Great Football League Teams 24: Chelsea, 1983-4

Booker Prize winner: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner John Peel Festive 50 Number 1: The Smiths: How Soon is Now? Poet Laureate: John Betjeman President of Libya: Muammar al-Gaddafi The early eighties were torrid for Chelsea. A decade or so on from their greatest triumph – a Cup Winners Cup victory over Real Madrid in Athens - the club was marooned in Division Two, beset by financial trouble,

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