Gate 17: 19 books

Having qualified for the European Champions League competition following a famous end of season victory over Liverpool, the Blues charismatic manager Claudio Ranieri, short on cash, and resigned to losing his star player, Gianfranco Zola, looked like having little chance of success. Enter Roman Abramovich....

It's July 2006, the World Cup has just finished in dismal penalty shootout failure for England, and back to back Premiership champions Chelsea FC are preparing for the new season with a squad bolstered by the high profile signings of Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko. Surfing on a wave...

From the glory of the back to back title under Mourinho, through the ridiculous reigns of Grant and Scolari, and ending with the FA Cup victory with Hiddink at the helm, Chelsea Chronicles volume one provides the reader with an articulate and hugely entertaining insight into True Blue life. Remember...

Chelsea Chronicles volume three is the third in the series of ‘best of’ anthologies by Blues author Mark Worrall and comprises of articles written specifically for the legendary cfcuk fanzine. With Carlo Ancelotti the latest manager to exit Stamford Bridge unceremoniously, the stage is...

The Italian Job (a Chelsea thriller starring Antonio Conte: Part One) chronicles Conte’s dramatic first campaign as Blues manager. Forging a remarkable emotional bond with players and supporters alike via a unique blend of charisma, passion, philosophy and humility, Antonio Conte transformed the...

picture the scene, august 25th 1984, highbury stadium, london. thousands upon thousands of expectant chelsea fans have congregated at the stately home of aristocratic arsenal to celebrate the return of the blues to the old first division. a quarter of a century ago chelsea were a very different proposition...

Kelvin Barker was just five years old when he stood on Stamford Bridge’s famous Shed End terrace for the first time in December 1970. Chelsea beat Newcastle United 1-0 that day, although Kelvin, standing just two foot tall, was able to see precious little of the action. Nevertheless, it heralded...

Chelsea Chronicles volume two is the second in the series of ‘best of’ anthologies by Blues author Mark Worrall and comprises of articles written specifically for the legendary cfcuk fanzine. Highly decorated Italian manager Carlo Ancelotti has taken over at Stamford Bridge and once again...

in ten years he will be forty. half a lifetime gone. he spent his twenties working with young people born onto council estates in south london. he has booked a week off work to walk the length of the thames. each night, after twenty miles of walking, he experiences wild dreams from the carriages of...

The Wrong Outfit is a powerful novel about a boy called Adam Nedman, who grows up through the 1970s and 80s and is greatly affected by both Football and Punk. Perhaps Adam was just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or perhaps he was in the right place but at the wrong moment? He could never quite...

If you take fifty one donors and add a ferry, three cars, a van full of donations then mix in fifteen lads, you end up with #Roe2Ro. It features: A photographer; Two sons of a preacher man; Three chaps from Epsom; A couple of burnt out thirty something's; One male model; A very, very black man; Four...

based on meticulously researched true facts, with the names changed to protect the key protagonists, author mark worrall skilfully delivers johnny nipper’s moralistic life-story in two parts. embracing throughout the glittering wit and vernacular of the terraces, the prologue details nipper’s...

£80 million in debt and with financial meltdown a matter of weeks away, in July 2003 Chelsea Football Club were saved from almost certain penury by Roman Abramovich, a reclusive young billionaire that few people outside his native Russia had heard of. Making History, Not Reliving It recounts the...

3rd June 2013. Groundhog Day. Jose Mourinho is back at Stamford Bridge. The Messiah returns. Is Jose still special? Can he deliver a second time around? The media are in a frenzy, and Blues supporters are daring to dream of silverware and lording it against their rivals.It all starts well enough...