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Archive for July, 2008
FRANK LAMPARD: 100 CHELSEA GOALS - VIDEO
A lot has been asked about our Frankie this summer, will he stay? Will he go? Is the man worth the vast numbers being reported in the press as a weekly wage? Or has he become just another football mercenary looking to make as much money as possible? Not a lot of this matters to us here at CFCnet, we feel that over the past few seasons, ‘Super ...
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LET’S YOU AND HIM FIGHT
Is it possible to have sympathy for the self-professed “biggest club in the world”, Manchester United? Are we able to swallow our natural distaste for the Premiership’s biggest purveyor of double standards? Or are Ramon Calderon’s smug , self-serving remarks simply comeuppance ...
ATMOSPHERE COMMITTEE MEETING
The latest atmosphere committee meeting was held at Stamford Bridge on Friday, July 25th. Present were representatives from several supporters’ organisations and three senior management officials of Chelsea F.C. The meeting was opened with questions relating to stewarding issues at Stamford Bridge ...
CHELSEA UNDER 18S 3-3 QPR UNDER 18S
Chelsea’s first academy friendly of the pre-season started out as your typical preparation match, with little energy and cohesion, but finished in a flurry of goals, drama, and a sense of importance as if the season rested upon it. A draw was probably a fair reflection after an energy-sapping 90 ...
CFCNET, THE FUTURE AND A POSITIVE STEP
Blimey! It looks like we’ve made a decision at long last! It’s a decision that should hopefully move CFCnet forward in terms of site stability, and hopefully in our credibility amongst other supporters who are not part of CFCnet for one reason or another. We will also become much more dependent ...
CFCNET - CLAUDE MAKEKELE INTERVIEW
Back in late 2006, very soon after the Tottenham defeat; CFCnet spent some time with Claude Makelele at Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham, and asked him some of the many questions our readers posted to him for the CFCnet magazine. With Claude departing recently for his homeland, we decided ...
MAKELELE LEAVES CHELSEA FOR PSG
‘Makelele leaves Chelsea for PSG’. Back in 2003, buoyed by Roman Abramovich’s billions, Blues’ manager Claudio Ranieri went on a pioneering spending spree which saw tabloid dreams turned into reality. In came Damien Duff, Joe Cole, Adrian Mutu, Hernan Crespo, Wayne Bridge. Big, big ...
CHINESE WHISPERS
With the start of the new campaign, and the dawning of (yet another) new era only a few weeks away, a number of issues remain unresolved. Will Frank Lampard begin the season as a Chelsea player? How long will it take for new boys Bosingwa and Deco to adapt to the Premiership? But most importantly, will ...
HAMPTON & RICHMOND BOROUGH FC 1-0 CHELSEA RESERVES
For the second year in a row, Chelsea’s Reserve team fell to a narrow 1-0 loss at Hampton & Richmond FC’s Beveree Stadium, despite being the better team for much of the game. At the end of the day, the results don’t matter in pre-season, and 20 players saw time on the pitch, as ...
INTRODUCING DECO
Fresh off the back of Wednesday’s official introduction of international team-mate Jose Bosingwa, fellow new signing Deco was presented to the world’s media on Friday lunchtime, and he made his ambitions for his new club more than apparent. Speaking through a translator (but understanding ...
FREE CHELSEA DVD FOR EVERY CFCNET READER!!
CFCnet is giving every UK reader a FREE copy of Blue Gold. Just register your details, answer a few questions and the DVD will be in the post. It’s that simple. Blue Gold contains extended highlights of some of Chelsea’s best games in the Premiership between the years 1992 and 2003. The DVD, ...
FROM LEFT WING TO B-WING - A TALE OF A CHELSEA LEGEND
It’s January 1984. Chelsea, after four years of Second Division mediocrity which almost culminated in relegation to Division Three just a few months earlier, have enjoyed an unexpectedly good first half of the 1983/84 season, rising to the top of Division Two, albeit briefly, on New Year’s ...
BACK TO WORK
The first day at work can be a bit nerve wracking. Maybe even for a vastly experienced, world-renowned, international coach. Personally, I think a new job posses all kinds of problems and anxieties. What’s the boss like? Is he strict or friendly? (Actually he might have a fair idea already, win ...
