
Is it possible to have sympathy for the self-professed “biggest club in the world”, Manchester United? Are we able to swallow our natural distaste for the Premiership’s biggest purveyor of double standards? Or are Ramon Calderon’s smug , self-serving remarks simply comeuppance for a club that has had its own way, time and again, in […]

Poor old JT. Initially I was going to use quite a lot of swearwords in this piece. The f word, the t word, the c word, yes even the u word - basically my vocabulary miraculously expanded when I let my mind wander onto the w*nk-faced bunch of morons that is Manchester United - but […]

If there was ever an example of 90 minutes pretty much summing up a whole season, we witnessed it in Moscow on Wednesday evening. In an eight month season which has, it seems, lasted a life-time, the Champions League final was the exclamation point on the campaign.
We started slowly, looked disorganised and out of sorts, […]

One run up, one strike and one scuff away from Champions League glory for Chelsea, in a night where victory belonged to Manchester United as the Old Trafford club won 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
Chelsea captain John Terry’s missed penalty - which after Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech’s save in the penalty shootout from […]

Chelsea suffered defeat at the hands of Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League Final, going down 6-5 in a penalty shootout. It was loss of the most heartbreaking kind, a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes sending the match to extra time, the score remaining the same to ensure that penalties would decide the Champions […]

The biggest game this fine football has ever witnessed will kick off on Wednesday 21st May 2008 and, a mere ninety (or 120) minutes later, we’ll know if this Chelsea side will go down as one of the greats. This is where we’ve wanted to be and this is where we want to stay, […]

Andriy Shevchenko’s equaliser against Rosenborg. Joe Cole’s magnificent ball through to Didier Drogba for the winner against Valencia. Ballack and Lampard seeing off Olympiacos and Fenerbahce at the Bridge. John Arne Riise’s last-gasp diving header to bring us back into the game against Liverpool. THAT second-leg against the Scousers in SW6. THOSE goals from Drogba. […]

Watch The Blues at the best pub and brewery in Moscow - and get together with other Chelsea supporters before, during and after the Champions League Final