Title: Lighthousekeeping
Author: applegnat
League/Team/Pairings (if applicable): Chelsea goalies (Petr Cech, Carlo Cudicini, Henrique Hilario)
Genre of the piece: Gen-esque.
Rating: PG
Short Summary: Carlo Cudicini is old and angry. Petr Cech is young and placid. Henrique arrives at Chelsea secure in the knowledge that he is never, ever going to play a ( Read more... )

Title: Quand
Author: vlieger
League/Team/Pairings (if applicable): JT/Lamps (*ahem* John Terry/Frank Lampard)(to some people, Chelsea . . .)
Genre of the piece: WWI AU. Slash.
Rating: PG
Short Summary: "When I go home," says John one day, watching the thunderous sheet of rain cascade over the entrance like a curtain, "I'm going to buy me a fucking ( Read more... )

Title: Flowers (in the Window)
Author: pirlazza
League/Team/Pairings: Hernán Crespo/Esteban Cambiasso
Genre of the piece: Fluff, angst, a little comedy
Rating: PG
Short Summary: "There are things that you can’t ignore because they are just stronger than you"

Why we should read this: I have quite possibly saved the best for last. I know sometimes I want to ( Read more... )

Title: The Spy Journals of Andriy Mykolayovych (or How Sheva Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blues)
Author: alldoubtaboutit
League/Team/Pairings (if applicable): Chelsea, from the viewpoint of one A. Shevchenko.
Genre of the piece: Primarily humour.
Rating: PG
Short Summary: Andriy was looking forward to Shakespeare and Aston Martins, glamourous evenings ( Read more... )

Title: Ghost of Christmas Past
Author: janierotten
League/Team/Pairings: According to the author: "Hernan Crespo/ Esteban Cambiasso, Julio Cruz (implied Julio Cruz/ Santiago Solari and Julio Cruz/ Antonio Luis Jimenez, if you squint)"
Genre of the piece: "Bittersweet flangst"
Rating: "PG-13 for light sexual references"
Short Summary: Following Julio's advice ( Read more... )

Why we should read this: pirlazza provides a concise but complete history of Hernán and Esteban’s relationship in this story. The piece starts in Argentina, and moves back and forth with Esteban’s thoughts, but the transition is so smooth and seamless that the reader is always aware of the setting.

What I like about it is that it does not take place in a ( Read more... )

Subtitled: A brief and probably superfluous spotter’s guide to the aesthetics of pragmatism as refracted through the muddy lens that is Chelsea FC, the club that I shall be pimping to youse fic-wise all this livelong month; LOOK AWAY NOW, HATERS OF CAR-CRASH TEEVEE.

In introduction: This is our dear stadium, Stamford Bridge, all boxed into a corner ( Read more... )

Their (first?) biggest moment was after Argentina lost to Germany on penalty kicks. Two or three others also missed, but Cambiasso was the last one, and that's why this moment stands out:

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Revision being what it is, this is a double recommendation, I hope this is allowed. I offered to pimp Gaby Heinze because I know that although there was not a lot of fics out there about him, those that there are include some very good ones and these two are the best, in my opinion ( Read more... )

Title: They Don't
Author: greeniebach
League/Team/Pairings: Alessandro Nesta/Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Genre of the piece: Denial
Rating: PG-13
Short Summary: Love each other? As if!

Why we should read this: My original comment to this went something like this:

I adore Sandro. I can't STAND Ibra. All laws of common sense dictate that I should loathe this ( Read more... )