Chelsea stars were once booted off their own training ground in order to make room for school children on their lunch break despite being in Champions League preparations.Before moving to the £20million Cobham base, which was officially opened in 2007, the club had trained at the Harlington training ground since the 1970s.
Guy Poyet, who played for the club between 1997 and 2001, has now detailed how he enjoyed his time at Chelsea but explained how their time at Harlington would often be disrupted.Gus Poyet, speaking exclusively to Ladbrokes at the launch of its 5-A-Side bet on Chelsea v Newcastle, said: "We had a great balance at Chelsea, I really felt like there was a strong team spirit during my time at the club."We were great professionals who followed Dennis [Wise] - even as foreign players who were new to this country and the culture, we all knew that Dennis was our leader; he was our captain so we knew that we had to follow his example."The biggest shock for me at Chelsea was the training ground.
When I moved to the club we were training in Harlington - I don't know if you know that area, but we were training on a school ground. "Literally, we had a leave at 12pm because the kids would come out in the afternoon.
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