COME IN AVRAM, YOUR TIME IS UP

Written by Jez Walters on 14th April, 2008 • 1,107 views

If Avram Grant was a biscuit he’d be a McVitie’s digestive. Fit for purpose but the sort of biscuit that wouldn’t be seen dead in any of London’s finest eateries. Workman-like, efficient, yet easily crushed to make ma’s apple crumble.. ….you get the drift.
Despite a creditable showing of eight wins, one draw and […]

DEEP BLUE INTERVIEW

Written by Jez Walters on 28th March, 2008 • 413 views

“Chelsea fan Hugh Hastings was the club’s Official Photographer between 1977 and 1986 (and matchday programme editor 1980-86), a time when being the same age as the players enabled him to build a trust with the team and gain access to their lives away from the matchday spotlight - such as it was in that […]

GALLAS: TO BOO OR NOT TO BOO?

Written by Jez Walters on 20th March, 2008 • 1,164 views

There’s been a lot of debate on the CFCnet Forums over whether William Gallas should be warmly welcomed back to Stamford Bridge or given a heavy booing (http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=34210).
Those in the ‘warmly welcomed’ corner, with the sort of deranged smile that Jack Nicholson exhibited in The Shining, state that Gallas formed part of the best defensive […]

AVRAM GRANT – AN ISRAELI VERDICT

Written by Jez Walters on 21st February, 2008 • 1,551 views

CFCnet caught up with one of Israel’s leading football writers, Shaul Adar, who also covers Chelsea for two of the UK’s leading national broadsheets. We first met Shaul in July 2007 and his premonitions about the current season were, in hindsight, eerily correct. Seven months later, in a bar in Clerkenwell, we collared […]

CARLING BRINGS SELECTION HEADACHE FOR AVRAM

Written by Jez Walters on 6th February, 2008 • 278 views

Poor old Avram. Having successfully steered a listing ship through two months of injuries and African Nations Cup absentees, he’s now confronted with the perfect storm – a full squad of internationals all expecting a first team berth. Nowhere is the problem more obvious than in the forthcoming Wembley Carling Cup Final against […]

ROBBEN: A MADRID DISASTER

Written by Jez Walters on 24th January, 2008 • 253 views

They say hindsight’s a wonderful thing but foresight’s not bad either, and the Club have certainly made the right decision with Arjen Robben. If you remember, CFCnet ran a feature on Robben back in August, and the bottom line is that we felt the sale of Robben was no big loss. Not ideal, but no […]

ANELKA: HERO OR SCAPEGOAT?

Written by Jez Walters on 14th January, 2008 • 128 views

Nicolas Anelka arrives at Chelsea at a crucial point in his career and at a decisive time in Chelsea’s season. With Drogba, Kalou and Shevchenko all unavailable, Le Sulk can either quickly establish himself as a true blue hero or he could quite easily become the major scapegoat as our season disintegrates around us.Only time […]

UNSHAKEABLE TEAM SPIRIT

Written by Jez Walters on 3rd January, 2008 • 368 views

If you’d said a year ago that by early January 2008 we’d have lost the best manager in our history and spent the Christmas period largely minus Cech, Cudicini, Carvalho, Terry, Lampard and Drogba, I’d have thought taking four points over Christmas would have been generous. If you’d then told me the remaining team was […]

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