Zone Update Chelsea 1-1 Southend United - From the papers...

[Matt the Shrimp]

Here are the match reports...

The New Paper, Singapore (i.e. Slipperduke) - Shrimpers Stun Scolari

Grauniad: Scolari blusters as Southend show no fear of Chelsea

Observer: Birthday-boy Clarke gives Southend a reason to party

Daily Mail: Essex minnows admire Lampard's touch of class

The Times: Bridge of sighs as Chelsea held by Southend United

The Times - Graphic: Bill Edgar's Tactical Analysis


The Telegraph: Peter Clarke exposes flaws in nervy Chelsea

Sunday Telegraph: FA Cup - Chelsea inner turnoil exposed by lowly Southend

The Independent on Sunday: Clarke shines for Shrimpers with woeful Chelsea all at sea

The Independent: Storm gathers for Scolari

BBC - Chelsea 1-1 Southend United

Daily Record (Scotland): Chelsea 1 - 1 Southend United

News of the World: Big fish are held by little Shrimpers

The Sun - Chelsea 1-1 Southend

Morning Star: Chelsea 1-1 Southend

The Malaysian Insider: Wasteful Chelsea stunned by Southend

Blackpool Gazette - FA Cup hero talks Blackpool and Grayson

The New Paper - Southend's second giant-killing act? Iain Macintosh talks exclusively to Steve Tilson before the Chelsea game

...and, obviously, there's loads of coverage in The Echo.

:)

 

[J]

So it is real.. We took a 1-1 in the 90th at Chelsea?

 

[Bluesmanager]

Well unless we're all suffering mass hallucinations, yes.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

So it is real.. We took a 1-1 in the 90th at Chelsea?

Of course it's true, don't you believe everything you read in the papers?

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

I thought the comments in the Blackpool Gazette were quite interesting

"Clarke may have left Bloomfield Road in the summer of 2006, but when The Gazette asked fans to vote for their top five players of this decade for our book of Seasiders legends the centre-half led the way by a country mile."

and a Blackpool fan says "well done peter many seasiders have turned on you maybe they wernt at all the games when you pretty much kept us up!! man of the match nearly every single game and people blamed you for leaving??"

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

and a good bit about mildenhall in the Mail
"Mildenhall, an eight-club journeyman, was superb throughout, twice throwing himself at Drogba as the striker bore down on him. And his injury-time stop in front of the Chelsea supporters will accompany him to dreamland forever. Mildenhall added: 'After the save one of their fans shouted, "Why did you have to go and do that?" I'd like to apologise to that fan but unfortunately it's my job and I have to keep balls out of the net.'"

 

[Stodge]

According to The Times "the nickname for Roots Hall is Blue Hell". Where did they get that from?

 

[chapperzUK]

According to The Times "the nickname for Roots Hall is Blue Hell". Where did they get that from?

Could be an idea for a sign in the tunnel, like Liverpool have 'Welcome to Anfield', we could have, 'Welcome to Blue Hell :finger:' (maybe not with the animation)

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Could be an idea for a sign in the tunnel, like Liverpool have 'Welcome to Anfield', we could have, 'Welcome to Blue Hell :finger:' (maybe not with the animation)

Probably from Wikipedia - look up the Roots Hall entry, it's listed as one of the ground nicknames.

 

[fatshrimp]

According to The Times "the nickname for Roots Hall is Blue Hell". Where did they get that from?

I thought exactly that this morning.

I also thought that Mildenhall gave a pretty good interview in that piece. Quite articulate.

 

[Stodge]

Added by 158.143.133.74 (Talk) at 15:44, 23 October 2006. Who the hell is "Talk"? And why does he think "Blue Hell" is a nickname for Roots Hall?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Eurgh. The Mail really is an awful paper.

Opening line

It was the image that encapsulated the moment: three men stood in the centre circle at Stamford Bridge after the final whistle.

Accompanying photo:

Two men standing in the centre circle after the final whistle.



Then they spout stuff like "Clarke and Mildenhall earn in a season what Lampard does in a week". Not even the sports pages are safe, I almost expected the next line to tell us about their house prices and blame Laurent and Christophe for some deadly made-up virus.

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

Good work Matt. The picture of Scolari and the goal celebration in the Telegraph report is great.

But since when was Roots Hall known as Blue Hell? That made me cringe. It's hardly like going to Galatasary.

 

[Sharky]

Could be an idea for a sign in the tunnel, like Liverpool have 'Welcome to Anfield', we could have, 'Welcome to Blue Hell :finger:' (maybe not with the animation)

just for the record, the anfield sign is "THIS IS ANFIELD"...

although we could have the "Blue Hell" sign with it burning in the tunnel every match and red paint splattered over the distance between there and the pitch... i think that might give the opposition players a bit of a shock...

i may have taken that too far... let's not do that

lolz