Archive for October, 2007
CHELSEA PAY HOST TO… AND LEICESTER
Wednesday night brings the Carling Cup Fourth Round to Stamford Bridge, and a visit from underachieving Leicester City. The Foxes have won four out of their last ten games and sit 15th in the Championship-currently without a manager. Not the ideal time for them to play a side who enter the game on the back of a 6-0 win at the weekend then! Unlike other ...
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MARKS OUT OF TEN – MANCHESTER CITY
Kicking off a new feature for CFCnet, Russell Baldry will be giving you his run down on the performance of each player in the previous game. A 6-0 victory over City was Saturday’s game, and is the perfect match to start off with! Petr Cech – 8 Another solid performance from the world’s best ...
SHEVA – NO BOOING PLEASE
Journalists often canvas CFCnet’s opinions on various matters and when they phone we often ask questions back – one of the most interesting views we heard this week was about Sheva. The journalist in question, a broadsheet regular, let us into a few secrets about Andriy Shevchenko. Before we ...
SVEN KNOCKED FOR SIX
Saturday at Stamford Bridge saw Chelsea hit six goals in the league for the first time since 1997, as they handed Manchester City a lesson in attacking football, with Frank Lampard its chief architect. Chelsea lined up in a 4-3-3 formation with Cech in goal. Drogba led the line with Joe Cole and Kalou ...
SVEN TAKES A BOW AT THE BRIDGE
The mid-week game against Schalke 04 produced another win, another clean sheet, and the perfect preparation for a visit from high-flying Manchester City this Saturday afternoon. So far this season Sven Goran Eriksson has waved his magic wand (not in that way, and I’m as surprised as you are) and elevated ...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROMAN
And so the revolution continues apace. Despite the innate conservatism of the Mourinho years, Chelsea have rediscovered their roots. Inferior opposition – and without the injured Kevin Kuranyi, inferior seems almost too mild a term for toothless Schalke – are being put to the sword with comfortable ...
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BLUES TOO STRONG FOR MAKESHIFT SCHALKE
Chelsea’s fourth win in a row came courtesy of goals from Florent Malouda and Didier Drogba, as the Blues shot to the top of our group on a clear night at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea were without Ashley Cole and John Terry due to injury, which meant a first start of the season for England’s best left ...
THE GERMANS ARE COMING!
It’s good fun this winning lark. After struggling to find any sort of form a few weeks ago, we have now recorded four wins and four clean sheets out of our last five games following the effectual 2-0 win at Middlesbrough on Saturday . We’ll be looking to extend our run on Wednesday night when Schalke ...
DROGBA LETS HIS FOOTBALL DO THE TALKING
Chelsea’s mini-resurgence continued at the Riverside, with an ultimately comfortable 2-0 win against Middlesbrough. The man in the headlines, Didier Drogba, made amends for his midweek comments by scoring the opener, whilst Alex’s first goal for Chelsea was certainly one to remember, the Brazilian ...
TIME FOR A TRUE BLUE NUMBER NINE
‘It’s a funny old game,’ Jimmy Greaves would quip, in-between comedic lines about dodgy keepers from Chilly Jocko Land which would have Ian St. John, his partner in the TV crime that was Saint & Greavsie, monotonously corpsing with laughter every Saturday lunchtime during the inglorious football ...
WIGAN AWAY – MUCH MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER GAME
Plastic fans? How about JCLs, prawn sandwich brigade, glory hunters, silent watchers and now, bizarrely, opera lovers. You name it, we’ve had it all chucked in our faces over the years. It gets worse for cup ties. Hordes of day trippers coming down to London to meet their footballing doom. Some ...
BLUES HOPE TO BEAT RIVERSIDE HOODOO
After an international period which has brought success for some and anguish for others (see McLaren, Steve), it’s back to Premier League action for our jetlagged and jaded squad, with a trip to the Riverside Stadium; exactly where we don’t want to go with what’ll most likely be a depleted squad, ...
NOT FRANKS FAULT THEN?
The 2-1 defeat in Moscow was a comedy of calamitous errors, with Paul Robinson finally bringing his domestic form onto the international stage, and Steven Gerrard missing an opportunity to surely settle the game that most of our grannies would have put away in their sleep. Once England had conceded the ...
