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34 / Sat Mar 25, 1950 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Portsmouth 4-0 Chelsea

34 /  Sat Mar 25, 1950 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Portsmouth 4-0 Chelsea

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Era 1946-1973
Season 1949-50
Date Sat Mar 25, 1950
Match Type First Team
Competition Sponsor
Competition Football League Division One (D1)
Match No 34
Stage League
Kick Off 3.00pm
Venue Fratton Park
Weather Fine
Home Team Portsmouth
Away Team Chelsea
Attendance 28574
Receipts
Referee E Baker (Manchester)
Status Completed after 90 minutes
Final Score Portsmouth 4-0 Chelsea
Home Scorers Reid 11, 40, 62, Harris 38
Away Scorers -
Home Line Up Butler Hindmarsh Ferrier Scoular Flewin Dickinson Harris Reid Clarke Pickett Froggatt
Away Line Up Medhurst Winter Hughes Armstrong Harris Mitchell Gray Jenkings Bentley Williams Campbell
Match Summary Huddersfield’s win over Man U opens up the title race, as Pompey cruise past jaded semi-final replay losers Chelsea. Today’s hero is Reid who claims a headed hat-trick, from centres by Froggatt, Dickinson and Harris respectively. Harris’s cool head punishes Medhurst’s rash rush.
Source Portsmouth Champions of England, Farmery C, Desert Island Books (2000)
Pompeyrama Portsmouth 4-0 Chelsea
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