By 41 Years A Blue
August 9 2006
You know the saying about 'best laid plans.' Well it was my intention to provide live updates on the message board whilst Chelsea were playing in a pre-season friendly against Feyenoord in Holland last night.
But an irritating fact of life called WORK got it the way and completely shredded my plans altogether. So apologises to all you 'thousands' of message board readers who were desperate for news of the Blue boys last night. For the record, Chelsea won 1-0 with a second half goal from Super Frankie Lampard and again for the record the teams from last night are below: Feyenoord (4-3-3) Lodewijks (Timmer 60); Collen, Greene, Vlaar, Drenthe (Hofs 34); Theo Lucius (Davids 86), De Guzman (van Hooijdonk 77), Bosschaart; De Ceulaer (Vincken 67), Kuyt (c), Kolkka. Chelsea (4-3-3) Cudicini; Gérémi, Ferreira, Carvalho, Bridge (Terry h-t); Ballack, Essien (Diarra 62), Lampard (c) (Mikel 74); Kalou (Woods 88), Shevchenko (Wright-Phillips 62), Robben (Drogba h-t). Tonight the boys are in action again as they take on the might of Scottish Football and Scottish Champions Celtic at Stamford Bridge kick off at 7.45pm, and I promise you faithfully that THERE WILL be updates on the message board. The game is being shown LIVE on Chelsea TV and that's the main reason why I am not going tonight. Their are other reasons in that after forking out for two season tickets, £40 for seat for a friendly is a bit too much, plus Chelsea have handed over the MH Stand to the Bhoys in Green and White, so therefore I would have been relocated elsewhere in the ground and knowing my luck I would have been sitting next to a load of 'prawn sandwich' eaters wearing top hat and tails or flowing pastel dresses and Royal Ascot hats - OR BOTH!! in either the top tier of the West or East Stands. Celtic have already started their League campaign. With one win and one defeat they will be coming to the Bridge for a 'battle' and will be wanting to win. Also in for a 'battle', if you believe the stories published in the 'rag' red-tops this week, are the fans. According to one - the fearless Headhunters have re-grouped for 'one last triumph' as Chelsea are associated closely to Celtic's arch rivals Rangers and the same 'rag' red-top claimed that a Celtic supporter said 'I am not paying £40 for a ticket for the privilege of getting my head kicked in.' If estimates are true then tonight's attendance will struggle to exceed 25,000 and of those only 2,000 fans from Celtic are expected to travel. Other 'unofficial' Chelsea sites are saying that fans are spending their money on Chelsea's trip to the Millenium Stadium for the Community Shield against Liverpool on Sunday, but on this morning's best broadcasting London breakfast show (you know the one, the one that beats the National breakfast show for listeners in London anyway), Chelsea were advertisting four-per-person on general sale tickets from the box office for Sunday. So doesn't that say alot about pre-match sales that were exclusive to season ticket holders and members. So COME ON CHELSEA! 41 YEARS A BLUE!
