Chelsea Soccer Club (Part 7)

 Stamford Bridge

The association designs to boost the capability of Stamford Bridge to over 50,000. Owing to its position in a built-up part of London on a major street and besides two trains lines, followers can only go in the stadium through the Fulham Road entries, which locations critical constraints on expansion due to health and safety regulations. As a outcome, Chelsea have been connected with a proceed away from Stamford Bridge to sites encompassing the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Battersea Power Station and the Chelsea Barracks. However, the association have consistently affirmed their yearn to hold Chelsea at their present home.
Stamford Bridge has been utilised for a kind of other fair happenings since 1905. It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held 10 FA Cup semi-finals (most lately in 1978), 10 FA Charity Shield agrees (the last in 1970), and three England international agrees, the last in 1932; it was furthermore the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946. In October 1905 it hosted a rugby union agree between the All Blacks and Middlesex, and in 1914 hosted a baseball agree between the exploring New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox. It was the venue for a boxing agree between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918. The running pathway was utilised for dirt pathway racing between 1928 and 1932, greyhound racing from 1937 to 1968, and Midget vehicle racing in 1948. In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first worldwide floodlit cricket agree in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies. It was furthermore the dwelling stadium of the London Monarchs American Soccer Clubs for the 1997 season.

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