As Chelsea sit relatively comfortably placed after the first-leg against Tottenham, Tim Rolls takes a chance to look back on an epic...

Tim Rolls recounts some infamous encounters with Leeds United. There are few footballing rivalries that merit their own Wikipedia page....

Tim Rolls reflects on three late 1960s / early 1970s Stamford Bridge encounters with Manchester United. In the late 1960s, the most...

Phil Carter of Bygone Chelsea 1905-1999 explains how a missing piece of Chelsea’s history was discovered. On the afternoon of 23rd August...

In April 1973 Chelsea welcomed Manchester United to Stamford Bridge. The match was surrounded by the furore around Bobby Charlton making...

The long history between Chelsea and Burnley in league football is also interspersed with a number of epic encounters in the F.A. Cup....

This piece is an edited extract from ‘Sexton For God’ by Tim Rolls, available now on Amazon and eBay. 24th January 1970. Apart from the...

An edited extract from ‘Stamford Bridge Is Falling Down’ by Tim Rolls, available on eBay and Amazon. Almost 50 years ago, in late 1972,...

League encounters between Chelsea and Brentford are few and far between, largely due to both clubs occupying different divisions over the...

by Paul Carter There has never been, nor likely to be, another like him. His goal scoring exploits from his professional career, are...

Paul Waterhouse considers the club’s match attendance history Ever since 2003 when we were perceived to be a threat by our paranoid...

Chelsea first met Southampton in a league game on 4th October 1924 at The Dell with the game ending 0-0, but it wasn’t the first...