Saturday 11 January 2014
HULL CITY v Chelsea
About
Chelsea was founded in March 1905 to play at Stamford Bridge, which had been purchased the previous year for use as a football ground. They were admitted into the Football League with indecent haste, joining for the 1905-06 season at the same time as Hull City, Leeds City, Clapton Orient, and Stockport County.
If Chelsea hang on and somehow survive the 2013-14 season, this will become their longest run in the top flight, beating their previous best of 25 consecutive seasons from 1930 to 1962.
When City and Chelsea met at the beginning of this season it was the first Sunday meeting between the clubs and means they have now played on all seven days of the week.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C.
Grounds
Chelsea have always played at Stamford Bridge. Fulham had first refusal on the ground, but when they decided to stay put, the new club was created.
Honours
Europe
Champions League: 2011-12
Cup Winners Cup (2): 1970-71, 1997-98
Europa League: 2012-13
Home
Football League / Premier League (4): 1954-55, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2009-10
FA Cup (7): 1969–70, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12
Overall Records
League: P 31 W 4 D 7 L 20 F 19 A 53
FA Cup: P 9 W 0 D 3 L 6 F 6 A 19
League Cup: P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 0 A 4
Total: P 41 W 4 D 10 L 27 F 25 A 76
Here
League: P 15 W 4 D 4 L 7 F 16 A 21
FA Cup: P 5 W 0 D 1 L 4 F 3 A 14
League Cup: P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 0 A 4
Total: P 21 W 4 D 5 L 12 F 19 A 39
In City’s 2008-10 Premier League stay, two of the four games with Chelsea were drawn and, in the 2009-10 opener, Stephen Hunt put City ahead. Things are possible.
Scorers (25 goals)
2. Joe “Stanley” Smith, Arthur Temple, Ken Wagstaff, Keith Edwards.
1. Peter Howe, Davy Gordon, George Rushton, Ned Neve, Tommy Browell, Paddy Mill, Ken McDonald, Jimmy Walsh, Ron Starling, Chris Simpkin, Vince Grimes, Jeff Hemmerman, Mike Smith, Graham Roberts, David Brown, Stephen Hunt, Steven Mouyokolo.
Scorers here (19 goals)
2. Joe “Stanley” Smith, Keith Edwards.
1. Davy Gordon, George Rushton, Arthur Temple, Ned Neve, Tommy Browell, Paddy Mills, Ken McDonald, Jimmy Walsh, Ron Starling, Chris Simpkin, Vince Grimes, Jeff Hemmerman, Mike Smith, David Brown, Steven Mouyokolo.
Arthur Temple is the only City player to score against Chelsea both home and away. That said, he is one of only four City players to score twice against Chelsea. The others got their two in single matches, Joe “Stanley” Smith and Keith Edwards at home – one at the old Anlaby Road ground and one at Boothferry Park - and Ken Wagstaff away, at Stamford Bridge.
Players in common
Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart joined Hull City from Bangor City at the age of 16 and over the next few years was in and out of the City side. He played 59 games and scored seven goals. After a spell in Australia he joined Chelsea but never played for them.
David Jones
David Jones was a striker from the classic John Moore ilk. He managed a goal in his 12 City appearances. Earlier in his career he had spent time with Chelsea, but had somehow missed out on first team appearances there.
David Rocastle
David Rocastle had had quite a career before coming to Hull City on loan at the age of 30. He had played 14 times for England and been part of Arsenal’s league champion winning teams of 1989 - along with ex-Tiger Brian Marwood - and 1991. He was being overlooked at Chelsea when Mark Hateley invited him north. He played 10 times and scored once, on debut, during a two month stay. He retired in 1999 after a spell playing in Malaysia. In 2001 he died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 33.
Dennis Butler
Dennis Butler was with Chelsea from the age of 15 and eventually made 18 appearances between 1961 and 1963. Hull City signed him in June 1963 and he spent six and a half years in the team at left-back in the free-scoring 1960s team. He appeared for City against Chelsea in the two games of the 1966 FA Cup quarter-final. He played 244 games for City, didn’t bother scoring, and joined Reading in 1969.
Eric McMillan
Eric McMillan was from Beverley and joined Chelsea as an amateur during his National Service. He played five games for them. He moved back north and joined Hull City in 1960. In the next five years he made 174 league and cup appearances for City and scored 4 goals. ####
Frank Pearson
Frank Pearson joined Chelsea from Manchester City in October 1905, thereby missing out by a few weeks on playing in Hull City’s first league defeat. Chelsea and City had both joined the league that season. He did play in the return game, at The Circle (noted as Anlaby Road Cricket Ground in Chris Elton’s book, as opposed to Anlaby Road Football Ground), which the Tigers won 4-3. He was with Chelsea for a year, playing 30 games for them, some as captain, and scoring 17 goals. He joined City the following October and scored a hat-trick on his debut in a 4-2 win at Glossop. Unfortunately, before the season was over, he was on his way to Luton with a final tally of six goals in 13 games. He is almost certainly the first player that played for both clubs as well as playing in a game between the two.
