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THE RISE OF THE TURNBULLATOR
Well that’s torn it. The only good thing to come out of last week’s OAP Milan’s visit to Old Trafford was Beckham’s ten minutes of pinpoint crossing and miracle volley that not only put him on the plane to South Africa but booked him as supersub numero uno well ahead of Aaron Lennon and Sean Wright Phillips. And now even that’s been taken ...
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RETURN OF THE LEGENDS PART TWO – THE SPECIAL ONE
Tonight we look to turn around a 2-1 deficit at home to Inter Milan, with a place in the quarter finals of the Champions League being at stake. The match, our fourth home game in a row, kicks off at 7.45 and will be televised. Hopefully we get off to a better start then three weeks ago, in which Milito ...
PERFECT TIME FOR THE BIG GAME PLAYERS
7:45pm. The Champions League theme bristles against the hairs on the back of your neck. A roaring Stamford Bridge expects something special. Tuesday promises to be an epic Champions league encounter for many reasons. Of course the Bridge will be welcoming back a former hero and our most successful manager ...
PANTS-CAM ARSHAVIN GIVES THE TABLOIDS AN IDEA…
John Terry will presumably accept support from wherever he can get it at the moment but it might surprise Chelsea fans to learn that the most eloquent defence of the former England captain came from Arsenal’s Andrei Arshavin. Asked about press interest in footballers’ private lives in the Times on ...
THAT WAS THE WEEK WHEN, 168 YEARS AFTER THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, A SPECTOR IS HAUNTED BY A EUROPEAN
Tuesday 9 March We could be in trouble with the law again. It seems that Mitchell Thomas represented Shaun Wright-Phillips when he signed for us from Manchester City. Mitchell Thomas was a Luton, Spurs and West Ham defender but he is also an unlicensed agent, punishments for using unlicensed agents range ...
HAMMERED! THE CHELSEA FOOTBALL FANCAST #109
The boys are in good voice after Chelsea do a proper job on the Hammers which puts us back in pole position at the top of the table. The boys discuss the game, and give their celery, Guinness, man and chant of the match awards. Talk moves on to the return of the Special One for the game against Inter ...
WE’D LIKE TO SHOW THE WORLD THE WAY TO … SING!
Passion. Tribalism. Noise and fried onions. Tension. And lots of singing! That’s what football and supporting Chelsea have always been about for me. When I first moved to the manor in the mid ‘80’s and was supporting the Chels from the pub (we didn’t have armchairs and Sky Sports in those days!), ...
TEN PLAYERS WHO CAME BACK TO HAUNT US
With the impending returns of Franco Zola and Jose Mourinho, Clive Batty reminds us of some players who came back to haunt us after we sold them … 1. Dave Beasant ‘Lurch’ dropped a few clangers during his time at the Bridge in the early 1990s but always performed well when facing the Blues ...
MICHAEL MANCIENNE: SOMEDAY BABY
This article was originally written around a year ago. It was first publicised in a magazine that CFCnet helped to find articles for. This piece was written by Rob Hobson who helped steer the good ship CFCnet for a few years around the time that Roman purchased the club. Hopefully some of you may find ...
FROM STAMFORD BRIDGE TO WEMBLEY! THE CHELSEA FOOTBALL FANCAST #108
On this week’s show, sticking it up Stoke to get a Wembley semi! Plus Jez Walters from CFCnet talks about the CFCnet website and takes the “60 Second Fan” challenge, as well as our match awards, “Goal of the Month”, “Dear Mart”, a classic song or two and “You’re on CFFC”! [
TEN THINGS THAT HAVE TO GO RIGHT FOR US TO BEAT INTER
Despite the West Ham game next Saturday being an absolutely must win game my mind is very much tuned in to the Champions League tie against Inter the following Tuesday. What with the return of Jose’, our run of bad luck at crucial moments in the competition and the desire of finally being able to call ...
NOBBLING CPO’S CENTRE BACKS?
No, not another exposé of players private lives, but as last months article on the subject highlighted, the chairman of Chelsea Pitch Owners finally officially re-stated what he had casually said to raised eyebrows at the end of the AGM in 2006 (and then denied several times since); that he ...
HOW BAD IS ROSS TURNBULL?
I normally hate international weeks but this one couldn’t have come at a better time. At least it gets our minds off the catastrophic week that came to an end with the home defeat against Man City. On the plus side we can say that the result and performance at the San Siro give us plenty of hope for ...
