We take a look back at the start of the football season with the first loan round-up of the year, whilst looking at the early midweek youth internationals.
Continue reading …OK, so it’s been a while, but hopefully you’ll forgive me. Regular readers of the Chelsea Youth and Reserve website may have wondered where it went to late in 2008, and without going into detail, circumstances weren’t ideal for all involved. Hopefully that’s in the past, and therefore you’ll be able to read all the [...]
Continue reading …This interview took place a few months ago, however it’s the first time that this interview has appeared anywhere online. Michael Ballack has been an extremely busy man of late, playing and scoring in a couple of World Cup qualifiers for Germany against Liechtenstein and Wales before returning to Chelsea with the rest of the [...]
Continue reading …The FA got off to an embarrassing start to the season when Chris Foy turned up ready to officiate the match, only to find out that the referee’s job had been double booked. It took some quick thinking by Fergie (who, as Sam Wallace of the Independent comically observed was ‘in a Homer Simpson-style short-sleeved [...]
Continue reading …Monday 3 August Young Franco Di Santo has joined Blackburn Rovers on loan until January. He has already made 16 substitute appearances since his move from the Chilean side Audux Italiano. He will be at the back of the queue at Blackburn as they have Nikola Kalinic, recently signed from Hajduk Split, Benni McCarthy, El-Hadji [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea eventually overcame Manchester United in the Community Shield at Wembley today. Following a 2-2 draw in normal time the Blues comfortably and somewhat surprisingly won the ensuing penalty shoot-out 4-1, helping to banish memories of Moscow, if only temporarily. An early Nani thunderbolt had given United a deserved half time lead, before Chelsea hit [...]
Continue reading …There have been some tragic miscarriages of justice in our times, but Adrian Mutu’s fine for cocaine abuse during his Chelsea days hardly ranks up there with the jailing of the Guildford four, except in the Romanian’s own mind. A year into his contract, Mutu was sacked in 2004 after his use of South American [...]
Continue reading …The grass is freshly cut, the kids are off school and running riot, and it’s belting it down with rain. It can only be August, and the beginning of a new season. With a plethora of pre-season tournaments in the past few weeks – Peace Cup anyone? Amsterdam Tournament? Audi Cup? Classy – along with [...]
Continue reading …Unless you’re stuck in a lift or sat rigid with fear in the dentist’s chair 41 minutes could hardly be described as a long period of time. Yet, 41 minutes is precisely the amount of time Miroslav Stoch has had so far this season to show Chelsea fans what he is all about. And, you’d [...]
Continue reading …In an exclusive extract from Mark Worrall’s most recent publication ‘One Man Went To Mow’ Mark Worrall takes a wry look at terrace clobber and the contrasting fortunes of two clothing brands that have enjoyed ‘must-have’ status in recent years amongst the style conscious fans that follow Chelsea Football Club. In 1856 when Thomas Burberry [...]
Continue reading …Monday 27 July Dundalk SL 1:3 Chelsea The schoolboys are over at the Milk Cup again this year and started with a win. Yet the websites covering the event are so infuriating it is difficult to get team news, match reports or scorers. It appears Dundalk opened the scoring before we pulled away in the [...]
Continue reading …First and foremost, it hasn’t escaped my attentions that we already have a couple of new faces in the ranks. Dan Sturridge, Ross Turnbull and Yuri Zhirkov are new signings of course. But in Ancelotti’s first press conference as Chelsea boss, he freely admitted: “I don’t know very well Sturridge or Turnbull.” The club had [...]
Continue reading …The 1999/2000 season was one of the most memorable for Chelsea, even if our cup runs did eclipse our fortunes in the Premiership. Under the stewardship of Gianluca Vialli – managing the club for what would be his last full season at Chelsea – the Blues were expected to build on the third place finish [...]
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