Daily Mail

HISTORY LESSON FOR BLUES FANS

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CHELSEA supporters have long had to put up with being told they have no history, by rivals whose ignorance of it is damning.

For instance, Chelsea beat Liverpool to a European trophy by two seasons, winning the Cup-Winners’ Cup in 1971.

Equally, considerin­g the Premier League has been going a quarter of a century now, their early successes under Jose Mourinho might count as modern history, at least.

Yet it is not just visitors to Stamford Bridge who need greater appreciati­on of the past. Those Chelsea fans taunting Huddersfie­ld Town fans with ‘champions of England, you’ l l never sing that’ may need to consult the annals, too.

For the record, in the years when Huddersfie­ld became the first English club to win the league three years in succession — 1923-24 to 1925-26 — Chelsea were relegated in 21st place and then failed to win promotion from Division Two, finishing fifth and third.

It took them until 2010 and the arrival of a Russian billionair­e to overtake the number of titles won by Huddersfie­ld.

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