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JAN ŠEBEK - CLEARING UP SOME CONFUSION
As you may or may not have read in various news outlets whilst enjoying a relaxing Sunday, Jan Šebek is supposedly joining Chelsea this summer, signing a professional contract on July 2nd. However, it is CFCnet’s desire to inform you of the inaccuracies in these reports, and set the record as straight as it can be. Since they’re fairly ...
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YOUTH AND RESERVE SEASON IN REVIEW - PART THREE
We’ll finish our review of the season by taking a look forward to next season, where things will change on a pretty large scale. The 2009 summer will see an almost unprecedented scholarship intake of at least twelve players, perhaps as many as fifteen or sixteen. The vast majority of these players ...
YOUTH AND RESERVE SEASON IN REVIEW - PART TWO
In Part Two of our season review, we take a look at each of the players who have appeared (notably) for the Under-18 and Reserve teams in the 2008/2009 season, starting with the goalkeepers. Goalkeepers: Rhys Taylor – Was good at times, uncertain at others. A serious concussion suffered in February ...
YOUTH AND RESERVE SEASON IN REVIEW - PART ONE
With the season coming to an end, we here at CFCnet would like to take you on the journey of the 2008/09 season at academy and Reserve level at Chelsea. Over the coming days there will be a series of pieces, and we’ll start here with Part One: The Season in Review. If you look at league tables, ...
LALKOVIC DOES FOR THE DONS
The last game at Cobham for Chelsea’s Under-18s may have had an end-of-season feel to it, but it was nonetheless a great opportunity to right some recent wrongs and impress against the unfortunate yet hapless MK Dons. The Dons have just one win all season, and on the back of their heavy defeat ...
BAGGIES BOUNCE BACK TO EARN POINT AGAINST BATTLING BLUES
Put this night down as an experiment for Chelsea’s second string. With a bunch of games coming in the next month, competition for places in the first team will be rife. Match fitness and versatility will come to the fore. That was the focus of a fine London night as West Brom came to town, and ...
LATE GOAL DEFEATS IMPRESSIVE RESERVES
You can control, even dominate a game for large parts of proceedings. What you can’t do, however, is win if you don’t put the ball in the back of the net. Despite Chelsea playing very well throughout, Fulham scored at the death in each half of the game and came out winners by 2-1 on a fine, ...
YOUNG BLUES WORK HARD TO BEAT ADDICKS
The 2008/09 season hasn’t been kind for Chelsea or Charlton at academy level. Stuck at the bottom of Group A, both teams have long since turned their attentions to next year and using a slew of schoolboys from the Under-16s, players who will be regular scholars next season. Chelsea won this end-of-season ...
YOUNG BLUES FALL FLAT AT FULHAM
Chelsea’s good recent form in the FA Premier Academy League came grinding to a halt, perhaps aptly at Fulham’s Motspur Park training ground, within spitting distance of railway lines. Goals from Danny Hoesen, Karim Laribi and Alex Smith ensured Gary Brazil’s Cottagers ran out comfortable winners ...
YOUTH AND RESERVES - A BIT OF A RECAP
So, where were we? It’s been a fair while since I updated people on the goings-on in the Chelsea Academy, for one reason or another, but I figure it’s time to bring it back again. It’ll all be here on CFCnet, maybe not in the same style you were used to if you frequented the Youth and Reserve site, ...
RESERVES HIT POMPEY FOR SIX IN FRONT OF HIDDINK
In the last seven days Paul Clement has been taking the occasional first team training session as Chelsea replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari with Guus Hiddink. In returning to Reserve duty, his boys destroyed Portsmouth in a 6-0 victory in front of the new Dutch leader and club owner Roman Abramovich. In perhaps ...
CUP DREAMS DIE AT ANFIELD
For the second time this week, Chelsea’s hopes and dreams went up in smoke. Whereas Sunday saw a massive hit on the first team’s title chances, midweek saw the youth team eliminated from the FA Youth Cup for the third time this decade at the hands of Liverpool. A lone David Amoo goal in the first ...
ANFIELD PART TWO - THE FA YOUTH CUP
On Thursday night Chelsea return to Anfield, scene of a painful and at times controversial Premier League defeat last Sunday. This time, the business is the FA Youth Cup. Whilst Luiz Felipe Scolari’s charges came unstuck in front of millions, the next generation of Blues may well head into Liverpool ...
