Word: chelsea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on sale, the queue had swelled to 16,000, stretching for two miles. The crowd became unruly; it pushed over a couple of brick walls, trampled gardens, uprooted hedges. This frenzied performance by normally well-behaved Englishmen was directed to a single-minded purpose: getting tickets for the Chelsea-Arsenal soccer game, the semifinal climax of the Football Association Cup matches. By noon, 50,000 tickets had been sold, and scalpers were offering them for resale at eight times the 2 shillings sixpence (35?) purchase price. Britons were at a World Series fever pitch...
...baseball comparison was evident in other ways. The Arsenal eleven, glamorous, wealthy and efficient, resembles the New York Yankees; Chelsea, lovably erratic, has a Brooklyn Dodgers appeal. Arsenal is the most popular team in London, draws an average of 53,000 fans a game, and has rewarded its loyal rooters with six league championships and three Football Cups in the past 20 years. Chelsea, whose London fans are just as prepared to laugh as to cheer, draws an average of 38,000. It has repaid this loyalty by never winning a league championship, by losing its only cup final...
Defense v. Offense. The contrast is also apparent on the playing field. Arsenal's five internationals (players who compete for England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales) are defensive specialists; three of Chelsea's five internationals are offensive forwards. Arsenal plays a "smash and grab'' game, unpretty but effective, concentrating on defense until it gets a sudden scoring chance. Chelsea plays a "copy book" game, pretty but often ineffective, concentrating on deft dribbling and pinpoint passing...
Brought in to testify for the defense, Dr. Lewis Glazer of Chelsea Soldier's Home agreed that Delaney had indeed been a sick man. Glazer added that he had never sent Delaney a bill, and Delaney agreed that he had not paid for Glazer's services...
...Covent Garden bawdyhouse, of a father unknown and a mother notorious as "old Madam Gwyn," a brandy-soak "that in one day could twenty quarts consume, / And bravely vaunt she durst it twice presume." (One day she durst, and the next she was fished out of a Chelsea brook; Nelly, rich and famous by then, gave her one of the flashiest funerals of the Restoration...