Chelsea football amateur helped win the first-ever league title

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

While the professionals in the squad got £12 a week and a £50 for that league triumph, the amateurs…

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