670 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…
Leeds Beckett University: Supporter Help Request (FFP)
616 ViewsHello everyone, I am a sports journalist at Leeds Beckett University currently writing a piece of work on the politics around the FFP laws and the recent 10 points deduction handed to Everton. I am looking to get a comment from a member of a supporters group of another Premier League club, and as…
Tales From A Ball Of Confusion
549 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…
Medical assistance at Stamford Bridge
539 ViewsChelsea Football Club would like to make supporters and visitors aware of important information and guidance to ensure the health and safety of everyone attending matches at Stamford Bridge. The club takes the safety of supporters and visitors seriously, with a Matchday Medical Plan and dedicated crowd medical teams. The Crowd Safety Medical Team…
Tales From 1973/74 And 2023/24
697 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…
Terry Venables: 1943-2023
824 ViewsChelsea Supporters Club and Chelsea Supporters Group are saddened by the news of the passing of Terry Venables at the age of 80. Terry was famously a product of Chelsea’s youth system, one of (Tommy) Docherty’s Diamonds in the early 1960s, having helped guide the club to back-to-back FA Youth Cup successes before graduating…
Tales From One To Remember
636 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…
How Chelsea Are You?
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Tales From Tottenham Away, Love It!
983 ViewsTottenham Hotspur vs. Chelsea : 6 November 2023 Not much happened in this game, eh? Without further ado, let’s try and cobble together some sort of coherent description of a ridiculous night of football in North London, though I am not sure that I am going to be able to sufficiently contain it all…
Dances With Wolves
675 ViewsThe summer of ’76 was a long, hot one. I would wake in the morning to Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel stating the obvious; ‘Here Comes the Sun’. I would complete a paper round around the houses and flats of Barking, Essex just to get enough cash for the weekend as I followed Chelsea…