Thursday 26 March The club are to open their doors to Asian teenagers in order to increase the chances of some of them making it in the game. Lots of talk of untapped potential and plenty of backing from the powers that be, FA endorsement etc. yet it appears the idea for open training sessions [...]
The man who once had a trial at Manchester United has turned into one of Europe’s most revered midfielders at Chelsea and the good news is: he’s here to stay. In the summer of 2008 Michael Essien put pen to paper and signed a new five-year contract with the Blues, trying him to the club [...]
Continue reading …International break. The two words that so often now strike a chord of apathy into the hardened club supporter. I don’t whether it’s the slower pace of the game or that the players themselves look like they’d rather be somewhere else but it’s hard to get excited isn’t it? The name of the game, getting [...]
Continue reading …ClubCFCnet was established at your request as a place away from the madding crowd and as a way of easing the financial burden of ever increasing monetary problems associated with keeping the web site independent (from the networks) and unofficially blue tinted as possible.
Continue reading …He is the embodiment of what modern-day football fans are supposed to despise. First, there’s the diving. Then there’s the rolling around in mock agony which often accompanies the diving. And of course, there’s the moaning. And the moaning. And the moaning. And the moaning. But somehow, for us at least, all his flaws can [...]
Continue reading …Monday 16 March Tottenham Hotspur reserves 4:0 Chelsea reserves A Spurs side with plenty to prove included David Bentley, Tom Huddlestone, Gareth Bale, Frasier Campbell, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Pascal Chimbonda. So it will not surprise anyone to learn that we controlled a lot of the possession but succumbed to four breakaway goals. Tuesday 17 March [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea spurned a marvellous opportunity to close the gap at the top of the table, by crashing to a 1-0 defeat at White Hart Lane. Manchester United’s earlier 2-0 loss at Fulham had created the chance for Chelsea to snatch points back, but a neat Luka Modric finish and some inspired goalkeeping from the erratic [...]
Continue reading …CFCnet, as part of the Fans Forum, was this week invited to visit the Club’s 140-acre training ground at Cobham. What we saw was extraordinary – a very serious, elite sports complex on a par with any sports organisation in the world. The first thing that immediately struck CFCnet was the amount of staff present [...]
Continue reading …It may come as a surprise to some that Chelsea have not beaten Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane in the league since August 2005. That’s August 2005, three and a half years ago! We did taste success in an FA Cup replay in March 2007, but apart from that, Three Point Lane is in [...]
Continue reading …If a third meeting between Liverpool and Chelsea wasn’t good enough for you, how about let’s try a fourth? The draw for the quarterfinal of the UEFA Champions League once again sees our beloved Blues face very familiar opposition in Liverpool. We all know the history between our two sides in the Champions League: the [...]
Continue reading …There is more than one way to get back to Chelsea from Turin, and likewise more than one way to celebrate Chelsea’s march into the Champions League quarter finals. Last Wednesday I came across two Chelsea fans who’d found a way to resolve both these dilemmas by commandeering the bar cart on the Eurostar from [...]
Continue reading …Wembley has changed. It might be the acoustics, it could be the “Club Wembley” effect, splitting up the support. It could also be down to any number of ticketing factors. The problems seem to have affected most, if not all the major finals played there and the atmosphere seems to have suffered as a result. [...]
Continue reading …Sunday 8 March Arsenal or Hull City at Wembley in a month’s time. Manchester United play Everton in the other game. Oddly it will be our first meeting with Arsenal at Wembley. Monday 9 March Carl Magnay is on the move again, this time at Sixfields with Northampton Town. Tuesday 10 March Juventus 2:2 Chelsea [...]
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