The PFA’s search for the Official PFA 2UP Fans’ Divisional Players’ of the Year Awards are now under way – and there are plenty of big names in the frame to succeed last year’s winner; Cristiano Ronaldo, as the fans’ choice. The contenders for this month’s PFA 2UP Divisional Fans Player Awards have now been [...]
It’s all gone quiet…. Listen, look around and you too may notice an unusual calm about the place. With less than 24 hours to go until the ‘best league in the world’ kicks off, it all seems a bit tame, just too peaceful. Read the sports pages or trawl through NewsNow, and aside from the [...]
Continue reading …After what seems like an eternity, Premiership football is back on the menu at Stamford Bridge, with Porstmouth their first guests in what the 42,000 crowd on Saturday will hope is a feast of entertainment. To get the Pompey view for the season opener, I caught up with a mate of mine, and a top [...]
Continue reading …Frank Lampard today signed a new deal with Chelsea that will keep him at Stamford Bridge until he is 35. Frank had been the subject of various approaches from former boss Jose Mourinho, as he attempted to lure the midfielder to join him at Inter Milan. The Serie A outfit bid for Lampard in July, [...]
Continue reading …A lot has been asked about our Frankie this summer, will he stay? Will he go? Is the man worth the vast numbers being reported in the press as a weekly wage? Or has he become just another football mercenary looking to make as much money as possible? Not a lot of this matters to [...]
Continue reading …Back in late 2006, very soon after the Tottenham defeat; CFCnet spent some time with Claude Makelele at Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham, and asked him some of the many questions our readers posted to him for the CFCnet magazine. With Claude departing recently for his homeland, we decided to dust off the old Word [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea FC today confirmed they’d signed Deco from Barcelona on a two year deal, for a fee thought to be in the region of £8 million. There’s been much noise in the press surrounding such a move since Portugal’s exit from Euro 2008, and with Scolari a known admirer of the player many thought it [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea Football Club today (Tuesday, June 10) confirmed their second match in China this summer. The fixture will take place in Macau against the Chinese Super League team,the Chengdu Blades, on July 26. The Windor Arch-Macau International Football Challenge will be Chelsea FC’s second ever game in China, following the opening match of the Samsung/Chelsea [...]
Continue reading …Don’t you just love the number of exclusives that are doing the rounds in the daily rags? Each one is certain they’ve identified our new manager, stating unequivocally that it’s one manager one day, and then changing tack and banging the drum for another the next. So far we’ve heard the names of Rijkaard, Hughes, [...]
Continue reading …A long time ago now, CFCnet played against the BAWA website in a football match held at Cobham. Dazz was our very own John Terry that day, commanding at the back, but missing the crucial penalty at the end as CFCnet went on to lose on penalties as BAWA took the trophy. Everyone who was [...]
Continue reading …The season is over bar the big one, and that is only a matter of hours away. This is the match everyone is talking about, so we caught up with Kerry Dixon to get his views on tonight’s Champions League Final, and more. We missed out on the league, but how do you think we [...]
Continue reading …I’ve just received the following from Chelsea FC; Chelsea Football Club would like to wish all our fans travelling to Moscow a safe journey. To ease your experience we would suggest observation of the following: * Please be patient at the airport and any other points of entry to Russia. These will be extremely busy [...]
Continue reading …The final Fans Forum of the 2007-08 season was held at Stamford Bridge last weekend, prior to the game against Bolton. On the agenda was atmosphere, Chelsea in the community, the Fans Forum selection process, the annual satisfaction survey and of course, Moscow! First up were matters arising from the previous meeting, where a few [...]
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