v. Man City - Just keep on believing

If Man Utd were deemed and destined to lift the title come the end of the season. So be it. But until that happen, we will try our very best to push them till the end.

It was a huge game against City. A do or die interm of the title hope and an important and significant one interm of securing the top 4 finish. Coming into the game with great momentum after a turn around of fortune the last couple of weeks, we set up to get all three points and it was the case of trying to break City down. It was a cracking atmosphere at the Bridge, with fans trying to to urge the players from the start. But after 78min... a 0-0 scoreline was on the card and the fans was getting more and more frustrated until David Luiz pop up to head the all important goal that erupt Stamford Bridge. Another Brazilian in Ramires who had a good game capped a wonderful night for us to seal the win in injury time.

A very important 3 points for the team and for all the fans, that keep the slim hope of retaining the title alive. United is the favourite to be Champions and may as well be the Champions come May, but not yet... not yet. We will keep fighting and keep believing cause that what Champion do. We are and we still the Champions. KTBFFH



Chelsea's Super Strikers

Chelsea recently broke the bank, club record transfer bringing in Fernando Torres from Liverpool during the 2010/2011 January transfer window. After four games, El Nino still hasn't open his goal scoring account for us and already received a few sticks from the Liverpool fans (we all know what they're like). Still early to tell, and i would prefer waiting for 1 full season before judging him.

For the past decade or so, there are a few strikers that have been sign up by the club, moving to Chelsea with records transfer and huge expectation but failed big time. Not only unable to score as many goals as expected but also failed to settle at the club.

1. Chris Sutton (1999-2000 sign from Blackburn Rovers)
Move to Chelsea for 10mil (quite high at that time) after  Rovers were relegated to the Championship. A prolific goalscorer before moving the club. Top scorer of the Premier League for the 1997/98 season. Couldn't make it with us, struggle to adapt with our play and manage to only score 1 league goal against Man Utd. Move to Celtic after just 1 season for 6mil.

2. Mateja Kezman (2004-2005 sign from PSV Eindhoven)
Not a big transfer signing, moving to the club for 5+mil but certainly bringing in huge reputation and expectation. After excelling at the Dutch League with PSV scoring more than a hundred goals for only 122 appearance, Chelsea's fans were hoping Kezman would continue his fine goalscoring form at the club. But after one season and only 4 goals, Kezman left for Atletico Madrid.

3. Hernan Crespo (2003-2008 sign from Inter)
A great player for club and country. Beg lots of goals in the Serie A (Parma, Lazio, Inter) and for his county Argentina. Was signed by Chelsea in 2003 for 16.8mil. Failed to impress in his first season, and was in and out of the team from 2003-2008. He was loaned to Milan as well as Inter before permanently moving to Inter after 2008 when the club decided not to renew his contract.

4. Andriy Shevchenko (2006-2009 sign from AC Milan)
One of the legends of the game. A true great and among the best strikers of all time. Winning many awards including the Ballon d'Or in 2004. Unfortunately he cannot lived up to expectation with his club record transfer 30.8mil. He only managed to scored 9 goals in his 2 years spell at the club before signing for his former club Dinamo Kiev in 2009.

 
  

CFC Blabs: Just keep on believing

More than a month since i last wrote, and at that time... wasn't at all the best period for Chelsea fans all over the world. Our form just dip, so fast that the unthinkable of dropping out from the champs league spot (top 4) was playing through my mind. We also got knock out of the FA Cup, heartbreaking lost on penalty to an Everton side at home which surely prove that football is a very cruel game. That leave us only to the league (which is very impossible at that time) and the champ league for a chance of any silverware this season.

Pass couple of weeks saw our fortune suddenly turn. A good win against FC Copenhagen  in the 1st leg Champs League Round of 16, follow with back to back win against Man United and Blackpool with contrast to United who lost 2 straight games saw us closing the gap to 9 points with a game in hand. With United and Arsenal wobbling the past few weeks, and optimistically considering we will win the game in hand that will leave only a 6 points gap, anything can happen with all of the top team (including us) performing inconsistently and surely more points will be drop.

I certainly can feel the buzz and I'm sure most of the Blues fans feels the same, thats how fast things can change. A big game against City coming up, if we can turn up and show our best performance and then win our game in hand, surely the pressure will be on United. Hopefully they will drop a few points here and there,  and if we can win all of our game, the match against United at Old Trafford late this season may well be our most important game ever.

There's a lot of hopes and ifs, but what else we can do. Just keep on believing i guess. KTBFFH