
Wednesday 2 April
Fenerbahce 2:1 Chelsea
Does he know what he is doing? A pleasant evening in Turkey was spoilt by a couple of avoidable goals and a few poor substitutions.
We started so well, for the first hour you couldn’t see them making any impression we were simply too strong. A nice night, a big pitch and […]

From the diary this month: Hosanna in excelsis, death threats from Jose Mourinho, Polytheism, and a Grant inspired win against the Gooners.
Quote that sums up the season: “think one of ours strengths is we defend well at corners and free-kicks, but in the last two games Tottenham scored against us six goals, five from set […]

In the Diary this month: exciting metrics, anthrax, one win, three draws and a not so exciting cup final.
Thursday 31 January
Chelsea youth 3:1 Leicester City youth
Chelsea’s youth cup campaign progresses under the floodlights at Stamford Bridge. This was an impressive win from an unpredictable and entertaining game, with goals from the usual suspects, Nielsen, Stoch […]

Tuesday 1 January
Fulham 1:2 Chelsea
Another anti-entertainment afternoon, many with hangovers will count themselves blessed if they woke up in time to discover the score. In fact after the minute applause for Phil O’Donnell not much else really happened.
Fulham have a new manager to impress and spent the start of the first period trying to do […]

From the dairy this month: Joe Cole’s shining moments of joy, McClaren’s P45, ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ and incredible youth cup progress.Quotes of the month: “I think this period of my life was actually much worse for Martina because she was with me every second and saw close-up how it affected me. I […]

From the diary this month: Peter Kenyon’s gob, Didier Drobga’s bum, speed dating at the G14, Peter Bonetti World Cup winner, Energie Cottbus in autumnal sunlight.
Quotes of the month:
“Abramovich is ready to pay for every one of Modric’s kilos.” Tomislav Marcinko of Dinamo Zagreb, starts looking for his paying in book.
Thursday 1 November
Yorkshire rip, er, […]