From Selhurst Park, to Amsterdam. Yes, just a bit of a difference in locations and stadia, but, with the step-up, there also came disappointment, as we lost 3-1 to Ajax in our second pre-season game. With both Petr Cech and Alex out due to injury, Ross Turnbull and Hilario shared 45 minutes each in goal. [...]
Continue reading …Now we are getting a lot closer to the new season, The Official Line will bring you more regular updates from what is happening in and around Stamford Bridge. Firstly, as you may already know, our former midfielder Joe Cole has now officially signed for Liverpool. Here at CFCnet Towers there had been rumours in [...]
Continue reading …The Bison was well and truly back on Saturday! After being out since December, Michael Essien made his comeback and in doing so, he hit the bar in the first half and scored in the second, before being substituted in the 60th minute. Jon Mikel Obi also came through the game unscathed as both of [...]
Continue reading …We can well and truly say that the new season is almost here now. In just under two days time, we kick-off our first pre-season game of the 2010/11 season with a trip to South London and Selhurst Park against Crystal Palace. The Eagles played their first pre-season game of the season at Crawley Town [...]
Continue reading …The Community Shield takes place on Sunday, August 8 and today, ticket news has been officially released by Chelsea. We will be getting 26,145 Tickets for the match at Wembley. Purchase dates for the tickets depend upon how many loyalty points were accrued last season. Tickets are priced at £15, £20, £30 and £40. For [...]
Continue reading …The players were back in for pre-season training again today, with yet more double sessions. I’m sure that their holidays now seem a thing of the distant past as the running and ball work gets more involved. While the players did their work, Carlo Ancelotti explained that the team need in the region of five [...]
Continue reading …Monday, July 5. Today was the day that most of our first-team came back from their respective holidays to start their pre-season training for the 2010/11 season. I wonder if the players were really looking forward to their double training sessions to get them back into shape? Included in the first day’s training was our [...]
Continue reading …With just two weeks until the first pre-season friendly against Crystal Palace, we have made our first signing of the 2010/11 season. Yossi Benayoun has joined Chelsea from Liverpool and will be ready to start pre-season training on Monday. Benayoun is the first signing of the Summer and we hope, he will not be the [...]
Continue reading …So, we can all breathe a sigh of relief for a few days! Once Sunday comes however, I am certain that most of us will have fuelled up with a beer or two ready to see if England can progress against Germany. Our past games against the Germans have been a bit scary, but who [...]
Continue reading …So, England are making more trouble for themselves in getting out of their group in South Africa. Wednesday will be decision day whether they qualify, or not, let’s see how they do. Today is Frank Lampard’s birthday, he’s 32. A nice present for us would be for Frank to score the winning goal against Slovenia. [...]
Continue reading …Prior to today’s Official Line, this is just a reminder that the new Premiership fixtures are published tomorrow, at 9am. I always enjoy looking at the new season’s fixtures when they’re published to see who we’ll be playing and when. It makes me think that the new season isn’t that far away. Remember we also [...]
Continue reading …Yesterday, Peter let me out for an hour or so from CFCnet Towers to Watch The Football, in colour! He said that he’d deduct me half a crown though and I wouldn’t be able to have Christmas Day off, but it was worth it. The last time I was let out was when the Bay [...]
Continue reading …Well, what can we say about yesterday? There are a couple of things really – Ray Winstone comes to mind for starters – in a piece on the BBC yesterday, he blamed Peter Bonetti for England going out of the 1970 World Cup, saying that Bonetti must have had Scottish blood running through his veins. [...]
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