Originally published in 2007 in hardback format by Gate 17. One Man Went to Mow is technically viewed as the follow up title to Mark Worrall’s best selling Chelsea title from 2004, Over Land and Sea.
Continue reading …For many who overindulge during the festive period, the hangover that follows presents an opportunity to reflect upon the past, make resolutions for the future, and contemplate the meaning of life in general. The older we get, the more we experience the mutability of time. Depending on our state of sobriety we feel it speed [...]
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Monday 12 December Chelsea 2:1 Manchester City It didn’t take more than two minutes for our high defensive line to look more like a clothes line than a Premiership defence: Aguero turned Terry near half-way and fed Balotelli, round Cech. 0-1. It could have got worse: Balotelli repaid the favour only for Bosingwa to cover [...]
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cfcuk available on Kindle In the wake of CFC’s recent, unsuccessful, attempt to secure the support required to initiate a transfer of the freehold of Stamford Bridge from the CPO, for me, the recent news that the club were re-examining the merits of the Battersea Power Station site as a suitable venue for a new [...]
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Ho ho ho! Happy Christmas! Or Feliz Natal! as AVB might say. Although that’s a bit of a stab in the dark as if I’ve learnt anything this season it’s that you can’t predict in any way what AVB is going to say, ever. He’s like a multilingual philosopher with a thesaurus, and no post-match [...]
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Monday 5 December Amid the hoo-ha crated by the media in full Chelsea meltdown mode – apparently, if we fail to win tomorrow night, the East stand, burning with fire will fall unto the pitch and the number seven shirt shall be rent in sunder – on the back of his first senior goal last [...]
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Two homes games lie ahead, across two different competitions and, unusually for so early on in the season, everything rides on getting a positive result in both.
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A glorious second-half from Dermot Drummy’s side saw the stiffs almost nick the match from 2-0 down.
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Chelsea travel to, surprise package, Newcastle on Saturday for the televised early kick off. A win would see the Blues move above the Magpies and Tottenham, in to third place, albeit with the latter having the luxury of two games in hand. The omens are reasonable in that the Blues have not lost in five [...]
Continue reading …MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING/ MATTERS ARISING There were no changes to the minutes for the first meeting or for the conference call (second meeting). Players requesting fans to sing: The Club said that the manager and John Terry have made requests. The manager mentioned this after the Leverkusen game. Publicising Forum agenda items and [...]
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Lucas Piazon made his debut at this level. Given the passing reputations of both these team you wouldn’t expect a static game but apart from their second-half penalty and Ryan Bertrand’s lever a few minutes later, there really wasn’t much in this match.
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Josh McEachran again played a prominent part for England U21 but sadly they fell for the sucker punch and lost 2-1 away in Belgium.
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Monday 7 November Oh no, here we go (part one): The Takeover Panel have been asked to investigate the trading in CPO shares in the three weeks before the meeting that ultimately rejected the club’s proposals to buy back the freehold. Obviously the suspicion is that the club bought up a large stake to swing [...]
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