Welcome to my Chelsea site. This is my personal homage to the football club that I have supported, through thick and thin, since 1967. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together.

Remember that this is a site maintained by a fanatic; it's not a professional site, and I'm doing it all in my spare time. It may not be as flashy as some sites you'll find on the Web, but it is my aim to make it informative, easy to navigate, and pleasing to the eye.

Please feel free to comment on anything you find on this site. If you'd like to suggest how I can make improvements, or if you'd like to help me out by making your own contribution to my site, just mail me, and I'll see what I can do. I particularly like to hear from fellow Chelsea fans.

The Boring Disclaimer Bit: There is absolutely no connection between this site and Chelsea Football Club, so please don't make the mistake of assuming that the opinions expressed here have been sanctioned by anybody but me.

Hosted by Mike Church.

"[Ken Bates] is to football what Herod was to baby-sitting"
Tommy Docherty (On Side, BBC Television, 20th April 1998)

Commercial Partnerships with this Website

This website is a not-for-profit endeavour, so I do not enter into any partnerships with commercial websites. Please bear this in mind if you are considering sending me an e-mail me offering such a partnership, as it is my policy not to answer such e-mails.

That having been said, I will happily add links to commercial websites that I think Chelsea fans might find interesting or useful. All I want in return for such an "advert" is a reciprocal link.

Spammers

If you are thinking of filling my guestbook with advertisements for your dodgy websites selling dodgy medications or porn or anything else like that, then forget it. You and your type are the scum of the Earth. You're nothing short of thieving bast*rds, because you're using my website to host your advertising.

Removal of fixtures from this site
On 28th October 2004, I was contacted by an organisation that claims to be responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of the Football Data Co Limited. Apparently, I was committing the heinous crime of publishing football fixture lists, and, as a result, was stealing the intellectual property of the Football Data Co Limited. Quite how the Football Data Co Limited can claim intellectual property rights over a football fixture list is beyond me, but, not wanting to be taken to a court of law and subsequently fined several thousands of pounds when I (inevitably) lose the case, I have decided to do as I have been asked, and remove all lists of future fixtures from my website. I am allowed to list the results of played matches, but not to list any future fixtures at all. So, if you want to know who Chelsea are playing next, and where and when, you won't be able to find out from this website any more.

This website has been carefully designed for viewing with both Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) and Netscape web browsers. Both of these browsers should give you much the same view of the website, all things being equal. In addition, you won't have to download the latest and greatest versions of these browsers to view any of the pages; Version 4 of each browser is the minimum requirement (see footnote below).

As a result, on this website you won't see overblown dynamic content like Flash animations, Java, and so on. Nor will you see content that crashes one or other of the browsers, at least, not intentionally. I want this site to be accessible and readable by the average person on the average PC, using the browser of his or her choice.

Having said that, I am using Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript and AJAX (a dynamic content technology that works well on every browser). Even so, I am restricting the use of these to tried, tested and trusted features that should cause you no grief whatever.