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50 Years of Chelsea - 1981-82 Jul 05, 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 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 knocking then European Champions Liverpool out of the FA Cup.

All set against a background of ferocious football violence leading to the attempt to ban Chelsea fans ("You Can;t Ban a Chelsea Fan") and the club so broke it couldn't pay the players!

Clips from the 'Chelsea Special' interviews with Gary Chivers, John Bumstead and Colin Pates, who all played for Chelsea this season, on the Rotherham game, the Liverpool and Spurs Cup matches and the club being broke.

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My Chelsea with Rick Glanvill Jul 03, 2020

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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!

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'Urgency' Chelsea FanCast #511 Jun 29, 2020

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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 last Wednesday, a massive win for Chelsea; discuss Pulisic ‘Making Chelsea Great Again’; Lampard’s developing tactical nous and also look ahead to the midweek match against West Ham.

In part four we wrap up with your emails.

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'My Chelsea' Martin Wickham Jun 27, 2020

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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!

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50 Years of Chelsea - 1980-81 Jun 24, 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 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 a new decade stuck in Division Two and with a new manager, World Cup hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst. Will some of his magic rub off on his Chelsea players and help them to get back to Division One?

Another up and down season follows with the 6-0 win against Newcastle United early in the season a highlight, but after Christmas we were singing "All we are saying, is give us a goal" as Chelsea endured their worst goal drought ever, scoring in only 3 of their last 22 matches. Signing Alan Mayes certainly did not help!

Gary Chivers who played 42 games for Chelsea that season, chips in with comments on his goal against Newcastle, Petar Borota, Geoff Hurst and Chelsea not being able to score.

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My Chelsea with Mark Meehan Jun 23, 2020

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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!

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‘Deja Villa’ Chelsea FanCast #510 Jun 22, 2020

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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 Chelsea’s defensive issues; applaud the subs who turned the game around and reflect on a good three points to have in the bag with only 8 games to go.

In part three, we look at the ‘Run In’ and ahead to the match against Man City on Thursday night.

In part four we wrap up with your emails.

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'The Wait' Chelsea FanCast #509 Jun 15, 2020

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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 three we continue our '50 Years of Chelsea' series looking back this week at the 1979-80 season. Having been relegated to Division Two for the second time in 5 years; Chelsea are tipped to go straight back up but as ever with Chelsea, things are never quite straightforward.

In part four we wrap up with your emails.

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‘No Timo Like the Present!’ Chelsea FanCast #508 Jun 08, 2020

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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 season. Chelsea start their Division One campaign, but everything soon unravels, in spite of the return of Peter Osgood and the strange appointment of Danny Blanchflower to replace Ken Shellito.

In part four we wrap up with your emails.

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'My Chelsea' with Tim Rolls Jun 05, 2020

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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 and it has most definitely been emotional.

In this episode, Tim Rolls, author of 'Diamonds, Dynamos & Devils', 'Stamford Bridge is Falling Down', cfcuk writer and former Chelsea Supporters' Trust Chairman 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!

Welcome to Chelsea FanCast: 'My Chelsea' with Tim Rolls

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