During the month of October Chelsea only conceded one goal in five games (away at Blackburn) while up front the Blues hit the back of the net just eight times so I'm sure no one is too surprised that the candidates for the player of the month are mostly…

Continuing the Chelsea Football FanCast awards for player and goal of the month we have September’s candidates for you to vote on. The player of the month candidates are based on the statistics I am recording to try to evaluate the squad’s performance in ways…

This year, as you may have heard on recent podcasts, I am forming my own database for player analysis using three statistics that I hope will show which Chelsea players are performing best and which are performing worst. So far, with just three league games played the stats…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring looks at the contentious incidents from Chelsea’s defeat. Before I go into the details of the various incidents in Howard Webb’s poor refereeing performance on Saturday at Eastlands I’m first going to state that apart from the eight minutes before Emmanuel Adebayor courteously gave Chelsea the lead…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring feels that second guessing Carlo Ancelotti is a mistake. After Wednesday’s late Carling Cup quarter-final penalty defeat to Blackburn Rovers much of the reaction has focused on Carlo Ancelotti’s decision to make a triple-substitution at half-time. After a disjointed opening period in which Chelsea went a goal…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring is delighted that Carlo Ancelotti is making him eat his words. Earlier this year I wrote a blog bemoaning Carlo Ancelotti’s impending appointment at Stamford Bridge and after the away defeats to Wigan and Aston Villa nightmares about Luiz Felipe Scolari returned to me in my sleep,…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring feels that Ancelotti is facing up to one of his first big tests as Chelsea boss. On Saturday begins one of the first tests of Carlo Ancelotti's short career at Chelsea. With no disrespect intended to Wolverhampton Wanderers it is not the opposition that will trouble the…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring wonders if Carlo Ancelotti needs to dabble in the transfer market in January. It is a claim often rejected by Chelsea fans that their team is too old to win things and indeed, in that respect, they are right. The club is stocked full of talented players…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring doesn’t see a problem selling the naming rights to Stamford Bridge. It was with a tinge of not unexpected sadness that I read last week of the new Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay’s announcement to “consider” naming rights for Stamford Bridge. Coming off the back of Newcastle’s adoption…

Football FanCast columnist Ross Mooring looks at the re-emergence of Didier Drogba. "What have you done for me lately?" is a phrase commonly used in American sport to describe players who once put up great performances, but more recently have been very much out of form. It was a query put against Didier Drogba this time last year during his…