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Chelsea in The Community Shield – Fans Day Out

Chelsea were beaten in the 2010 Community Shield by Manchester United, the performance and the seemingly unfinished pre-season will undoubtably weigh heavily on the minds of Chelsea fans everywhere. Despite the disapointment of the loss, this was also an opportunity to catch up with my footballing friends for the first time since the FA Cup Final in May. In truth the actual Community Shield match tends to play a minor role in a day of singing, drinking and catching up with familar faces.

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Ramires Transfer to Chelsea Imminent – Clubs Agree a Fee

It seems that Carlo Ancelotti and Roman Abramovich have been reading eChelseaFC, as in the coming days it seems likely that having agreed a fee, Chelsea will sign Brazilian midfielder Ramires.

Ramires has been one of the signings that eChelseaFC and Richard French have been advocating since the transfer window opened.

 Although a Brazillian international with high profile, this signing is welcome relief from the rumours that we were going to fritter away money on over valued superstars such as Fernando Torres or Kaka.

£18m seems like a very good price for a Brazillian international, with both strength and technical skill.

 In the coming days we will be profiling the player, once the picture on his signing becomes clearer, we don’t want to do a Robinho and start printing shirts with his name on just yet you see.

The Players That Chelsea Should be Signing

 The Complications of the Ramires Signing

 Ramires Video

Lets Hope Ramires is not Another Robinho

Pre-Season Reaches its Climax – Germany and Wembley Beckon

With the lack of first team players available and the slow build up to the season, Chelsea have had a difficult pre-season losing all of the matches at reserve and senior level so far.

Whilst these games are more about the return to fitness than the result, I am sure that the confidence of the players and fans alike will receive a welcome boost should Chelsea get a result in either of the two games that precede the start of the Premier League season.

The first game up is in Germany against Hamburg in a game that I expect will feature the strongest side of the pre-season too far.

However the headline game of the week ahead will be the Charity Shield this Sunday, for Chelsea fans in the U.K there will be no need to provide directions or a guide of the venue. With 7 appearances in 3 years, Wembley can surely now be known as Stamford Bridge II.

This means that this Sunday I will be following my Wembley routine, arrive in London early and head to the Globe on Baker Street, spend 3 hours with the 200+ Chelsea fans that will congregate, singing songs and drinking beer, before taking the short tube journey to Wembley.

Failure to win any games in pre-season will not mean the club is doomed this season, but it would be nice to start the campaign on the right note against Manchester United.

Video of The Week – Alex Thunderbolt

Winning the League Re-Visited

As everyone with more than a passing interest in the game will be aware Chelsea won the Premiership on the 9^th of May.

Hopefully you wont mind if I reminisce on my day watching Chelsea win the league.

The day started with an engineering works affected train journey to London, coupled with two cans of lager to settle the nerves.

I arrived at the first pub of the day at midday to start proceedings with the boys from the Chelsea Football Fancast.

This was the more reserved part of the day chatting to the podcast crew, musing over what the day had in store and feeling the nerves. However a few pints, a reassuring chip butty later and Chidge’s optimism made me feel as though we couldn’t fail.

Next up was O’Neils an Irish themed bar near Earls Court; this was to meet my Dad, who had the all important ticket and his adopted Chelsea family. I was predictably late and had received a couple of only half joiking texts from him saying he was just moments away from selling my ticket  to his mate Clive.

The banter in the pub as with the fancast crew was one of quiet optimism, although this is where I heard the first songs of the day. The pub occasionally belted out renditions of ‘Carefree’ and ‘Who the F%^K are Man United’ to punctuate the discussion that we couldn’t possibly throw it away, could we?

As game time approached we left O’Neil’s and after a short walk through West Brompton cemetery, I was through the turnstiles, with enough time to get a jet pack beer, and join in’ the liquidator’.

Coming out of the tube earlier and on the approach to the ground it was obvious that this was a huge game, the obvious barometer being the plethora of illegal football touts, whose buy and sell’ whispers echoed through the streets.

I had a perfect seat for the game, four rows back bang in the middle of the Shed End, the atmosphere before the game was electric but obviously tinged with nerves and excitement.

For the first time I can remember the old Shed terrace was back, everyone was stood up and roaring the team on, the whole ground was standing up uninterrupted by safety stewards, or others who seek to minimise the entertainment of football spectators.

This is what every football fan loves about football and we had waited three years for another shot.

The game itself was one of true nerves for only 6 minutes, when Anelka scored, the tension eased significantly, however once Frank Lampard fended of Didier Drogba to make it 2-0, the party began in earnest.

At half time anyone caught asking the Manchester United score was laughed at, we were storming to victory, few people seemed to care what Alex Ferguson’s men were up to a couple of hundred miles to the North.

As the second half got underway and the goals rolled in to extinguish any vague hopes of a Wigan revival, this allowed the party to start early and let the fans went through the whole Chelsea song repertoire. Although to answer one query from the home fans, I think those watching in Manchester may have turned off their TV in disgust a long time before the score resembled that of a rugby match.

Not that anyone was aware of the time, but all too quickly the the final whistle and pandemonium. After 3 years of near misses the title, was back at Chelsea and there was nothing that the moaning and mind games of Alex Ferguson could do about it.

First of all the crowd swayed to ‘One Step Beyond’ before belting out club classics such as ‘Blue Day’ before bouncing to baggy trousers.

Whilst this was going on the youth team paraded their silverware, the FA Youth Cup to a rapturous reception, then one by one the team made its way to the podium for the eruption upon lifting the trophy.

After the trophy was lifted the fans belted out the Queen classic and other champion based songs as the club paraded around the stadium. The music drowned out occasionally by the fans chanting the names of both John Terry and Carlo Ancellotti.

At this point I fought my way through the crowds to find my Dad’s seat and give him a massive bear hug as the celebrations continued. As we eventually left the ground we were confronted by the pandemonium of the Fulham road, all the pubs were full so after a quick trip to the off license we joined  the fans partying in the streets.

I however was not as brave as the fans climbing lampposts or swirling their tops around their heads, after over an hour of singing we made our way home, knowing that we could be doing it all again next week.

Champions of England