“Mr L Norcliffe, I do enjoy your reports of Chesterfield in the Times and look forward to them RE Chelsea v Chesterfield. “I was at Saltergate a few months before I started National Service in the RAF, in the 1949/1950 season, when they played Chelsea in the fifth round. "Before the game some Chelsea fans walked round the outside of the pitch bearing a ‘coffin’ with the names of teams they had knocked out. Sign up to our daily newsletter The i newsletter cut through the noise Sign up Thanks for signing up! "When I met Lucy, a pen friend in the RAF, on demob I went to Middlesex to live with her and spent 20 years on the London Underground and saw Chesterfield when duties allowed.

Source: The Times December 15, 2021 12:31 UTC