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[flyrr100]

How about doing what many American sports teams do. Retire his number. Chelsea's number 9 will always be remembered as Peter Osgood's number. I think it would be a fitting tribute from the club.

[Founding Member]

>Chelsea's number 9 will always be remembered as Peter Osgood's number

Not Chris Suttons then? ;-)

[Oded Helman]

for me it will always be Vialli, but then again Osgood was before my time

[Olusisi]

The number 9 jersey is too special a number to retire for any player no matter how great the player was for the club.

[*History*]

Only the best should wear number 9, to honor him.

[Pete Bull]

People said that about Zola, as yet nobody has been given the number 25 shirt.

If we retired the number nine shirt, shouldn't we retire the number 16 shirt too? It could go on and on.

[WashingtonBlue]

Isn't there also a tradition in UK football that the numbers correspond roughly to the position the player plays (at least the first 11 or so)? In American sports, the numbers the players wear are generally limited only by the constraints of 2 digits, so even several jersey retirements don't deprive the team much. The tradition is most common in American football where numbers from 1-99 can be worn and less than half are in use at any one time (45 man squads in the NFL).

[Duffo The Bear]

Much as I loved Ossie's footballing genius - I think it would be wrong to retire the number 9 and like others have said where do you stop.
As an aside anyone remember what number Bogarde had?

[Pete Bull]

For the very few games he played Duffo, Bogarde wore the lucky number 7 shirt.

[Duffo The Bear]

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For the very few games he played Duffo, Bogarde wore the lucky number 7 shirt.

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Thanks Pete. Shevchenko must be proud to have inherited that squad number. No wonder he can't score, he's doing well to make it onto the pitch.

[Pete Bull]

Only about five games to go and Sheva will be up to Bogey's career starts for Chelsea.

BTW, not that I'm promoting it or anything, but Bogarde has a book out. It's called 'Deze neger buigt voor niemand' or roughly translated. This black man bows for nobody.

Goes to show why he never headed a ball I suppose.

[Matt Connellan]

But we retired 25 because Zola was voted the Greatest Chelsea Player Ever or something, plus the ease with which such a number can be retired.

9, being a traditional centre forwards number, it would be harder to retire, given that we have had many great number 9's, as opposed to 25's. Dixon and Hasselbaink spring to mind.

[Nilesy]

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Originally posted by flyrr100

How about doing what many American sports teams do. Retire his number. Chelsea's number 9 will always be remembered as Peter Osgood's number. I think it would be a fitting tribute from the club.

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Two issues here. Firstly by the very fact that American sports do it condemns the idea to the waste-paper basket of naffness.

Secondly, it is a squad number shirt - which aren't "retired" no matter who wears/wore it.

[WPAULWIN]

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Originally posted by Pete Bull

For the very few games he played Duffo, Bogarde wore the lucky number 7 shirt.

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Thanks Pete. Shevchenko must be proud to have inherited that squad number. No wonder he can't score, he's doing well to make it onto the pitch.

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Do not forget Mutu also had the lucky number 7....he always scored

[Mark Kelly]

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Originally posted by Pete Bull



If we retired the number nine shirt, shouldn't we retire the number 16 shirt too? It could go on and on.

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We may as well . given the amount of games where it's wearer isn't either injured or playing in a one man team.