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Any objection if I move this to Stamford Bridge (stadium) (properly, obviously) and make this a disambiguation page? Morwen - Talk 11:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
The layout of the two stand pics looks a bit clunky. It might just be my browser (firefox 1.5.05 on linux) rendering it in a weird way, but I doubt it. I had a go at fixing it, but that just made it worse. Anyone else want to have a go at improving it? -- Apyule 12:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
The west stand section says that it has 3 tiers as well as saying that construction was stopped after only 1 was built. Can anyone clear this up? Thanks, -- Apyule 13:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
This has concerned me for a while. The ground looks a bit disjointed, with tiers starting and finishing at different levels, and with little apparent attempt at harmonizing the overall look.
Is there a specific reason why the existing profile of the East stand could not have been continued all the way round the ground? Is it a strange or problematic tier formation? I appreciate the East Stand is HUGE and it may not have been practical to create such a large, three tiered "bowl", but surely things could have been made slightly more co-ordinated than they are?
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The page says it was the largest ground before Emirates - how is that possible with a capacity of around 42K only?
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For some reason the capacity is listed as over 50,000 when it is in fact 42,055 (as cited here http://www.chelseafc.com/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10268~1328575,00.html). The West Stand seats around 13,500, not 20 odd thousand as listed. The overall capacity is also incorrectly stated here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_stadia_by_capacity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.17.83 ( talk) 00:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
They've defeated fenerbahce... :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.165.169 ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Just an inform: I went on tour to Stamford Bridge this summer and my photos are here on Flickr. If someone like one of them, he can upload it on Commons whit the respective Flickr license. Just let me know, please.-- Andrea 93 ( msg) 11:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
In this article, the UEFA stadium categorie of Stamford Bridge is not precised.
63.216.100.39 ( talk) 15:48, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Is there any specific bridge related to the stadium? Beyond495 ( talk) 23:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes. The stadium took its name from the bridge where Fulham Road crosses the railway immediately to the South East of the site. A bridge has been positioned there for hundreds of years. Before the railway was built, a tributary of the Thames river, called 'Counters Creek', later fashioned into the 'Kensington Canal' flowed there. That was diverted into underground pipes and resurfaces as 'Chelsea Creek' entering the Thames by the old Lots Road Power Station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:149B:AC00:F1ED:ED16:A79:FBDC ( talk) 17:57, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 ( talk) 07:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
The stadium is pretty much unquestionably the primary topic (and I know other stuff exists), so I think the disambiguation page should be changed to "Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)" so that the stadium can be called "Stamford Bridge" rather than "Stamdford Bridge (stadium)" - Unreal7 22:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
There was a small stand on north-east part of the ground until the late 1960's/early 1970's called the North Stand. Does anyone have any information on this (when built & demolished e.g.)? Barney Bruchstein ( talk) 13:32, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Reply to when the new nort-east stand was built up. I visited "the shield" in November 1976, at that time had the three tier stand existed for a few years. I'm not certain , but I think the demolition was made after the 1972/73 season. The new stand was moved a few meters to the south-west (due to the running-/ greyhound-/ speedway- tracks, but also moved around 25 meters to the north (parallell to the pitch), the player entry was for quite a few years afterwards not at the middle of the pitch. Economic crisis prevented the club to continue the re-building of the whole stadium for may years. Chelsea was also relegated to what then was "division 2" (They played there during the 1976/77 season, I watched Chelsea vs Charlton in a mid-week game, in November 1976, I was 12 at that time). And though Chealsea came back quickly, they were far away from the great clubs during the second half of the 1970's and the entire 1980's. I remember (from a Swedish sport paper) that an American wanted to build a huge parking lot instead of the stadium. How true that was, I don't know, but I can assure you of the fact that I have read such a newspaper notice a long time ago now. (perhaps someone could trace a source ?) Boeing720 ( talk) 19:13, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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Re local stations and trains - London Overground is a National Rail service which serves both West Brompton and Imperial Wharf. The listing also ignores Southern Railway which runs on the same route serving the same two stations, the two services' routes varying further away from the area. I would correct it but I'll probably mess up the tables. MBRZ48 ( talk) 03:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
The stadium was built in 1066? Was this before of after the arrival of Billy I?
