Stamford Bridge

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Chelsea 5-2 Leicester City

Aerial shot of Stamford Bridge (Bing Maps)

Ratings

Overall Ground Quality : 9/10

Ease of getting there : 9/10

Atmosphere : 9/10

Programme : 8/10
View of Action : 9/10
Quality of the game : 7/10
The "football" feeling : 7/10
Chances of coming here for a random game : 3/10
Legroom : 9/10
Surrounding area : 7/10

Overall : 77/100

Programme - £3.00

West Stand

Matthew Harding Stand

East Stand

Shed End

The Pride of London

Matthew Harding Stand

Shed End housing the Foxes Faithful

East Stand

West Stand

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Matthew Harding Stand

West Stand

Wednesday 24 October 2007

Chelsea 4-3 Leicester City

Ratings

Overall Ground Quality : 9/10

Ease of getting there : 6/10

Atmosphere : 10/10

Programme : 8/10

View of Action : 4/10

Quality of the game : 8/10

The "football" feeling : 7/10

Chances of coming here for a random game : 3/10

Legroom : 7/10

Surrounding area : 7/10

Overall : 69/100

Chelsea 5-2 Leicester City

Adrian and I set off at 8am and
got on the M1 Southbound and got off at Lutterworth to pick a friend up. We
then continued towards the capital.

We reached Toddington Services at 9:30am for a toilet stop before continuing
towards Kingsbury.

When we arrived at Kingsbury, we went for a coffee while we waited for the
ticket kiosk to open at Kingsbury Station. We then got on the Jubilee Line to
Bond Street where we got on the Central Line towards Notting Hill Gate before
our final change onto the District Line towards Fulham Broadway.

When we arrived, we took a short walk to the ground where we ate our sandwiches
and greeted the team bus before going into the stadium.

The oldest stand, the East Stand
is located along the east side of the pitch and was built in 1973. Originally the East Stand was intended as
the start of a comprehensive redevelopment of the stadium which was abandoned
when the football club ran into financial difficulties. The next oldest stand
is the Matthew Harding Stand which is named after former Chelsea director,
whose investment helped transform the club in the early 1990s before his death
in a helicopter accident on 22 October 1996. His investment in the club enabled
construction of the stand which was completed in time for the 1996–97 season.The Shed End was next being opened in time for the 1997/98 season and along
with the Matthew Harding Stand is an area of the ground in which many vocal
fans congregate today. The West Stand was completed in 2001. The lower tier was
built on time and opened in 1998; however problems with planning permission
meant that it was not fully completed until 2001. The construction of the stand
was almost responsible for Chelsea's financial crisis, which would've seen the
club fall into administration but for the intervention of Roman Abramovich.

The game saw Chelsea hunt
down the Foxes winning 5-2 and going through to the Semi Finals. Chelsea’s goals
were scored by Fernando Torres (twice), a header by Gary Cahill, Salomon Kalou and
finished off by Raul Meireles . City’s two goals came from a rebound off the
post for Jermaine Beckford to open Leicester’s scoring and a final stunner of a
goal rose into the net by Ben Marshall.

We left the ground in a mass crowd towards the Tube. We got on the Eastbound
Train on the District Line towards Westminster where we changed onto the
Jubilee Line towards Stanmore and we eventually got off at Kingsbury at 5:15pm
and walked back to the car.

Chelsea 4-3 Leicester City

Stamford Bridge is home of Chelsea (The Blues). This was another trip Adrian and I were looking forward too. We parked on a road called Brockleyside and walk down to Stanmore tube station eventually getting off at Fulham Broadway Tube Station. The game ended Chelsea wining 4-3 in a close contest between both teams. Chelsea's goals scored by Lampard (3) and Shevchenko. Leicester's goals were scored by Gareth McAuley, DJ Campbell and Carl Cort. On our way back after being told Fulham Broadway tube station is closed, we had to walk to Earls Court tube station to our return to Stanmore tube station and also to find out that two junctions on the M1 were closed. Brilliant!
Stamford Bridge's oldest stand is their three tiered East Stand opened in 1973. The three other stands, Shed End, West stand and the Matthew Harding Stand have all been re-developed between 1990 and 2001. Stamford Bridge was the biggest club stadium in London until Arsenal taken that record away from them with their new Emirates Stadium housing 60,000 supporters.