Arsenal (1972/73)

Only once has a Chelsea player been awarded Match of the Day’s Goal of the Season award – and that player was Peter Osgood, whose blockbuster volley lit up a thrilling FA Cup sixth-round tie between Chelsea and Arsenal at the Bridge.

An unconventional one-two between Ossie and Steve Kember looped the ball into the air and back to the Blues No.9, who timed his volley so sweetly that he probably didn’t even feel the ball leave his left foot.

‘Only players like Osgood take goals like that,’ gasped commentator David Coleman. He wasn’t wrong. It features in the video below.

Leeds United (1969/70)

The most famous of Osgood’s 150 Chelsea goals, the most important and perhaps even the most beautiful of the lot.

As well as the Blues had performed in the FA Cup final replay at Old Trafford, the trophy was drifting away from us until Ossie intervened with 12 minutes remaining.

The cross from Charlie Cooke could hardly have been more inviting, but the way Chelsea’s No.9 flung himself at the ball and connected with a powerful diving header was nothing short of majestic. What’s more, it maintained his record of having scored in every round of the competition.

Wolverhampton Wanderers (1969/70)

There was more than a hint of Didier Drogba in this strike against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Stamford Bridge.

The dismissive manner in which Ossie shrugged off the challenge of the centre-back gave off the air of a centre-forward at the peak of powers – which he was, and well on the way to scoring a career best 31 goals – a point he hammered home with a right-footed strike from 25 yards which arrowed across the goalkeeper and into the far corner.

BURNLEY (1965/66)

Many people believe this effort to be Ossie’s finest for Chelsea, but we shall have to take their word for it, as there is no footage available.

‘He picked the ball up around our 18-yard box and just started to run,’ says team-mate Johnny Boyle, taking up the story. ‘I knew then how it was going to end up. He beat five or six men and you knew it was going to be a goal.

'It's just a shame it wasn't on television, it was a truly great goal.’ The goalscorer himself didn’t quite see it like that. ‘It must have looked better for the spectators than it felt for me,’ was his humble verdict.

Real Madrid (1970/71)

A man for the big occasion, Osgood scored four times in five major cup final appearances for the Blues – including this effort in the Cup Winners’ Cup final replay. While often overshadowed by John Dempsey’s thunderous volley, Ossie’s winning goal was fit to settle any contest.

‘I picked the ball up just inside our half and ran at their defence,’ begins Tommy Baldwin. ‘I knocked the ball up to Os and ran past him, taking three of their defenders with me, and he turned the opposite way and scored a brilliant goal.

'If he hadn’t done that I’d have called him a selfish so and so because I was completely free!’

- First published in 2016