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Aug 5, 2023 · ‘It was crazy. It felt like I was a fan on the bench, it was nuts. The noise, the fans are literally that close to you. Have you seen the bench at Old Trafford?' Gilchrist ponders. ‘I was sat on the bench, and the fans were there on my shoulder! When I was warming up, I was getting a bit of stick, like fans saying, "Who the hell are you ...
Jan 2, 2024 · Boyhood Blues supporter Alfie Gilchrist talks us through the moment he fulfilled his dream of becoming a Chelsea player – and reveals how he overcame his early fears to do so. Gilchrist became the latest player to make his Chelsea debut in our last match at Stamford Bridge.
Gilchrist's 1915 anthem Ponder My Words was one of the works chosen for a service celebrating the centennial of his birth in 1946. The service was held at New Jerusalem Church in Philadelphia. The anthem opens with a soprano solo singing an expressive setting of the Psalm-Five text.
- Karlie
- The Racist White Man
- The Police Officer
The main character, or protagonist, of this story is a black man namedKarlie who lives during the era of apartheid in South Africa. He is from arural part of the country and is enjoying a visit to Johannesburg, a big cityin which the clash of ideologies regarding race is much more pronounced than itis at home. Karlie's response to the idea of equal...
There is also the racist white man who tries to kick Karlie off the bench.This man calls him "black swine" and "scum," and he threatens Karlie with thepolice. This leads Karlie to realize the man's weakness: he will not doanything to Karlie himself, and so Karlie "had won the first round of the benchdispute."
When the police officer does arrive, he arrests Karlie, who now feels securein the knowledge that he should sit where he wants. He has kept his silence,and this has upset the white man and police officer even more than his initialdisobedience.
The Bench begins with Karlie, the protagonist, listening to a series of speeches on the unequivocal rights of blacks in his native South Africa. He has come from a small town and has never...
Jan 7, 2024 · For a Kingston-born Chelsea fan, who’s been with us since the under-11 level in the Academy, it was of course a dream come true — with his family sat in the stands and himself already a bit of a...
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May 3, 2024 · Lining up alongside Chalobah and captain Conor Gallagher from the start, Josh Acheampong, Jimi Tauriainen and Cesare Casadei were then all introduced from a youthful bench. That left Gilchrist passing on his own lessons and experience to his younger team-mates, despite only making his own senior debut a little over four months ago.
