After singing the praises of David Luiz to high heaven in our last posting, it’s with great sadness that CFCnet declares we’re going to have to give the floppy Brazilian perm a miss for the time being. Nothing against our new superstar you understand, we still think he’ll become the future captain of Chelsea someday [...]
Well, it had to happen but when it did it was no less disappointing. Through gritted teeth we’ll admit the weekend’s game against Everton was a cracking and fiercely contested FA Cup tie, in the best traditions of the Cup really. Perhaps what made the game so disappointing to lose was the manner in which [...]
Continue reading …Eagle-eyed readers would be justified for enquiring why CFCnet didn’t write an article following the Liverpool debacle. The answer would be that we were simply too depressed. By playing three centre backs and ‘parking the bus’ (© Jose Mourinho), Liverpool strangled our attack and stole the game during one of their few incursions into our [...]
Continue reading …Over the last few weeks the media has been keen to remind CFCnet that the Blues have been on their worst run for eleven years. Who cares? As far as we’re concerned Santa’s already visited and shoved the Premiership and FA Cup down our chimney. Don’t forget, 2010 was our best year EVER. With that [...]
Continue reading …Ross handed over the editorship baton to Mark Meehan in the mid-nineties. Mark carried on and evolved the fanzine. We were selling 3,000 issues of the Chelsea Independent fanzine on the Fulham Road (outside the Lost Theatre) and it was a joy to contribute during what was a time, for CISA, of unprecedented Chelsea success. [...]
Continue reading …In the eighties, it wasn’t fashionable to mention that you were a football fan. I’m very serious. It was the social equivalent of loudly announcing at a Surrey dinner party that you liked cock fighting and had an eye for underage teenagers. To say you then supported Chelsea was even worse. At the time, Chelsea [...]
Continue reading …The end of the eighties and turn of the nineties were good years to be following the Blues. Most of us were simply pleased to see us compete in the top division rather than yo-yo between divisions like West Ham do today with style.
Continue reading …The origins of CFCnet can be traced back around 20 years. We like to think that fanzines, online and paper based are part of Chelsea FC’s 100 years of history so here’s the second installment of how the CISA and ultimately CFCnet fit in to it all.
Continue reading …CFCnet can trace its origins back nearly twenty years. For eagle-eyed readers, that was a time when personal computers were the size of a small car, mobile phones were heavier than a rucksack full of bricks, and email was a strange, fictional concept written in an Arthur C Clarke novel. It was also a time [...]
Continue reading …Two days ago we bumped into Ken Monkou, Chelsea Player of the Year in 1990, who kindly agreed to do a ten minute pre-season video interview.
Continue reading …CFCnet would like to offer up its ‘End of Decade’ Review. Not all our choices will be universally popular and no doubt the ‘Comments’ section below and Forums will set us straight, but we’d like to throw our hat in the ring and outline what we consider to be our highlights of the decade below.
Continue reading …It’s hardly news that Ancelotti has been looking at Atletico Madrid’s Sergio Agüero. Reports state that the Blues have been quoted a monster £45 million for the Argentinian superstar who is also demanding £6.5 million after tax. Or as Gullit used to say, “netto”. It appears that the £6.5 million after tax is a big [...]
Continue reading …Whatever you think about Ancelotti, and there’s a significant minority who are against his appointment, we’ve got to get behind him. If nothing less, he deserves our respect for what’s he’s achieved at AC Milan and we should be proud that he’s chosen our Club. Let’s go through some of the concerns: 1. His English [...]
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