773 ViewsIn recent meetings with the club’s Fan Advisory Board (FAB), fan representatives posed a series of questions they are commonly asked by other supporters. We continue to answer those questions in a new series… The third edition of ‘The FAB asks the club…’ deals with the online process for buying tickets for Chelsea games…
Category: News
Only green trains go to Chelsea, ya divvy!
696 Views“Elvis Presley’s died!” I exclaimed as I knocked on Mum & Dad’s bedroom door at our house in Kentish Town, north London after moving back to a form of civilisation from the wilds of Barking, Essex. I was promptly told not to joke about things like that, it was morbid and it wasn’t nice…
Statement On April Fixture Changes
774 ViewsEarlier this week, the Premier League announced that three Chelsea fixtures in April would move for television. Two of those three changes subsequently left supporters from both clubs involved (Chelsea vs Man Utd, Chelsea vs Everton) facing midweek journeys between London and the North West during the working week with no direct public transport…
Tales From Our Tenth League Cup Final
755 ViewsChelsea vs. Liverpool : 25 February 2024 We just weren’t good enough were we? This was always my fear. Despite a resurgence in our play over the past month – high points at Villa, the second-half at Palace and at City – there was still a niggling doubt that whatever team was selected to…
Tales From Three Little Points
881 ViewsCrystal Palace vs. Chelsea : 12 February 2024 As we travelled up to South London for the away game at Selhurst Park against Crystal Palace, we wondered if the performance of the season at Villa Park would turn out to be a solid stepping stone for the rest of the campaign. Or just a…
Tales From A Mess
935 ViewsChelsea vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers : 4 February 2024 Away games are all well and good, but there is something strangely comforting about a home match at Stamford Bridge. It’s our base camp, the place where we return every fortnight or so, and a place where we, hopefully, feel at home, at ease. I felt…
Tales From A Long Day
769 ViewsLiverpool vs. Chelsea : 31 January 2024 Although our heads seem full of the two domestic cups for the moment, here was a sobering trip back to normality and the league campaign. They really don’t get much tougher than this one. Liverpool vs. Chelsea. Gulp. I was up early, at 5.30am, and I soon…
Statement On Latest Kickoff Time Changes
755 ViewsChelsea Supporters Club and Chelsea Supporters Group together once again note that upcoming kickoff times show a thoroughly disappointing disrespect for match-going supporters. An 8.00pm kickoff for Chelsea vs Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge on a Monday night means visiting supporters need to make alternative arrangements to travel down during a work day, and…
Tales From ‘Boro In Our Borough
1,041 ViewsChelsea vs. Middlesbrough : 23 January 2024 My seat for the second leg of the League Cup semi-final against Middlesbrough was in row Q – the rear row all but one – of the Matthew Harding Upper and I was inside with about fifteen minutes to go. There had been a greater queue than…
Tales From Forty-Four Years And Counting
875 ViewsChelsea vs. Fulham : 13 January 2024 On the long drive home from Middlesbrough last Wednesday, with the Semi-Final first leg defeat still fresh in my mind, I am not sure if I was overly brutal or just pragmatic about the rest of our campaign. “Listen, we are a tenth place team. We’ll beat…