Chelsea Football FanCast

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Winner of Chelsea FanCast award revealed! - The Chelsea Football FanCast 78
17 Jun 2009 @ 11:59 am

The Boys are back in town after a two week break and are joined by Chelsea author, Mark Worrall, to review of the season. We discuss the best and worst moments from the season and what went right and what went wrong.

In a season of ‘3 halves!’, Scolari’s rise and fall are recounted, as well as Guus’ Golden spring and the highs of knocking the scousers out of the Champions league and winning the FA Cup and the lows of being mugged by Uefa and Barcelona. We discuss who our player of the season is and what our goal of the season was. Who will receive the prestigious Chelsea FanCast trophy – ‘The Chelsea Cocktail’ of a stick of celery in a pint of Guinness – Lampard, Cole, Terry, Malouda, Alex, Anelka? All will be revealed!

In ‘We’re out to show the world the way to sing’ we’ll be singing our favourite song from the terraces this year, and Mark Worrall slips in a seamless bonus ‘Tale From The Shed’ recalling the away trip to Cluj via a lap dancing club in Budapest!

Dr Martin answers questions on Chelsea traitors, Diarra and Uefa imposed seating restrictions in ‘Dear Mart’ and Chidge reads out more of your posts in ‘You’re on CFFC’. And finally, we announce a special competition as we launch the search for Miss Chelsea Football FanCast.

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than the strange new home kit!


GOODBYE GUUS, CIAO CARLO! Chelsea Football FanCast 77
4 Jun 2009 @ 07:30 am

On this week’s Chelsea FanCast, the boys are still hung over from their FA Cup Victory celebrations! Stamford Chidge, ChelTel, The Celery Terrorist and Dr Martin are joined by Jason Coveyduck who came over to London all the way from Canada just to savour the Cup Final atmosphere.

We rake over the key moments of the game on the show, applaud Drogba, Super Frankie Lampard, Malouda and Ashley Cole and celebrate Chelsea’s second FA Cup in 3 years! We also raise a glass or two as we say farewell and thanks to Golden Guus. With Carlo Ancelotti’s arrival, we have a discussion on what we think of his appointment, what he needs to do and what we expect from him in the weeks, months and possibly years ahead.

We were all on fine singing form in the Blackbird pub after the Cup Final, and in we’d like to show the world the way to sing, we’ll bring you a rare old song that we belted out in the pub in honour of our cup final victory. And in view of the ban on chucking celery in the Pub, the boys make up for it with a full scale celery attack on Chidge during the show!

Tales From the Shed this week can only cover one subject and that would be what we got up to on Cup Final Day. In Dear Mart we answer questions on the Blue alliance between Chelsea and Rangers, and who the quietest away fans are. Finally in You’re on CFFC we have a roundup of your thoughts from Cup Final Day.

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than the cloudless sky on Cup Final day!


Up for the Cup! The Chelsea Football FanCast 76
27 May 2009 @ 10:22 am

The show has a distinct FA Cup flavour this week as the boys recount FA Cup Finals from the past and preview the big game this Saturday, with FA Cup special editions of We’re Out To Show The World The Way To Sing and Tales from the Shed.

Before that though, we look back to the last game of the season against Sunderland, and Nicolas Anelka is applauded for securing the Golden Boot in style and wiping the smug look off ‘not the real’ Ronaldo’s face! Kalou gets a nod for his stunning goal and Ashley Cole too for a rare but much deserved goal for the Chelsea players Player of the Year.

We take a trip down memory lane and recall some of our favourite FA Cup finals proving, if need be, that Chelsea have an illustrious history in this, the most famous of all competitions. In We’re Out To Show The World The Way To Sing, we give an airing, not before time, to the most famous FA Cup song of them all – Blue is the Colour! In Tales From The Shed, we recall our last trip to an FA Cup final in 2007, a day that started as always in the Victoria pub in Paddington, and ended up in a good old sing song and full scale celery fight in the Blackbird pub, and launching the legend of the ‘Celery Terrorist’ and ‘Wee Billy’ in the process!

