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1,122 ViewsChelsea vs. Aston Villa : 1 April 2023 There are three games to detail in this edition; two from 1983 and one from forty years later. Let’s do things chronologically. On Saturday 19 March 1983, Chelsea played a London Derby against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. With Chelsea eager to pick up as many…
1,198 ViewsLeicester City vs. Chelsea : 11 March 2023 We stepped into “The Counting House” at 11.30am. This pub, formerly part of an old cattle market, is equidistant between Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road stadium and the Leicester City Foxes’ King Power Stadium. It must do a great trade during these two sporting seasons. We only…
1,268 ViewsChelsea vs. Borussia Dortmund : 7 March 2023. On a night of high drama at a wonderfully noisy Stamford Bridge, as Chelsea undoubtedly produced the finest performance of a deeply frustrating season, we defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-0 with goals in each half from the boots of Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz, this from a…
1,417 ViewsChelsea vs. Leeds United : 4 March 2023. Chelsea versus Leeds United. It sets off something in the brain doesn’t it? It triggers, for me anyway, a deep link to my childhood and beyond. It’s a classic football rivalry, forged almost sixty years ago. The memories of the 1967 FA Cup semi-final, the epic…
1,239 ViewsBorussia Dortmund vs. Chelsea : 15 February 2023. There is no doubt at all that the Footballing Gods – Stadia Division – have been very kind to me in this season’s Champions League trail around Europe. Back in August, I craved a first-ever trip with Chelsea to the San Siro. I was granted my…
1,174 ViewsWest Ham United vs. Chelsea : 11 February 2023. You know what it’s like when the alarm sounds and there is a day of football that lies ahead, but you just don’t feel the love? That’s what it was like on the morning of our game at West Ham United. I had set the…
1,295 ViewsChelsea vs. Fulham : 3 February 2023. There was an air of anticipation bordering on excitement – but only just, I am fifty-seven after all – as we made our way up to London for the SW6 derby at Stamford Bridge. Who on Earth could have possibly forecasted such a big transfer spend-up during…
1,198 ViewsLiverpool vs. Chelsea : 21 January 2023. I think that I am going to enjoy writing this one. Going into our match at Anfield, there was much gallows humour about this being a mid-table clash, a battle for ninth position, and that some fancied our chances because “they are bloody worse than we are”….
1,303 ViewsChelsea vs. Crystal Palace : 15 January 2023. Leaving West London after the away game at Fulham on Thursday, I turned to PD and sighed as I said “at least we haven’t got to schlep all of the way up north for our next game, with it being an easy-to-reach home game against Palace.”…
1,411 ViewsFulham vs. Chelsea : 12 January 2023 . When I was driving home from Manchester City on Sunday evening, mid-way through the packet of Fruit Pastilles maybe, I realised that I had acquired a sore throat. In these days of COVID and an apparently vigorous new ‘flu strain, I was obviously fearing the worst….