I took a photo from the Swedish Encyklopedia Nordisk Familjebok, third edition (1924-1937 17 volumes + another three supplementary volumes 1937- (summer of) 1939. The article "Fotboll", or "Football" in English is illustrated by one singe image only. And this was a clear aerial photography of Stamford Bridge, during a match in the late 1920's or early 1930's. I think it was even better than any of the other b/w photos, as the stadium is jam packed around the oval stadium. On the north-eastern long side is a covered stand, where "CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB" easily can be read. I wonder why it was removed. I think it was better than any of the three present old photograpies. And please note - it was published in Sweden as a "photographical work" (rather than "newspaper") and since the photographer is unknown, Swedish copyright laws allows such pictures to be published after 70 years. And the very last volume of this encyclopedia was printed in 1939. So it is Public Domain at the very least from 1.January.2010. Just the fact that the editors of this encyclopedia chose this photo in order to illustrate football, ought to be of some credit to Chelsea FC. I guess this picture was chosen due to the massive crowd gathered, which appears to be around the attendance record for Chelsea FC, around 80,000. And I can't help thinking that it's the best of the old pictures in this article. (It kind of "says the most" (of our pictures in this article). If someone can explain why it's removed, then I would appriciate the answer very much. Boeing720 ( talk) 18:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi fellow wikipedians,
I’ve taken the liberty to change the “owners” of Stamford Bridge to “Chelsea Pitch Owners” in the article, as that is correct. Yet I’ve seen in the history log (and saw a wrong edit today) many edits changing the “owners” to “Fulham FC” or something similar, which is a straight lie. I’m getting tired of seeing this, and will not spent every day checking and correcting it. Mails have been sent to the Wikipedia team.
I can verify by source that it’s “Chelsea Pitch Owners” who owns Stamford Bridge; https://www.chelseafc.com/en/cpo and not “Fulham FC” or “Fulham Football Club”. Fulham has NEVER had anything thing to do with the stadium. Furthermore; at the bottom of this link; https://www.chelseafc.com/en/cpo/the-longer-history-and-legal-documents you’ll find 2 legal documents further contributing to my claim about the correct ownership.
Mike “Mikserinho” Christensen.
Hi Britmax; Stamford Bridge was never built for Fulham. Mears made an offer for them to play at the bridge, but after they refused Chelsea came to life. At first it was used as an athletics stadium. “ The ground was opened in 1877, but for first decades only athletics were played here. It was in 1905 that Chelsea was founded by owners of the venue at that time after Fulham refused to move in. ”
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I have reverted the cut and paste move of this page to Stamford Bridge Stadium. Tot he anonymous user that moved it - please do not move pages by cut and paste as it causes the edit history to be lost. See Help:Renaming (moving) a page for instructions. If there is a problem with this, or if the move is controversial, then list the page on Wikipedia:Requested moves. -- Vclaw 11:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Added clarification as to who "Abramovich" and "Mourinho" are. Also, links to surnames replaced with links to articles about each person respectively 217.205.198.23 10:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Any objection if I move this to Stamford Bridge (stadium) (properly, obviously) and make this a disambiguation page? Morwen - Talk 11:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
The layout of the two stand pics looks a bit clunky. It might just be my browser (firefox 1.5.05 on linux) rendering it in a weird way, but I doubt it. I had a go at fixing it, but that just made it worse. Anyone else want to have a go at improving it? -- Apyule 12:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
The west stand section says that it has 3 tiers as well as saying that construction was stopped after only 1 was built. Can anyone clear this up? Thanks, -- Apyule 13:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
This has concerned me for a while. The ground looks a bit disjointed, with tiers starting and finishing at different levels, and with little apparent attempt at harmonizing the overall look.
Is there a specific reason why the existing profile of the East stand could not have been continued all the way round the ground? Is it a strange or problematic tier formation? I appreciate the East Stand is HUGE and it may not have been practical to create such a large, three tiered "bowl", but surely things could have been made slightly more co-ordinated than they are?
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The page says it was the largest ground before Emirates - how is that possible with a capacity of around 42K only?
67.98.226.14 20:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
For some reason the capacity is listed as over 50,000 when it is in fact 42,055 (as cited here http://www.chelseafc.com/page/HistoryDetail/0,,10268~1328575,00.html). The West Stand seats around 13,500, not 20 odd thousand as listed. The overall capacity is also incorrectly stated here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_football_stadia_by_capacity —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.17.83 ( talk) 00:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
They've defeated fenerbahce... :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.165.169 ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Just an inform: I went on tour to Stamford Bridge this summer and my photos are here on Flickr. If someone like one of them, he can upload it on Commons whit the respective Flickr license. Just let me know, please.-- Andrea 93 ( msg) 11:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
In this article, the UEFA stadium categorie of Stamford Bridge is not precised.
