Imagine this trio turning up at your door. More like bailiffs — or worse — than the Chelsea forward line, Jackie Crawford, Hughie Gallacher and Andy Wilson carried more than a goal threat when they posed like this.
It was 1931 and in west London, as well as Chicago, Al Capone was in vogue. These three look like they are on their way to, or on the way back from, a hit.
Two, Crawford and Gallacher, are smoking, because that was what you did. The other, Wilson, has one glove on, not because he had returned from somewhere he did not wish to leave fingerprints, rather Wilson had fought in the First World War and received a gunshot injury to his lower left arm at Arras.