71 ViewsChelsea Supporters Group and Chelsea Supporters Club share the club’s sentiments in the statement published earlier today, Monday 17th March. Racial abuse, and abuse of any kind, is not acceptable and we must all do what we can to educate those responsible to ensure that football is a safe, inclusive and uplifting space for…
Tales From A Night Of Firing Blanks
196 ViewsBrighton And Hove Albion vs. Chelsea : 14 February 2025 Last Saturday, it was a case of “out of the Dripping Pan and into the fire” as Chelsea meekly exited from the FA Cup at the hands of an efficient, but hardly domineering, Brighton team. As luck – or not – would have it,…
Tales From The Dripping Pan And The Amex
192 ViewsBrighton And Hove Albion vs. Chelsea : 8 February 2025 So, two games at Brighton in seven days. On Saturday 8 February in the Cup. On Friday 14 February in the League. Both games at 8pm. They are a funny side, Brighton, almost as funny as us. We had beaten them 4-2 earlier in…
Met Police Football Independent Advisory Group Update
164 ViewsThe Met Police Football Independent Advisory Group met on 29th January at Met Police HQ in Lambeth. Supporter groups from around 10 London football Clubs, the FSA and the Met attended in person and virtually. Fulham Supporters’ Trust was represented by Sue Couch in the room and Ian Clarke on Teams. This meeting consisted…
Tales From A Must-Win Game
200 ViewsChelsea vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers : 20 January 2025 I said it. You said it. Even educated fleas said it. “This is a must-win” game. And it was. With just three points out of fifteen in our previous five league games, things were starting to slip for Chelsea Football Club. Back in August, at our…
Tales From A Second-Half Fade
216 ViewsChelsea vs. Bournemouth : 14 January 2025 After the 3pm kick-off on the previous Saturday, I felt rather off-kilter as I made my way up to London with PD and Parky for a Tuesday evening game at home to Bournemouth. There is always a nice and natural rhythm to a run of Saturday games…
Tales From The Top Of The Conference League
285 ViewsChelsea vs. Shamrock Rovers : 19 December 2024 This UEFA Conference League campaign had been a long-drawn-out affair this autumn and winter, yet it was coming to a halt at an alarming rate with two final games in just eight days. However, after the excitement and adventure with the Astana game in Almaty, the…
The Blues Brothers
267 ViewsAfter changing my place of work for the very first time, not the last however, I found myself working in a tall skyscraper right outside London Bridge station during the summer of 1980. I’d previously worked around the Holborn/Chancery Lane area of Central London so the change of scenery meant a different view from…
Tales From Forty Years Apart
349 ViewsChelsea vs. Aston Villa : 1 December 2024 The Famous Five were back together again for the home game against Aston Villa; I was on the road at 6.30am and by 7.30am my four passengers had been securely collected. I was alongside PD in the front while Glenn, Parky and Ron were squeezed into…
Tales From Foxes, Tigers And A Stray Dog
425 ViewsLeicester City vs. Chelsea : 23 November 2024 With the latest International Break behind us, real football was back on the agenda. Leicester City would host Chelsea at the King Power Stadium, with an early kick-off at 12.30pm. I collected the three amigos – PD, Glenn, Parky – by 7.30am as Storm Bert, don’t…