Mansfield, Ian (24 September 2016). "Unbuilt London: Battersea Power Station's football stadium". ianVisits . Retrieved 19 August 2023. I put sleep at the top of the important things in the recovery process, because it allows your brain to get fresh. As much as you get accustomed to it, it is three games in six days. a b "Premier League Handbook 2022/23" (PDF). 19 July 2022. p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 August 2022 . Retrieved 11 April 2023.

It’s about player welfare. It’s not about Chelsea. In an ideal world, those making those decisions should have former players or athletes in that process to really appreciate that it’s not as easy as everybody thinks.” The Shed End was next on the to-do list before problems with planning permission put work on the west stand on ice. Chelsea built the lower tier on time but spent two years disputing the upper section. Work on the 13,500-seater stand would eventually conclude during 2001. How to get to Stamford Bridge Lowest attendance in club history and 7 other crazy stats to know before Leeds clash". Tribuna.com. 5 December 2020 . Retrieved 29 June 2023. Stamford Bridge opened in 1877 as a home for the London Athletic Club and was used almost exclusively for that purpose until 1904, when the lease was acquired by brothers Gus and Joseph Mears, who wanted to stage high-profile professional football matches there. However, previous to this, in 1898, Stamford Bridge played host to the World Championship of shinty between Beauly Shinty Club and London Camanachd. [7] Stamford Bridge was built close to Lillie Bridge, an older sports ground which had hosted the 1873 FA Cup Final and the first ever amateur boxing matches (among other things). It was initially offered to Fulham Football Club, but they turned it down for financial reasons. After considering the sale of the land to the Great Western Railway Company, the Mears decided to found their own football club, Chelsea, to occupy the ground as a rival to Fulham. Noted football ground architect Archibald Leitch, who had also designed Ibrox, Celtic Park, Craven Cottage and Hampden Park, was hired to construct the stadium. In its early days, Stamford Bridge stadium was served by a small railway station, Chelsea and Fulham railway station, which was later closed after World War II bombing. [8] Chelsea FC: The Stamford Bridge Story in Photos". 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019 . Retrieved 2 June 2019.percent vote for proposal to CPO". Archived from the original on 28 October 2011 . Retrieved 27 October 2011. . Considering none of us really slept on Wednesday and we’ve been in hotels since last weekend, it was a tremendous response from the whole squad,” she said. “They know that my aim has been to build a team this year where we could move seamlessly between games.”

With a capacity of 40,343, it is the ninth largest venue of the 2023–24 Premier League season and the eleventh largest football stadium in England. Remember When – August 1976". Greyhound Star. 2018. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018 . Retrieved 19 August 2018. The stadium rebuild was designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, who had previously designed the Allianz Arena in Munich and the Beijing National Stadium. [51] Chelsea plan Bridge redevelopment". BBC. 20 January 2006. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 17 November 2007. It was a special occasion for Ingle as she broke the WSL appearance record, the 32-year-old making her 184th appearance in her second spell with Chelsea.

The game got off to an uneventful start with both sides tentative. Paris are known for their courageous football, strong in transition with particular power in the wide areas. They tried to exploit this early with Clara Matéo finding space down the right while their captain, Gaëtane Thiney, pulled the strings from midfield. Her deft touch set through Mathilde Bourdieu for their first chance, but her low shot was stopped by Ann-Katrin Berger. Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, p. 198. "Then was there one of the Norwegians who withstood the English people, so that they might not pass over the bridge, nor obtain the victory. Then an Englishman aimed at him with a javelin, but it availed nothing; and then came another under the bridge, and pierced him terribly inwards under the coat of mail." The chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon, p. 209. "Here a single Norwegian, whose name ought to have been preserved, took post on a bridge, and hewing down more than forty of the English with a battle-axe, his country's weapon, stayed the advance of the whole English army till the ninth hour. At last some one came under the bridge in a boat, and thrust a spear into him, through the chinks of the flooring." On 17 June 2014, the club announced that it had commissioned a study of the area from Fulham Broadway to Stamford Bridge and beyond, by architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. [ citation needed] In December 2015, Chelsea announced intention to build a 60,000-seater stadium at Stamford Bridge. [45]