The most capped English cricketer of all time in both Test Matches and One Day Internationals, Alec Stewart OBE enjoyed a prolific career as an aggressive opening batsman and wicketkeeper for both his county team Surrey and the England national team. With his playing days behind him, Alec now divides his time between coaching, player [...]
Continue reading …We all follow the Chelsea … begins a popular Chelsea chant, but more and more these days I’m beginning to wonder if this assumptive terrace anthem is in fact correct. The football media circus may have re-pitched its tent 200 miles north of Stamford Bridge focussing its frenzied attentions on the engaging dramas unfolding at [...]
Continue reading …Bleary eyed at Gatwick airport last Wednesday morning, I’d picked up a copy of the Times to read on the short flight to Bordeaux. With the credit crunch biting, and my travels across Europe watching the Blues this year having all but eroded my holiday entitlement, I’d elected to travel to France on the ‘official’ [...]
Continue reading …When the opportunity presented itself to visit New York for free it was always going to be something too good to pass up on, even if it meant sacrificing a jaunt to the Eternal City to watch Chelsea in Champions League action against AS Roma. If I hadn’t already seen the Blues play in the [...]
Continue reading …Argh the credit crunch. With banks falling like autumn leaves and financial uncertainty in the air for many honest hardworking Blues fans, the cost involved in following our beloved football club in Europe can be punitive or indeed a barrier. The Champions League tie CFR Cluj was an excellent opportunity for Chelsea FC to demonstrate [...]
Continue reading …Football, isn’t it just the greatest soap opera on the planet? Glorious unpredictability is one thing us Blues fans are born into. Whether you are a seasoned old-school stager from back-in-the-day when we really were sh*t, or a new disciple of Abramovich era Chelsea, CFC still has the capacity pluck on our heart strings and [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea are back. Oh yes, Chelsea are back all right. Since the mid-Summer appointment of Luiz Felipe Scolari the expectations of Blues fans have been steadily growing, gaining momentum as the players we hold dear to our hearts have enthusiastically endorsed the new regime. “He understands football and he understands the lads,” gushed John Terry. [...]
Continue reading …The unwelcome impact of the global credit crunch has been felt by many people in many different ways. Scarcely a day passes without more depressing news about the economy assaulting our senses from every angle. Chelsea Football Club, bankrolled by Roman Abramovich, remains unaffected. They say that money goes to money, and in Mr Abramovich’s [...]
Continue reading …As the Blues search for a reputable manager to replace ‘nearly man’ Avram Grant becomes mired in farce and subterfuge I’m left wondering exactly whom at Chelsea Football Club owner Mr Abramovich should hold accountable for this shabby state of affairs which has left many supporters feeling deeply frustrated and alienated?Himself? Don’t be ridiculous. Autocratic [...]
Continue reading …That Avram Grant’s brief tenure at the Stamford Bridge managerial helm is over will have come as no surprise to anyone who follows the fortunes of Chelsea Football Club. The timing and manner of his dismissal, coming so soon after the painful Champions League final defeat in Moscow indicates that the decision had already been [...]
Continue reading …‘We’re going to Moscow, we’re going to Moscow … f*ck your history … we’re going to Moscow’. If Johnny Cash were alive today, I’m sure he would have endorsed the darkly comic lyrical re-working of ‘I want to go home’ a traditional West Indies folk song which appeared on his sixth album ‘Songs of Our [...]
Continue reading …Ahh the delicious irony of it all. With just two Premiership games left of what has been the most unpredictable season in living memory, (glorious will be pre-fixed to unpredictable should Manchester United drop points against either, or preferably both of their final opponents West Ham and Wigan Athletic whilst the Blues fare better against [...]
Continue reading …The well-worn sporting cliché which asserts that ‘a week is a long time in football’ has been applicable to the fortunes of Chelsea FC and its die-hard followers on a number of occasions during the course of this season and I have no doubt that following the dramatic events at Stamford Bridge in the Champions [...]
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