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LA VISTA DESDE EL PUENTE

Argentina is a land with one love: football. Truthfully all other things pale in comparison, even such staples as steak and women play second fiddle to the beautiful game. So keen are they on football out here that they have two seasons to our one, a summer tournament tucked in between, headline coverage of the [...]

January 25, 2007 / No Comment / Read More

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 4-4 CHELSEA

January 21, 2007 2 Comments

Kerry Dixon is an absolute legend at Stamford Bridge, and rightly so.  Not only was he a magnificent striker and fantastic servant to Chelsea Football Club, he also had the good grace to fall in love with the club during his time in SW6.  However, despite his incredible goal-scoring exploits, he was certainly a tad [...]

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ROMAN, SAY IT AINT SO

January 17, 2007 No Comment

I’d like to begin this little diatribe by paying some credence to the Daily Mail. Regular readers of CFCnet will know that this takes no small effort. I think both the site team, and our enlightened readers, hold this execrable rag in the same measure of contempt that we reserve for racist drunks shouting on [...]

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CHELSEA 4-3 BOLTON WANDERERS

January 10, 2007 No Comment

For a while during the 1970s, Frank Worthington was the coolest man on the planet.  At least, that’s what I thought.  He was a striker with sublime skills and outrageous levels of self-confidence.  His beautifully coiffured hair and fulsome moustache combination was straight out of a barber’s window, and his stylish fashion sense certainly did [...]

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SENSE OF SMELL

January 7, 2007 No Comment

Happy New Year! Yes, that’s right, while we were all lying in our beds contemplating whether increasing bladder pressure warranted getting up yet, things silently, subtly shifted from the 06 part to the 07 part of the 06/07 season.  Don’t get me wrong, I knew it was going to happen, we all did, it’s just [...]

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