Lord Attenborough 90歲生日快樂！ - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

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HAPPY 90TH LORD ATTENBOROUGH

Posted on: Thu 29 Aug 2013


Chelsea Football Club wishes a very happy birthday to our life president
Lord Attenborough.


The Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning actor, film director and
producer turns 90 today (Thursday) and has a long history of devoted
support for Chelsea. He previously served as a director and life
vice-president.


It was back in the late 1940s when the young Richard Attenborough's
passion for the Pensioners, as we were then nicknamed, was truly ignited.
A resident of west London, he trained with the Chelsea players for a
fortnight in order to improve his physical condition for the making of the
film Brighton Rock, and he became friends with Tommy Lawton, the star
centre-forward of English football.


Lawton moved on but Lord Attenborough remained a Chelsea supporter and
showbiz links with Stamford Bridge were enhanced by a stream of star names
he invited as guests to watch games, including Laurence Olivier, Steve
McQueen, John Wayne, John Mills and Frank Sinatra.


His role in the club went further when he became a director and he was on
the board during the glamorous, trophy-winning period of the early 1970s.


When the club ownership changed hands a decade later, Lord Attenborough
was an important figure when Chelsea's future at Stamford Bridge came
under threat, ensuring crucial shares did not fall into the hands of
property developers as others did.


No longer a Chelsea director, with the filming of Gandhi keeping him
abroad for long periods, he was thanked with his appointment as life
vice-president and he continued to be prominent at many club occasions.


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Attenborough


Lord Attenborough helped launch the current club badge in 2004 and in 2008
he became life president.


On being handed a commemorative plate to mark the occasion, he said: 'I'll
sweep the Oscars off the mantel piece and put this plate right on top now.
It means as much to me as any award or honour I have been given in the
past.'


He has devoted time and energy to improving facilities for disabled fans,
and charities have long been a large part of Lord Attenborough's life.
Help a London Child, a charity he had launched, was for four years the
club's official UK charity partner. Prior to the Aston Villa home game
earlier this month another charity he supports, the Muscular Dystrophy
Campaign, collected funds at Stamford Bridge to help mark his 90th
birthday.


Hopefully the team can bring the UEFA Super Cup back this week as a
birthday present!

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在一群球霸、色鬼、自大狂、幼稚鬼、懶惰蟲、貪婪鬼的足壇中
體現了身為一名職業球員有多麼的艱難與偉大！


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