57 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…
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Tales From A Second-Half Fade
52 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
126 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…
Tales From Forty Years Apart
191 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
244 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…
Tales From The Football Road
238 ViewsLiverpool vs. Chelsea : 20 October 2024 That bloody concourse. That bloody away end. That bloody announcer. Those bloody anthems. That bloody song. Those bloody scarves. That bloody clock. A day out on Merseyside, a day out in Liverpool, a day out at Anfield. And a few other things to talk about too. But…
Tales From More, More, More
498 ViewsChelsea vs. Gent : 3 October 2024 I love Thursday Night Football. I always have. For those of us that live miles away from Stamford Bridge, travelling to and from games can be tiresome affairs, especially those that take place during the week. But I always love the fact that no matter how late…
Tales From The First Day Of Autumn
1,377 ViewsChelsea vs. Crystal Palace : 1 September 2024 Since we last spoke… …two Frome Town matches. On Bank Holiday Monday, a healthy 738 assembled at Badgers Hill, but the home team unfortunately went down 0-2 to our cross-county rivals Taunton Town. Frome weren’t outclassed but just lacked a killer punch in front of goal….
Tales From The Road To Wroclaw
1,154 ViewsChelsea vs. Servette : 22 August 2024 New tag : #conferenceleague The first midweek game at Stamford Bridge of the new season meant that I needed to swap my shift at work to 6am to 2pm. I was up early, at 4.30am, and I left the house at 5.30am. During the last few minutes…
Tales From The Summers Of 1929, 1984 And 2024
472 ViewsChelsea vs. Manchester City : 17 August 2024 Welcome to Chelsea 2024/25. This is my fifty-second season of continuous attendance at Chelsea games and the seventeenth year of these match reports. Last season, I celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of my first-ever Chelsea game and also the first season of attending every single Chelsea match….