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MKBlue said:
I forgot about Ray Lewington, him and my cousin were good mates and grew up in the same road in Clapham, played street football with Ray a few times back in the early 70s. Teddy Maybank was from Mitcham wasn't he Steve, along with Patesy and Fillery? Les Briley came from St Helier but never quite made it and ended up a bit of a legend at Millwall and I think Alex Stepney came from there as well.
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Pretty sure Fillery was a Mitcham boy, think Pates was from either Mitcham or Carshalton, but I'm not sure about Maybank.

Alex Stepney was born in Mitcham, and played for Tooting & Mitcham before signing for Millwall. He only played once for Chelsea before going to Man.Utd.

 
Forgot another one, friend to the stars or what, played veterans football two or three times with Steve Finnieston shortly before the Chelsea vets team really took off, 92 or 93 ish, and spent a pleasant evening chatting Chelsea with him and sinking a few with him in the Farnham Town clubhouse, really nice bloke as well.

 
Met most of the team 82-90 onwards....Nicest player i ever met was Joey Jones,what a really nice guy...time for everybody.

 
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In July 2004 me Julie & I stayed quite by chance in the same hotel as the touring Chelsea team up in Seattle.

Being the trainspotter that I am I met and talked to nearly every single player that I encountered on the way out to the bus for training on Friday the day before the match and again on Sunday morning when they were all checking out. My old lady was in heaven as she had a big crush on JT back then, the boys were fantastic posed for photos with us. I also bumped into Jose on my way back in the hotel late Friday night and had a little chat and he graciously let me have a photo taken sitting next to him. Now in the USA its impossible to get near the squad, I was in the right place at the right time.

2 years later at the UCLA training camp I got a pass in and got SFL Joe Cole & Jose to sign the photos I had from Seattle - right result.

 
None. I have some autographs though from when I was a kid and I think a friend of my dad was doing some work in or around club.

The ones I have are (roughly): Di Matteo, Wise, Hughes, Vialli, Petrescu, Zola..and 1 or 2 more.

 
BlueBeard said:
MK Blue might remember this, but in the mid 70's a few of the younger Chelsea lads used to drink in the Morden Tavern after training. I remember seeing the likes of Teddy Maybank, Ian Britton and Ray Lewington in there and having a chat - the good old days, when players were mere mortals.
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BlueBeard, Ray Lewington (and I THINK Teddy Maybank too) used to go to my old primary school, apparently. They were both a few years older than me and played schoolboy football with my cousins. When those cousins realised that I was a Chelsea fan they got both players' autographs for me. Sadly the signatures, along with the (original, not photocopy!) sheet of paper sent to me by the club when I was ill with the First team's autographs - both the Wilkins lads, Harris, Bonetti, Walker (best winger of his time), Droy, Stanley, Langley et al - ruddy well went missing in a house move. :(

 
NoSeatingInTheShedInMyDay said:
BlueBeard, Ray Lewington (and I THINK Teddy Maybank too) used to go to my old primary school, apparently. They were both a few years older than me and played schoolboy football with my cousins. When those cousins realised that I was a Chelsea fan they got both players' autographs for me. Sadly the signatures, along with the (original, not photocopy!) sheet of paper sent to me by the club when I was ill with the First team's autographs - both the Wilkins lads, Harris, Bonetti, Walker (best winger of his time), Droy, Stanley, Langley et al - ruddy well went missing in a house move. :(
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I feel your pain, I lost my entire football programme collection while moving house in the mid-80's - still get really pissed off when I think about it!

 
Peter 'The Cat' Bonetti, Pat Nevin, Joe McLaughlin, David Speedie, Robert Fleck, Ray Wilkins, Graham Roberts, David Hopkin (went to school with him)

 
In order:

1980ish. Clive Walker, in Oxford City Centre. No more than an 'Alright, Clive?' from me. He seemed surprised to be recognised!

2003. Peter Osgood. Heathrow Airport. A real gent who happily wrote a few words for me and my kids.

2007. Marcel Desailly. At an after FA Cup-Final function in quite a rough club in Wembley. Top man!

2011. Mickey Thomas at a Charity Dinner in Cardiff. He was steaming drunk but couldn't say enough about how much he loved his time at Chelsea

 
Wait for this: I've spotted Dan Petrescu, near the Chelsea Hotel entrance, with some arm candy. And I've been kissed by Neil Barnet :blush2: .

 
Remember John Harley he was in the Garage pub in Southfields with his bird once.Good bloke had a bit of a chat with us but i think his bird felt a bit uncomfortable so he went.

Also see Bobby Stewart in the Dog and Fox in Wimbledon Village whilst he played for Everton.When he saw we noticed him he went to the other side of the pub,proberley thought he was gonna get a bit of stick.We did have Chelsea shirts on at the time.

 
Lambeth Walker said:
Remember John Harley he was in the Garage pub in Southfields with his bird once.Good bloke had a bit of a chat with us but i think his bird felt a bit uncomfortable so he went.

Also see Bobby Stewart in the Dog and Fox in Wimbledon Village whilst he played for Everton.When he saw we noticed him he went to the other side of the pub,proberley thought he was gonna get a bit of stick.We did have Chelsea shirts on at the time.
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Always rated Jon Harley. So much so went to a Notts County game with an old Chelsea shirt and asked him to sign it which he did. Quality player who enjoyed the game and played with a smile on his face. Perhaps that is why he got shifted out by Ranieri.

 
Like others, I used to go and watch them train in the 70s - I can't remember where they were when we first started going but I think it was Mitcham, and then in later years to somewhere near Hampton Court (my memory's bloody awful!) so met everybody in the mid to late seventies teams. But my claim to fame is that Kenny Swain gave us a lift home (well from the training ground to Kingston which was near enough to where we lived) - we found Butch's cardigan that he'd dropped and flagged down Kenny to give it to him to pass on and he offered us a lift! Lovely bloke, but then as I recall they all were!

 
Beerqueen said:
Like others, I used to go and watch them train in the 70s - I can't remember where they were when we first started going but I think it was Mitcham, and then in later years to somewhere near Hampton Court (my memory's bloody awful!) so met everybody in the mid to late seventies teams. But my claim to fame is that Kenny Swain gave us a lift home (well from the training ground to Kingston which was near enough to where we lived) - we found Butch's cardigan that he'd dropped and flagged down Kenny to give it to him to pass on and he offered us a lift! Lovely bloke, but then as I recall they all were!
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If memory serves the one near Hampton Court was the Met Police sports grounds at Imber Court just over the river from Hampton Court.

 
Quite possibly - Met Police sounds right but I also have in my mind the name "Stewart Wrightson" sports ground. Was that another one again?

Sorry - just googled this as well and Stewart Wrightson was also in Molesey so I think must've been the same one with different names.

 
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Just googled Imber Court - Molesey! Of course that's right, my sister bloody lived there later, how could I forget? I can picture the road now! It takes a while, but with your help my memory got there in the end!

 
I met Drogba in 2004 when he was about to sign for Chelsea. I was on a stadium tour and he was outside the reception on his phone wearing a camouflage jacket and trousers. I didn't know much about him but was told who he was so went up to him. We didn't really talk though as he didn't speak much English.

 
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