Chelsea might feel like an established Champions League side this season, but just 10 years ago we were novices in the competition. On Thursday evening, the man who spearheaded the team in Europe in 1999/00, scoring eight goals in that Champions League campaign, was back at Stamford Bridge.

Tore Andre Flo, the hugely-popular Norwegian striker and all-round nice guy was the latest guest at the regular Star on a Stool evenings, meeting and answering questions from the fans present.

When the answers began, his famous partnership with Gianfranco Zola was recalled, with Flo unsurprisingly describing the Italian as the best he played with ('He also took care of the younger ones, told them how to play,' Flo said).

He perhaps surprisingly revealed that his former skipper and later manager at Leeds, Dennis Wise, was a bit of softie away from the pitch!

Still living where he did when a Chelsea player between 1997 and 2000, Flo now brings his Chelsea-supporting son, one of five children, to games at the Bridge. Son accompanied Dad him at Star on a Stool too.

'I have great memories here and feel very welcome when I come,' Flo said.

It all started when Chelsea, fresh from winning the FA Cup under Ruud Gullit, paid a bargain £300,000 to Brann Bergen for the player's services. It was a dream come true for Flo (not so much because it was Chelsea - he admitted to the audience that he had grown up supporting Birmingham City!), but because of the man who selected him.

'When I was young, I had two posters in my room, Maradona, like many others, and Ruud Gullit was the other one. Suddenly he asked me to come and play for his team.

'I was telling all my friends straight away what had happened and I was pretty nervous. I was nervous for a month when I went into training. You can imagine when one of the people you had on your wall wants you to come and play for the club, that was a great honour.'

Flo might have been nervous then, but not nearly as nervous as he was last year when he volunteered to become a celebrity contestant in Norway's version of Strictly Come Dancing.

Very popular in his homeland (this was after all the man who was key to Norway beating Brazil at the 1998 World Cup Finals, an event that initiated one of the biggest street parties that land has ever seen on the longest day of the year), he was destined to do well in the competition - but it wasn't easy!

'It is the most-seen programme in Norway and I didn't know what I was letting myself in for,' he told the Chelsea fans.

'You train for four hours-a-day. I was slim before but after that I was skin and bone. It was hard; before the final we had to learn three dances in a week, the last couple of sessions were eight hours.

'Before the first show my knees were shaking, I'd never been that nervous before a game, and it was really tough, but of course it was a lot of fun.'

Almost as much fun as scoring a hat-trick at White Hart Lane!

Before the evening was over, Flo predicted good things for Chelsea under Carlo Ancelotti, a manager he had come to appreciate during his time playing for Siena in Italy at the tail end of his career.

He himself is now thinking of coaching in some form, and is doing his badges in that craft, although the job of a manager does not necessarily appeal. We shall see.

Booking for the next Star on a Stool evening at Stamford Bridge will open soon.

On Thursday 12 November, A Question of Chelsea quiz night will take place at Stamford Bridge.

Tickets are still available for the annual Chelsea Pitch Owners Lunch with many past players present.