HISTORY LESSON FOR BLUES FANS
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.