Kezman Off

Athletico Madrid have announced today that they have agreed a deal with us to take Kezman to Spain. He never settled in here, and never really looked the part for a striker with such an amazing record prior to arriving. He did always have the support of the fans though and we hope he does well.

Madrid say there are a couple of things left to sort out in the deal, and that they hope to partner him with Fernando Torres. Lets hope that they never get the chance to play together and Torres is part of the deal!

Fixtures Released

The 2005/06 Championship season fixtures were released this week, starting us against new boys Wigan.

Wigan vs Chelsea 13-08-2005
Chelsea vs Arsenal 20-08-2005
Chelsea vs West Brom 24-08-2005
Tottenham vs Chelsea 27-08-2005
Chelsea vs Sunderland 10-09-2005
Charlton vs Chelsea 17-09-2005
Chelsea vs Aston Villa 24-09-2005
Liverpool vs Chelsea 01-10-2005
Chelsea vs Bolton 15-10-2005
Everton vs Chelsea 22-10-2005
Chelsea vs Blackburn 29-10-2005
Man Utd vs Chelsea 05-11-2005
Chelsea vs Newcastle 19-11-2005
Portsmouth vs Chelsea 26-11-2005
Chelsea vs Middlesbro 03-12-2005
Chelsea vs Wigan 10-12-2005
Arsenal vs Chelsea 17-12-2005
Chelsea vs Fulham 26-12-2005
Man City vs Chelsea 28-12-2005
Chelsea vs Birmingham 31-12-2005
West Ham vs Chelsea 02-01-2006
Sunderland vs Chelsea 14-01-2006
Chelsea vs Charlton 21-01-2006
Aston Villa vs Chelsea 01-02-2006
Chelsea vs Liverpool 04-02-2006
Middlesbro vs Chelsea 11-02-2006
Chelsea vs Portsmouth 25-02-2006
West Brom vs Chelsea 04-03-2006
Chelsea vs Tottenham 11-03-2006
Fulham vs Chelsea 18-03-2006
Chelsea vs Man City 25-03-2006
Birmingham vs Chelsea 01-04-2006
Chelsea vs West Ham 08-04-2006
Bolton vs Chelsea 15-04-2006
Chelsea vs Everton 17-04-2006
Blackburn vs Chelsea 22-04-2006
Chelsea vs Man Utd 29-04-2006
Newcastle vs Chelsea 07-05-2006

We've got the Horn

The first signing of the Summer came last night, when the anticipated capture of Spanish international defender Asier del Horno for a fee of 12 million euros (approx £8 million) was completed.

Hopefully, this will put an end to any more garbage about trying to sign Stepney Cole. Then it's just left for Arsenal to pretend to the world that all is happy in the ranks where 3 of their best players tried to engineer their way out of the club at the end of the season as the manager enters his final year at the helm!

The fixture list comes out tomorrow, so we get to plan the season and make the usual noises about "tough run-ins" and "easy starts".

Look out, the Bicycle is out

Faria Alam, the ugly slapper that used to whore herself around the FA hasn't been in the news for a few weeks, so today she has decided to tell everyone who cares (nobody?) the next member of staff who got to ride her around the office.

What a classy bird. Not content with alleging that she "fell in love" with Sven, after only having met him once, for an hour, her somewhat bizarre attempt at gaining fame, or rather notoriety, is to keep telling the public how many pension-collecting aged, grey haired, blazer-donning males she's allowed to do her over the coffee machine.

She now alleges that David Davies, FA Executive Director sexually harassed her. She even goes as far as to say, in her tribunal "[Davies] had a bit of a reputation".
Jaysus...if he has a reputation, what have you got?!

Apparently, she has another court appearance next week. At a recent England match, the crowd chanted "Stand Up, if you've had Faria Alam". She alleges that one bloke who stood up in the back of the stand was lying.

25% of the Premiership in the Champions League?

Uefa have bowed down to "pressure" and bent the rules to allow defenders Liverpool the chance of defending the trophy, by entering the qualifying stages of the CL. They don't mention which team they kicked out of the fixture line-up to let the Mickeys in though.

Not that it matters a whole lot. Round 1 qualifying means you end up playing 6 matches pre-season just to get into the start of the competition. As with the Inter-Two-Bob Cup entrants, that's Liverpool's season finished at Christmas then...erm...no change there from last season.