Archive for May, 2008
RUMOURS SUGGEST IT’S SPARKY
Place your bets. I’ve heard our new manager will be Mark Hughes. At my journalist workplace, at a UK press agency, we get fed all sorts of rumours, many of which I can’t publish because either they’ll damage the individuals concerned; or damage CFCnet’s relationship with the Club; or risk me getting sued. I certainly never, ...
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THE CFCNET PLAYER OF THE SEASON
All throughout this season of near misses, forum participants have been voting for their “Man of the Match” in the polls that accompany each games post match thread. It occurred to me that the cumulative scores for the whole season would give a definitive view as to who should be awarded the (soon ...
CHELSEA SUPPORTERS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT – COBHAM
A long time ago now, CFCnet played against the BAWA website in a football match held at Cobham. Dazz was our very own John Terry that day, commanding at the back, but missing the crucial penalty at the end as CFCnet went on to lose on penalties as BAWA took the trophy. Everyone who was there agreed ...
WHEELCHAIRS IN RED SQUARE
Man Utd v Chelsea, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow Russia 21/05/08 22.45 (Local time) My day started at 1 am as I was picked up by my carer (Perry) for the 40 minute journey from my home to Gatwick airport. I am an experienced wheelchair using air traveler and have long since accepted that wheelchairs and ...
A MISSION (AND A HALF) TO MOSCOW
Having checked in at 3am, despite out flight not being till 6.10 – we finally arrived in Moscow on Tuesday at about 2pm. Going through security checks, me, my dad and brother had a random police check to ensure we hadn’t had any history of football violence (we passed with flying colours). Some ...
RETURN OF THE SPECIAL ONE?
That Avram Grant’s brief tenure at the Stamford Bridge managerial helm is over will have come as no surprise to anyone who follows the fortunes of Chelsea Football Club. The timing and manner of his dismissal, coming so soon after the painful Champions League final defeat in Moscow indicates that ...
AVRAM GRANT: A GENUINE APOLOGY
Following the shock 1-0 defeat to Barnsley back in March, I wrote a piece on this fine site and addressed it directly to Avram Grant. It was sarcastic, sardonic and more than derisory, and, written at 3am the night of the FA Cup tie, perfectly summed up my mood at the time. It was a knee-jerk reaction, ...
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Poor old JT. Initially I was going to use quite a lot of swearwords in this piece. The f word, the t word, the c word, yes even the u word – basically my vocabulary miraculously expanded when I let my mind wander onto the w*nk-faced bunch of morons that is Manchester United – but I won’t. ...
STRANDED!
I live in Somerset; I took the decision to drive up to Gatwick overnight forgoing a hotel and hoping to catch some sleep on the flight that morning. I left my house just after midnight. It was a good drive to Gatwick, clear roads and I arrived at the airport parking around 2.30am. The airport was very ...
DROGBA – OUT WITH A SLAP?
If there was ever an example of 90 minutes pretty much summing up a whole season, we witnessed it in Moscow on Wednesday evening. In an eight month season which has, it seems, lasted a life-time, the Champions League final was the exclamation point on the campaign. We started slowly, looked disorganised ...
SO NEAR BUT YET SO FAR
One run up, one strike and one scuff away from Champions League glory for Chelsea, in a night where victory belonged to Manchester United as the Old Trafford club won 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Chelsea captain John Terry’s missed penalty – which after Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech’s ...
SEE YOU IN ROME!
Chelsea suffered defeat at the hands of Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League Final, going down 6-5 in a penalty shootout. It was loss of the most heartbreaking kind, a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes sending the match to extra time, the score remaining the same to ensure that penalties would decide ...
TEN MINUTES WITH KERRY
The season is over bar the big one, and that is only a matter of hours away. This is the match everyone is talking about, so we caught up with Kerry Dixon to get his views on tonight’s Champions League Final, and more. We missed out on the league, but how do you think we fared in the Premiership overall ...
