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.
Continue reading …Is Gordon Brown’s idea for fans to own 25% of their Clubs an electoral gimmick or a serious attempt at reforming English football? If implemented, will Roman be forced to give up 25% of his existing Chelsea stake? Questions, questions…..and here are some answers. When Gordon Brown waved his most treasured possession – a few [...]
Continue reading …In three back-to-back games against the two best defences in the Premiership we’ve scored 12 goals. That’s an average of 4 goals per game and away from home to boot. In short, it’s title winning form. So what does Ancelotti do against Bolton? He tinkers with the squad. When the Anglesea Arms pub crew saw [...]
Continue reading …What a weekend. Not only did we put Villa to the sword at Wembley but Man Utd were held at Blackburn giving us extra momentum in the title race. The icing on the case, of course, was Pompey beating Spurs in extra time in the other FA Cup semi-final. There are a few Chelsea fans, [...]
Continue reading …“Peter Withe, Andy Gray, Stan Collymore, Big Ron, David Platt, Paul McGrath, Ron Saunders and Archie Hunter…your boys took one hell of a beating!” When the Premiership’s highest goal scorers met the Premiership’s surest defence, we knew that something would had to give. Little did we expect, and neither did the bookmakers at 120 to one, [...]
Continue reading …With the final whistle merely 40 minutes past, CFCnet rushed to the World’s End Estate to put its thoughts on paper. Hmm, where to start? Congratulations must go to our ex-manager, Jose Mourinho, for being the first manager in 27 attempts to win at the Bridge in the Champions League. That’s no small task. As [...]
Continue reading …We’re proud of the boys … A recent post of CFCnet’s implored Ancelotti to stick to 4-3-3 and go down fighting in the big games rather than fade out on a 4-3-2-1 whimper. Whilst we’re 100% sure our Italian manager doesn’t read CFCnet (although we keep our English simple in hope), he certainly obeyed our [...]
Continue reading …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 very same newspaper group that was exposed in the book ‘All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia 90’ as paying [...]
Continue reading …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 the better team and I’m very proud of our performance”.
Continue reading …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 from the jaws of victory.
Continue reading …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 (bought or loaned) for the next two transfer windows. As things stand, we won’t [...]
Continue reading …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 football version of the X Files. Chief amongst these was the anniversary of the [...]
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