Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Mark Meehan, author of 'Eddie Mac' and formerly editor of the 'Chelsea Independent' fanzine. After a disappointing mid-table finish to the previous season, Chelsea supporter's hopes were not high, but little did they know what was in store for the 1987-88 season. If seeing Nigel Spackman and David Speedie leave wasn't bad e...
Aug 27, 2020•2 hr
Regular Chelsea FanCast contributor and esteemed Chelsea author, Mark Worrall, joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his new book “When Skies Are Grey: Super Frank, Chelsea & the Corona Virus Crisis”. Stamford Chidge and Mark Worrall discuss his latest book “When Skies Are Grey: Super Frank, Chelsea & the Corona Virus Crisis” which offers a chronicle of Chelsea's 2019/20 season in granular detail. "When Skies are Grey" is set in the context of the return of Super Frank Lampard, Chelsea's b...
Aug 20, 2020•51 min
The Chelsea FanCast gather solemnly to review Chelsea's season and pass judgement upon it. Stamford Chidge is joined by Chelsea FanCast regulars, Jonathan Kydd, Clayton Beerman, Tony Glover, Dan Silver, Mark Worrall, Mark Meehan, Alex Churchill, Martin Wickham, Dean Mears and Dayne Whittle to review Chelsea's season. In Part Two, we reveal our Best and Worst results and matches; rate the season as a whole and compare it to previous seasons, as well as revealing our own favourite personal moments...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 22 min
The Chelsea FanCast gather solemnly to review Chelsea's season and pass judgement upon it. Stamford Chidge is joined by Chelsea FanCast regulars, Jonathan Kydd, Clayton Beerman, Tony Glover, Dan Silver, Mark Worrall, Mark Meehan, Alex Churchill, Martin Wickham, Dean Mears and Dayne Whittle to review Chelsea's season. In Part One, we reveal our Player Ratings; rate Frank Lampard and Jody Morris; the Board; Player of the Year; Breakthrough Player of the Year; Disappointing Player of the Year and G...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Tony Glover and Dan Silver to look back at the 1986-87 season. Having finished 6th in the previous 2 seasons in Division One, hopes were high for the new season. The squad had been strengthened with Steve Wicks, Roy Wegerle and Gordon Durie but changes were a foot and the regime of John Hollins and Ernie Walley was to lead to ...
Aug 16, 2020•2 hr 6 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Dean Mears and Dayne Whittle to look back at Chelsea's defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions' League to draw the curtain on the 2019/20 season at last. On the show tonight, we discuss defensive errors costing us again; VAR ruining football again; Tammy getting on the scoresheet and who else came out of it with any credit? In part two we muse on the fact that it was a good effort in a tough situation with Bayern perhaps the standard to which we shoul...
Aug 10, 2020•2 hr 24 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Dan Silver to look back at the 1985-86 season. Chelsea start the 1985-86 season, having finished 6th in Division One, under new management with John Hollins replacing the much loved John Neal. And they pretty much pick up where they left off and spend most of the season challenging at the top of the table. For many highligh...
Aug 08, 2020•2 hr 12 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Dan Silver and Martin Wickham to digest the horror of losing to Arsenal in a third FA Cup final. On the show tonight, we ask were Franks tactics at fault or was it poor game management by the players? Were we just unlucky & on the wrong end of game changing events? How much was Taylor to blame? Was it poor defending again? And what a difference Aubamayang makes. In part two we discuss Pulisic, just how good is he? Jorginho, how much of a problem is...
Aug 03, 2020•2 hr 35 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Mark Worrall, author of 'Chelsea Here; Chelsea There' and Kelvin Barker, author of 'Celery: Representing Chelsea in the '80's' and 'Chelsea Here; Chelsea There' to look back at the 1984-85 season. In the summer of 1984, after promotion from Division Two as champions, Chelsea are well and truly back. It all kicks off away at Hi...
Jul 31, 2020•2 hr 35 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Clayton Beerman and Tony Glover to look back at a successful conclusion to the Premier League season with a professional job done on Wolves. On the show tonight, we ask was Frank vindicated by dropping Kepa and what future for our hapless goalie? In part two we discuss just how important Mason Mount has been this season and how important he will be going forward; ask what role Olivier Giroud can play next season having been in such good form since the ...
