782 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…
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Tales From A Mess
790 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
670 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
623 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
941 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
755 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…
Tales From Ironopolis
732 ViewsMiddlesbrough vs. Chelsea : 9 January 2024 In the build up to our League Cup semi-final first leg at the Riverside Stadium, I had read somewhere that Chelsea had won every single one of the previous nine games against Middlesbrough, encompassing both venues and across all competitions. From February 2007 to March 2022, Chelsea…
Tales From The North End Road
877 ViewsChelsea vs. Preston North End : 6 January 2024 With the Christmas period over, our first match of 2024 saw us paired in a home FA Cup tie against Preston North End. Our paths do not cross much these days; this only would be our ninth head-to-head since 1963. I recollected the previous two,…
Tales From Memory Lane Café
788 ViewsChelsea vs. Crystal Palace : 27 December 2023 The drive up to London had been horrible. Due to traffic congestion throughout the journey, and not helped by persistent rain, it took four hours rather than the usual three. I had set off from my house at 10.30am, then collected the three others, but wasn’t…
Tales From Christmas Eve
696 ViewsWolverhampton Wanderers vs. Chelsea : 24 December 2023 There was much negative press surrounding the Premier League’s decision to allow Sky TV to move our match at Molineux to Christmas Eve. I felt sorry for those normal match-goers from both sides who had made solid arrangements for other activities on that day and were…