In Dear Mart, Martin answers questions including what special measures we go to in supporting Chelsea, and which players we should never have sold, and finally in You’re on CFFC Chidge gives a big shout to the FanCast fans from around the world.

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Blue is the Colour!!


The King of the Kings Road - The Chelsea Football FanCast part two
21 May 2009 @ 06:36 am

In part two of the Alan Hudson – Kings of the Kings Road special, we discover how his acrimonious bust up with Dave Sexton led to Alan and Peter Osgood leaving the club they loved. He also gives us some insight into his relationship with other managers like Sir Alf Ramsey and Don Revie and how it felt to be described by Franz Beckenbauer as one of the best midfield players in the world after he was instrumental in England beating the then world champions 2-0 in 1975.

In the final part of the show, David Johnstone, creator of CFCUK Fanzine tells us how the legendary and best Chelsea Fanzine started, his bust ups with Ken Bates, getting the proper Chelsea badge back and why we should have a statue erected to Peter Osgood and of course how to get the Fanzine. ‘Urry Up – It’s only a pound!!

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than the new home kit with the man bra!!


King of the Kings Road! - The Chelsea Football FanCast 75 part one
21 May 2009 @ 06:15 am

We have a very special guest on the show this week – one of the original ‘Kings of the Kings Road’!

Alan ‘Huddy’ Hudson played 189 games for Chelsea, scoring 14 goals and creating many more for the likes of Peter Osgood, Ian Hutchinson and Charlie Cooke. He was instrumental in helping Chelsea lift the European Cup Winners Cup in 1971. He was one of the most stylish and naturally gifted players ever to wear the famous blue shirt.

Born within earshot of Stamford Bridge, he is also fondly remembered by Blues fans as one of the many players of that era who were often to be found in one of the local pubs, having a pint or three with the fans! A true Chelsea legend in every sense of the word.

Alan was such an excellent guest, the show is in two parts. In part one, Alan comments on the Chelsea v Blackburn game, Guus Hiddink – “a marriage made in heaven” for Chelsea, and how he persuaded Frank Lampard to join Chelsea!

 

Alan discusses how it felt to play for Chelsea and become one the clubs stars at a very glamorous time for the club, his favourite goals and players and the legendary drinking with the fans and players in the Kings Road in the swinging sixties!

Alan’s great friend, and creator of the CFCUK Fanzine, David Johnstone also joins Martin, Chris, ChelTel and Chidge to join in the banter and take the “60 second fan” challenge in an unmissable show for Blues fans!

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than the new home kit with the man bra!!


The Spanish Inquisition! The Chelsea Football FanCast 74
12 May 2009 @ 04:20 am

This week’s show is dedicated to Michel Platini and Tom Henning Ovrebo, those bastions of fair play, integrity and competence. Thanks guys it’s so nice to know that European football is in such safe hands.


So, what can you say after last Wednesdays injustice? Mugged, Robbed, cheated? Ripped off, victimized – the boys run the rule over the most unjust and sickening loss they’ve experienced. In the process of the Spanish Inquisition we ponder the excellent Chelsea performance, blame the idiot ref and point to a UEFA conspiracy. The anti-Chelsea media bias is re-examined as well as the over reaction to Drogba’s over reaction. Bottom line: time to move on. We don’t want to sound like moaning Scousers!


We also applaud the excellent resurrection against The Arse where Guus got the boys stoked up enough to inflict Arsenals worst league home defeat since 1977. It even lightened our mood…a little. But what warmed our hearts most was the sight of Anelka playing a blinder and Cech looking back to his best.

