RICKY CARROLL TELLS US ABOUT A LIFETIME FOLLOWING CHELSEA...

High jump: Chelsea’s Jakob Kjeldbjerg wins an aerial duel against Manchester United’s Gary Pallister in 1993

BEING a Chelsea fan has not always been full of trophies and expensive signings. I was one of a select few Chelsea fans at school, but I was fiercely protective of my team from an early age.
For the first 10-12 years of my life, we were not very good.
An older relative was part of the YTS scheme at Chelsea back in the early 90s. One of the benefits of this was watching the youth team in the morning, followed by a mad...