CHRIS WRIGHT TAKES A LOOK BACK AT WHEN CHELSEA’S FORTUNES REALLY STARTED TO CHANGE...

Showing off the FA Cup

IT’S hard to believe that it’s now 25 years since Glenn Hoddle decided to leave Chelsea and take the England job after the conclusion of Euro ’96. Ken Bates, the then Chelsea chairman acted quickly and announced that Ruud Gullit would become the club’s player-manager going into the 1996-97 season.
Many fans of rival clubs claim Chelsea were ‘formed in 2003’ but they tend to conveniently forget what was happening in the late 1990s. There’s no doubt that Roman Abramovich has t...