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Lord Attenborough 1923-2014
Sun, 24 Aug 2014
Chelsea Football Club is tonight deeply saddened to learn of the passing
of our Life President Lord Attenborough, CBE at the age of 90.
切尔西终身荣誉主席，大英帝国司令勋章获得者阿滕伯勒爵士于8月24日去世，享年
90岁。切尔西足球俱乐部深感悲痛。
He led a long and successful life and always found time for the things in
life he loved most, one of which was Chelsea FC.
阿滕伯勒爵士一生卓有成就，百忙中总能抽出时间关心他最爱的几项事物，包括切尔
西足球俱乐部。
Renowned throughout the world for his work in cinema which honoured him
with awards for acting, directing and producing, football - and Chelsea in
particular - was never far from his thoughts.
他在电影界的成就举世闻名，曾以演员、导演和制片身份获得多项荣誉。同时他也一
直关注著足球，尤其是切尔西。
His personality was woven into the tapestry of the club over seven
decades. He was a consistent force for good at the club, even in dark
times.
七十多年来，他与俱乐部紧密相连。即便是在低谷期，他也一直支持着俱乐部。
He was a club director during the glamorous, trophy-winning seasons of the
early 1970s and a decade later helped keep the club at Stamford Bridge
when our stadium came under serious threat from property development.
在蓝军连夺奖杯的70年代黄金时期，他曾担任俱乐部董事。80年代，房地产发展导致
斯坦福桥球场极有可能要被拆除，当时他帮助了我们保住蓝桥主场。
Born in Cambridge in 1923 and growing up in the Midlands before making
Richmond in west London his long-time home, it was the acting profession
that first brought the young Richard Attenborough to Chelsea FC.
In the late 1940s he had been selected for the role of young gangster
Pinkie in the film Brighton Rock. Asked to improve his physical condition,
he was given the choice of training with either the Chelsea players or
with Fulham for a fortnight. To our everlasting good fortune he chose the
Pensioners and soon became friends with Tommy Lawton, the most revered
centre-forward in English football at the time, and others, and was given
tickets to matches by them.
Lawton transferred to Notts County soon after but the bug had bitten Lord
Attenborough and he remained a Chelsea supporter for the rest of his life.
Brighton Rock established him as a major star and many more successes
followed. Few of his show business friends escaped an attempt at
indoctrination at Stamford Bridge. He shared his love of the club not just
with English stars such as Laurence Olivier and John Mills, but brought
Hollywood's greatest to the grandstands including John Wayne and Frank
Sinatra. The Chelsea players were amazed when he introduced Steve McQueen
into the dressing room at the height of his fame. The club’s indelible
association with such glamour is, to a huge degree, his doing.
Richard was knighted in 1976 and in 1993 Prime Minister John Major made
him Lord Attenborough – Lord A, as most people affectionately called him.
As plain Dickie he joined the Chelsea board in 1969 and stayed until 1982,
those initial years marked by the lifting of our first FA Cup and our
first European trophy, the Cup Winners' Cup.
Work commitments, not least the making overseas of the Oscar, Golden Globe
and BAFTA-winning film Gandhi, made it difficult to serve as a director.
Not long after standing down Lord Attenborough made perhaps his most
important contribution to Chelsea history.
The club – and freehold for the lucrative land on which it played its
football – had changed hands and in the fallout many shares fell into the
clutches of property developers whose plans threatened the club's very
existence.
Crucially, Lord Attenborough's shares did not, which eventually helped the
club take back control of the freehold for the future. Chairman Ken Bates
thanked him by appointing him Life Vice-President. Typically, Lord A later
gently but firmly took advantage of the goodwill he had earned by securing
design changes for disabled supporter areas when the stadium was
redesigned. Throughout his connection with Chelsea he has remained a
benign advocate for the club.
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Lord Attenborough with Terry & Lampard
When the first Chelsea FC museum required a person to appear in a
welcoming film he was the obvious and perfect candidate. He helped
relaunch the current club badge in 2005, though personal tragedy had hit
him hard when his daughter Jane and granddaughter Lucy were killed in the
2004 tsunami in Asia.
In 2008 Lord A became Life President. On being handed a commemorative
plate to mark the occasion, he said: 'I'll sweep the Oscars off the
mantelpiece 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 meant it – he
adored Chelsea FC.
At club events he would share wistful memories, moist-eyed with passion,
about favourite players and managers past and present, and he watched many
of our recent successful seasons joyfully from the directors' box at
Stamford Bridge. The journey to his seat could take an age as he stopped
to chat to well-wishers. He was often accompanied by his wife, fellow
actor Sheila Sim or son Michael, until his health made it impossible.
As well as football and the world of stage and screen, Lord Attenborough
devoted much of his time to charities and he continued to help improve
facilities for disabled fans at Stamford Bridge.
Help A London Child, a charity he had launched, was the club's official UK
charity partner and to mark his 90th birthday in August last year, funds
were collected at Stamford Bridge prior to the home game against Aston
Villa for another charity he supported, the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.
Lord A was a thoroughly lovely and talented man who used his fame and
influence for the good of the many causes close to his heart. We will
always be grateful that our football club was one of them.
阿滕伯勒爵士才华横溢，广受爱戴。他利用自己的知名度和影响力帮助了他关心热爱
的各项事业，其中包括我们的俱乐部。我们将永远对他心怀感激。
He will be greatly missed, and the thoughts of everyone at Chelsea FC are
with his family and friends at this sad time.
我们深切怀念阿滕伯勒爵士。切尔西足球俱乐部全体人员向他的亲人和朋友表示沉痛
哀悼。
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阿滕伯勒爵士 1923-2014
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