NUMBER 2 – PETER SILLETT – RIGHT BACK
Chelsea fans love a tough bloke, and that’s exactly what tough-tackling championship-winning right-back Sillet was. He also had a cracking shot on him, netting plenty of free kicks and penalties during his time at Stamford Bridge. On Easter Saturday 1955, top of the league Chelsea hosted defending champions Wolves, who were five points behind in second-place but with three games in hand. The game was goalless for 75 minutes until Chelsea managed at last to beat then England keeper, Bert Williams, only for Billy Wright to handle the ball and send it over the bar; In front of 75,000 people, Sillet stepped up and hammered home the resulting spot-kick, just one of the reasons that the man once described by Sir Stanley Matthews as the best full-back in the world is immortalized in Chelsea folklore.
