Former Chelsea midfielder and coach Jody Morris feels Glenn Hoddle was the father of the modern day Blues.

Hoddle was player-manager at Chelsea as Morris was coming through the youth team.

He recalled to chelseafc.com: "He started the ball rolling, making big shifts in the culture of Chelsea. Especially at the training ground, which was the most important thing, because the way people were living at that time was a little bit different compared to what you expect nowadays.

"It was a bit of a shift but when you're signing players of the ilk of Mark Hughes, Ruud Gullit and players like that, who have been abroad and know what it's like in a culture that was more suited to athletes, the message hits home a little bit better.

"It was an adaptable time for quite a few of us, especially me, being young. It was about taking onboard new methods and new ideas. Things like masseurs, nutritionists, reflexologists, the training periods were different too. We were at least five years ahead of what the rest of the Premier League started doing."

Morris also said: "When I was in the youth team, us young players were given a voucher we could use in a kebab shop at Fulham Broadway that Chelsea had a deal with. It was good we didn't have to buy food, but it was a kebab shop!

"Going from that to where things were even 18 months later showed the amount that went into it. Before then we never used to eat after training or have any food available at the training ground, let alone proper food.

"But because I was young I would just do what I was told, before and after it changed. I was just happy that we could eat at the training ground rather than having to go back to Fulham after training in Harlington to cash in my voucher at the kebab shop!"