Retire No.9

[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]

quote: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.