CHELSEA

Chelsea are as close to an American style franchise as you're likely to find in English football, having been formed specifically to fill the Stamford Bridge football ground in 1905, a ground coincidentally that they can never leave as the rights to the name belong to the stadium and not the club meaning that should Chelsea ever leave they will have to change their name. As a result of their unusual creation Chelsea were a big club from day one, joining the second division within a year and staying in the top two leagues ever since, being champions in 1955, 2005, 2006 and 2010 while they came agonisingly close to being European champions in 2008 before losing on penalties. In the cup Chelsea first reached the final in 1915 but the trophy eluded them until 1970 and has been followed with wins in 1997, 2000, 2007, 2009 and most recently when Didier Drogba's free kick secured the League and cup double of 2010 against Portsmouth . Chelsea have rearely found themselves in a position where they would be truely a giant killer in the cup with one notable exception in 1982 when, as an unfancied second division side they rocked the then mighty Liverpool. More usually though the Blues have been on the wrong end of such results going back as far as 1914 when local rivals Millwall inflicted a humiliating defeat on the young club. That pailed to the horrors witnessed by the next generation of Blues fans at Darlington in 1958 and it got even worse when Crewe came visiting three years later. Modern fans are not imune from such pain either as Barnsley showed in 2008.

1927

2-1 vs Burnley

1929

1-0 vs Birmingham City

Fourth round: Saturday January 26th 1929

Attendance: 55,953

Scorers: Harold Miller

Ranked at the time: 207

Team: 1:Sam Millington, 2:George Smith, 3:Tommy Law, 4:, 5:Jack Townrow, 6:Willie Fergu