Hodgson’s Choice: The Chelsea Contingent

Right, just to distract myself a bit from Saturday, with Roy Hodgson announcing his England squad yesterday for the 2012 European Championship, I thought I’d take a look at the Chelsea contingent and what their inclusion in the squad might mean.

Football: The Pride & Pain

Football eh? I don’t know how many times I saw just those 2 words tweeted yesterday, even said them myself when the sheer enormity of what had transpired over a 3 minute period actually sunk in.  “It’s a funny old game” they say – although I doubt there were many United fans thinking that last [...]

Only At Chelsea…

Only at Chelsea could a club find itself winning an FA Cup with an interim manager. Only at Chelsea could a club find itself in the Champions League final with an interim manager. And only at Chelsea would that same interim manager who has achieved so much, with so little, in such a short pace [...]

Ten Years On & A Bit Of Deja Vu

So, with last night’s defeat to Liverpool, we won’t be qualifying for next season’s Champions League via the Premier League. In fact, unless we somehow manage to beat Bayern Munich in their own backyard in the Champions League final on 19th May, we will be in the Europa League next season.

So Typically Chelsea

One thing I’ve learnt to do in my many years supporting Chelsea is expect the unexpected because the unexpected is so typically Chelsea.

Less Open Mouths, More Open Minds

After what had been a brilliant display by Chelsea on Sunday, I was a bit put out to get home and see so much focus on what had been happening off the pitch to be honest. Of course, I’m on about the whole Anton Ferdinand v John Terry battle that took place in the crowd [...]

Di Matteo: The Right Choice?

We’d only just got into March, we’d just lost at West Brom and yet another Chelsea manager had bitten the dust. Down and out? You’d have thought so – and our critics certainly hoped so – then up stepped Roberto Di Matteo and less than 2 months on, we’ve fought our way into not just [...]

A First Glimpse Of The Future….Or Is It?

So, I finally got around to going to one of our youth games – albeit the first leg of the FA Cup because I’m just a big bloody glory hunter really – and all things considered, I came away pretty impressed.

Applauding Anti-Football?

Call it anti-football, call it ‘unjust’,  call it whatever you like really because we still managed to beat Barcelona with it. It wasn’t expected, in fact, going into Wednesday night’s game I’d heard so many times how Chelsea ‘just aren’t good enough’ to live with ‘the best team on the planet’, you can only imagine [...]

Chelsea: It’s Not About The Money, Money, Money

Watching our game against Wigan at the weekend, I was really disappointed. God knows why, because given our fixture list is as congested as the District Line on a Saturday afternoon and our starting XI is subject to more changes than Katie Price’s little black book lately, I appreciate we can’t expect to be blowing [...]