Archive for February, 2008
UP FOR THE CUP
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 honour. Not strange in that way. Nor does ...
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CHELSEA FREEZE PL PRICES AGAIN, REDUCE CL PRICES AGAIN
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 ...
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BRING IT ON TOTTENHAM!
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 ...
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CUP FINAL WARMUP – THE VIDEO
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 ...
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VIEW THE NORTH STAND – TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
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 ...
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AVRAM GRANT – AN ISRAELI VERDICT
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 ...
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A COMMUNITY OF CHELSEA FANS MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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 – ...
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SNOW JOKE IN GREECE
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 ...
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THIRD IN THE LEAGUE AND HAVING A SNOOZE
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 ...
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FANS WATCH FINAL THE WEMBLEY WAY
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 ...
SINCLAIR SENT PACKING
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 ...
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TERRY RETURNS IN AN EFFORT TO AVOID GREEK TRAGEDY
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 ...
RESERVES FACE VILLA AT GRIFFIN PARK
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’ boys were ...
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