Peter Osgood. Bleedin’ obvious innit to start with the King of Stamford Bridge? If Facebook had existed when Ossie left for Southampton in March 1974 I would have set up a page for all those Chelsea fans seriously considering suicide.
CFCnet would like to offer up its ‘End of Decade’ Review. Not all our choices will be universally popular and no doubt the ‘Comments’ section below and Forums will set us straight, but we’d like to throw our hat in the ring and outline what we consider to be our highlights of the decade below.
Continue reading …A relaxed Carlo Ancelotti met with the press at Cobham this morning ahead of the Watford FA Cup game at the weekend. Looking back to the Fulham game, he pinpointed half time as a significant point in the season so far. He told us that he had chosen not to rant and rave at the [...]
Continue reading …Back in 2007, two years into Frank Arnesen’s tenure at Chelsea, the academy made something of a statement that their target was to provide Chelsea’s first-team squad with a regular member by 2010, with at least one to follow every year from there on. With less than 48 hours until the turn of the year, [...]
Continue reading …At the beginning of August 2009 CFCnet launched Chelsea FC’s first ever unofficial electronic fanzine. Each issue contains the best features that have been inspired by Chelsea FC related news and performances during the previous month and been written by CFCnet contributors.
Continue reading …December and the New Year period are traditionally busy times in the English footballing calendar, but for the country’s youth and reserve sides it’s a much-discussed winter break. The action shuts down for the best part of a month, allowing the younger generations to spend time with their families over the festive period, especially those [...]
Continue reading …Two goals in two minutes were enough for Chelsea to snatch a come from behind win over neighbours Fulham, at Stamford Bridge. Having fallen behind to an early and easily preventable goal from Zoltan Gera, a marvellous header from Didier Drogba and an own goal from Chris Smalling after good work from Salomon Kalou and [...]
Continue reading …The busy Christmas period has brought about the opportunity for two games in three days for many of Chelsea’s young loanees, whilst others have been afforded the luxury of a rest. In the last loan round-up of 2009, we’ll also take a look at the futures of those players who are on half-season deals which [...]
Continue reading …Everyone gets something they don’t expect at Chritsmas, for us Chelsea fans it was the first time we had failed to score since the Champions League semi final first leg in the Nou Camp in April, a near season long 35 games ago. In truth it was down to a lack of cutting edge up [...]
Continue reading …John Terry has been in the eye of the storm recently as all of you will have noted. Apparently if you are England captain any misdemeanor is multiplied by ten and every single newspaper makes sure they get as many column inches as possible out of him. It is not a coincidence that it is [...]
Continue reading …Monday 14 December Charlton Athletic youth 1:2 Chelsea youth Ultimately a comfortable victory for an curious Chelsea youth team Jeffrey Bruma dropped down to play in his third season of youth cup games alongside him in defence was a schoolboy, Daniel Mills Pappoe. Josh McEachran, Conor Clifford (captain for the night), Gokhan Tore, Jacopo Sala [...]
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