Football

Chelsea have only been registered as a top flight club since '87, even then it took them 9yrs to win something

I just love these supporters who claim greatness for their team because their team has never been out of the top flight and who dismiss others as glory hunters.

When Chelsea spent years in the second division, we followed them all over the country. We chased glory. Glory came in winning the second division at Grimsby and if you want to know what glory feels like, watch your team climb out of the mire and ascend like that. That day in Grimsby was worth far more to us all than the day in Bolton 21 years later when we lifted the Premiership for the first time in 50 years. It was touch and go. Only Sheffield Wednesday drawing in (I think) Cardiff, gifted us the title.

We are not a side that has always sat at the top table. Lack of money, unwise building and problems off the pitch saw to that in the 1970s. We used to field teams made up[ entirely of home grown players and if they were any good - like Butch Wilkins - a Big team would snap them up. Even later, Pat Nevin was snapped up by a Big side, Everton and Nigel Spackman by Liverpool. John Hollins to Arsenal was gutting.

In those days, Everton were one of the Big Six. The teams that insisted on breaking away from the league so that they could have more money. Everton were one of the teams that dictated how that was worked out and understandibly are upset that the framework that they put in place is benefitting others and not themselves.

Everton's demise as a big club came with the National Lottery. Everton were mainly funded by the Moores family who got their money from Littlewoods Pools. The lottery saw to that and Everton's hopes. No longer able to buy glory for themselves, Evertonians now bleat about others doing so.

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