ROBBEN: A MADRID DISASTER

Written by Jez Walters on 24th January, 2008   •  389 views
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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   •  333 views
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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   •  550 views
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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 […]


THE ASSASSINATION OF AVRAM GRANT

Written by Jez Walters on 4th December, 2007   •  256 views
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A CFCnet reader who works in Fleet Street had a quiet word with Toby and I at a recent game. Not one to mince words, he simply said, “our lot is after your manager. The vultures are already circling.”
Fast forward one month and apparently the vultures are still circling. Whilst hidden behind clouds in the […]


CFCNET - GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART FIVE

Written by Jez Walters on 29th November, 2007   •  659 views
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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. […]


CFCNET - GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART FOUR

Written by Jez Walters on 29th November, 2007   •  171 views
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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 […]


CFCNET - GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART THREE

Written by Jez Walters on 29th November, 2007   •  724 views
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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. Or lack of it. The Editor of the Chelsea Independent was […]


CFCNET - GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS PART TWO

Written by Jez Walters on 29th November, 2007   •  375 views
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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.
Although Ken Bates was rallying fans against Cabra and […]



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