The First Season We Met - Fulham
Despite being close neighbours, games between Chelsea and Fulham are not as numerous as one would think. Fulham certainly are much older...
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tjrolls
- Feb 1
Fulham Thrashed As Neal's Chelsea Hit Four
It was April 1984. After four grim seasons of misery and disappointment, Chelsea finally looked as though promotion back to Division One...
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tjrolls
- Jan 18
‘Ee-aye-addio, Liverpool’s out the Cup’. The Doc’s Finest Hour?
On Saturday Chelsea visit Anfield. Fifty-seven years ago, almost to the day, Chelsea played in a momentous FA Cup tie there against the...
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tjrolls
- Jan 13
Vialli Double as Palace Hit For Six
It was March 1998. Gianluca Vialli had been Chelsea manager for five games, taking the reins after the controversial departure of Ruud...
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tjrolls
- Jan 5
An Icy Welcome From Tranmere
Sixty years ago this week Chelsea played an FA Cup-tie at Tranmere. It was a game, a round and a season like no other. In the modern era...
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tjrolls
- Jan 2
Just The One Lump Thanks, Tony
On Thursday, Chelsea play Manchester City in what is likely to be an extremely tough game given the quality of the visitors and our...
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debscoady
- Dec 31, 2022
We Hate Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest 6 Chelsea 0 Wednesday 28 March 1979 “We hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Arsenal too (and Leicester) We hate West Ham...
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debscoady
- Dec 31, 2022
Greaves’ Goodbye Gift
By @ChelseaChadder Chelsea 4 Nottingham Forest 3 29th April 1961 Football League Division One Stamford Bridge Chelsea; Peter Bonetti,...
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tjrolls
- Dec 29, 2022
Messing About By The River (Trent)
On New Year’s Day Chelsea visit the City Ground, scene of my first Chelsea away game on Saturday 20th November 1976. Nottingham Forest v...
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debscoady
- Dec 21, 2022
The First Season We Met - Bournemouth
Despite Bournemouth and Chelsea being formed in 1899 and 1905 respectively it wasn't until 1988 that the two clubs crossed paths in...
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tjrolls
- Dec 9, 2022
I’m Afraid We Don’t Have A Shirt Quite Big Enough, Dr Kissinger
It was December 1976. Off the pitch, they were real dog days for Chelsea FC. A financial morass, years in the making, was sufficiently...
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debscoady
- Nov 29, 2022
Paying our regards at Brompton Cemetery
Many of our match going supporters walk through Brompton Cemetery on their way to Stamford Bridge, the underbelly of the rear of the East...
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