{"id":799,"date":"2019-11-24T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2019-11-24T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:05:40","slug":"tribute-to-robert-bobby-degan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/24\/tribute-to-robert-bobby-degan\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Robert (Bobby) Degan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very good attendance yesterday to pay tribute to Bobby Degan.<\/p>\n<p>Bob&#8217;s son David welcomed relatives and friends and we were able to view many photos and programs of Bob&#8217;s playing days with Chelsea &#8211; South Sydney and Wyong. Col Downing &#8211; Digger Livingstone and myself were very pleased to catch up with old mates including Rose Solly, Peter Sherrin, Ron Gibbs: all old Chelsea mates whom we have not seen for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>A nice touch. Everyone was invited to sign a South Sydney jersey. For those who are not familiar with the photo Bob is at the bottom far right , two in from the end. Bob was the &#8220;Chelsea Player of the Year&#8221; in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>R I P Old Mate.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Thompson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-800\" src=\"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1961_Chelsea_C_grade_Premiers_Presentation_Night-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1961_Chelsea_C_grade_Premiers_Presentation_Night-1024x620.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1961_Chelsea_C_grade_Premiers_Presentation_Night-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1961_Chelsea_C_grade_Premiers_Presentation_Night-768x465.jpg 768w, http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1961_Chelsea_C_grade_Premiers_Presentation_Night.jpg 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good attendance yesterday to pay tribute to Bobby Degan. Bob&#8217;s son David welcomed relatives and friends and we were able to view many photos and programs of Bob&#8217;s playing days with Chelsea &#8211; South Sydney and Wyong. Col Downing &#8211; Digger Livingstone and myself were very pleased to catch up with old mates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chelseaoldmates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}