A quiet seven days in loan land has seen headlines hard to find, as you may have realised by this tame latest effort. But, you can only work with what life throws at you, and this week we’ve seen Jack Cork begin to establish himself at Burnley, and Miroslav Stoch miss FC Twente’s European elimination [...]
Saturday’s clash between Chelsea and Manchester City at Stamford Bridge has as many twists and turns in the storyline as a daytime soap opera, in addition to two teams playing football. Chelsea return to action after a 2-1 defeat to Inter at the San Siro. Interesting enough, the Premier League has seen fit to give [...]
Continue reading …- AT LEAST FOR NINETY MINUTES – The trouble with two legged ties is that you never really know what is a good result in the first leg. Last year we came away from Anfield with a 3 – 1 win and left the Bridge a fortnight later having collectively aged 340,000 years (I am [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s forthcoming fixture with Manchester City will see the British media descend on SW6 for the latest instalment in a drama that has kept the nations tabloid gossip columnists in a state of permanent erection since the story first broke about Blues skipper John Terry’s indiscretions with the ex-girlfriend of former teammate Wayne Bridge.
Continue reading …We’re proud of the boys … A recent post of CFCnet’s implored Ancelotti to stick to 4-3-3 and go down fighting in the big games rather than fade out on a 4-3-2-1 whimper. Whilst we’re 100% sure our Italian manager doesn’t read CFCnet (although we keep our English simple in hope), he certainly obeyed our [...]
Continue reading …So that’s what it’s like to lose to José Mourinho. All those teams he left trailing in his wake were joined by Chelsea tonight, as goals from Diego Milito and Esteban Cambiasso either side of a Salomon Kalou strike handed Inter Milan the advantage in this Champions League First Knockout Round first-leg match. On the [...]
Continue reading …With attentions firmly turned elsewhere on a Champions League Wednesday, it would have been easy to forget that Chelsea’s Reserves were in midweek action with a rescheduled fixture away to West Ham. A young and makeshift team battled hard in poor conditions throughout but ultimately fell short to a goal in either half from the [...]
Continue reading …It’s top of the Prem Vs top of Serie ‘A’, it’s Mourinho Vs Ancelotti, it’s the Blues Vs the black and blues. It’s finally here, Inter Milan Vs Chelsea in the first leg of our last sixteen knockout round of the Champions League. Ancelotti – who reportedly doesn’t get on with The Special One – [...]
Continue reading …If you’ve never seen the programme Dragon’s Den before I’ll explain it briefly. A panel of entrepreneurs of varying success and smugness listen to some, often witless, business pitches and decide whether to insult them or to invest their piles of money in the pitched idea. If they agree to invest they ruthlessly cream off [...]
Continue reading …Monday 15 February Chelsea reserves 1:2 Arsenal reserves A freezing cold night in Brentford could have been warmed up with a win but Fabio Borini didn’t have his shooting boots on. He hit the woodwork twice and the goalkeeper but not the back of the net. Lobs, shots and headers from the young Italian were [...]
Continue reading …For the second week in a row, Jack Cork is the main focus of the loan round-up. After making his Premier League debut away to Fulham, he made his first start this Sunday away to Aston Villa, and whilst Burnley toiled in a 5-2 defeat, the England Under-21 international was the Clarets’ best player and [...]
Continue reading …News from Sweden this morning has picked up Chelsea’s first academy scholarship signing for next summer from overseas. It arrives in the form of Swedish 16 year-old midfielder Amin Affane, who has signed a three-year deal to begin in July.
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