Frank Wolfe
Finding details of early players is still difficult, despite the internet. Frank Wolfe, according to Mike Peterson, was a “substantially proportioned centre-half”, making him sound like a devotee of the pie. He arrived at City from Everton and played during the 1904-05 pre-league season, taking part in 28 matches and scoring twice, including being the fourth City player to score that season. He played both FA Cup games – his only “first class” games - against Stockton that season and his next club was Chelsea, for whom he made one appearance and that in a match that turned out to be controversial. Chelsea were drawn at Crystal Palace, then of the Southern League, in the third qualifying round of the FA Cup. The game was to be played on November 18th 1905, but Chelsea were due to play Burnley in the league that day, so they sent a reserve team – including Frank Wolfe – to play the cup game. Palace won 7-1 and as a result the FA changed their rules to require teams to put out full strength teams for FA Cup games. That seems to have fallen by the wayside.
Chris Elton’s book calls him Frederick.
Jackie Crawford
Jackie Crawford joined Hull City from amateur football in Jarrow and in four years with the Tigers played 134 league and cup games, scoring 13 times. In 1923 he was signed by first division Chelsea for £3,000. Chelsea, however, were relegated in his first season, and spent six years in the second flight along with the Tigers, until 1930 when they left the division in different directions. Crawford played eight games for Chelsea against City and we didn’t score in or get a point from any of them. He remained with Chelsea for 11 years, playing 308 games and scoring 27 goals. He subsequently joined QPR.
He played a single game for England in 1931 against Scotland. Also in the England team that day was former Tiger Ernie Blenkinsop and future Tiger Austin Campbell. The Scots won 2-0.
James Thompson
Jimmy Thompson was a nomad and as well as playing for City and Chelsea was also employed by Fulham, Norwich and Sunderland, as well as a more than a dozen other clubs. He played one game for the Tigers, at centre-forward against Lincoln in 1931. Two games earlier, a player called John Diamond had made his only appearance, also at centre-forward. Perhaps it’s surprising Thompson wasn’t given more of a chance, since he’d previously scored 33 goals in 42 games for Chelsea and 41 in 74 for Luton. After the war he became a scout and is credited with discovering Jimmy Greaves, Terry Venables, and Les Allen. Thompson played twice for Chelsea against City. On both occasions Jackie Crawford was in the Chelsea team. On the first occasion, in October 1927, Thompson scored Chelsea’s first in a 2-0 home win. In March 1928, Thompson scored both Chelsea’s goals in a 2-0 win at the Anlaby Road ground.
Jimmy Lee
Jimmy Lee played three times for City in 1950, claiming one goal. The following season was spent in the reserves and then he moved to Halifax. From there he moved to Chelsea but didn’t make their first team.
John Lee
Winger John Lee joined City in March 1913 after starting in amateur football in Sheffield. Before and after the war, he played 83 league and cup games for us, scoring 22 goals. During the war he was able to turn out for City for about half its duration, scoring 28 times in 67 appearances. Chelsea paid £1,500 for him in February 1920, but four years at Stamford Bridge brought him one goal in only seven matches.
Neil Clement
Neil Clement started his career with Chelsea. He didn’t get much of a look-in and was loaned to four other clubs. His four Chelsea appearances were made as a sub in three cases and as a subbed player in the other. The results worked out okay, however, with Chelsea accumulating 17 goals during them. The final club Clement was loaned to was West Brom and they paid Chelsea £150,000 for him. In 2008, he came to Hull City on loan, but was recalled to help West Brom’s promotion push – and, no doubt, to hinder Hull City’s. In the event, both clubs went up and Clement became the first player promoted three times with West Brom. However, he picked up an injury in a pre-season game that year and never played again.
Sam Weaver
The teenaged Sam Weaver joined City from Sutton Town in early 1928. In the next 20 months he played 50 times for the Tigers, netting five times, before first division Newcastle United bought him for £2,500. In seven years in the north-east he won an FA Cup winners medal and picked up three England caps. He played 204 games for Newcastle and scored 43 goals. By 1936, Newcastle were in the second division and Chelsea paid over £4,100 (or £6,000, depending what you read) to take him south, where he played 125 games. The war cut short his Chelsea career although he didn’t officially leave them till the war was over, and at the age of 40 he left and spent some time with Stockport County. He managing Mansfield for a couple of seasons and was succeeded there by Raich Carter.
William Barraclough
William Barraclough was from Hull and City acquired his services from Bridlington Town when he was 19. He joined City in January 1928 and played 9 games in what remained of the season. He didn’t stay long, however, and was signed by Wolves that September. Wolves were, like City, in Division 2, but doing worse. Eventually they sorted themselves out and were promoted in 1932. He became a Chelsea player in 1934 and spent three years with them, accumulating 11 goals in 81 appearances. In 1940-41, he guested for Hull City in war time competitions, adding 19 games and two goals to his Tiger totals.
Also
Tommy Docherty, briefly assistant manager to Terry Neill, managed Chelsea between 1961 and 1967. He had joined as player-coach, but only played four times, and took over as manager when Ted Drake was sacked. Chelsea were struggling when he took over and were relegated in 1962, but won promotion back to Division 1 the following season. His rebuilt Chelsea subsequently became a top five team for most of the rest of his stay.
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