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5 unusual facts about Stamford Bridge


Buttercrambe with Bossall

The parish is near Stamford Bridge, and contains Buttercrambe and Bossall.

Lake Pickering

The lake surface rose until it overflowed southwards and cut an exit between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds at Kirkham Priory between Malton and Stamford Bridge, so creating the River Derwent.

Liam Rosenior

On 18 August 2013, Rosenior was an unused substitute as Hull lost 2–0 against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the opening weekend of the season.

Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire

The station on the York to Beverley railway line was opened in 1847 and closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts.

Zoo Vet at Large

His veterinary home is currently in the village of Stamford Bridge but was formally in the town of Pocklington.


Bert Shelley

Caretaker manager George Goss led them on a run in the FA Cup, defeating Liverpool in round 4, to reach the semi-final at Stamford Bridge, where they were defeated 2–0 by Sheffield United on 28 March 1925, with Shelley playing in all five cup matches.

David Calderhead

Calderhead was notoriously shy of the media, earning the nickname "The Sphinx of Stamford Bridge".

Ted Hough

The semi-final was played at Stamford Bridge on 26 March 1927; after the Saints had an early penalty appeal turned down by the referee, Arsenal mounted a prolonged pressure on the Southampton goal, resulting in the opening score, when a cross-shot from Joe Hulme was deflected by Hough past Tommy Allen into the Saints' goal.

Teodora Albon

She took charge (accompanied by a team of three Romanian match officials – assistants Petruța Iugulescu and Mihaela Țepușa, and fourth official Cristina Dorcioman) of the 2013 UEFA Women's Champions League Final at Stamford Bridge in London, where VfL Wolfsburg beat Lyon 1-0 in regular time, and also officiated at two matches during UEFA Women's Euro 2013.

Victoria, London

Archibald Leitch who was renowned for his work designing football stadiums including Craven Cottage, Anfield, Stamford Bridge, Old Trafford, Ibrox and White Hart Lane among many others, had offices were based at 53 Victoria Street (they too are long gone), and the street as a whole housed many consulting engineering firms until the 1970s.


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Baddrol Bakhtiar

On April 6, 2008, Gifted Group chairman Jonathan Price fulfilled his promise to let Baddrol and his former Kedah teammate Mohd Bunyamin Umar train for two weeks with Chelsea FC at Stamford Bridge alongside their youngsters and their more senior players such as Shaun Wright-Phillips, Tal Ben Haim, Steve Sidwell and Nicolas Anelka.