Nearly two years after a handful of bankers turned the world upside down with a series of frolicsome bets on whether people would be able to pay off mortgages they never should have had in the first place, plenty of us are still genuinely feeling the effects of the worldwide recession. Even the footballing world [...]
This article was originally written around a year ago. It was first publicised in a magazine that CFCnet helped to find articles for. This piece was written by Rob Hobson who helped steer the good ship CFCnet for a few years around the time that Roman purchased the club. Hopefully some of you may find [...]
Continue reading …Occasionally, I am accused of being a cold fish. I can live with that. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, as the Bard would say. I loathe public displays of affection. Group hugs? Sharing my all? Baring my soul? You can keep the lot of it. When the girlfriend stomps through the front [...]
Continue reading …In July 2002, the mercurial and talented midfielder Sam Dalla Bona left Chelsea under a cloud. His refusal to sign a contract extension had angered Chelsea, as their statement at the time confirms.”In view of the fact that Sam Dalla Bona has refused to sign an extension to his current contract, stating that he wants [...]
Continue reading …Is it too late to save football’s soul? There’s much to admire in Michel Platini’s recent – and clearly heartfelt – appeal to the European Parliament. For those that haven’t had time to look over it, the two issues that stuck out for me were: A ban on international transfers of players under the age [...]
Continue reading …I was beginning to wonder if there was any point trying to go for a light-hearted and reasonably objective view of what’s happening at Stamford Bridge. As a general rule, no matter what the content of the article, ‘Big Four’ blogs get a large number of comments from fans of other ‘Big Four’ teams. The [...]
Continue reading …I approached the Times Fanzone with some trepidation when I wrote this after the Liverpool game. Through one half-closed eye, I ran down the list of recent posts. A triumphal Liverpool post would, I thought, act as the Gorgon to my Polydectes, turning me instantly to stone. If, by ‘stone’, I really mean ‘helpless and [...]
Continue reading …Try and contain your frustration with the following remark, Chelsea fans. Chelsea Football Club has a certain amount of sympathy for the situation that Manchester City Football Club finds itself in. No, this is not the precursor to a sneering 500 words about how Chelsea didn’t have quite the same problems persuading, say, Hernan Crespo [...]
Continue reading …How do you do your job? Come to think of it, how do you live your life? Apologies for the huge, quasi-metaphysical introduction to what will doubtless be a terribly banal bit of football frippery, but I was inspired by a comment left on the last Chelsea article. Sadly, I’m locked out of the comments [...]
Continue reading …Devil’s advocate? Not me. That would be Keanu Reeves, starring in a particularly execrable film alongside about 5 per cent of Al Pacino’s range. But it’s probably best to preface the whole piece with those two words, because the rest of it is going to annoy a fair few people. To give things context, you [...]
Continue reading …As anyone who grew up in the Thatcher years knows, there’s nothing like a foreign war to deflect attention from your troubles at home. The duly elected Leader of the Free World(TM), George W Bush, took the concept one stage further by creating the nebulous foreign enemy “terror”, who was always there when you needed [...]
Continue reading …It was with some dismay that I read the following quote in my newspaper yesterday: “The rules from Uefa on home-grown players and Fifa’s proposal for 6+5 puts a real onus on clubs to develop their own talent much more fully. With that comes a lot of benefits, and so we looked at our scouting [...]
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