In this issue Nick Brown lifts the lid on the infamous Celery song in an article called “Celery, Celery.”
Continue reading …Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged with improper conduct by the Football Association after his criticism of referee Martin Atkinson. Ferguson has until 4pm next Tuesday to respond to the charge, which relates to comments made about Atkinson immediately after Manchester United’s Premier League defeat at Chelsea. (Manchester United remain title favourites in the latest [...]
Continue reading …Meeting held at the Lord Attenborough Suite, Chelsea FC Hotel, 10.30am, Saturday 15th January 2011
Continue reading …TALKING BLUES Nick Browns editorial reflects on a “piss poor” start to the season, although October saw a little improvement. Nick witnessed crushes outside the Shed End mainly down to club members not having enough turnstiles to enter though. The official gate figure for the fixture was 26,000 although the CISA indicates that it was [...]
Continue reading …Issue 25 of the Chelsea Independent is next up for my fanzine reviews. This editorial team for this issue was Nick Brown and Jim Ross. This issue was published in August 1991. The front cover features a photo of the scoreboard at the City Ground Nottingham. Although the final score was 7 – 0 to [...]
Continue reading …Today’s fanzine review is centred around issue 7 which was published in July 1988 and edited by Mick Allpress. Mick’s editorial looks back at Chelsea’s relegation at the end of last season. Chelsea had beaten Blackburn in a two legged, home and away, semi-final and had to play away at Middlesbrough in the first leg [...]
Continue reading …Today’s look back at a classic Chelsea Independent fanzine takes us back to issue 15 which came out just before Christmas in 1989. The front cover proclaims that “Arsenal played football!” It goes on to state that a spokesman for the FA alleged that “Arsenal played cultured and following football during the game.” On several [...]
Continue reading …A few years ago I started to pay homage to the Chelsea Independent’s fanzine. I’d like to continue this as and when possible. The idea is that I’ll dig out some of the older ones and scan through highlighting some of the more interesting points and topics. This week I’m going to look at Issue [...]
Continue reading …Meeting held at the Lord Attenborough Suite, Chelsea FC Hotel, 11.30am, Sunday 19th September 2010. (Action points are underlined.) INTRODUCTION The Chairman welcomed members to the first Forum of the season and in particular new members. Members introduced themselves. The Chairman said that, further to the discussion in the Forum last season, the Club photographer [...]
Continue reading …This article was first published in the CFCnet magazine in Nov 2007, with an impending gig near my home town tomorrow (30th July 2011). I thought it would be apt to run it again. Some bands define a generation. After punk, two tone came along and, led by bands such as The Specials and Madness, revived [...]
Continue reading …If you could have changed anything from your playing days, what would it have been? I wished I had been another yard or two quicker that I was. I lacked a yard or two in pace. It would have been nice to have been picked for England. However I captained the under 23s or the [...]
Continue reading …We came across this today. Is this the latest new Chelsea kit? What do you think? We think that he could be the keepers kit? Please comment below.
Continue reading …Following the successful use of the two flags that are displayed in the Lower and Upper Matthew Harding tiers on home matchdays, Chelsea supporters have again been asked to show their artistic skills by designing a new flag to commemorate the team’s remarkable achievement in winning the Double for the first time in the club’s [...]
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