Such has been the demand for information and answers that club statistician Paul Dutton is putting in a double shift this month, working through supporters' questions in another statistical surgery.
The game against Roma earlier this week revived memories of Eddie McCreadie's sending off against the Italians 43 years ago. The first request this time refers to one of Eddie's other most famous moments.
A supporter who wishes to be known anonymously as Me (assuming that isn't their full name), asks for details on the goal scored by McCreadie in the League Cup Final first leg at Stamford Bridge against Leicester in 1965. Me's dad has said it is one of the best goals he has ever seen
I'm sure it is and keeping it factual, Chelsea took the lead twice through Bobby Tambling and a Terry Venables penalty. Leicester equalised on both occasions (Colin Appleton and Jimmy Goodfellow) but with 10 minutes remaining, McCreadie tackled on the edge of area and went on a 60-yard run, dribbling past several Leicester players before scoring past Gordon Banks.
Our usual left-back was playing as number 9 in that game, coming in for Barry Bridges. The 3-2 lead was defended successful in the away leg, Chelsea lifting the trophy after a 0-0 draw.
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From stand-in forwards to low-down forwards. Chuka Iwuh asks who was the shortest striker/forward ever to play for Chelsea.
There are no complete official records of player heights throughout the club's history. However, the shortest I can find is Jackie Crawford who enjoyed a lengthy career at the Bridge between 1923-34, scoring 27 goals in 308 appearances.
Jackie was mostly a winger, which in that era especially was considered a forward and depending on which record you look at, he was either 5ft 2in or 5ft 3in.
For centre-forwards, the legendary Hughie Gallacher from the 1930s was 5ft 5in and our 1994 FA Cup Final strike pairing, John Spencer and Mark Stein (above), were both 5ft 6in.
Closer to the present day, Leon Knight, now of Conference side Rusden and Diamonds, took it a couple of inches lower and measured in at 5ft 4in. He made one Chelsea sub appearance in the Uefa Cup in 2001.
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Before we change the subject from forward players, Bill Torode mailed in from Colombia about a boyhood memory of Chelsea beating West Brom 4-0 after three replays in the FA Cup.
Miles Spector is the player in question, Bill curious to know what became of him after good reviews for that game but little Chelsea action there after.
The information I can confirm or add to is that Spector played left wing and had been an England youth and amateur international, making his debut as a 19-year-old against Sunderland at home in February 1953. He came on for regular left winger Billy Gray.
Spector, who remained an amateur, only played six games before returning to Hendon from where he had come. Two of those six were part of the marathon West Brom cup-tie Bill referred to. He played the second replay at Villa Park and the third replay when we eventually beat them 4-0 at Highbury.
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From on-pitch players to a crowd question now as Justin Swyer wants reassurance over a memory he has of a game against Coventry at Stamford Bridge prior to the 1994 Cup Final and an unusually low crowd.
It was indeed the lowest crowd of that season, just 8,923 turning up 10 days before our Wembley date. I can confirm Justin's recollection that it was the same night Arsenal beat a Parma side containing Gianfranco Zola in the Cup Winners' Cup Final, although I'd like to think none of our fans decided to stay home and watch that instead!
Chelsea lost 2-1 to Coventry on a night when Michael Duberry made his debut. With one eye firmly on the final, Dennis Wise and Gavin Peacock were rested, Steve Clarke captained and Tony Cascarino scored the consolation goal.
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That was a crowd more in-keeping with what were our traditional pre-season curtain raisers throughout the 1990s at Kingstonian, the subject of a set of questions by Steve Laurie.
Steve, who has written in before, focuses first on a game played in the mid-80s against the non-league outfit and remembers some big names.
That was a Chelsea reserve side against Kingstonian in a testimonial in August 1986, although our team did included David Speedie, Pat Nevin, Doug Rougvie and Roy Wegerle. The crowd was given out as 1,000, Speedie scored two, Nevin one, Mickey Bodley one and there was a Kevin McAllister penalty.
Steve also asks for some nostalgic facts on those summer pre-season run-outs at Kingstonian which ran for 10 years, starting in 1991. The venue was Kingsmeadow in Kingston-upon-Thames where our reserves played home matches.
