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FANS AND FOOTBALLERS UNITE AT ANNUAL LUNCH
Posted on: Fri 18 Nov 2011
Stamford Bridge's Great Hall hosted Chelsea legends from the past seven decades at the club's Annual Lunch on Friday.
In an afternoon that has grown to represent the very best of the club, stars from the 1955 Championship-winning side through to Frank Lampard from the current crop gathered to celebrate all things Chelsea, with the added bonus of raising money for the Past Players' Trust.
Chelsea TV's Jonny Gould hosted the lunch, and the auction that followed, injecting a sense of dry wit to proceedings while also spending around 20 minutes chatting with Lampard, whose comments drew regular applause from the hundreds of guests inside the room.
Lampard discussed his lengthy Stamford Bridge career but also offered an insight into his future.
'Hopefully one day I'll be a manager, and will take little bits from the managers I have worked with,' said the 33-year-old. 'The manger has done that with Jose and there are a lot of his methods and ideas but he has his own personality. He is a bit more calm.
'I would like to be a manager, or in some capacity working, but I'll be honest, I would only want to work at Chelsea!
'That narrows it down a bit, it's a bit selfish but it's what I am used to and I am so happy here. Any role at the club would be great because I care about it. I didn't realise what a family club it is, all the old boys are always coming back and that doesn't happen everywhere.'
New Chelsea Pitch Owners chairman Steve Frankham donated a cheque for £2,500 to the Past Players' Trust which will be added to the £24,000 raised on the day through a raffle and auction, with proceeds from the silent auction still to be totted up.
As always there was entertainment provided by club chairman Bruce Buck, who raised plenty of laughs with his speech, as well as delivering the key message of his desire to see the club progress both on and off the field, while former heroes Mickey Droy and Pat Nevin shared some sofa time with host Gould.
Two men who can testify to the forward steps we have taken are players from the recent and rather more distant past.
Peter Brabrook won the league title in the mid-1950s, while Erland Johnsen was a stalwart defender of the late 1980s and early '90s having arrived from his native Norway. Both enjoyed meeting up with old friends.
'This is one of the best things ever, coming back and seeing your old friends again,' Brabrook said. 'I get invited every year and it's nice to see the players you played with.
'It's hard to keep in touch, but I am still involved with football scouting for West Ham and see a few of the boys about. Chelsea look after the past players, at other places they tend to get neglected but here they have a great name regarding the older players.'
'It is always nice to come here,' Johnsen added. 'I am quite busy doing my Pro-Licence badges and I also coach in Norway, so I would like to be here once a month, or at least four times a year but at the moment it is just once a year.
'I just saw John Bumstead for the first time in 21 years, but I keep in touch with Ken Monkou and Kerry Dixon sometimes. It's a great occasion, and after five minutes you are back together telling the old jokes and stories.'
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