| | | News: | - 07-09, 18:29:46 Chelsea duo John Terry and Frank Lampard could make weekend West Ham crunch
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- 07-09, 16:07:05 Former Rangers and Chelsea star Brian Laudrup diagnosed with cancer
- 07-09, 16:03:00 Laudrup vows to win cancer battle
- 07-09, 14:46:26 Yuri Zhirkov tells Chelsea: Play me or I may have to leave
- 07-09, 13:30:31 Terry and Lampard nearing Chelsea return
- 07-09, 13:03:09 Chelsea captain John Terry and Frank Lampard could return from injury against West Ham
- 07-09, 13:00:21 Terry and Lampard near Chelsea return
- 07-09, 12:52:42 Terry and Lampard close to return
- 07-09, 12:13:00 Blues boss hopeful over key duo
- 07-09, 08:30:19 Bertrand: Loan experience a big boost
- 07-09, 07:48:00 Bertrand: Loan experience a big boost
- 06-09, 15:46:48 Ancelotti against media intrusion
- 06-09, 13:44:00 Taylor extends Crewe loan
- 06-09, 13:39:50 Romelu Lukaku snubs Chelsea and Liverpool claiming he'd rather move to Real Madrid
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The club had their first major success in 1955, winning the league championship. Chelsea won several cup competitions during the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another major title until 1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s history, capped by winning consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, and reaching their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008, losing to fellow English side Manchester United after extra time and penalties.
Chelsea's home is the 42,500-person-capacity Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham, West London, where they have played since their establishment. Despite their name, the club are based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. In 2003, they were bought by Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich.
Chelsea's traditional kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks. The club crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand; the current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion holding a staff, is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1950s. The club has sustained the fifth highest average all-time attendance in English football. Their average home gate for the 2007–08 season was 41,673, the fifth highest in the Premier League.
In popular culture:
In 1930, Chelsea featured in one of the earliest football films, The Great Game. One-time Chelsea centre forward, Jack Cock, who by then was playing for Millwall, was the star of the film and several scenes were shot at Stamford Bridge, including the pitch, the boardroom and the dressing rooms. It included guest appearances by then-Chelsea players Andrew Wilson, George Mills and Sam Millington.Owing to the notoriety of the Chelsea Headhunters, a football firm associated with the club, Chelsea have also featured in films about football hooliganism, most recently The Football Factory. Chelsea also appear in the Hindi film, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
Up until the 1950s, the club had a long-running association with the music halls, with their underachievement often providing material for comedians such as George Robey. It culminated in comedian Norman Long's release of a comic song in 1933, ironically titled "On The Day That Chelsea Went and Won The Cup", the lyrics of which described a series of bizarre and improbable occurrences on the hypothetical day when Chelsea finally won a trophy.
The song "Blue Is the Colour" was released as a single in the build-up to the 1972 League Cup Final, with all members of Chelsea's first team squad singing; it reached number five in the UK Singles Chart.The song was later adapted to "White Is the Colour" and adopted as an anthem by the Vancouver Whitecaps. In the build-up to the 1997 FA Cup final, the song "Blue Day", performed by Suggs and members of Chelsea's squad, reached number 22 in the UK charts. Bryan Adams, a fan of Chelsea, dedicated the song "We're Gonna Win" from the album 18 Til I Die to the club.
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| | |  Very good start for Chelsea! I think Guus Hiddink left a good team behind him. thx Guus! | | 24-08 17:31soccerfan | |
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