Supporters of English Premier League team Chelsea and Football League team Gillingham regularly sing songs about the vegetable and are famed for throwing celery during matches.

As a condition for using the Chelsea FC name, the club has to play its first team matches at Stamford Bridge, which means that if the club moves to a new stadium, they may have to change their name.

The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

Osgood returned to Chelsea in December 1978 following a disappointing stint in the United States with the Philadelphia Fury, where he scored only 1 goal in 23 matches for a team which also included Alan Ball and Johnny Giles.

In late July and early August, 2004, Manchester United played Glasgow Celtic and AC Milan played Chelsea FC in two friendly matches between these well known European powerhouse clubs.

He is also present at almost every game Chelsea plays and shows visible emotion during matches, a sign taken by supporters to indicate a genuine love for the sport, and usually visits the players in the dressing room following each match, although this stopped for a time in early 2007 as rumours of a feud between Abramovich and manager Mourinho, regarding the appearances of certain players, notably Andriy Shevchenko, appeared in the press.

* Most career top-flight goals: 357, Jimmy Greaves ( 516 matches, for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, 1957 to 1971 )

Notable performances during the campaign came from the men between the posts: The previous seasons keeper David Hills ceased playing early in the season ; for several games a temporary replacement, former 1950's Chelsea goalie, Bob Robertson appeared ; new custodian Brian Gambrill signed-on for £ 300 from Canterbury City and conceded seven goals on his home debut ( in a 7 – 1 loss to Worcester City-David Gillingwater hitting the ' Town's ' lone marker ); mid-season he became injured and for several matches local amateur ' keeper Reg Gorham stepped in ( echoing the make-up of the original Ashford United club he worked for the local free-sheet newspaper ).

He has found himself in and out of the team under Roberto Mancini, with new signing Adam Johnson's form forcing Wright-Phillips to be a substitute in most matches, including City's game at his former club Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

At the start of World War I he enlisted in the British Army and did not play many matches during the 1914-15 season but he was given special leave to join Chelsea at Old Trafford for the Cup Final when Bob Thomson was injured.

Chelsea finished 2nd in the 2003 – 04 Premier League behind unbeaten Arsenal and he was named in the 2004 PFA Team of the Year as he reached double figures in league goals ( 10 ) for the first time in his career, in addition to four goals in fourteen UEFA Champions League matches, as Chelsea advanced to the semi-finals.

Though Chelsea were eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals by league rivals Liverpool, they took home the Football League Cup, in which Lampard scored twice in six matches, which included the opening goal against Manchester United in the League Cup semi-final, which Chelsea won 2 – 1.

He scored twice in three separate matches from August to November, including both in a 2 – 1 win over Aston Villa, making Chelsea the first team to win their first 7 matches in the Premier League.

In the first match of the 2007 – 08 season, Chelsea beat Birmingham City 3 – 2 to set a new record of 64 consecutive home league matches without defeat, surpassing the record set by Liverpool between 1978 and 1981.

Since 1997, the club has improved greatly, climbing up the Bundesliga table and qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, with matches against top European teams like Chelsea and A. C. Milan, increasing the international prestige of the club.

The All Golds gained revenge however, defeating the full Great Britain side in two of the three Test matches, which were played at Leeds, Chelsea and Cheltenham ; a surprising choice of venues given rugby league's northern base.

An injury hampered his first season, causing him to miss out on important matches such as the Carling Cup semi-final against Chelsea and the 2005 FA Cup Final against Arsenal at the Millennium Stadium, which Manchester United lost on penalties.

After missing the first three Champions League matches for Chelsea with a ban, Drogba started the fourth game against Spanish side Atlético Madrid.

Drogba's headed effort marked his ninth goal in nine cup final appearances for Chelsea, Chelsea legend Gianfranco Zola spoke after the match about Drogba's ability in big games: " In all their very important matches he has put a stamp on it.

Chelsea retained the Premier League title in the 2005 – 06 season, with Čech playing in 34 league matches.

The Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea's naming rights are now owned by Chelsea Pitch Owners, a non-profit organisation in which fans are the shareholders.

The holders of the FA Cup are Chelsea, who defeated Liverpool 2 – 1 in the 2012 final for their fourth triumph in six years and seventh overall.

The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village and NoHo to the east, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea to the north.

Notable films in this genre are: Dog Star Man ; Scorpio Rising ; Wavelength ; Chelsea Girls ; Blow Job ; Vinyl ; Flaming Creatures.

Colour guards in the artillery units are technically the lead gun's crew and leader ( except in the Honourable Artillery Company which uses both guns and Colours ) and there are no colour guards in the rifle regiments ( nowadays The Rifles ), the Royal Gurkha Rifles ( which use the Queen's Truncheon ) and in the Royal Hospital in Chelsea.

The equivalent term " Chelsea Tractor " became prominent in the United Kingdom around 2004 to describe vehicles such luxury SUVs used in urban areas such as Chelsea, London, where their four-wheel-drive capabilities are not required and the car is believed to be a status symbol rather than a necessity.

They are Westminster, which is termed the City of Westminster as it has city status, Kingston upon Thames, Kensington and Chelsea, and ( since 2012 ) Greenwich, which are termed " Royal Borough of ", due to their Royal borough status.

The edges of Kensington are not well-defined ; in particular, the southern part of Kensington blurs into Chelsea, which has a similar architectural style.

Two of her songs from Chelsea Girl, " The Fairest of the Seasons " and " These Days ", both written by Jackson Browne, are featured in Wes Anderson's film The Royal Tenenbaums.

Most wallflower garden cultivars ( e. g. Erysimum ' Chelsea Jacket ') are derived from E. cheiri ( often placed in Cheiranthus ), from southern Europe.

* Almost 3, 000 students are based here studying at Chelsea School, School of Health Professions, School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Service Management.

The most notable of these are Chelsea, Fulham and Brentford, with whom they contest what are known as West London Derbies.

This is a history that explores the on-stage and backstage dramas at the Chelsea, with special attention to how theaters are funded.

The others are Kensington and Chelsea and Greenwich also in London, and Windsor and Maidenhead.

Further investigation, however, indicates a 12 year gap in life expectancy between the affluent wards of Chelsea ( Royal Hospital, Hans Town ) and the most northerly wards of North Kensington ( Golborne, Dalgarno ) which are categorised by high levels of social housing and poverty.

There are many new or refurbished buildings along the borough's prosperous riverside including the large Chelsea Bridge Wharf.

Fulham Football Club, Chelsea Football Club and Queens Park Rangers are all based in the borough and play Premier League football.

Examples from every factory are represented, the collections of Chelsea porcelain and Worcester Porcelain being especially fine.

During the year the story takes place, they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé and his son in tow.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the better residential portion of Chelsea is the eastern, near Sloane Street and along the river ; the western, extending north to Fulham Road, is mainly a poor quarter ".

studio and office facility, mainly for that network's Chelsea Lately ).

In 1832 George Robert Gleig, by then Chaplain to the Chelsea Hospital — the Chelsea Pensioners — and a well-known author, mainly on military matters, publicly opposed the Reform Bill before Parliament.

Recording for the first series of six episodes began on location in the first half of April 1992 and were mainly filmed in Chelsea within a short distance from the director's home.

In his three years at Chelsea, Zenden played in the 2002 FA Cup Final, a 2 – 0 defeat by Arsenal, however he struggled to maintain a constant place in the starting line-up mainly due to persistent injuries.

Walker quit Norwich in January 1994, following a long running feud with Chairman Robert Chase ( mainly centring around Chase's habit of selling off the club's key players without consulting his manager first-for example Robert Fleck to Chelsea just after Walker's appointment ), to become manager of Everton, with Everton having to pay substantial compensation to Norwich to secure his services.

He went on to play 159 games, scoring 32 goals for Chelsea, mainly in the Second Division.