180 minutes will define Rafa’s reign
Chelsea Football Club have a massive 180 minutes of football to play in the coming 5 days. Best case scenario is we beat Villa on Saturday and JT and super Frank jointly lift the Europa Cup on Wednesday. Worse case, well I don’t want to go there! I cannot wait for the smug, self opinionated, [...]
Chelsea cruised past Basel to set up yet another European final, this time against Portuguese side Benfica. Chelsea, if victorious, will become only the fourth club to win every format of European trophies. Who would have thought that Rafa Benitez could bring home a trophy in his short reign? Chelsea eased through to the final [...]
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Rafa Benitez takes his, weary legged, Chelsea squad to the trophy free zone, that is commonly known as Anfield Road, home of the red micks. The 4pm Sunday kick off is another crucial crunch match in our quest for Champions League football, for next season. The Blues ridiculous fixture congestion sees them playing every three [...]
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Battle weary Chelsea entertain Russian side Rubin Kazan in the quarter finals of the Europa League. Stamford Bridge should be still vibrating from the pulsating victory over the English Champions elect, Manchester United. What a goal, what a save, what a morale boost. However caution is the key word for Thursday night’s tie. Rubin Kazan [...]
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Chelsea returned to winning ways on Saturday with 3 vital points against West Brom. However, I cannot see the pressure on Benitez easing, with crucial cup games at Bucharest and Old Trafford next up. The predicted ‘slaughter’ of Benitez was more of a damp squib than a statement of intent. At least the club decided [...]
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Rafa Benitez has finally blown it! His astonishing tirade at Chelsea’s hierarchy and the club’s life blood, the fans, is quite simply unacceptable. He must surely realise that he has actually taken the club backwards, since he replaced RDM. Recent displays against Manchester City and last night against Middleborough are not good enough for a [...]
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Chelsea take on Sparta Prague, at Stamford Bridge, for a place in the last sixteen of the Europa Cup. The home side enjoy a 1-0 lead from the away fixture, thanks to a sublime goal from the ever improving Oscar. On paper this should be a routine victory, but, as we all know, under Benitez [...]
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On the day that Pep Guardiola announced that he will coach, in the relative safety of the Bundesliga, Rafa Benitez’ Chelsea surrendered a two goal lead to, newly promoted, Southampton. The ‘toxic’ atmosphere was not evident until the final minutes when frustrations turned to boos. On a night more suitable to ice hockey than football [...]
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A rainy, windswept evening in the bowels of, tea slurping, Yorkshire is not somewhere that super star footballers want to be on a Wednesday night after returning from cultural Japan. Many Premiership teams have failed in the past, under such circumstances, but Chelsea’s millionaires, superbly marshalled by super Frankie Lampard, produced a stunning second half [...]
Continue reading …Thirty six days ago Chelsea were cruising. We had just beaten Tottenham at White Hart Lane and were hailed, by many pundits, as the most stylish team in the league. What on earth has happened? Against West Ham, we were pedestrian, lacked leadership and simply ran out of ideas. I am not a fan of [...]
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Years ago I turned to my dad, in the Shed end at Stamford Bridge, and asked him why were Chelsea fans booing the manager, at that time Ian Porterfield. We were on a horrendous run and losing week in, week out. My dad said, ‘we pay his wages, we pay good money to come here [...]
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Brazil are good to watch, Real Madrid are very efficient, Barcelona’s tiki taka is superb, but for pure entertainment, Chelsea are untouchable! Yes we concede and yes we will undoubtedly be beaten again this season but Roman Abramovich has finally got a team of flamboyant entertainers. Fourteen goals have been scored in the last two [...]
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A few weeks ago, after the Juventus match, I was calling for John Obi Mikel’s head. At that time, as a season ticket holder and life long Chelsea fan, I had every right. I am also, like many, a very fickle football fan. Emotions run high, too many Mikel mistakes, too cumbersome, not linking the [...]
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