Back Again!!

If you look at my last post it has been a hell of time since when I last posted something. I won't say it was down to lethargy and laziness but rather a self-imposed exile or was it!!

Since my last post a lot has happened with me and Chelsea in particular. To start with I have graduated from college and now I am working in Business Intelligence group of Oracle at Bangalore. Apart from that nothing of note has really happened with me apart from putting some extra kilos at the wrong places.

Now the things that have happened with Chelsea over the last few months - oh from where I should start. We came second in the league, got knocked out in the semifinals of the Champions League by the Scousers last season. It was a little rosy however towards the end when we won the FA Cup by defeating United - United who .. yeah the same League Champions. Summer was usually quiet with no big names in particular arriving at Chelsea. However a couple of good players were signed - some free and some not so free. The likes of Steve Sidwell, Claudio Pizarro, Florent Malouda, Alex and Juliano Belletti moved to the Bridge while the likes of Glen Johnson, Arjen Robben and Geremi moved away. The season started with a hard fought home game against Birmingham which we won 3-2 at the end. Mourinho employing the 4-4-2 with wingers formation on which he had talked a lot in the summer. Then came the Reading game in spite of going a goal down we came back to win the match 2-1. A trip to Anfield followed where we managed to scrape a draw with a little help of referee however I am afraid that was the last time referee helped us 'coz after that we were mostly on the wrong side of his decisions. Although we won the next home game against Pompey but it all started to go terribly wrong after that. Defeat at Villa park, a draw at home with Blackburn with a perfectly legal goal disallowed and then to top it a draw at home against the group minnows Rosenborg in Champions League. What happened after that? Mourinho got the sack and we were shell shocked. It seemed so sudden I didn't know how to react. I came to office early in the morning and like my usual schedule checked the BBC and Chelsea FC and there was the dreaded news. I couldn't believe it, I felt heavy in my head. I spent the whole day on Chelsea forums discussing what lies ahead. It took about two three days for me to get over that. In the meantime Avram Grant was appointed the new first team head coach and he was to lead the team at Old Trafford. Lost the game, Mikel sent off wrongly and it seemed that everything would go wrong from here onwards. However things soon started looking good with a win at Hull,a draw against Fulham at home and then the big one Chelsea 2- Valencia 1. Who said that it is one of the toughest place to go and pick a result from. I disagree. The Black September was finally over and a new October ushered in a new belief. Bolton, Boro, Schalke, City(6-0), Wigan, Leicester all were put to sword. The last two games have been draws away to Schalke and at home to Everton but things are looking good once again. The only blot is that we have a couple of key players at the back injured the likes of Cech, Carvalho, Terry and Ferreira.

Well that was in short of what happened in the last couple of months. I hope this time I won't go absconding like last time and would keep posting on this blog.