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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 the return leg. I do watch Inter fairly regularly ...
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CHELSEA FOOTBALL FANCAST – THE REFEREE’S A W**KER!
The Chelsea Football FanCast #107 – The boys feel somewhat cheated after the Nightmare at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea’s poor schoolboy performance and a mugging by Man City’s Tevez and Bellamy (Baaaaahhh)! Much moaning on the FanCast this week as the CFFC crew dissects a bad day at HQ. Mike ...
REMEMBERING OSSIE
For everyone associated with Chelsea FC, in particular those of us of a certain age, the untimely death four years ago of Peter Osgood was particularly heart-rending. The king of Stamford Bridge was the primary reason that I began to follow the Blues at the tail end of the ‘60s. I don’t hold many ...
KING OSSIE
Location Malta. Date July 1966. On my dad’s insistence I was made to watch some of the World Cup games on our black and white telly with Italian commentary. I was still a month from my seventh birthday, and didn’t have a clue what all the fuss was about. England beat West Germany, as they were known ...
THE KING OF STAMFORD BRIDGE
I had been a Chelsea supporter for nearly a year before my father took me to my first game at Stamford Bridge, against West Brom in January 1971. I was hugely looking forward to seeing all the players I had previously seen in action only on the TV – Peter Bonetti, ‘Chopper’ Harris, Charlie Cooke ...
WE HAVE TO HATE JOSE’
- AT LEAST FOR NINETY MINUTES – The trouble with two legged ties is that you never really know what is a good result in the first leg. Last year we came away from Anfield with a 3 – 1 win and left the Bridge a fortnight later having collectively aged 340,000 years (I am calculating an average ...
(WAYNE) BRIDGE OF SIGHS
Chelsea’s forthcoming fixture with Manchester City will see the British media descend on SW6 for the latest instalment in a drama that has kept the nations tabloid gossip columnists in a state of permanent erection since the story first broke about Blues skipper John Terry’s indiscretions with the ...
HIGH DRAMA IN THE SAN SIRO
We’re proud of the boys … A recent post of CFCnet’s implored Ancelotti to stick to 4-3-3 and go down fighting in the big games rather than fade ...
INTER THE DRAGON’S DEN
If you’ve never seen the programme Dragon’s Den before I’ll explain it briefly. A panel of entrepreneurs of varying success and smugness listen to some, often witless, business pitches and decide whether to insult them or to invest their piles of money in the pitched idea. If they agree to invest ...
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS …
Monday 15 February Chelsea reserves 1:2 Arsenal reserves A freezing cold night in Brentford could have been warmed up with a win but Fabio Borini didn’t have his shooting boots on. He hit the woodwork twice and the goalkeeper but not the back of the net. Lobs, shots and headers from the young Italian ...
FOOTBALL FAN’S GUIDE TO MILAN
Internazionale are one of European football’s powerhouses, and their famous black and blue stripes are known the world over. Formed after separating from their city rivals AC Milan in 1908, the club have an incredibly impressive domestic and European record, and are the now the only side never to be ...
TOP 12 GOALS OF THE NAUGHTIES
When you’re sixteen your eighteenth birthday and driving licence seem like a lifetime away. At forty you blink and the next thing you know you’re bloody fifty years old. ...
MEDIA WHORES? WHO US?
Listening to Talksport the other day, CFCnet heard News of the World’s chief football writer, Neil Ashton, wax lyrical about how newspapers were the UK’s moral guardians. That’s an interesting comment coming from the very same newspaper group that was exposed in the book ‘
