Chelsea have had a stuttering start to the season and won’t be looking forward to a visit to Old Trafford with United on unbeatable form
Couple of stats based on the press about Torres’ assists last night … Torres has averaged a pass every 4 minutes 38 seconds of play, compared to Rooney’s pass every 4 minutes 17 seconds and Dzeko’s 4 minutes 43 seconds. Torres has averaged a shot on goal every 42 minutes 30 seconds compared to Rooney’s [...]
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This is something that I wrote a few years ago for the FA Cup game versus recent opponents Norwich City in 2005. I love to recycle old rubbish so here it is again.
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In this issue Nick Brown lifts the lid on the infamous Celery song in an article called “Celery, Celery.”
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Andrew Wrench writes the editorial for this issue. European football was back at the Bridge and atmosphere at the Bridge for the game against Viktoria Zizkov was fantastic. Neither leg was shown on TV due to the fact that the BBC had taken up the option of showing Blackburn Rovers (who were knocked out at [...]
Continue reading …This issue is a special “end of season issue” with the Independent boys looking forward to a weekend in Blackpool after the last away game of the season at Everton. The editorial reminds us that fancy dress is required at Everton with Harry Enfield “Scouse” costumes the order of the day. Music lovers were in [...]
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 …The Chelsea Independent, sold outside Stamford Bridge from 1987 to 2000 was the best loved Chelsea fanzine of all time. It played a key part in the fans’ recent history. Neil Barnett, of Chelsea TV fame, nicked all the best Indie writers for Chelsea’s own in-house magazine in 1991, whilst Dave Johnstone (Editor in late [...]
Continue reading …This time round I’ve dug out issue one of the Carefree fanzine. It was a little different to the other fanzines of the time and become my favourite over its very short lifetime. Although to be honest I can’t remember why it became my favourite? Maybe my memory will get a jolt as I review [...]
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