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Stamford Bridge's first Russian invasion: A look back at Dynamo Moscow's visit to Chelsea just 10 weeks after the Second World War

They said there were 100,000 there. But it was just a guess, and 100,000 was a remarkably neat figure for such a chaotic, exuberant occasion which was anything but neat in its organisation.

This was a football match which provoked a court case in which the game was decreed to have fulfilled the legal definition of a riot.

It was November 1945, 10 happy weeks after the relief brought by the end of the Second World War and so many people of all ages wanted to get into Stamford Bridge that even the vast terraces which shoe-horned the pitch then could not hold them.