Lucas Piazon and Romelu Lukaku scored their first goals for their respective loan clubs this season to continue an impressive streak of goalscoring amongst Chelsea loanees this season. Every week of the 2013-14 campaign to date has seen a young Blue scoring for another club, and this weekend it was the turn of some of the big hitters. Headliners Lukaku started his Everton career where he left off after finishing…
The Loan Report: September 9-15
A pair of goalscoring strikers lead the way in the post-international break Loan Report, and whilst Patrick Bamford is a regular feature on these pages by now, it’s time to welcome Stipe Perica to the party. Elsewhere, Thorgan Hazard continues to do what he does best… Headliners Perica, for those unfamiliar with his story, is an 18 year-old Croatian striker signed from NK Zadar during the summer transfer window, before…
Under-18s: Chelsea 4-2 Liverpool
Chelsea’s Under 18s continued their largely impressive start to the season with a 4-2 win over Liverpool at Cobham on Saturday morning. Kasey Palmer scored twice either side of two goals which had put the visitors ahead for a short time, but the Blues took over in the second half and took all three points with goals from Dom Solanke and Ambrose Gnahore. Adi Viveash handed a first appearance of…
Under-21s: Chelsea 2-0 Norwich City
Chelsea’s Under-21s continued their fine run of form with a 2-0 win over Norwich City at Aldershot’s Electrical Services Stadium on Friday night as a Josh McEachran brace saw them home comfortable victors. A match played in horrible conditions with rain falling throughout took some time to get going but the Blues remained patient and confident and were rewarded with two goals in ten second half minutes from a player…
Diplomatic Immunity: Everton
An occasional series of open discussions with opposition fans. They can say what they like about Chelsea and I promise to just shut up and listen. Toffee Tomy This is Tomy. Not Tommy, Tomy. She is from a long line of – no, let Tomy describe it herself… When did you start supporting Everton? I can’t remember honestly. As early as I can remember. My Dad used to rattle off…
Natters With TheChels – Rick Glanvill
This week TheChels is having a natter with journalist, author, genealogist, Pitch Owners’ Director and Chelsea FC’s official historian, Rick Glanvill. TC: These days you’re probably best known as Chelsea’s club historian, but your background is journalism. How did you start your career? RG: I always wanted to be a writer and my degree is in communications but I was earning a decent living as a nightclub DJ. I had…
A Chaos Theory and The Element of Surprise
I have to admit to a strange feeling before games these days. I only realised I’d had this feeling before the Manchester United game. But it had been there from the start of the season. It was a feeling I didn’t wholly understand. And then again, before the European Super Cup Final. Something was missing. There were the usual matchday feelings of course. Excitement, building up as the day wore…
The Loan Report: August 26 – September 1
Thorgan Hazard and Patrick Bamford continued a fine run of form for Chelsea’s young loanees thus far this season and ensured the continuation of a goal featuring in each edition the Loan Report thus far season. We begin with Bamford’s fine outing at Sunderland. Headliners MK Dons’ trip to the Stadium of Light in the League Cup represented Bamford’s first crack at playing against top-flight opposition and he seized the…
The Growth of the Chelsea/Vitesse Partnership
Since Georgian businessman Merab Jordania purchased Dutch outfit Vitesse Arnhem in 2010, the relationship between the Gelderlanders and Chelsea has grown considerably with each passing year. What began as an informal partnership based on a friendship held between Jordania and Roman Abramovich has flourished into a full-blown affiliation in which both clubs are increasingly dependent on each other. In that fledgling first season, the Blues sent Nemanja Matic, Slobodan Rajkovic…
The Loan Report: August 19-25
There were goals aplenty for Chelsea’s young loanees this past week as the group continued what has been a very productive start to the 2013-14 season. We begin with Marko Marin and Sevilla. Headliners The little German forward struggled in London last season but has already made himself a firm fan’s favourite at Sevilla and bagged his first competitive goals for the club as they brushed Slask Wroclaw aside 4-1…