 

After all that it’s definitely time for a good old sing song. In “We’re out to show the world the way to sing” we give you three songs for the price of one, all of them appropriately inappropriate. By which we mean swearing. But then you don’t get cheated out of a place in the European Cup Final every week!In Dear Mart, we try to ease the pain and answer your questions. Consider it therapy. To cheer us up Chris gives us a “Tale from the Shed” recalling his and Stu’s trip to Barcelona in 2000. It ends up with their own version of Messy!

 

Finally in “You’re on CFFC”, Chidge shares the some of the post semi-final thoughts from the Facebook group, which has now grown to over 1,000 members, thus proving that at times when everybody hates the Chels, we stick together and get stronger!


The Chelsea Football FanCast: Blue….very Blue!

 


Unleash the Drogs of War!! The Chelsea Football FanCast 73
3 May 2009 @ 05:48 am

On this weeks show we review the stoic 0-0 draw against Barcelona, the stroll in the park that was the 3-1 win against that club known as a small shop in Knightsbridge, and look forward to taking on the whining Catalans in the Champions League semi final second leg.

Well done Guus and the boys for the immense defence last week against Barcelona aka Scousers with Sun Tans!! In spite of Alves and co going down quicker than a Hollywood Hooker, the Chels stood up like real men. The well drilled tactical display leaves us with everything to play for on Wednesday, and the FanCast boys say let the Drogs out and unleash the Drogs of war. We all hope the Chels can avoid being shhloppy and keep it toight, so that we can enjoy a trip to Rome!

On Saturday, Fulham provided the hors deuve to the main course. The boys give due praise to Anelka and Drogba for wielding the rapier to good effect, and the much maligned and much improved Malouda gets a thumbs up too.

With our 5th appearance at Wembley since 2007 due in a few weeks time, ‘Keep the Blue Flag Flying High’ gets a long over due airing on “We’d Like To Show The World The Way to Sing!”. ChelTel, gives us part two of the trip to Le Harve in 1993 in “Tales From The Shed”, with a special guest appearance from Dennis Wise!

“Dear Mart” features questions on whether a text to an ex can get us a goal, what does 1% say Frank Lampard mean, should we sign Tevez and are coconuts bears eggs!! And finally, in “You’re on CFFC” 10 year old Kiri sends us the post of the year, Mike Keegan has the big idea of the year and we hear from Dan and Robby down under.

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than the Chelsea Panda


Cleaning up the Messi! The Chelsea Football FanCast 72
26 Apr 2009 @ 07:58 am

This week sees the first birthday of the Chelsea Football FanCast and the original hardcore team of Chidge, Mart, ChelTel and the Blues Brothers celebrate in style with Cake and Champagne, or Champagne Top in Chris's case. Proper Chels!! We've got reviews of the Everton and West Ham games, a preview of the Barcelona game and the usual classic moments in Tales From The Shed, Dear Mart, We'd like to show the world the way to sing and You're on CFFC. And did we mention Cake and Champagne?

With the main business taken care of, the boys turn their attention to the football and news from this week. The 1-0 win at West Ham was punctuated by some good one touch football and a re-assuring penalty save by Petr Cech, but still isn't enough to keep our forlorn title hopes alive. Or at least that's how Guus sees it, after the frustrating 0-0 draw in the Cup Final dress rehearsal against Everton in midweek. We're inclined to agree albeit reluctantly.

On the bright side, the previously flawed Malouda continues to look like a world beater in the nick of time for the crunch match against Barcelona, and Boswinga is fit to take on Messi. Whilst the boys would like to see Mancienne given a crack at cleaning up Messi, they believe that the Camp Nou should hold no fear for the Chels and are looking for a big powerful bullying performance. Let's hope we don't end up playing against 12 men, since history tells us that the Ref is usually Barcelona's best player. All we are saying is give us a goal...or two!!

Martin is back with Dear Mart and shares a hilarious story from Ross Mooring's Father where we find out the secret of Chelsea's success in the late ‘80's and early ‘90's. We only score - when Ross pees, We only score - when Ross wees!! We also give advice on getting the right Chelsea badge for a tattoo and how to get match day tickets if you live in the USA or anywhere for that matter.

