Monday 23 January Rumours on twitter that Bobby Tambling, all time record goalscorer and all that, is in hospital in Ireland. We wish him well. Tuesday 24 January Norwich City reserves 3:3 Chelsea reserves Lucas Piazon put us ahead in the first half but we needed two well taken late strikes from Islam Feruz to [...]
Monday 16 January Gary Cahill is, finally, a Chelsea player. After daily updates about price, personal terms and possible moves from Tottenham or Manchester United, a medical and his appearance in the stands on Saturday we finally have a new defender. Whether he will be better than the ones we already had only time will [...]
Continue reading …Monday 9 January Chelsea reserves 2:3 West Bromwich Albion reserves Here is a novelty – a Chelsea reserve side packed with experience. Michael Essien playing a deep holding role, Gaël Kakuta and Patrick Van Aanholt back from loans we should have been unstoppable. We started like a train, swarming all over West Brom winning free-kicks [...]
Continue reading …Tuesday 3 January John Terry’s face has mysteriously appeared on a packet of Indian burn with the logo ‘smoking kills’. Given the various appearances of Jesus and Virgins that appear in toast, tea towels, grease stains etc, it is not yet clear whether John Terry is not a naughty boy; he is the messiah. Thursday [...]
Continue reading …Carlo Ancelotti is close to a new job in Paris. Our old boss has been biding his time but the opportunity a Paris St-Germain must have been too good to turn down.
Continue reading …Monday 12 December Chelsea 2:1 Manchester City It didn’t take more than two minutes for our high defensive line to look more like a clothes line than a Premiership defence: Aguero turned Terry near half-way and fed Balotelli, round Cech. 0-1. It could have got worse: Balotelli repaid the favour only for Bosingwa to cover [...]
Continue reading …A glorious second-half from Dermot Drummy’s side saw the stiffs almost nick the match from 2-0 down.
Continue reading …Lucas Piazon made his debut at this level. Given the passing reputations of both these team you wouldn’t expect a static game but apart from their second-half penalty and Ryan Bertrand’s lever a few minutes later, there really wasn’t much in this match.
Continue reading …Josh McEachran again played a prominent part for England U21 but sadly they fell for the sucker punch and lost 2-1 away in Belgium.
Continue reading …Monday 7 November Oh no, here we go (part one): The Takeover Panel have been asked to investigate the trading in CPO shares in the three weeks before the meeting that ultimately rejected the club’s proposals to buy back the freehold. Obviously the suspicion is that the club bought up a large stake to swing [...]
Continue reading …Tuesday 25 October Oh, here we go. QPR have filed a complaint about John Terry’s supposedly racist language on Sunday. QPR even had the balls to say they were keen to put an end to the matter; er, so why not just accept John’s explanation? This matter can only really be vindictive: Anton Ferdinand did [...]
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