With the transfer window about to open before us and with many of Chelsea’s Premier League rivals having already secured the signatures of both emerging and established talents, I have been left wondering exactly what the clubs transfer strategy is this summer. With the release of Michael Ballack, Juliano Belletti, the “amazing” Joe Cole saga, [...]
After the recriminations the clearest message is that Capello failed. He took the wrong squad and deployed them in an absurd fashion. He should be sacked. England lined up in the same pigheaded manner they did against Slovenia. Gerrard still wasted on the left. A midfield two open to the Germans three. Many in the [...]
Continue reading …So, we can all breathe a sigh of relief for a few days! Once Sunday comes however, I am certain that most of us will have fuelled up with a beer or two ready to see if England can progress against Germany. Our past games against the Germans have been a bit scary, but who [...]
Continue reading …Once again, it’s been a season of many ups and few downs. With the highlights come heroes, and with the low points, scapegoats are created. Week in, week out, you, the CFCnet forum users, have been voting in your droves to ensure that we are given a bigger picture at the end of the season. [...]
Continue reading …Monday 7 June England struggled to a 3-0 win of the Platinum All Stars in a local warm up every bit as bad as expected. Rooney both scored and was booked Joe Cole was the only player not subbed at half-time and he scored the second. Tuesday 8 June Ricky Carvalho and Deco both played [...]
Continue reading …Oh dear. If we thought France’s opening performance was awful the Les Bleus readily sunk to new and impressive lows with a pitiful shift put in against Mexico. At last, justice of sorts, as a team in green were deserved winners, and have left French World Cup hopes clinging by a thread. Raymond Domenech has [...]
Continue reading …So, England are making more trouble for themselves in getting out of their group in South Africa. Wednesday will be decision day whether they qualify, or not, let’s see how they do. Today is Frank Lampard’s birthday, he’s 32. A nice present for us would be for Frank to score the winning goal against Slovenia. [...]
Continue reading …Sunday 2 May Liverpool 0:2 Chelsea To start with Chelsea champions: Miroslav Stoch and Slobodan Rajkovic both on loan at FC Twente are the first two Chelsea players to lift silverware this season. Stoch contributing the second goal as Twente won 0-2 at NAC Breda meaning Ajax couldn’t catch them. It is the Enschede side’s [...]
Continue reading …Saturday 3 April Manchester United 1:2 Chelsea They can’t ever just be beaten by the better team. They always find something to moan about. This time you have to admit that our least favourite referee managed to get almost every decision wrong but he sinned against Chelsea far more than the hosts and yet the [...]
Continue reading …Monday 1 March Breaking hypocrisy news: (or should that be breathtaking hypocrisy news) Fabio Capello has explained that his captains must set an example to the young and that Terry will not captain the side again under him. He will be able to explain to the nation’s youth then why a man who drunkenly assaulted [...]
Continue reading …Yes it’s that time again already, we’ve only just finished pulling the final scraps of confetti from our dizzy, spellbound heads, staggering triumphantly into the dusk, arms raised and toasting a season of unprecedented success at the club and already the powers that be have us here at CFCnet franticly sobering up, straightening up and [...]
Continue reading …Prior to today’s Official Line, this is just a reminder that the new Premiership fixtures are published tomorrow, at 9am. I always enjoy looking at the new season’s fixtures when they’re published to see who we’ll be playing and when. It makes me think that the new season isn’t that far away. Remember we also [...]
Continue reading …So it was on to this tournament’s Group of Death, otherwise known as G, as no more than five Chelsea players squared up to each other. This promised to an enthralling game, arguably Africa’s best team up against one of Europe’s finest, currently ranked third according to FIFA’s confusing system. It also would see two [...]
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