In You're on CFFC, we spread some disgusting insinuations based on ill-founded paper talk and sloppy journalism just to get a sensational headline and debate going. No, that's what James O'Brien from LBC did to Frank Lampard. We give him a taste of his own medicine!

The Blues Brothers give us the long awaited Gianfranco Zola song (the one about taking the piss out of Julian Dicks!) and a quick burst of Chim Chiminy. And finally we give a name check to just a few of the ‘loyal supporters' who have enjoyed the ride with us over the last year.

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Thanks to everyone who has contributed to and enjoyed the show for the last year. Keep it Blue, keep it Carefree, and keep it Chels. Here's to the next year. Up the Chels!

 


Benitez Bamboozled, Wenger Hiddwinked! - The Chelsea Football FanCast 71
21 Apr 2009 @ 08:09 am

On the show today we give you our best moments from a great week for Chelsea including how we greeted Harry Potter in the Imperial and how Chidge nearly got too friendly with a Police Horse on Wembley Way. Ross Mooring joins us for ‘60 Second Fan', Chris brings us some songs fresh from Wembley Way, ChelTel gives us another ‘Tale From the Shed', and Chidge answers your questions in ‘Dear Mart' and ‘You're on CFFC'.

What a week it's been. First we knock the Scousers out of the Champions league in probably the greatest game the competition has ever seen, and then on Saturday, we had a jolly good day out at Wembley and are now set for our second FA Cup final in 3 seasons.

Whilst the Liverpool game was not for the feint hearted, the boy's nerves were calmed by visits to the local pubs before and after the game. They also bumped into a few famous and infamous characters along the way. Arsenal at Wembley proved to be an enjoyable stroll, with a good team performance, not least by the FanCast crew out singing the Gooners on the Tube, on Wembley Way and in the Stadium. Chidge believed that the omens were good after seeing a lovely young lady disrobing on the way to the Stadium. Apparently he's still looking for her!

Ross Mooring, FanCast Blogger extraordinaire comes in as super sub for the absent Martin which gives us the excuse to bring back one of our favourite bits of the show: '60 Second Fan'. Ross rises to the challenge manfully!

With Chris' voice just about recovered from a week of fervent singing, he gives us the best of the chants experienced at Wembley on Saturday, where our songs outnumbered Arsenal's by at least 5:1. Talking of singing, ChelTel explains in ‘Tales From The Shed' how he managed to infiltrate a West Ham Pub disco sometime in the ‘80's and took over the stage to sing them some Chelsea songs...without being killed.

Finally, Chidge takes the helm in Dear Mart to answer your questions on Queresma, who to come in for A. Cole against Barcelona, where the London Club rivalries come
from and who in the FanCast team can down a pint quickest. All this and a roundup of your posts on the Facebook Group in ‘You're on CFFC'

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Bluer than all the blue squares in 33,000 Chelsea flags flying high at Stamford Bridge and Wembley this week.

 


No Thanks-A-Lotti!! - The Chelsea Football FanCast 70
14 Apr 2009 @ 06:29 am

On the show tonight we relive that great victory against the Scousers and look forward to the return on Tuesday, and we also talk about the sloppiness as Guus likes to call it in the bum squeaking 4-3 win against Bolton on Saturday. And talking of Guus, we lay our cards on the table on whether we want Guus to stay or Ancelotti to arrive.

Also on the show, Chris teaches us a few more songs in "We'd like to show the world the way to Sing", recalling some singing banter with Norwich fans. Dear Mart answers your questions on our most underrated players, Tore Andre Flo and Mick Greenaway.

Finally, Chidge has a look through what you lot have been saying on the Facebook group in You're on CFFC, with the immediate reactions from Anfield last week featuring heavily!

The Chelsea Football FanCast: Stuff your history we're going to Rome!!