CFCnet is relieved. No, not because we’ve just scored 9 goals and conceded zero in our last two games, but because we’ve seen some great support for Carlo Ancelotti and the team. This is a difficult time for our beloved Blues. As the Mourinho era slowly fades into the far distance and the remnants of [...]
Continue reading …It’s been an interesting few weeks at CFCnet. Or, better put, it’s been an interesting few weekends. Three defeats in a row against Liverpool, Sunderland and Birmingham have sent our message boards into melt down as fans ponder the causes behind our November collapse. Whilst we’re not happy with the situation, we need to put [...]
Continue reading …Whilst fans might have short memories, the ones belonging to journalists are even shorter. James Olley, The Standard’s Chief Football Correspondent, delighted in telling everyone after the Liverpool defeat that in 19 Premiership visits to Merseyside we’ve lost 12. Moreover, ‘our miserable record at Liverpool is extended’. But hold on. Wasn’t it just six short [...]
Continue reading …What a week. A narrow home victory against Fulham sandwiched between two comprehensive defeats, both as unwelcome as Joe Cole in a Scouse shirt. It’s not like the game against Sunderland hasn’t been coming – our performances have been steadily dropping for the last five or six weeks. The evidence for our ongoing decline is [...]
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Before anything else, CFCnet has to congratulate the Blues for last night’s performance against Spartak. Despite Terry and Lampard both being absent, the team played exactly like that – as a team. This bodes well for the future because we’re increasingly going to see either Frank or JT on the sidelines, either alone or both [...]
Continue reading …CFCnet could hardly contain its yawns early on Saturday morning. Whether it was the after effects of a blistering UB40 gig at London’s Troxy the night before we don’t know, but it was more likely to be the acres of newsprint given over to the fulsome praise of Spurs. The latest darlings of the UK [...]
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What a week. We could write a book about it, let alone a short blog post. But let’s get to the heart of it: Wayne Rooney. When Wazza let it be known that he wasn’t prepared to sign a new contract with Man Utd, CFCnet’s bulletin board went into meltdown. The $100 million dollar question [...]
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Immediately after the announcement by Alex Ferguson (no ‘Sir’) that Rooney wanted to leave Man Utd, CFCnet swung into action to conduct a straw poll of Chelsea fans to see whether we wanted the Grannie lover. The result? Read on…. The poll, admittedly as biased as a parliamentary expenses inquiry, surprised CFCnet with its unanimity: [...]
Continue reading …At the end of the first half, one as poor as anything witnessed in recent memory, CFCnet would have bitten your arm off for a point come the close of the game. It speaks volumes that by the end of the match we felt disappointed to have drawn. All we can guess is that Ancelotti [...]
Continue reading …We’re worried at CFCnet. We’ve just picked up a copy of Ancelotti’s autobiography in the Megastore (no review copy for us, what do PR’s do for living?) and in the credits, alongside Ancelotti’s dedication there is another dedication by a certain A.A
Continue reading …CFCnet has to apologise for the late arrival of this blog post. In our defence, last weekend saw a momentous event in the history of Chelsea FC. No, not our exceptional result against Wigan but rather that one of Chelsea’s most famous fans saw fit to host his 50th birthday bash in, of all places, Merseyside.
Continue reading …For all the talk about pre-season crises, when it really mattered Chelsea delivered. We harked on all summer that we couldn’t care less about pre-season results and even the Community Shield only held passing interest. August 14th was when it really counted. The result? 6-0, a hat-trick from Drogba and a comprehensive mauling of West [...]
Continue reading …Like a bad B movie, the Community Shield is the sort of game that everyone remembers for two minutes before forgetting for the rest of their life.
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