Chelsea left it very, very late for the second time this season to snatch three points at Stoke’s Britannia Stadium yesterday afternoon. Having laid siege to the Stoke rearguard for the entire second half it took until the fourth minute of injury time for Chelsea to finally seal the victory when Florent Malouda fired home [...]
Continue reading …The return from international football to the domestic calendar meant the majority of Chelsea’s loanees were back in action on Friday and Saturday. However, some poor results, performances, and struggles after injury resulted in few positives to report upon.
Continue reading …Reports from Croatia today suggest that Chelsea have delved into the transfer market regardless of the embargo situation and agreed to sign highly-rated teenage goalkeeper Matej Delac. Official confirmation from at least one of the parties is expected soon, but since it’s a youth transfer it’s unlikely to be Chelsea. So let’s take a look [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea visit Stoke for our first Saturday 3pm Kick Off of the season. The match comes after an international break, and hopefully we can pick up where we left off with another great Chelsea display. A win would equal a club record of ten straight Premier League wins. Currently top on Goal Difference, with Spurs [...]
Continue reading …CFCnet is not in a good mood – it’s been a bad seven days with the shabby ticket office high on our list of gripes.It all started with the astonishing decision by FIFA to ban Chelsea from registering any new players (bought or loaned) for the next two transfer windows. As things stand, we won’t [...]
Continue reading …Monday 31 August John Terry has signed a new five-year contract. That is hardly news to anyone who followed this summer’s will he won’t he saga involving Manchester City, new challenges, and Mr Chelsea tags. He is earning anywhere between £8.8m and £10.4 a year depending which paper you choose to disbelieve. Tuesday 1 September [...]
Continue reading …I realise this is a controversial topic. I realise I might well be in the minority when I make that statement. But it’s something that needs looking at in a bit of detail, even if it only serves to allow those who are spoon-fed by the media an alternative to shape their views. If it [...]
Continue reading …It’s been a long double-header of club and international action, with a number of Chelsea youngsters off representing their countries in competitive and friendly fixtures around the world, whilst some stayed behind to feature in loan action. We recap everything right now.
Continue reading …Following on from Philip Rolfe’s excellent CFCnet article looking at Fifa’s decision on Gael Kakuta I’d like to hone in on one aspect that wasn’t fully covered – the timescale of the ruling given. Philip asks “Why has it taken so long?” and states “there are questions to be answered on the part of the [...]
Continue reading …It all happened so fast: one day Luis Felipe Scolari was in charge of one of the biggest football clubs in the world, the next he was carrying his personal belongings down the Fulham Road in a cardboard box. From Hero to Zero, from Saviour to See Ya! however you look at it, Felipe flopped. [...]
Continue reading …The referential term ‘legend’ is so hackneyed in modern vocabulary that the impact of its usage, particularly in football parlance, has become somewhat diluted. In order to emphasise the achievements of an individual we now find ourselves referring to them as a ‘genuine legend or ‘true legend’. Peter Osgood, Kerry Dixon, Gianfranco Zola, John Terry [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s Under-18s, under something of a more intense spotlight this weekend after the week the club has had, this morning beat Bristol City 1-0 away from home, courtesy of a goal from Austrian striker Philipp Prosenik, back from an international spell out of sync with the rest of the world.
Continue reading …There have been many thoughts on Chelsea’s transfer ban, one of the direct consequences of FIFA’s latest moral crusade to clean up the game, one English side after another, and from most Chelsea fans it’s been another excuse to direct venom at a governing body, any governing body, just because we can. But conspiracy or [...]
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