Jul 27, 2020•2 hr 19 min
In this episode, Brandon Busbee, on of the London is Blue podcast trio, joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his support of Chelsea including his first game, his favourite matches and players, all time Chelsea Hero, best and worst Chelsea moments as well as his favourite Chelsea songs! A fascinating episode, with an American voice to add to our series and proof, if proof were needed, that no matter where you are from, you can find your way to Chelsea! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Dayne Whittle and Nick Verlaney from 'London is Blue' to discuss the superb win against Man Utd in the FA Cup semi-final. On the show tonight, we ask is 3:4:3 the magic number? Was this the best performance of the season and with Arsenal in the final will it be another chance for revenge? In part two we give props to the insurmountable Mason Mount and King Kovacic; discuss why Ollie Giroud is a man for all seasons and wonder whether Frank should pick W...
Jul 20, 2020•2 hr 31 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Clayton Beerman and Kelvin Barker, author of 'Celery: Representing Chelsea in the '80's' to look back at the 1983-84 season. Having escaped relegation to Division 3 by the skin of their teeth the previous season, manager John Neal makes big changes bringing in Eddie Niedzwiecki, Pat Nevin, Joe McLaughlin, Nigel Spackman and Ke...
Jul 18, 2020•2 hr 19 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Mark Worrall to look back at Chelsea's matches against Sheffield United and Crystal Palace and ahead to the Norwich match on Tuesday. On the show tonight, we ask what can you do about individual errors? And in this context how much is Frank Lampard to blame? In part two we look at Chelsea’s lack of leadership on the pitch with the players mentality being questioned by yet another manager. With Frank clearly not happy; which players are on his hit li...
Jul 13, 2020•2 hr 20 min
In this episode, Chelsea Chadder, stat man, quiz master and author of "If Twitter Was Around When", joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his support of Chelsea including his first game, his favourite matches and players, all time Chelsea Hero, best and worst Chelsea moments as well as his favourite Chelsea songs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 10, 2020•40 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Mark Meehan, co-author of 'Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac' and a writer for cfcuk, to look back at the 1982-83 season. In John Neal's second season in charge, Chelsea are still in Division 2 and the supporters as ever are optimistic of a swift return to Division 1. However, after a promising start, Chelsea sleep walk toward relegatio...
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 44 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Dean Mears to look back at the ridiculous defeat to West Ham and the sublime win against Watford as well as looking ahead to the match against Crystal Palace. On the show tonight, we approve of the changes in personnel that led to a clean sheet against Watford and a much-improved performance all round. In part two we ask whether Willian should be offered the contract he wants; discuss Mason Mount’s importance to the side and ask whether Jorginho has...
Jul 06, 2020•2 hr 1 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Dan Silver to look back at the 1981-82 season. With John Neal now ensconced as Chelsea manager, can he lead the team back to Division One or was this to be a more transitional season? So it proved, although in many ways a typical Chelsea season of the time with the infamous 6-0 thrashing away to Rotherham being balanced by ...
Jul 05, 2020•1 hr 43 min
In this episode, Rick Glanvill, Chelsea's official historian and author of 'Chelsea: The Complete Record', 'The Chelsea Miscellany', 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Chelsea the Official Biography', joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his support of Chelsea including his first game in the 1990s, his favourite matches and players, all time Chelsea Hero, best and worst Chelsea moments as well as his favourite Chelsea songs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Clayton Beerman and Joe Tweeds to look back at a great week for Chelsea with wins against City in the league and Leicester in the Cup; plus a look ahead to West Ham this week. On the show tonight, we ask why the poor start against Leicester? Applaud Frank for sorting it out and ponder whether Kovacic should start every match, discuss the enigma that is Barkley and look forward to a semi against Man Utd. In part three, we look back at the City match las...
