There are few better feelings in football than pure, cold blooded, revenge. Okay, we didn’t knock them out of the competition. They could easily still win it. When we play them in just under two weeks’ time they could easily beat us. I know all that. But what a feeling. Barcelona beaten at Stamford Bridge. [...]
So, one point remains to be made before the club can celebrate back-to-back titles. I’m hoping the game against United in two weeks will see us wrap up the league and allow us to relax – even if NotsoNostradamus Ferguson and his team will be positively itching to ruin the day. However the point being [...]
All fans know that sometimes you have to take a result on the chin. Last night it was our turn. What is pointless is debating the red card. Once the referee makes his decision, that’s it. Some you agree with, some you don’t. There was a worse, more reckless tackle in the game, which [...]
From Toxteth to Tottenham. From Mile End to Moss Side. England will be united on Wednesday evening. Sharing the same dream. Feeling the same hope. Willing the same outcome. Not since 1966 has the nation lined up so passionately behind a football team. Except for a small, Blue corner of West London. Where, according to popular [...]
Really, you would think grown men would have better things to do. Emblazoned across the back pages this morning: “MOURINHO NAMES THE DAY”. We are then treated to the usual crowd pleasing adjectives: cocky, arrogant, narcissitic, devil worshipper, baby killer, etc. I’m surprised Rob Beezely doesn’t have a picture exclusive showing Mourinho in discussion [...]
The only way Robben could have caused more outrage on Sunday would be if he’d run onto the pitch dressed as a suicide bomber, or perhaps as a Danish cartoonist. The sheer scale of the angst is unprecedented, this amount of ire is more usually reserved for Argentina, after they have hand-balled England out of [...]
So, the pattern of tense, tight games decided by a solitary goal, or a referee’s indecision, has been broken. I was expecting a draw, hoping for 1-0 to Chelsea. Even in my wildest dreams I was not expecting 4-1. Nor was anyone else, certainly not The Liverpool Echo, who are splendidly redefining the term ‘gutter [...]
The latest media-driven criticism aimed at Chelsea is that Roman Abramovich’s millions have turned a competitive league into a procession. This is tripe of such immense proportions that it richly deserves to be slapped down. First of all let’s examine the notion that the top division in English football has long been a happy haven [...]
Two-hundred million pounds buys you a lot of things, one of them is hatred. Hatred might be too strong a word, but somewhere between contempt and intense dislike is the neighbourhood I’m talking about. If, like me, you are a Chelsea fan then you’d better get used to it because every time we lose a [...]
Sometimes a game will just grab hold of you — and everyone else in the stadium — reminding us what a breathtaking and utterly absorbing sport football can be. Every ingredient to stoke this game to boiling point — and beyond — was there: personal feuds, public slanging matches, the world’s best player, goals by [...]
