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Soapbox: Chelsea at last

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

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Salut! Sunderland feels a duty to keep up a decent sort of service on this of all weekends. Here, Pete Sixsmith looks back on that other time – a mere 46 years ago – when we needed to beat Chelsea at home on another final game of the season …

So it’s come down to the game that we feared when the fixtures came out in July.

“Chelsea at home, last game of the season, hope we don’t need anything from that,” went the crack.

“Nah, we’ll be pushing for the top half by then. Keano’s made some nifty signings in Chimbonda and Diouf and I’m sure that this is the season when Stokes really breaks through. In fact, Chelsea will be more worried than us. Reckon it could stop them winning the league. Scolari won’t like 48,000 Mackems roaring their heads off.”

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