"You learn more from losing than winning" no not MacArthur, Alan Hudson I have been writing recently about players "mouthing" it off about what they are and what they're not going to do and then let everyone down, and those fans in particular. They don't let themselves down because it seems today's players have not [...]
The most asked question of me is “what was your finest moment?” Although you’ll go on to read that signing for the Seattle Sounders turned out to be my most life changing experience, in football terms I had the most bizarre and mind blowing week of my life in March 1975. After a disastrous spell [...]
I have been impressed with what I have seen so far and keep thinking of our record breaking side playing the present team in the new stadium, because that would be very interesting. That bring me to something that happened at Stamford Bridge one day when the chairman of Chelsea, in the 80s, asked [...]
HODGSON ON TRIAL….HAVING ALREADY FAILED by Alan Hudson I take a break from my new book as do the players from both the MSL and Premier League, and once again I fear that the last road to Rio was a complete disaster this one could be a Chris Rea song, ‘The Road to [...]
ROLLING BACK THE YEARS Players and coaches were asked to name their Greatest Ever XI. Here's what a few of the players said about me. Tommy Baldwin: "Between them I'd say Alan and Cookie set up at least 75 per cent of my goals for Chelsea. Huddy was a big, strong player, [...]
ALL SAINTS DAY It was incredible that within only a few days Southampton, who played superbly for Ronald Koeman, showed Chelsea how to behave when Matic was incredibly not sent off on a second deliberate foul. What was even more deliberate was that unlike the Chelsea players against PSG on Tuesday night did not [...]
Wrong side of ‘The Pond’ For those watching Chelsea’s Champions League exit last night let me tell you, ‘it was not something that happened over 90 or 120 minutes, it was something that has been happening since our team won the 1970 FA Cup. I’ll give you four reasons, Brian Mears, Ken [...]
