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BROWN ON BLUE – A LOOK BACK
I’ve been trawling through the archives at CFCnet towers and stumbled across some old Brown on Blue articles from a few years back. Looking over the stories became quite amusing; Jose was quitting, Wenger still moaning, and Fergie was still a beetroot. What with recycling and the like being the in thing, I felt this would be a good way for us ...
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GROUND-BREAKING DEVELOPMENTS?
Will we stay or will we go? This question will be answered soon according to information given to the Fans Forum. Here’s something we found tucked down the back of our sofa in the CFCnet green room. Written by Dave McCrossen and first published 5 years ago. With all the money suddenly at the disposal ...
WE LOVE YOU CHELSEA
Can you remember a team called Leeds United? Well just over 5 years ago we played them and they beat us. Dave McCrossen travelled up to the match and this is an article that he sent in shortly afterwards. It is a long drive back from Leeds, made worse when they have beaten you, but it gave me lots of ...
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TYPICAL BLOODY CHELSEA
More CFCnet gold. This time a feature from Steve Symonds whom wrote to us back in 2000. The Symmons family from Battersea have been crossing the river to get to Stamford Bridge for nearly a century now. Throughout that time, one constantly recurring thought has become something of a family mantra: “Typical ...
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THE A–Z OF FOOTBALL
Here’s another piece from the CFCnet vault. Today it’s an A-Z guide of the beautiful game put originally together by Dave McCrossen in 2002. Enjoy. With football’s trendiness fading faster than the highlights in Enrique de Lucas’s hair, new supporters are at a premium. So to make ...
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THE PREMIERSHIP – HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?
As you guys spend your spare time with family and friends. Maybe venturing down to the local with your mates. Here are CFCnet our families no longer remember what we look like and as for going down the pub, that was something we used to do pre-2000 and when we had some sort of social life. The reason ...
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THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF CHELSEA IN THE FA CUP
More FA Cup related archive contributions. This time Pete Bull took a moment to look back at recent campaigns before the 2002 Cup Final. He recalls the pleasure, pain and family bust-ups that they have caused him. Being a Chelsea fan in the mid 1970s, the 1980s and the early part of the 1990s was a ...
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FROM STAMFORD BRIDGE TO CARDIFF VIA VILLA PARK
Another topical FA Cup contribution to CFCnet. This one recalls Chelsea’s first Cup Final in Cardiff. After getting stuck in the traffic chaos returning from the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park, Peter Sampson was not going to take any chances on the notoriously congested motorway to Cardiff for ...
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Today being a cup day and all that, I’ve found a piece we had on the site a few years ago. As it’s topical I thought I’d run it again for all you newbie CFCnet readers. With Chelsea’s appearance in the 2002 FA Cup final rapidly approaching, Mark Wheeler looks back at some of the ...
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SOME SPURS SUPPORTERS ARE HUMAN TOO
As we are painstakingly adding some of the old CFCnet content to this new web masterpiece we occasionally come across some articles that you probably never seen before and may even be relevant to recent events. Here’s one we received from Ian Camlett 7 years ago. Greater love hath no man for his ...
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ARE YOU LOCAL?
In the year 2000 we ran a piece looking at Chelsea’s west London neighbours. Beings as we played one of them on New Years Day and we are playing another on Saturday we thought that we would run it again. In the light of what Marcel Desailly has described as a disappointing season for Chelsea, Mark ...
ARE WE SAINTS OR SINNERS?
The Daily Mirror, an organ which is usually associated with derogatory Chelsea stories, decides today to make us its flavour of the morning. Without wanting to quote extensively from the article, the journalist gives us a fairly lengthy diatribe on how debased the business behind the modern game has ...
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ROMAN HOLIDAY?
The recent take-over of Chelsea by Russian oil and aluminium tycoon Roman Abramovich on the surface seem like us fans like we have just won the lottery. £200m million being pumped into the club and the strait jacket of our recent debts have been removed. Every other press article say Roman will buy ...
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