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1,388 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…
1,488 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…
1,454 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…
1,214 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…
1,598 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…
1,423 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…
1,353 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…
1,818 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,…
1,525 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…
1,346 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…