Established 1948
953 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…
900 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…
1,101 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,…
1,043 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…
872 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…
819 ViewsChelsea vs. Newcastle United : 19 December 2023 The League Cup Quarter-Final at home to Newcastle United was positioned just before the rush of football games over Christmas and the New Year. In this heady period – from Friday 22 December to Monday 1 January – there would be three Chelsea games and three…
898 ViewsManchester United vs. Chelsea : 6 December 2023 Originally the plan was to stay up in the North-West for four nights, taking in the matches at Manchester United and Everton without the need to travel up and back twice. I had booked accommodation near Piccadilly for Wednesday night, and accommodation near Goodison Park for…
787 ViewsChelsea vs. Brighton And Hove Albion : 3 December 2023 There was a black and white photograph of Terry Venables on the front of the match programme. The news of his sad passing, at the age of eighty, came through while we were sat at a café in Gateshead on the day after the…
956 ViewsNewcastle United vs. Chelsea : 25 November 2023 Where does the back story begin for this game? How about October 1973? Let me explain. No matter what this season brings, no matter how successful, how disappointing, or even how uneventful this campaign turns out to be, it will always be an important one for…
834 ViewsChelsea vs. Manchester City : 12 November 2023 After the euphoria and shock of our 4-1 victory at Tottenham Hotspur on Monday, we were now presented with another equally tough opponent. The league fixture list had provided us with a home game against the current English and European Champions Manchester City. During the first…