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'Season Preview' Chelsea FanCast #520 Pt. 2 Sep 07, 2020

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Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Mark Worrall and Dean Mears to preview Chelsea's forthcoming season.

On the show tonight, it’s all about previewing the forthcoming season.

In part three, Dean is at it again. He’s collated this season’s predictions from all the Chelsea FanCasters which, no doubt, he’ll use to humiliate us at the end of the season! We reveal what we think Chelsea’s final league position will be; how far Chelsea will go in the Carabao Cup, FA Cup and Champions’ League. Who Chelsea’s Top scorer and Player of the Year will be and finally we stick our colours to the mast as to what the Top 4 and Bottom 3 will be.

In part four we have a whole load of overdue emails from you to read out!

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'Season Preview' Chelsea FanCast #520 Pt.1 Sep 07, 2020

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Stamford Chidge is joined by Jonathan Kydd, Mark Worrall and Dean Mears to preview Chelsea's forthcoming season.

On the show tonight, it’s all about previewing the forthcoming season. We’ll kick off part one with a look at the players Chelsea have signed so far; who else might or should be coming in and who has gone and who else should go.

In part two we look at the prospect of a return to the Bridge. What’s the latest position on supporters returning to the Bridge? Who goes; Is it safe; will it be the same? If we are not allowed or unable to go what is the Premier League’s stance on TV coverage? And what do we miss most about not going?

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50 Years of Chelsea - 1988-89 Aug 28, 2020

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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, look back at the 1988-89 season.

With Chelsea having been relegated via a play off the previous season, Chelsea supporters mood was darkened further by an FA imposed terrace ban for the first 6 matches of the new season. The lack of vocal home support seemed to affect Bobby Campbell's charges with a miserable start of 3 points in the first 6 games leaving them in 20th. But a stroke of luck in a 2-0 win away to Leeds United turned the season around.

Chelsea embarked on a run of 27 games unbeaten to win the Division Two title with a record 99 points, scoring 96 goals with a three pronged attack of Kerry Dixon, Gordon Durie and Kevin Wilson. Graham Roberts had come in to Captain the side, add some steel and score a remarkable 17 goals from midfield, 12 of them penalties and was assisted by the experienced Peter Nicholas.

All in all a very memorable season and as ever, never a dull moment at Chelsea in a season enthusiastically remembered by Chidge, Jonathan and Mark and embellished with clips from the 'Chelsea Special' interviews with Colin Pates, John Bumstead and Kerry Dixon.

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50 Years of Chelsea - 1987-88 Aug 27, 2020

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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 enough, the performances on the pitch were even worse. Appalling form and injuries to key players saw Chelsea sleep walk toward relegation. But surely they were too good to go down?

Unfortunately, even after the sacking of John Hollins and more important Ernie Walley, Bobby Campbell's Chelsea finished in 18th which meant they had to play-off to remain in Division One. A hugely controversial 1-0 win in the home leg against Middlesbrough was not enough to overturn a 2-0 deficit from the 1st leg and the unthinkable happened. Chelsea would be the 'Boys in Blue in Division Two' once again.

Never a dull moment at Chelsea in a season enthusiastically remembered by Chidge, Jonathan and Mark and embellished with clips from the 'Chelsea Special' interviews with Colin Pates, John Bumstead, Kerry Dixon and Paul Canoville.

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"When Skies are Grey" Chelsea FanCast #519 Aug 20, 2020

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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 best ever player and record goal scorer, as manager of a club faced with the loss of Eden Hazard, their best player and having to turn to the talented young players due to a transfer ban and then the corona virus bringing a perfunctory end to actually attending matches in person. The book explores themes such as 'simpatico'; how Chelsea managed a 'factory reset'; as well as Mark's real time, day to day musings on what happened both on and off the pitch during this unique season.

Along the way, they discuss what it meant to them when the unthinkable happened and their Chelsea was taken away.

“When Skies Are Grey: Super Frank, Chelsea & the Corona Virus Crisis” is available in paperback worldwide via Amazon. For more info here click on this link: https://amzn.to/2Fox4jG

£1 from every copy sold goes to the Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank, who have benefited greatly from the generosity of match going fans through collections organised by Chelsea Supporters' Trust held at the cfcuk stall. It has been a big miss for them not having the match day collections so any money raised through the sale of the book would be extremely welcome.

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'Season Review Pt 2' Chelsea FanCast #518 Aug 18, 2020

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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 from the season.

Strap in, it's going to be a roller coaster ride!

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'Season Review Part 1' Chelsea Fancast #518 Aug 18, 2020

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The Chelsea FanCast gather solemnly to review Chelsea's season and pass judgement upon it.

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 Goal of the Season.

Strap in, it's going to be a roller coaster ride!

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50 Years of Chelsea - 1986-87 Aug 16, 2020

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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 a fractious and ultimately disappointing season featuring a combination of baffling team selection and formations, poor man management, poor treatment of senior players and dispensing with talented youngsters.

For the first half of the season, Chelsea looked strong candidates for relegation only to pick up their form in the New Year, even though most of the team had handed in transfer requests.Finishing in 14th seemed to be the least of Chelsea's problems as Nigel Spackman had already been ushered out of the door and the fear was that he would be followed by many other players.

Never a dull moment at Chelsea in a season enthusiastically remembered by Chidge, Jonathan, Tony and Dan and embellished with clips from the 'Chelsea Special' interviews with Kerry Dixon and Paul Canoville.

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‘Don’t mention the VAR!’ Chelsea FanCast #517 Aug 10, 2020

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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 should aspire. But how? Is it as simple as replacing the defence? We need goals from midfield and a spine in the team with leaders surely?

In part three, we round up by saying obrigado Willian e adeus as the number 10 with the braziliant afro finally announces his departure after 7 years and we discuss our final thoughts on the season.

In part four we wrap up with your emails.

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50 Years of Chelsea - 1985-86 Aug 08, 2020

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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 highlight was the Full Members Cup final win against Man City in March in a nerve tingling 5-4 win. While universally derided as a mickey mouse cup, Chelsea fans treated it as a day out at Wembley and a bona fide cup, the club's first trophy since 1971. But shortly after, Chelsea came crashing down as they so often do, as terrible 6-0 and 4-0 defeats to QPR and West Ham put paid to their title challenge.

A question of close, but not close enough as Chelsea finally finish in 6th position for the second year running.

Either way, it was another memorable season enthusiastically remembered by Chidge, Jonathan and Dan and embellished with clips from the 'Chelsea Special' interviews with the players who played in these iconic games: Colin Pates, Kerry Dixon, Paul Canoville and John Bumstead.

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