Once again, it’s been a season of many ups and few downs. With the highlights come heroes, and with the low points, scapegoats are created. Week in, week out, you, the CFCnet forum users, have been voting in your droves to ensure that we are given a bigger picture at the end of the season. [...]
Continue reading …By rights, the biggest games of the season are played at the end of each campaign. The FA Cup final, the final day of the Premier League season, the Champions League final, the Blue Square South play-off final, we all know the list. But tucked in amongst these matches was an epic encounter at Stamford [...]
Continue reading …Has there ever been this much trepidation over a visit from Wigan Athletic? Not just at Stamford Bridge either, but ever in the history of football? The permeations are well-known; win and we become champions, and the history books gain an extra Blue chapter. The unthinkable alternative is purely that: unthinkable. Wigan arrive at the [...]
Continue reading …Maybe it’s because we won the supposed ‘title decider’ against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Maybe it’s because Blackburn Rovers then held a toothless United on Sunday. Maybe it’s because games against Bolton Wanderers will always evoke memories of that beautiful day in April at the Reebok Stadium when we sealed our second top-flight title [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea will head to their second home Wembley for another FA Cup Final in May, after goals from Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda and Frank Lampard saw the Blues end up comfortable winners against Aston Villa. After a stodgy first-half, the Blues controlled the second period of the semi-final, but the scoreline was slightly harsh on [...]
Continue reading …Saturday 27 March 2010: Chelsea thump Aston Villa 7-1 in the Premier League. Tuesday 30 April 2010: Chelsea do not have to play a mid-week Champions League game, because, well you know, we sort of went out of the competition. Tuesday 30 April (again, but later): Wayne Rooney hobbles off the pitch in Manchester United’s [...]
Continue reading …In a curious twist of fate, two of this weekend’s fixtures mirror the FA Cup semi-final draw, with Spurs taking on Portsmouth and Aston Villa providing the opposition for Chelsea at the Bridge. The Wembley date will be shunted to the back of the mind temporarily though as the Premier League comes first, and with [...]
Continue reading …Two potentially season-defining games lay in wait for the Blues in quick succession, starting this weekend with a visit from West Ham United. While all eyes may be on Tuesday’s huge Champions League match against Inter Milan, it’s the bread and butter of the league which will dominate our attention on Saturday. Since our last [...]
Continue reading …So that’s what it’s like to lose to José Mourinho. All those teams he left trailing in his wake were joined by Chelsea tonight, as goals from Diego Milito and Esteban Cambiasso either side of a Salomon Kalou strike handed Inter Milan the advantage in this Champions League First Knockout Round first-leg match. On the [...]
Continue reading …Arsene Wenger is known to some as ‘The Professor’. To others, he is known as much worse, but for now we’ll stick with the initial moniker. He may have to give up that title – along with any chance at winning the Premier League title – though. Why? Because on Sunday, it was Chelsea who [...]
Continue reading …After briefly falling from the top of the Premier League table to the lowly depths of third position, last week saw a re-awakening of sorts as we thundered our way back up to pole position with a convincing win over Champions League hopefuls (no, really) Birmingham City. While those Blues dare to dream, we haven’t [...]
Continue reading …Football. Anyone remember it? For those of you who have let it slip your minds, it used to be this intriguing ball game which was played on lush, green grass, you know, when England still had lush, green grass. But that was before the snow came, the roads froze, some people fell over, and football [...]
Continue reading …In a torrid December which has seen the Blues win just once, Christmas cheer has so far been scarce. Boxing Day sees Carlo Ancelotti’s side travel to England’s second city in an attempt to bring all Chelsea fans a belated three points, but Birmingham City are the side looking to play the part of party [...]
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