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RETURN OF THE SPECIAL ONE?
That Avram Grant’s brief tenure at the Stamford Bridge managerial helm is over will have come as no surprise to anyone who follows the fortunes of Chelsea Football Club. The timing and manner of his dismissal, coming so soon after the painful Champions League final defeat in Moscow indicates that the decision had already been taken to relieve ...
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FCUK YOUR HISTORY… WE’RE GOING TO MOSCOW!
‘We’re going to Moscow, we’re going to Moscow … f*ck your history … we’re going to Moscow’. If Johnny Cash were alive today, I’m sure he would have endorsed the darkly comic lyrical re-working of ‘I want to go home’ a traditional West Indies folk ...
IN AVRAM WE TRUST!
Ahh the delicious irony of it all. With just two Premiership games left of what has been the most unpredictable season in living memory, (glorious will be pre-fixed to unpredictable should Manchester United drop points against either, or preferably both of their final opponents West Ham and Wigan Athletic ...
YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE AT HOME
The well-worn sporting cliché which asserts that ‘a week is a long time in football’ has been applicable to the fortunes of Chelsea FC and its die-hard followers on a number of occasions during the course of this season and I have no doubt that following the dramatic events at Stamford Bridge ...
GREAT RESULT GRANTED, BUT STILL WORK TO DO
‘F*ck all … you’re gonna win f*ck all, you’re gonna win f*ck all, you’re gonna win f*ck all’. The chant had rung loudly in my ears, tinnitus-like, as I’d made my way down Tottenham High Road in the direction of Seven Sisters tube station last Wednesday night. The ...
MOTIVATION IS THE KEY TO ROTATION
Avram Grant’s hangdog expression has become an all too familiar sight in recent weeks. The mixture of misery and self pity suffused with a subtle hint of exasperation is there for all to see. “This is the most disappointing day since I came to Chelsea,” he observed ruefully as he reflected ...
WIN OR LOSE – UP THE BLUES!
Trudging disconsolately down Wembley Way after witnessing the embarrassingly slip-shod on-field debacle that had culminated in Chelsea’s meek surrender of the Carling Cup to an effervescent Rottenham Dropspur, I’d cast a cursory glance over my shoulder. The magnificent illuminated arch arcing over ...
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FRANK TO MAKE ANOTHER BRIDGE APPEARANCE WITH HUDDERSFIELD
There can have been few people more pleased than ex-Blue Frank Sinclair when the draw for the fifth round of this seasons FA Cup competition pitched his current club Huddersfield Town against Chelsea. The Terriers, currently plying their trade in League One are a club steeped in history and tradition ...
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AVRAM GRANT’S BLUE AND WHITE ARMY
Diametrically opposed in every way to his predecessor Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, aided and abetted by a run of form that has seen Chelsea thrive in the league, surge into the Carling Cup Final, secure a berth in the second phase of the Champions League and romp into the 5th Round of the FA Cup, has ...
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WHAT PRICE LOYALTY?
It is one of life’s great conundrums that in the fickle, febrile, highly competitive 21st century reality-TV dominated world we inhabit, Chelsea Football Club possesses the ultimate in the type of brand allegiance that multi-national conglomerates covet and throw trillions of pounds at trying to secure. ‘Where ...
GO BY TRAIN… GO BY CAR…
There are plenty of Chelsea chants that fill me with mirth. The contemporary lyrical reworking of the Only Fools and Horses theme tune, ‘He stuck a Veron in his pocket, he nicked Glen Johnson from West Ham, cos if you want the best uns and you don’t ask questions then Roman he’s your man. ...
WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
Blues fans the shrinking world over cant fail but to have been seduced by the epic drama unfolding at Stamford Bridge this season. The opinions, aphorisms and heretical thoughts that cascaded along the ever flowing river that is Chelsea Football Club at the time of Jose Mourinho’s dramatic departure ...
ALAN HUDSON TRIBUTE EVENING
I was having a drink with Tony Millard, proprietor of fabled North Cheam Chelsea stronghold hostelry Tones Bar, a few weeks ago when he mentioned that he planned to host a tribute evening in his drinker in honour of the incomparable Blues legend Alan Hudson, with the great man himself being the guest ...
