Five facts about Chelsea on our birthday!
10 MAR 2024
To mark our founding 119 years ago today, we have five facts you may not
know about Chelsea Football Club’s earliest days, including information on
proposed names, nicknames and colours.
== Original HQ ==
It was 10 March 1905 when our great club was officially created in the
Rising Sun pub opposite the ground – now known as the Butcher’s Hook.
== Other names mentioned ==
In early meetings various names for the proposed new club were discussed,
including Kensington FC, London United, and Stamford Bridge FC. Frederick
Parker argued for using Chelsea, saying that as an official of the London
Athletic Club he had received letters redirected from the Stamford Bridge
in Yorkshire – a famous battleground in 1066.
== Introducing the Pensioners! ==
The matchday programme, the Chelsea FC Chronicle, encouraged a debate
started in a local newspaper about what should be the new club’s nickname.
They thought about the Chinamen (local Chelsea pottery), the Buns (Chelsea
buns), as well as the Cherubs, the Colts, and the Little Strangers. The
Chronicle eventually stuck with ‘the Pensioners’ (after the famous
occupants of the nearby Royal Hospital) despite initially feeling it was
‘rather suggestive of the lights of other days’ and adopting ‘Buns.’
== The original Chelsea stars ==
Heard the one about the Irishman, two Englishmen, and eight Scotsmen? No?
Well, that was the make-up of the first eleven Chelsea ever fielded, at
Stockport County on 2 September 1905: William Foulke (English), Bob Mackie
(Scottish), Bob McEwan (Scottish), Tommy Miller (Scottish), Bob McRoberts
(Scottish), Geordie Key (Scottish), Martin Moran (Scottish), Jacky
Robertson (Scottish), Davie Copeland (Scottish), Jimmy Windridge
(English), Jack Kirwan (Ireland).
== Come on you (Eton) Blues! ==
The Pensioners’ original shirt colour was described in the Chronicle as
light blue. It was actually ‘Eton blue’, and taken from the horse-racing
silks of Lord Cadogan, a local landowner and the club’s first President.
The Pensioners switched to our iconic royal blue shirt for the first time
in 1907/08.
It's our birthday! 🎊
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) March 10, 2024
Chelsea Football Club was founded 119 years ago today! 💙 pic.twitter.com/Q52XB8tiDb
Sending @NoniMadueke_ big birthday love as he turns 22! 💙 pic.twitter.com/q15reNfiFl
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) March 10, 2024
The biggest Club in London turns 119 years today, the only club in London where other London clubs comes to see how Champions league trophy looks like, Happy birthday Chelsea Football Club, London is blue💙💙🔵 #CFC pic.twitter.com/GOSXQRR2l5
— Conor Gallagher (@ConoGallagher92) March 10, 2024
We’re also sending our best wishes to Ian Maatsen on his birthday! 🎈 pic.twitter.com/GjwL45czu1
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) March 10, 2024
Proud to be part of this legendary club. Happy 119th birthday, @ChelseaFC! pic.twitter.com/dnaXQyr2Pk
— Thiago Silva (@tsilva3) March 10, 2024
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兩年前的今天，許多人事物都改變了，包括我....
這兩年隨著新管理層的各種錯誤決策，男子隊一路沉淪至今未見起色，心中無限悲涼。
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