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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
Continue reading …As much as I love the Drog, am I the only one tired of his press pronouncements? It would be alright if he was performing on the pitch but whilst his displays have been workmanlike; his body language says it all. For some fans, the final straw was how he felt disgusted at taking Roman’s [...]
Continue reading …Journalists often canvas CFCnet’s opinions on various matters and when they phone we often ask questions back – one of the most interesting views we heard this week was about Sheva. The journalist in question, a broadsheet regular, let us into a few secrets about Andriy Shevchenko. Before we disclose them, we need to rewind [...]
Continue reading …Sunday 3rd October saw the very first Chelsea Fans Forum, attended by no other than four senior members of Chelsea FC – Peter Kenyon, Simon Greenberg, Simon Arthur and David Newby.
Continue reading …If all our games this season are as incident-packed and exciting as last night’s, we can expect a superb and intense ten months.
Continue reading …If all our games this season are as incident-packed and exciting as last night’s, we can expect a superb and intense ten months. The evening was best summed up by my brother, a Chelsea exile who has spent the past four years in Germany watching Hertha Berlin play in the Bundesliga. “In more than four [...]
Continue reading …After taking time to reflect on the season that has done the same as a Frank Sinclair back pass does to his goalkeeper — just flown by — Jez Walters passes judgement on the ups and downs of the campaign. Many fans have been disappointed this season, and quite rightly so. After all, with an [...]
Continue reading …As the Chelsea hordes left the Millennium Stadium, there was hardly a grumble to be heard, and quite rightly so.
Continue reading …As the Chelsea hordes left the Millennium Stadium, there was hardly a grumble to be heard, and quite rightly so. Time and time again, all Chelsea fans ask for is one thing: total commitment in a Blue shirt. Last Saturday, we got that in spades. The team died for the cause. They played like they [...]
Continue reading …If ever a game showed how far we have got to go before we can realistically challenge for the title, this was it. We were comprehensively outplayed in every area of the park.
Continue reading …If ever a game had ‘banana skin’ written all over it, this was the one. Pilloried by the press if we lost, yet hardly a murmur if we won, this was a no-win situation.
Continue reading …Chelsea’s goal-scoring machine, otherwise known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, proved the team’s saviour at Filbert Street.
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