It’s a strange cup the Carling Cup. Not to look at or anything. It’s your standard, oversized, football tin pot, complete with a couple of ribbons and handles for heroic lofting. I’m not even sure there’s a lid, one to grab and place on the head for a comedy hat routine during the lap of [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea Football Club announced today (Friday, Feb 22), that it will be freezing prices on ALL non-corporate tickets for Premier League matches and Champions League knockout stage matches for the third consecutive season. This covers season tickets and matchday tickets for members, juveniles and senior citizens for 2008/9. Chelsea FC also revealed that it will [...]
Continue reading …Now, usually I try and remain as impartial as possible in these previews. Sometimes I’ll let the bias take over (Liverpool previews mainly, I just can’t resist), and seeing as this is a special occasion, Tottenham fans (all seven of you) look away, because this is going to be nothing but a look forward to [...]
Continue reading …We’re on our way to Wembley… again! Yes the Carling Cup final against Spurs is on the horizon and it’s one many have been waiting for a long time to happen. The Carling Cup’s been a good competition for us in recent years and we hope that it’ll continue this season. With not long to [...]
Continue reading …Sunday see’s the club making its third trip to Wembley in the last 10 months, where, in a repeat of the 1967 FA Cup Final, Spurs are our opponents. Back then, our young side were outclassed by a Tottenham side containing two former Chelsea greats in Greaves and Venables. 2008 and we go into the [...]
Continue reading …CFCnet caught up with one of Israel’s leading football writers, Shaul Adar, who also covers Chelsea for two of the UK’s leading national broadsheets. We first met Shaul in July 2007 and his premonitions about the current season were, in hindsight, eerily correct. Seven months later, in a bar in Clerkenwell, we collared the Israeli [...]
Continue reading …Club Shed is a community of Chelsea fans which expands on the aims of the original “Return to the Shed” campaign. It doesn’t matter if you’re a season ticket holder, member or occasional fan. It also doesn’t matter which part of the ground you normally sit in – we want everyone taking part. The aims [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea toiled hard in the Greek capital, but a drab game only produced a 0-0 draw between Chelsea and Olympiakos. Chelsea rested John Terry and Frank Lampard ahead of the Carling Cup Final, with Claude Makelélé skippering the side in midfield. Michael Essien and Didier Drogba were both in the starting lineup after their recent [...]
Continue reading …I start looking forward to Champions League nights the minute our weekend fixture is over. Having endured three and a half decades of watching teams I loathe strut their stuff on European nights, it still takes time for it to sink in that Chelsea are right up there with the football elite involved in the [...]
Continue reading …A group of Chelsea and Spurs fans are set to enjoy the ultimate armchair football experience after Carling decided to bring Wembley to their front room. With the Carling Cup Final hugely over-subscribed Carling is treating two lucky sets of supporters to a Wembley makeover featuring club legends, opera singers, perimeter boards, match ball and [...]
Continue reading …FA Cup holders Chelsea comfortably advanced to the quarter finals of this season’s competition, beating League One side Huddersfield 3-1 at Stamford Bridge. The victory was a great morale booster, with the upcoming Carling Cup Final and the returns of our ACN representatives plus John Terry and Frank Lampard, giving Avram Grant plenty of reasons [...]
Continue reading …After a somewhat turbulent flight and plenty of circling over a freezing Athens runway, Chelsea will be looking to get back down on the straight and narrow against Olympiakos this Tuesday night, as the Champions League kicks off again. The knock-out stages are upon us, and with the Blues desperate to show some European credentials, [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s second reserve game in seven days sees them face a team who inflicted a 6-0 defeat on them in the reverse fixture earlier in the campaign, and a match they hope can also serve as a precursor to an FA Youth Cup Semi Final tie between the two. Back in late 2007 Brendan Rodgers’ [...]
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