You might have noticed Sky’s gadget-laden football behemoth has returned to our screens this season. Monday Night Football is a preposterously entertaining as ever and not much has changed. Andy Gray still pisses about with a complex computer tactics screen whenever the need does or doesn’t arise, highlighting incidents and cross examining them like a [...]
Continue reading …Anyone seen that advert doing the rounds lately where an annoying ginger kid chirps on about how optimistic he is that a new football season is starting?
Continue reading …The club have been relatively quiet in the transfer market so far with only one new addition to the squad next year in creative midfielder Yossi Benayoun. Given the overinflated price tags that midfielders Di Maria and David Silva have chalked up recently getting such a proven, quality premiership player for a fraction of the [...]
Continue reading …With much of the talk on the group games being too defence-minded and drab up stepped an inspired Portugal to thump North Korea seven nil and banish such thoughts to the distant past. There was only one Chelsea player who took part in that familiar looking score line, Ricardo Carvalho. Riccy very nearly got the [...]
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 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 [...]
Continue reading …The world cup didn’t get off to the best of starts for the Chelsea contingent. Injuries have robbed the tournament of two of its brightest African stars in Michael Essien and Obi Mikel. Also at the treatment table this summer is Michael Ballack who is no doubt missing his last chance to play on the [...]
Continue reading …It has been the greatest season in the history of Chelsea. Under the Wembley arch the double was secured in stunning fashion by the season’s top goal scorer and fan’s player of the year. The club and players deservedly joined a short list of football immortals that have achieved a domestic double.
Continue reading …I don’t know about anyone else but I’m still finding it hard to get my head around last Sunday’s game. Eight nil to secure the league? Did that really happen? It’s the kind of result that would ordinarily only be seen on your Playstation or, for the older generation, the pages of Roy of the [...]
Continue reading …Momentum can be defined as an impelling force or strength. As any physicist may tell you, with enough momentum (p=mv), the more power resides in a moving body and the harder it is stop. There was a determination and unnerving will to win at the weekend. The superb performance at Anfield has left us with [...]
Continue reading …What a response. It was raining goals again at the Bridge and Chelsea answered emphatically any doubters of our title credentials or, more importantly, the ability to hold our nerve. It also was a non-too-subtle salute to a certain Glaswegian’s tiresome mind games. Spurs once again decided to be dismal at the feet of United [...]
Continue reading …On Saturday night the idea of no Chelsea games to stress about for a week was the only crumb of happiness you could cling to. Forget the football and have a week off. Unfortunately this little break without any premiership football has done nothing to calm the nerves. It’s a wonder I can type this [...]
Continue reading …What an incredible weekend of results. A Rooney-less Manchester United lacked any spark, Liverpool’s champions league hopes withered without Fernando and Portsmouth showed amazing spirit to seal a cup final place. Without the resources Pompey were made to work hard, leaving it until late for winning goals whereas Spurs fans, ironically, were just leaving. To [...]
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