Ross handed over the editorship baton to Mark Meehan in the mid-nineties. Mark carried on and evolved the fanzine. We were selling 3,000 issues of the Chelsea Independent fanzine on the Fulham Road (outside the Lost Theatre) and it was a joy to contribute during what was a time, for CISA, of unprecedented Chelsea success. [...]
In the eighties, it wasn’t fashionable to mention that you were a football fan. I’m very serious. It was the social equivalent of loudly announcing at a Surrey dinner party that you liked cock fighting and had an eye for underage teenagers. To say you then supported Chelsea was even worse. At the time, Chelsea [...]
Continue reading …The end of the eighties and turn of the nineties were good years to be following the Blues. Most of us were simply pleased to see us compete in the top division rather than yo-yo between divisions like West Ham do today with style.
Continue reading …The origins of CFCnet can be traced back around 20 years. We like to think that fanzines, online and paper based are part of Chelsea FC’s 100 years of history so here’s the second installment of how the CISA and ultimately CFCnet fit in to it all.
Continue reading …CFCnet can trace its origins back nearly twenty years. For eagle-eyed readers, that was a time when personal computers were the size of a small car, mobile phones were heavier than a rucksack full of bricks, and email was a strange, fictional concept written in an Arthur C Clarke novel. It was also a time [...]
Continue reading …The first game of a busy Boxing Day schedule saw Chelsea host Aston Villa for a 1pm kick-off at Stamford Bridge. Would Chelsea suffer their traditional Christmas hangover or would Jose lay to rest the ghost of Christmas past with a victory and another vital three points?
Continue reading …Chelsea go from one extreme to the other this weekend as Nigel Worthington and Delia Smith bring their Norwich team to West London for a game that is vital to both sides.
Continue reading …On a newly laid pitch at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea played hosts to premiership newcomers Norwich City. Mourinho had already stated that three points were a vital follow-up to the draw at Arsenal last week and his players didn’t let him down.
Continue reading …Our season ended on a low note as we came away from Newcastle losing 1-0. This was our second consecutive defeat, the other being against Blackburn on Tuesday, when again we lost 1-0; unfortunately losing in two consecutive matches in the Premiership hadn’t happened to José Mourinho before at Chelsea since his arrival from Porto.
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