
From the diary this month: Peter Kenyon’s gob, Didier Drobga’s bum, speed dating at the G14, Peter Bonetti World Cup winner, Energie Cottbus in autumnal sunlight.
Quotes of the month:
“Abramovich is ready to pay for every one of Modric’s kilos.” Tomislav Marcinko of Dinamo Zagreb, starts looking for his paying in book.
Thursday 1 November
Yorkshire rip, er, […]

Having run the gauntlet of West Ham fan’s for their own version of “View from the North Stand” I met up with the man known only as Graham, and after putting him straight on a few facts - I asked him some for his thoughts on Saturday’s game.
Firstly though - the facts. As regular readers will know the comment […]

Champions League duty over, it’s back to the Premier League for the Blues and not just any old game for us to look forward to on Saturday afternoon. It’s a visit from our not-so neighbourly London counterparts West Ham United, and sparks usually fly when we meet. Chelsea go into the game looking to extend […]

Ross handed over the editorship baton to Mark Meehan in the mid-nineties. Mark carried on and evolved the fanzine. We were selling 3,000 issues of the Chelsea Independent fanzine on the Fulham Road (outside the Lost Theatre) and it was a joy to contribute during what was a time, for CISA, of unprecedented Chelsea success. […]

In the eighties, it wasn’t fashionable to mention that you were a football fan. I’m very serious. It was the social equivalent of loudly announcing at a Surrey dinner party that you liked cock fighting and had an eye for underage teenagers. To say you then supported Chelsea was even worse. At the time, Chelsea […]

The end of the eighties and turn of the nineties were good years to be following the Blues. Most of us were simply pleased to see us compete in the top division rather than yo-yo between divisions like West Ham do today with style. Or lack of it. The Editor of the Chelsea Independent was […]

The origins of CFCnet can be traced back around 20 years. We like to think that fanzines, online and paper based are part of Chelsea FC’s 100 years of history so here’s the second installment of how the CISA and ultimately CFCnet fit in to it all.
Although Ken Bates was rallying fans against Cabra and […]

CFCnet can trace its origins back nearly twenty years. For eagle-eyed readers, that was a time when personal computers were the size of a small car, mobile phones were heavier than a rucksack full of bricks, and email was a strange, fictional concept written in an Arthur C Clarke novel. It was also a time […]