Arsenal Goalie Jack Kelsey On A Very Foggy Day
Jack Kelsey of Arsenal stares into the fog in this 1954 picture. The image below is frequently misidentified as coming from a Christmas Day viral story from 1937. According to this report, a game between Chelsea and Stamford Ridge took place on a foggy day. After only 61 minutes, the game was called off, but no one told the goalkeeper at Stamford Bridge.
He expressed himself as follows: “I paced up and down my goal-line, happy in the knowledge that Chelsea were being pinned in their own half. ‘The boys must be giving the Pensioners the hammer,’ I thought smugly, as I stamped my feet for warmth… After a long time a figure loomed out of the curtain of fog in front of me. It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously. ‘What on earth are you doing here?’ he gasped. ‘The game was stopped a quarter of an hour ago. The field’s completely empty’. And when I groped my way to the dressing-room, the rest of the Charlton team, already out of the bath and in their civvies, were convulsed with laughter.”
Arsenal Goalie Jack Kelsey On A Very Foggy Day
