Rafa returns to trophy free zone
Rafa Benitez takes his, weary legged, Chelsea squad to the trophy free zone, that is commonly known as Anfield Road, home of the red micks. The 4pm Sunday kick off is another crucial crunch match in our quest for Champions League football, for next season. The Blues ridiculous fixture congestion sees them playing every three [...]
Chelsea returned to winning ways on Saturday with 3 vital points against West Brom. However, I cannot see the pressure on Benitez easing, with crucial cup games at Bucharest and Old Trafford next up. The predicted ‘slaughter’ of Benitez was more of a damp squib than a statement of intent. At least the club decided [...]
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Rafa Benitez has finally blown it! His astonishing tirade at Chelsea’s hierarchy and the club’s life blood, the fans, is quite simply unacceptable. He must surely realise that he has actually taken the club backwards, since he replaced RDM. Recent displays against Manchester City and last night against Middleborough are not good enough for a [...]
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Chelsea left St James’ Park with nothing, but they certainly contributed to a wonderful game of football. The ‘bar-codes’ new hero is a £1.8m snip from French football called Sissoko. What on earth are we paying the premier league’s most expensive scouting set-up for? Why do we never seem to identify these talents, before they [...]
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On the day that Pep Guardiola announced that he will coach, in the relative safety of the Bundesliga, Rafa Benitez’ Chelsea surrendered a two goal lead to, newly promoted, Southampton. The ‘toxic’ atmosphere was not evident until the final minutes when frustrations turned to boos. On a night more suitable to ice hockey than football [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea entertain west London neighbours Queen’s Park Rangers tonight at, a sold out, Stamford Bridge. The current European Champions are on a fantastic run at the moment, having won their last four Premier League matches, scoring fourteen and conceding three. The in-form Blues will surely add to their goal difference tonight against, struggling, QPR. It [...]
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A rainy, windswept evening in the bowels of, tea slurping, Yorkshire is not somewhere that super star footballers want to be on a Wednesday night after returning from cultural Japan. Many Premiership teams have failed in the past, under such circumstances, but Chelsea’s millionaires, superbly marshalled by super Frankie Lampard, produced a stunning second half [...]
Continue reading …Weary Chelsea return from their jaunt in Japan to face the ‘old enemy’, Leeds United, in the quarter final of the League Cup. For those of you too young to remember, Chelsea and Leeds have a fierce rivalry going back to the sixties. Chelsea were silky smooth in those days whilst Leeds, under the guidance [...]
Continue reading …Thirty six days ago Chelsea were cruising. We had just beaten Tottenham at White Hart Lane and were hailed, by many pundits, as the most stylish team in the league. What on earth has happened? Against West Ham, we were pedestrian, lacked leadership and simply ran out of ideas. I am not a fan of [...]
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Years ago I turned to my dad, in the Shed end at Stamford Bridge, and asked him why were Chelsea fans booing the manager, at that time Ian Porterfield. We were on a horrendous run and losing week in, week out. My dad said, ‘we pay his wages, we pay good money to come here [...]
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Brazil are good to watch, Real Madrid are very efficient, Barcelona’s tiki taka is superb, but for pure entertainment, Chelsea are untouchable! Yes we concede and yes we will undoubtedly be beaten again this season but Roman Abramovich has finally got a team of flamboyant entertainers. Fourteen goals have been scored in the last two [...]
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A few weeks ago, after the Juventus match, I was calling for John Obi Mikel’s head. At that time, as a season ticket holder and life long Chelsea fan, I had every right. I am also, like many, a very fickle football fan. Emotions run high, too many Mikel mistakes, too cumbersome, not linking the [...]
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The league leaders, how good does that sound, entertain the ‘Toon Army’ on Saturday in a late kick off, at the home of the Champions of Europe. The visitors plundered all three points, in the corresponding fixture, last year which included a couple of wonder strikes from the impressive Papiss Cisse. The new look Blues [...]
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