With Willian making Chelsea history from the penalty spot since the restart and following in the boot prints of some other excellent executers from 12 yards, columnist and former Blue Pat Nevin writes about the skill involved…
Chelsea season ticket holder and columnist Giles Smith searches for the positives after a frustrating night for the Blues across the capital, concluding that our social distancing over the chasing pack remains slender but significant...
With games coming thick and fast and more substitutions allowed than before, former Blue and columnist Pat Nevin writes about how Frank Lampard is using his combinations, and the big pool of talent he has in the middle of the park…
Just like the players, Chelsea season ticket holder and website columnist Giles Smith has been trying to get back up to speed as quickly as possible, and though he won't be at the Bridge tonight he will be there in spirit, trying to make his virtual voice heard...
With all Premier League teams having played with Project Restart underway, former Blue Pat Nevin is pleased with what he has seen from a Chelsea perspective, as he explains in this week’s column…
Like everyone else, Chelsea season ticket holder and columnist Giles Smith was a more than interested spectator when the Premier League returned with two matches yesterday, and here he offers his observations of the haircuts, crowd noises and controversy on display...
The clues are there if you look hard enough during video calls reckons columnist Pat Nevin, who also has a theory about the Premier League return reinforcing the lockdown…
With only a few days to go now until the scheduled resumption of Chelsea’s season, season ticket holder Giles Smith is glad he can be there in some form or other…
In these highly unusual times, our former player and current columnist Pat Nevin writes about global events and how football can cope without supporters in the stadiums, including dealing with the language!
In his latest column, Chelsea supporter Giles Smith continues his mini pre-season and voices a view from the [virtual] stands as the potential season restart draws closer…
As the excitement builds with the potential return of the Premier League approaching, former Blue Pat Nevin reckons there will be a real pre-season feel at Cobham as thoughts turn to what the first team selection will be…
As matters move on towards a resumption of Premier League football, columnist and season ticket holder Giles Smith gives his own personal view on whether he and fellow fans will be ready, and what form future phases should take…
With the players having been back in training for a week, columnist and former Blue Pat Nevin looks in detail at important questions on fitness, injury and attitude…
Following on from Tuesday’s anniversary Watch Party for Munich 2012, columnist Giles Smith writes about how little has changed in any Chelsea’s fans reaction to witnessing that game again…
Pat Nevin was covering a final on 19 May 2012, but it was in Glasgow and not Munich, and it didn't go well. Happily for him, the day picked up, as he recalls in his column this week...
Ahead of what should have been the final Premier League game of the season this coming weekend, and with maybe more campaign finales to come, Chelsea fan and columnist Giles Smith spots a consolation in the current hold-up, and wonders about suggested changes to the rules…
The focus of Pat Nevin's column this week is the current president of Liberia and a former Chelsea striker who made a considerable impression on the pitch, and has done likewise off it since retiring...
As speculation about ‘project restart’ continues to fill the sports news, in his column this week Chelsea fan Giles Smith speculates on how much spirits might be lifted by football’s return, and considers the Liverpool question…
In his series of columns reflecting on players whose contribution to the Blues is less celebrated than others, Pat Nevin this week turns to a compatriot whom he followed from an early age and ended up feeling unjust to have surpassed…
Having joined the other Chelsea fans who this week relived the titanic tussle and eventual victory against Leeds United, our columnist Giles Smith has some suggestions for the future of football, a caution for those at Old Trafford on the night, and a rather scary thought...