63.216.100.39 ( talk) 15:48, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
Is there any specific bridge related to the stadium? Beyond495 ( talk) 23:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Yes. The stadium took its name from the bridge where Fulham Road crosses the railway immediately to the South East of the site. A bridge has been positioned there for hundreds of years. Before the railway was built, a tributary of the Thames river, called 'Counters Creek', later fashioned into the 'Kensington Canal' flowed there. That was diverted into underground pipes and resurfaces as 'Chelsea Creek' entering the Thames by the old Lots Road Power Station. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:149B:AC00:F1ED:ED16:A79:FBDC ( talk) 17:57, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Jenks24 ( talk) 07:19, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
The stadium is pretty much unquestionably the primary topic (and I know other stuff exists), so I think the disambiguation page should be changed to "Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)" so that the stadium can be called "Stamford Bridge" rather than "Stamdford Bridge (stadium)" - Unreal7 22:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
There was a small stand on north-east part of the ground until the late 1960's/early 1970's called the North Stand. Does anyone have any information on this (when built & demolished e.g.)? Barney Bruchstein ( talk) 13:32, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
Reply to when the new nort-east stand was built up. I visited "the shield" in November 1976, at that time had the three tier stand existed for a few years. I'm not certain , but I think the demolition was made after the 1972/73 season. The new stand was moved a few meters to the south-west (due to the running-/ greyhound-/ speedway- tracks, but also moved around 25 meters to the north (parallell to the pitch), the player entry was for quite a few years afterwards not at the middle of the pitch. Economic crisis prevented the club to continue the re-building of the whole stadium for may years. Chelsea was also relegated to what then was "division 2" (They played there during the 1976/77 season, I watched Chelsea vs Charlton in a mid-week game, in November 1976, I was 12 at that time). And though Chealsea came back quickly, they were far away from the great clubs during the second half of the 1970's and the entire 1980's. I remember (from a Swedish sport paper) that an American wanted to build a huge parking lot instead of the stadium. How true that was, I don't know, but I can assure you of the fact that I have read such a newspaper notice a long time ago now. (perhaps someone could trace a source ?) Boeing720 ( talk) 19:13, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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Re local stations and trains - London Overground is a National Rail service which serves both West Brompton and Imperial Wharf. The listing also ignores Southern Railway which runs on the same route serving the same two stations, the two services' routes varying further away from the area. I would correct it but I'll probably mess up the tables. MBRZ48 ( talk) 03:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
The stadium was built in 1066? Was this before of after the arrival of Billy I?
I took a photo from the Swedish Encyklopedia Nordisk Familjebok, third edition (1924-1937 17 volumes + another three supplementary volumes 1937- (summer of) 1939. The article "Fotboll", or "Football" in English is illustrated by one singe image only. And this was a clear aerial photography of Stamford Bridge, during a match in the late 1920's or early 1930's. I think it was even better than any of the other b/w photos, as the stadium is jam packed around the oval stadium. On the north-eastern long side is a covered stand, where "CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB" easily can be read. I wonder why it was removed. I think it was better than any of the three present old photograpies. And please note - it was published in Sweden as a "photographical work" (rather than "newspaper") and since the photographer is unknown, Swedish copyright laws allows such pictures to be published after 70 years. And the very last volume of this encyclopedia was printed in 1939. So it is Public Domain at the very least from 1.January.2010. Just the fact that the editors of this encyclopedia chose this photo in order to illustrate football, ought to be of some credit to Chelsea FC. I guess this picture was chosen due to the massive crowd gathered, which appears to be around the attendance record for Chelsea FC, around 80,000. And I can't help thinking that it's the best of the old pictures in this article. (It kind of "says the most" (of our pictures in this article). If someone can explain why it's removed, then I would appriciate the answer very much. Boeing720 ( talk) 18:17, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi fellow wikipedians,
I’ve taken the liberty to change the “owners” of Stamford Bridge to “Chelsea Pitch Owners” in the article, as that is correct. Yet I’ve seen in the history log (and saw a wrong edit today) many edits changing the “owners” to “Fulham FC” or something similar, which is a straight lie. I’m getting tired of seeing this, and will not spent every day checking and correcting it. Mails have been sent to the Wikipedia team.
I can verify by source that it’s “Chelsea Pitch Owners” who owns Stamford Bridge; https://www.chelseafc.com/en/cpo and not “Fulham FC” or “Fulham Football Club”. Fulham has NEVER had anything thing to do with the stadium. Furthermore; at the bottom of this link; https://www.chelseafc.com/en/cpo/the-longer-history-and-legal-documents you’ll find 2 legal documents further contributing to my claim about the correct ownership.
Mike “Mikserinho” Christensen.
Hi Britmax; Stamford Bridge was never built for Fulham. Mears made an offer for them to play at the bridge, but after they refused Chelsea came to life. At first it was used as an athletics stadium. “ The ground was opened in 1877, but for first decades only athletics were played here. It was in 1905 that Chelsea was founded by owners of the venue at that time after Fulham refused to move in. ”
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