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Match detail: Chelsea v Chelsea - 19/08/1905

Match detail: Chelsea v Chelsea

Match Date: Saturday, 19th Aug 1905
Competition: Friendly - Pre-season trial match
Opponent: Chelsea
Venue: Stamford Bridge
Attendance: unknown
Result: Won 1 - 0

Team:

Michael Byrne (GK)
David Copeland
James Craigie
Charles Donaghy
William Foulke (GK)
George Key
Jack Kirwan
Bob Mackie
Bob McEwan
Bob McRoberts
Tommy Miller
Martin Moran
Francis O'Hara
Philip Phillips
Jacky Robertson
James Robertson
Albert Slater
Walter Toomer
James Watson
William Whiting
Jimmy Windridge
Fred Wolff

Chelsea Goal Scorers:

Philip Phillips

Chelsea Goal Scorers:

None



Match Notes:

Pre-season Probables (blues) v Possibles (reds) trial match
'Private' trial game.

Blues: Foulke, Mackie, Miller, Key, McRoberts, Robertson (Jacky), 'A Runner' (amateur), 'A N Other' (amateur), O'Hara, 'St Andrew' (amateur), Donaghy

Reds: Byrne, Watson, McEwan, Craigie, 'Sotonite' (amateur), Wolfe, Kirwan, Windridge, Robertson (James), Copeland, Moran.

The match was kicked off by director George Schomberg

From various press reports around the time and from info from Robert Randall, the amateurs have been listed currently as follows:
'A Sotonite' = William Whiting.
'A Runner' = Walter Toomer
'St Andrew' = P. Phillips
'A N Other' = currently listed as Albert Slater as he 'figured well in the pre-season trials' (plural) in a later press report, though could be one of a few others who took part in some way in the pre-season preparations.

From Robert Randall: "The identity of “A N Other” is not known to me; he is listed as an inside forward in the team line-up but according to the match report he must have started the game in the halfback line as Jacky Robertson played as a forward in the first half. This might give support to the theory that it was A V Slater who played for the reserves in the first half of the season exclusively as a halfback."


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