With no Chelsea midweek fixture this week, club statistician Paul Dutton has been getting his teeth into more statistical questions and conundrums sent in by fans to his regular stats surgery.

I'm going to start this time with a question relating to man-of-the-moment after last night, John Terry.

The email is not from England but from Tajikistan. Umed Ulugov asks about Chelsea players who have graduated via the Chelsea academy/youth system and played all their careers at the club.

Terry is currently such a player and has declared his intention to spend his whole playing career at Stamford Bridge and Umed wants to know the names of any Chelsea players who have done so.

I'd like to thank Umid for the question because it has raised an interesting fact.

There wasn't a Chelsea youth team prior to the 1950s so we're are looking from then onwards and the only player I can uncover who fits the career-long criteria is Ken Shellito, our right-back in the 1960s.

However Ken was forced to retire at the age of 28 having only played 20 times in the previous four seasons due to injury.

Ron Harris came pretty close to spending his mammoth 18-year career with just one club - only moving to Brentford at the age of 35 after years of service and next in line in the Chelsea appearance makers, Peter Bonetti, had a short spell in the United States before returning to Chelsea and then playing out his final days at Dundee United.

So if JT does fulfill his ambition to become Chelsea's Paolo Maldini, he will be our first one-club man not to retire prematurely.

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Next we return to a familiar Ask Statman - unusual kits.

Frank Gough recalls a time when we nipped down the Fulham Road and borrowed a strip from Fulham FC when we were unable to wear our home or away version. He can't remember the details though.

I'm able to fill those in and the reason why we had to nip round to the neighbours to borrow more than a cup of sugar.

The occasion was an FA Cup fifth round replay against Chesterfield in February 1950. The FA law at the time was if there is a colour clash in the FA Cup, both teams had to change and as our second colours clashed as well, we borrowed Fulham's white.

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The next question I should deal with in some haste as Emmanuel Tope warns there is a serious argument in one part of Nigeria over how many Chelsea goals Didier Drogba has scored.

I hope I can bring the argument to an end by stating that with the Burnley goal, his total rose to 81.

Keeping on the short and straight-forward ones, Agelos from Greece wants to know the missing scorer in a big 5-2 win at home to Wolves in the 2003/4 season. He remembers a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink hat-trick and Frank Lampard finding the net but not the other goal.

Opening the scoring that day was current Wigan captain Mario Melchiot (pictured below).

The name of our former right-back was raised by regular correspondent Steve Laurie who asks if I should have included Melchiot, along with Hasselbaink, in my recent listing of scorers on their Chelsea debut for goals in the Charity Shield back in 2000.

I didn't because although his previous season had been spoiled by injury and Wembley that day witnessed his first goal, Melchiot did make six appearances, including the 2000 FA Cup Final, at the end of the campaign before the Charity Shield game.

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As regular Ask Statman readers know, I'm always grateful to receive emails like Steve's discussing what I have written before and I have been sent such a mail from Harry Sideras.

Harry refers back to a previous set of answers I gave on the record home attendance for each of the major clubs.

I listed Man United as the fifth highest for 76,098 v Blackburn at Old Trafford in the Premier League in 2007.

Harry points out they played Arsenal at Maine Road on 17 January 1948 in Division One with an attendance of 83,260.

I've checked and this is correct so for a game at a temporary home, Man United move to second in the table and above Chelsea's 82,906 v Arsenal in 1935.

Man United played home games at Man City's stadium between 1941 and 1949 due to bomb damage at Old Trafford.

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This next set of questions I would definitely like to throw open to the floor for help.

Andrew Farkas asks if Chelsea holds the record among clubs for having the highest number of international captains. He also asks about ex-Chelsea players who went on to captain their new sides.

I'd be very surprised if the records are out there to allow the first part to be measured across all clubs.

What I can do is add to Andrew's list of Chelsea players who have skippered their nation:

John Terry, Michael Ballack., Eidur Gudjohnsen, Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps, Ruud Gullit, Ray Wilkins and Alexey Smertin.

On top of those I add:

Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Andriy Shevchenko, Dmitri Kharine, Andy Townsend and Adrian Mutu plus two old England captains - Vivian Woodward in 1910-11 and Tommy Lawton (pictured top) in 1946.

But I don't have full records so please, if anyone can add to this list, mail in.

Similarly we can start a list of those who became captains after leaving Chelsea. I'll start with Gérémi who has captained Newcastle and Frank Sinclair at Burnley.

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Speaking of former Blues, Paul Cronin from Ireland raises the topic of players who have left the club and achieved more in terms of silverware than they did here.

He points out that you go along way back until reaching Graeme Le Saux who won the Premiership title in 1995 with Blackburn after his first departure.

Looking back over the last 30 years, we can add: Kenny Swain (pictured below) who went on to win the league and European Cup with Aston Villa; Ray Wilkins with the FA Cup at Man United; Nigel Spackman the league at Liverpool; Tony Dorigo was a league champion at Leeds.

Graham Stuart was an FA Cup winner at Everton the same year as Le Saux's title. Andy Townsend won the League Cup with Villa; Craig Burley was a Scottish League winner at Celtic and was Player of the Year in Scotland in 1998; Gordon Durie was a league and cup winner north of the border and Ian Pearce was a colleague of Le Saux's in that Blackburn side.

Again, any additions?

Paul also asks about our least successful penalty taker which, short of going back over all the old newspaper match reports, is not in any records. Pat Nevin will always be nominated when worst individual penalty is discussed.

But that does bring us to Charlie Bown's question inspired by the Burnley penalty shoot-out defeat.

Eighteen-year-old Charlie suspects Chelsea have not won a competitive shoot-out in his lifetime.

The last we won was at Ipswich in the League Cup in January 1998. Since then we have lost five in a row - Burnley, the Champions League Final, Man United in the Community Shield, against Liverpool in the Champions League semi and the League Cup v Charlton.

Since our first shoot-out in October 1983 against Leicester (there were replays before then), Chelsea have taken part in 14 competitive shoot-outs, winning six and losing eight.

All but two have been since Charlie was born. He also wants confirmation of the last time a Carling Cup tie was lost in 90 minutes. It was in December 2003 at Aston Villa - a 2-1 defeat in Claudio Ranieri's final season.

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One player who hasn't failed in Chelsea penalty shoot-outs is Frank Lampard but Ross Mooring wants to know about a different type of Lampard goal - those scored with his head.

I'm grateful to colleague and Chelsea TV's Neil Barnett for help on this one. There have been six headers from Frank for Chelsea.

They came against:

Tottenham at home in September 2003 (pictured above).

Villa in the League Cup at home in November 2006.

Leicester in the League Cup in October 2007, his hat-trick goal.

And then the big run on headers this season - three in total, scored against Bordeaux, Middlesbrough and Sunderland.

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I'll conclude with a few quickfire questions.

With memories stirred by the Champions League this year of our 1965 matches against Roma, Beedoublew asks for the attendance in the home game that year. The answer is 32,753.

Mo 'Ossie' Beg wants our all-time home Premier League record which is:

P316, W187, D85, L44, GS 579, GA 258, Pts 646.

And finally Simon Beckett wishes to know the latest clean sheet comparison between Petr Cech and the man between the posts in our last game, Carlo Cudicini.

Cech has a 55 per cent clean sheet record for Chelsea (101 in 182 games). Cudicini is 46 per cent (96 plus five as a sub in 209 games plus six as a sub).

Apologies if I still have yet to get round to your question - I hope to be back soon and please keep the questions, additions or corrections coming to statman@chelseafc.com