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官網終於貼出東西了.....orz
http://www.chelseafc.com/article.asp?hlid=262571
Chelsea launched 100 years ago today
Monday, Mar 14, 2005
It was 100 years ago today that Chelsea Football Club was
officially conceived.
The first meeting to launch us took place in the The Rising Sun pub
on Fulham Road, opposite the main entrance of Stamford Bridge. At that
first meeting Claude Kirby was appointed chairman of a six man board of
directors.
On the board were Gus Mears and his brother Joseph. Both are now
buried in Brompton Cemetery behind the East Stand, alongside the main
path through the centre. The Mears were wealthy London businessmen who
wanted to build a football ground. At first they hadn’t wanted to start
a football club.
Stamford Bridge was an athletics stadium. They purchased it and
later obtained market garden property adjacent to it. But when they set
about raising finance to develop it, they found interest was low. Gus
Mears met financier Fred Parker, a friend, and confided he was going to
sell the site to the Great Western Railway Company who wanted the land
for coal and goods sidings.
Parker was upset. He believed in the project.
During their discussion Mears’ scotch terrier dog suddenly bit
Parker viciously in the leg. Parker’s response was to show pain but
laugh through it. “You’re damned dog has bitten me. Scotch terrier,
always bites before he speaks!” he exclaimed.
The impressed Gus Mears immediately decided that he would mirror
such courage and decided the project should go ahead.“Go to the chemist
and get that leg seen to and we will meet here at nine tomorrow. Then we
will get busy.”
And get busy they did. They went off to Glasgow to look at the
three big stadia there, and they hired architect Archibald Leitch to
build the 5,000 capacity East Stand which stood until the 1970s.
Building started in February 1905. Fulham, already in existence and
playing at Craven Cottage, were approached to rent the venue. They
turned it down. The Mears wanted ￡1500 a year for matches only, and were
intent on using the ground to stage other games as well.
Parker didn’t care. “You have the finest ground in the kingdom,”
he told the brothers. “If they won’t come to terms, then tell them
we’ll start a new club that is bound to become one of the best in the
country.”
Everyone was agreed. And so the seed of our football baby was
planted.
But what to call it? Fulham was out because that existed. Stamford
Bridge, Kensington and London were all considered. The name of 'Stamford
Bridge' had been taken from the bridge that ran over the canal which no
longer exists. In fact, the railway runs along the old canal route.
It had been Sandford bridge, named after the Sand ford, and
metamorphosed into Stamford bridge.
But somehow, it didn’t seem right for the football club. First of
all Stamford Bridge was more associated with the place where a famous
battle occurred in Yorkshire. And secondly, Parker was against it. He
couldn’t imagine people shouting: “Play up Stamford Bridge!”
So along the way ‘Chelsea’ was selected.
Then the launch meeting was held at 7.30pm, March 14th, in The
Rising Sun.
A fuller version of this article will appear in the Matchday
programme against West Bromwich Albion.
by Neil Barnett
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真好玩，好像在看小說一樣 XD
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沒買蛋糕，但後來還是買了個慕斯在房間小小慶祝一下
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