Cech ranks fifth in Chelsea all-time GK
October 8, 2007Following a clean sheet last Sunday against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium where we won 1-0, Petr Cech has climbed up the ranks in Chelsea’s all-time top goalkeepers. Moving one spot up, he climbed past Ed de Goey who served the Blues from 1997-2003 and accumulated a total of 72+1 clean sheets in 178+1 games. Cech’s record stands at 73 clean sheets, representing over 52% of his appearances for the Blues.
Immediately above Cech are Jim Molyneux (1910-22) and Sam Millington (1926-32) who kept 77 and 78 clean sheets in 239 and 245 games, respectively during Chelsea’s early times. On the second spot is now second-choice keeper Carlo Cudicini who got 85+4 clean sheets in 189+5 games.
It will surely be tough to take over the all-time top goalie Peter Bonetti who accumulated a massive 208 clean sheets in almost2 decades he spent with Chelsea.
Others on the list are:
Vic Woodley (1931-45) 60 (272 games);
Eddie Niedzwiecki (1983-88) 55 (175 games);
Dmitri Kharine (1992-99) 51 (146 games);
Dave Beasant (1989-93) 41 (157 games);
Jack Whitley (1907-14) 39 (138 games);
Bill G Robertson (1946-60) 38 (215 games);
Ben Howard-Baker (1921-26) 36 (93 games);
Petar Borota (1979-82) 36 (114 games);
Colin Hampton (1914-25) 32 (82 games);
Harry Medhurst (1946-52) 32 (157 games);
Kevin Hitchcock (1988-01) 30+2 (131+4 games);
John Phillips (1970-80) 30 (149 games);
Peter McKenna (1924-31) 25 (66 games);
Steve Francis (1981-87) 21 (88 games)
Sept. 19, 2007
‘Ben Howard-Baker’ was Howard Baker, guys. Howard was definitely one of his christian names – and the one he was known by. I have many contemporary sources. Email me if you’d like to see them. But he wasn’t known as Ben. Definitely.