01:28:50We can shine
01:28:52all the time
01:28:54Home or away
01:28:56Come and see
01:28:58us play
01:29:00You're welcome
01:29:02any day
01:29:04Hey!
01:29:06Blue is the colour
01:29:08Football is the game
01:29:10We're all together
01:29:12And winning is our aim
01:29:14So cheer us on
01:29:16through the sun and rain
01:29:18Because Chelsea
01:29:20Chelsea is our team
01:29:22Chelsea!
01:29:24Chelsea!
01:29:26Chelsea!
01:29:28Chelsea!
01:29:30Chelsea!
01:29:44Chelsea!