Dear Mr Platini, First of all, can I please thank you and your organisation’s premier competition for giving me some of the greatest nights of my life this season. I watched my team beat Napoli at home having been 3-1 down, watched them beat Barcelona at home, watched them heroically defend their lead in the [...]
There will come a point in time when I sit down and explain to my children precisely what it means to be a Chelsea fan. I was told of the Kings Road swagger embodied by that ‘70s team and the legend of Osgood, Cooke, Bonetti and Harris; the sheer numbers of away support in the [...]
Booking my Munich trip inevitably recalls earlier Chelsea trips to European finals. I was too young for Athens in 1971. Moscow will be fresh in many travellers’ memories (not for the right reasons) but the first European final for many Chelsea fans was the 1998 Cup Winners Final in Stockholm. When we qualified by beating [...]