When Jose Mourinho tried to buy Frank Lampard last summer, a CFCnet staffer wrote an impassioned article telling Frank to leave, not in faded glory but Cantona-esque with his reputation intact. The theory being it’s best to leave on a high rather than let your sporting reputation die in front of everyone’s eyes…..you know, Ricky [...]
Continue reading …There are around 50 people who help to manage CFCnet. How many are going to the FA Cup Final? Three. A big thank you must therefore be extended to the Football Association for inviting everybody to the Final except those who count – the real fans.With an allocation of just 25,000 tickets for Chelsea and 25,000 [...]
Continue reading …CFCnet, as part of the Fans Forum, was this week invited to visit the Club’s 140-acre training ground at Cobham. What we saw was extraordinary – a very serious, elite sports complex on a par with any sports organisation in the world. The first thing that immediately struck CFCnet was the amount of staff present [...]
Continue reading …Firstly, let’s get the game out the way. We were magnificent on Sunday, absolutely first class. Missing Alex, Carvalho, Deco, Essien, Drogba we still laid waste to Aston Villa. They hardly had a shot on target which is testament to the best defence in the Premiership with only three goals conceded in seven games. Given [...]
Continue reading …It’s Fans Forum time and CFCnet has been invited to participate for its fifth straight year. For the last two seasons, Toby Brown (CFCnet’s Editor) has been CFCnet’s representative on the Fans Forum and everyone concerned would like to thank him for his efforts, especially around areas such as the Atmosphere Committee and Flags etc. [...]
Continue reading …Although CFCnet did not participate in the recent Fans Forum initiative on away travel with Thomas Cook Sport, as a service to our readers we feel obliged to publish the minutes from the recent meeting at Stamford Bridge: Here are the notes/action points: Thomas Cook action points At away games in Europe information sheets/cards should [...]
Continue reading …Our journey to the final couldn’t have been scripted better. As one joker said, “Carlsberg don’t do revenge but if they did, it would be knocking out Liverpool in extra time in a Champions League semi”. Never has retribution tasted sweeter. Indeed, if there is one shared value amongst Man United and Chelsea fans it’s [...]
Continue reading …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 two [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 the Israeli [...]
Continue reading …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 Spuds. Who’s [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
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