KICKING off 30 minutes earlier than scheduled, this charity game in aid of Wel-Care was played in a good spirit and there were chances at both ends in the opening stages.
Goals from Jamal Al Noah and Gary Stanley made it 1-1 and the score stayed level until the 34th minute when Gary Chivers struck from a corner.
The excellent Rob McCord kept the business side in the game throughout the first half with save after save to deny a Chelsea side that always looked like scoring.
To the Basingstoke Business side's credit they matched the Chelsea team in patches, but overall the first-half proved a one-sided affair.
Peter Rhoades-Brown was a constant thorn in the side of the business XI, who struggled to compete with his movement off the ball and quality of crosses.
Daryl Gleson missed a rare opportunity to level the scoring at the halfway stage after Jason Cundy was turned on the byline and the ball was laid straight into his path.
Gleson scuffed his chance from eight yards out and the score stayed 2-1 at half-time.
The second-half started in the same vein as the first with the Chelsea side winning balls in midfield and showing some classy touches up front.
Ray Wilkins, using the dummy on more than one occasion to cause confusion in the Business defence, helped create several clear-cut chances before leaving the game early for another appointment.
The business side still looked capable, however, and hung in well - John Williams, one of five Williams' in the squad, even going close to levelling the scores in the 60th and 63rd.
Chelsea stepped up a gear and on 68 went close when Rhoades-Brown popped up with a low drive, only to be denied by the impressive McCord.
The Basingstoke side's stubborn resistance was finally broken down with 15 minutes to go.
Rhoades-Brown, as big a threat in the second-half as the first, fired Chelsea into a 3-1 lead when the ball broke to him to fire into an unguarded net.
Basingstoke almost pulled one back when Gleson capitalised on a mistake by Chelsea keeper David Stride on 82 but couldn't squeeze his shot in.
Tony Williams also went close to a late consolation, narrowly missing the target with five minutes left.
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