ROBBED … BUT WE WILL BE BACK
What is it about the Champions League and Chelsea? Penalty shootout heartbreak against Liverpool, the width of a post in Moscow and now 3 blatant penalty appeals turned down and a last gasp equaliser from
Articles written by Martin Rowe
HIGH DRAMA IN THE SAN SIRO
We’re proud of the boys … A recent post of CFCnet’s implored Ancelotti ...
MEDIA WHORES? WHO US?
Listening to Talksport the other day, CFCnet heard News of the World’s chief football writer, Neil Ashton, wax lyrical about how newspapers were the UK’s moral guardians. That’s an interesting comment coming from the ...
WENGER NEEDS AN OPTICIAN
No sooner had Arsenal crashed to another defeat to Chelsea – their fourth in less than a year – than Sky Sports had thrust a microphone in front of Arsene Wenger. What did the learned professor say? “We felt we were ...
IS DROGBA THE PROBLEM?
At CFCnet we hate to have a pop at our players. After all, we’ve just witnessed a golden decade of unparalleled success. In saying that, it needs to be said that over the past few years we’ve all too often snatched defeat ...
A BAD WEEK FOR CFCNET
CFCnet is not in a good mood – it’s been a bad seven days with the shabby ticket office high on our list of gripes.It all started with the astonishing decision by FIFA to ban Chelsea from registering any new players ...
HYPOCRITE OF THE YEAR AWARD – LIVERPOOL FC
Once FA Cup celebrations had quietened down and the Blues great end to a dramatic season faded over the horizon, talk at CFCnet turned to some of the stranger events that had happened over the previous nine months. A sort of ...
MEDIA HYPOCRISY OVER DROGBA
At CFCnet we admire the media in the same way that Anders Frisk pines for Jose Mourinho. Over the years, we’ve witnessed at first hand how journalists write what they want and carefully select their sound bites to give ...
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