Archive for November, 2007
DIARY BLOKE – NOVEMBER 2007
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 ...
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VIEW FROM THE NORTHSTAND – WEST HAM
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 ...
LAMPARD TO HAMMER HAMMERS?
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 ...
CFCNET – GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART FIVE
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 ...
CFCNET – GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART FOUR
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. ...
CFCNET – GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART THREE
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 Nick Brown and ...
CFCNET – GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART TWO
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 ...
CFCNET – GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS
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 ...
DROGBA BRACE PUTS THE FREEZE ON ROSENBORG
Chelsea provided a performance which lit up a chilly evening in Norway, as a 4-0 win sent the Blues through to the last 16 of the Champions League. A Didier Drogba brace was followed by strikes from Alex and Joe Cole and, in truth, the result was never in doubt. Avram Grant recalled Claude Makelele, ...
SNOW JOKE IN NORWAY
Last time we met Rosenberg it marked the beginning of the end for our special one. A 1-1 draw was deemed not good enough, and the straw which broke the camel’s back unfolded in front of all of us that night at Stamford Bridge. Mourinho took flight, but since then, Avram Grant has propelled Chelsea ...
BUY BRITISH
Once upon a time, I recall Chelsea (pre Abramovich) being accused of destroying the British game by picking teams full of foreigners. Jon Harley (remember him?) and co were wheeled out as examples of how the best British talent was being wasted in favour of the quick fix of foreign players who were actually ...
BALLACK IN BLUE AGAIN
Perhaps it was the pressure of playing under the watching eyes of Avram Grant, Henk Ten Cate, and Frank Arnesen. Perhaps it’s that it was cold. Or perhaps it was the difference of teenagers playing against men. Whatever it was, Chelsea were thoroughly outclassed by Birmingham in this Reserve fixture ...
ESSIEN RED SULLIES DERBY WIN
After an international break, in which six of Chelsea’s starters, and all of our substitutes apart from Hilario, took part in, a trip to Pride Park was the next game against bottom side Derby. Derby, a team with six points, one win and a very low goal difference, was probably assumed to lose by at ...