Jun 29, 2020•2 hr 28 min
In this episode, Martin Wickham, Chelsea FanCast regular, Chelsea Supporters' Trust Quiz Champion and well known frequenter of the match day pubs, joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his support of Chelsea including his first game in the 1990s, his favourite matches and players, all time Chelsea Hero, best and worst Chelsea moments as well as his favourite Chelsea songs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 27, 2020•51 min
Continuing our series '50 Years of Chelsea' looking back, season by season, from the FA Cup winning 1970 season to present day; Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Kelvin Barker to look back at the 1980-81 season. Kelvin Barker writes for cfcuk and is the author of 'Celery: Representing Chelsea in the 80's', the definitive book on Chelsea in the 1980's and 'Chelsea Here; Chelsea There' about Chelsea's first match back in Division One in 1984 against Arsenal at Highbury. Chelsea enter ...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 46 min
In this episode, Mark Meehan, co-author of 'Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac', cfcuk writer and former writer of the Chelsea Independent fanzine joins Stamford Chidge to talk about his support of Chelsea including his first game in the 1960s, his favourite matches and players, all time Chelsea Hero, best and worst Chelsea moments as well as his favourite Chelsea songs! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Dan Silver, Tony Glover and Football.London's Ollie Harbord to look back at Chelsea's first match back against Aston Villa and to look ahead to Thursday night's match against Man City. On the show tonight, we talk to Football.London’s Ollie Harbord to find out just what it was like to be at a football match behind closed doors. We also discuss Frank’s team selection and the performance being very much same old Chelsea In part two we take a look at Chel...
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 54 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Clayton Beerman, Chelsea Fancast regular, cfcuk writer and author of 'Palpable Discord' to look ahead to the season restarting and look back at Chelsea's 1979-80 season. On the show tonight, we discuss the questions that will be answered in the return of football for Chelsea next weekend. But how do we feel about it all coming back? How will we cope not being able to go; how will we be watching it and what have we missed the most? In parts two and t...
Jun 15, 2020•2 hr 10 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Mark Meehan, cfcuk writer and co-author of 'Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac' to mull over the rumours about Timo Werner signing and look back at Chelsea's 1978-79 season. On the show tonight, we discuss the rumour of Timo Werner signing for Chelsea after all it would be rude not to. How good is he? Where would he play and what would it mean for Chelsea’s squad. In parts two and three we continue our '50 Years of Chelsea' series looking back at the 1978-79 seas...
Jun 08, 2020•2 hr 32 min
Welcome to 'My Chelsea', a Chelsea FanCast series to keep you entertained on a Friday evening while there is no actual football to talk about. One of the things we’ve always wanted to do is to talk in depth about how all of us on the Chelsea FanCast became Chelsea supporters, what our first match was, our favourite matches and players and our best and worst moments following Chelsea, for some of us over 50 years. It’s been a roller coaster of glorious unpredictability as Mark Worrall would say a...
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Tony Glover to mull over the latest Chelsea news and look back at Chelsea's 1977-78 season. On the show tonight, we discuss the imminent return of the Premier League and FA Cup. How daft is it, does it matter, will we be watching it and how difficult will it be knowing we can’t be there. In parts two and three we continue our '50 Years of Chelsea' series looking back at the 1977-78 season. Chelsea find themselves back in Division One, but without th...
Jun 01, 2020•2 hr 28 min
Welcome to 'My Chelsea', a Chelsea FanCast series to keep you entertained on a Friday evening while there is no actual football to talk about. One of the things we’ve always wanted to do is to talk in depth about how all of us on the Chelsea FanCast became Chelsea supporters, what our first match was, our favourite matches and players and our best and worst moments following Chelsea, for some of us over 50 years. It’s been a roller coaster of glorious unpredictability as Mark Worrall would say a...
May 31, 2020•35 min
Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd and Mark Meehan, cfcuk writer and co-author of 'Eddie Mac, Eddie Mac' to mull over the latest Chelsea news and look back at Chelsea's 1976-77 season. On the show tonight, we discuss the extensions of Willy and Ollie; Kante’s caution and wonder whether the other Willy will wander. In parts two and three we continue our '50 Years of Chelsea' series looking back at the 1976-77 season. We look at Eddie McCreadie’s second season in charge of Chelsea. Can Che...
May 25, 2020•2 hr 3 min