There was a 10-0 win in 1994, a 7-0 in 1996 (the day pictured below) and 3-0s in 1991, 1997 and 1999. The biggest crowd was in 1998, when a Chelsea side only won 2-0. Zola scored one, Rob Wolleaston the other and the crowd was 4,442.
Speedie and Nevin also feature in a question from James who wanted to know the scorers in a Milk Cup game against Manfield that he attended in September 1985. It was a 2nd round 1st leg, the result 2-2 and the answer is our Scottish duo mentioned above netted one apiece.
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Bringing it back up-to-date, Mo 'ossie' Beg wants it confirmed that Chelsea are currently on 996 Premier League goals. I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave earlier the Pre-Match Briefing for the Liverpool game on this website.
Yes, 996 it is and with fingers-crossed, howabout the 1,000 being reached on Sunday? Mo also asks for a breakdown of stats for all games at home.
Taking that as Premier League home games (ie, 1992/93-to-date), the figures are:
Played 314
Won 186
Drawn 85
Lost 43
Goals For 574
Goal Against 257
Points 643
Another quickie - Stan wants a breakdown of Chelsea v Man United matches in all competitions since 1970.
Here you go Stan:
Played 76
W 22
D 28
L 26
The draws include games that ended in penalty shoot-outs, Chelsea losing all three, one of which you just might remember!
The league record over the same time favours Chelsea:
W 19
D 23
L 18
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If his current injury heals in time, Joe Cole could be the player to net that 1000th Premier League goal and Joe is also the subject of a question from John Towers who wants a record of how many times the player was substituted last season and how many times he came on as sub.
The figures are 30 times off, 10 times on. Joe started 45 times so makes 15 completed games but weighing in at a total of 4,232 minutes, he still played the most time of anyone last season despite the high withdrawal rate.
Another topical one that is about to change was mailed in by Ekow Amponsah who wanted to know how many matches Chelsea have played with Liverpool since the year 2004.
In one of the most concentrated set of meetings ever, over the last four seasons we have played five times each year, 20 games in total, with nine wins, five defeats and six draws.
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Heading overseas and a Russian Chelsea supporter (no, not that one), has asked about Chelsea games versus Russian sides.
The correspondent is Kiryha who I inform there has only been one set of competitive games, in the Champions League group stage in 2004 when Chelsea beat CSKA Moscow 2-0 at home and 1-0 away.
In friendlies, there was the famous 3-3 home match against Moscow Dynamo in 1945, the full details recorded in an earlier Ask Statman.
In November 1957 we played the forerunner to CSKA, called CDSA Moscow back then, at Stamford Bridge, losing 4-1 with Ron Tindall scoring.
Moscow Dynamo returned in November 1978, Chelsea losing again 2-1, Clive Walker on-target.
And then there was this August's pre-season tournament game in Moscow against Lokomotiv (pictured below), the home side equalising Michael Essien's volley late on and Chelsea missing out on penalties.
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I'll finish this time with a perennially popular request, the details of a game on a particular date.
George Banks wishes to know who Chelsea played on Saturday 7th March 1976.
The simple answer is no-one but taking the date as Saturday 6th March that year, we beat Plymouth away 3-0 - scorers Garry Stanley, Ian Britton and Kenny Swain (pictured below).
Team: Bonetti, Locke, R Harris, Stanley, Wicks, Hay, Britton, Wilkins, Finnieston, Swain, Lewington.
Michael Votsis wishes to know the team for his first match - Chelsea v Wolves on 30th April 1960.We lost at home 5-1 but that obviously didn't put Michael off sticking by the club.
The team was: Reg Matthews, John Sillett, Peter Sillett, Sylvan Anderton, John Mortimore, Stan Crowther, Peter Brabrook, Jimmy Greaves, Ron Tindall, Johnny Brooks, Frank Blunstone.
Tindall scored, it was the last game of season and Wolves, still managed by their legendary boss Stan Cullis, ended up runners-up by one point behind Chelsea's upcoming Carling Cup opponents Burnley. The Blues were 18th, two points above the drop zone.
The Ask Statman inbox is looking a little less full now but there are still questions in the queue which I'll deal with next time. Thanks for the good response once more and please keep sending the queiries, follow-ups and corrections to statman@chelseafc.com
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