The Glory Hayes
@thegloryhayescfc.bsky.social
Small-time blogger, big Chelsea FC Women fan. (Formerly The Kingsmeadow Chronicle).
Also: @rebekahgrassby.bsky.social
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Also: @rebekahgrassby.bsky.social
Substack: https://thegloryhayes.substack.com/
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Posting (variably) original #CFCW content - from match reports to musings and everything in-between.
And so it ends. Thoughts on the loss to Everton - the first for Bompastor at @chelseafcn.bsky.social in domestic competition #WSL #CFC #CFCW open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
Match report: Chelsea 0-1 Everton (WSL)
“All good things come to an end.”
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December 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And so it ends. Thoughts on the loss to Everton - the first for Bompastor at @chelseafcn.bsky.social in domestic competition #WSL #CFC #CFCW open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
The same scoreline as Sunday, but with a very different feel. @chelseafcn.bsky.social take an excellent point against the mighty Barcelona, in the #UWCL #CFCW #CFC open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
Match report: Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona (WCL)
"A different draw."
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November 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The same scoreline as Sunday, but with a very different feel. @chelseafcn.bsky.social take an excellent point against the mighty Barcelona, in the #UWCL #CFCW #CFC open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
Match report, fresh off the press, on a damaging defeat for @chelseafcn.bsky.social thegloryhayes.substack.com/p/match-repo... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
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November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Match report, fresh off the press, on a damaging defeat for @chelseafcn.bsky.social thegloryhayes.substack.com/p/match-repo... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
Happy returns for @chelseafcn.bsky.social, from Austria #CFCW #CFC #UWCL thegloryhayes.substack.com/p/match-repo...
Match report: St Polten 0-6 Chelsea (WCL)
“A rampant return.”
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy returns for @chelseafcn.bsky.social, from Austria #CFCW #CFC #UWCL thegloryhayes.substack.com/p/match-repo...
A rollercoaster game at the Emirates, and a relief in the end @chelseafcn.bsky.social #WSL #CFCW #CFC open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
Match report: Arsenal 1-1 Chelsea (WSL) -
"A rollercoaster derby."
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November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A rollercoaster game at the Emirates, and a relief in the end @chelseafcn.bsky.social #WSL #CFCW #CFC open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
I've moved from WordPress to Substack - and my first #CFCW match report can be found here, on a familiar feeling win at Stamford Bridge: open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
Match report: Chelsea 2-0 London City Lionesses (WSL)
"Back where we left off."
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November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I've moved from WordPress to Substack - and my first #CFCW match report can be found here, on a familiar feeling win at Stamford Bridge: open.substack.com/pub/theglory...
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And that, is that. Job done. Three points. Clean sheet. Still top. ⚽💙
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And that, is that. Job done. Three points. Clean sheet. Still top. ⚽💙
Appetites finally sated - a good win for @chelseafcn.bsky.social in the Champions League thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/c... #CFCW #CFC #UWCL
Chelsea 4-0 Paris FC (WCL) – “Goals, glorious goals!”
Finally. After a month marked by scarcity on the scoresheet, and frustrations about our performances in front of goal – four goals to round off the month of football felt like a veritable fea…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Appetites finally sated - a good win for @chelseafcn.bsky.social in the Champions League thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/c... #CFCW #CFC #UWCL
A crucial three points, but questions remain unanswered for Bompastor and @chelseafcn.bsky.social thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
Chelsea 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur (WSL) – “important points, but problems persist.”
After two away games in a row – and two draws – Chelsea returned home to Kingsmeadow this Sunday, and hoped to also return to winning ways. This was far from a guarantee though, as the …
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October 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A crucial three points, but questions remain unanswered for Bompastor and @chelseafcn.bsky.social thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
The kind of result, and performance, which leads to questions... a disappointing 1-1 draw for @chelseafcn.bsky.social in the #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...
Twente 1-1 Chelsea (WCL) – “Trouble at Twente.”
For a club like Chelsea, two games with a win feels like the start of a crisis. That may seem a slightly absurd statement – but that is the standards we have set for ourselves. Make no …
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October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The kind of result, and performance, which leads to questions... a disappointing 1-1 draw for @chelseafcn.bsky.social in the #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...
Given Man United's form, and the conditions, that felt like a point gained, rather than any lost, to me @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/m...
Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea (WSL) – “Huff and puff but not quite blown down”.
October began with what was looking like the sternest test of our 100% start to the season thus far. Man United have had an impressive start themselves to 2025/26, and came into this game just two …
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October 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Given Man United's form, and the conditions, that felt like a point gained, rather than any lost, to me @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/m...
The champions finally turn up - a very comfortable afternoon in Dagenham #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/w...
West Ham 0-4 Chelsea (WSL) – “An autumnal breeze.”
With September soon turning to October, green leaves starting to turn orange, and our rivals starting to drop points – autumn is well and truly on its way. The fresh breeze on the crisp Sunda…
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September 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The champions finally turn up - a very comfortable afternoon in Dagenham #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/w...
Difficult to know how to feel about a game that felt frustrating, but means we end the weekend top of the #WSL for the first time this season thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/c... @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC
Chelsea 1-0 Leicester City (WSL) – “Three points, but frustrated.”
This weekend of WSL fixtures was overshadowed by the tragic death of Matt Beard, the former Liverpool, West Ham – and Chelsea – manager. His death at the age of just 47 was announ…
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September 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Difficult to know how to feel about a game that felt frustrating, but means we end the weekend top of the #WSL for the first time this season thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/c... @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC
Sam Kerr the woman of the hour in a truly special moment - but Hannah Hampton the Player of the Match, in a game Chelsea were fortunate to take all 3 points from @chelseafcn.bsky.social thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/a... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
Aston Villa 1-3 Chelsea (WSL) – “She is so back!”
Chelsea’s first away match of the WSL season had the potential to be not entirely straightforward. Our opponents, Aston Villa had had a tough first half of the 2024/25 campaign – but were muc…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sam Kerr the woman of the hour in a truly special moment - but Hannah Hampton the Player of the Match, in a game Chelsea were fortunate to take all 3 points from @chelseafcn.bsky.social thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/a... #CFCW #CFC #WSL
Good start to the season, with an encouraging performance, an exciting debut - and the promise of more to come thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL @chelseafcn.bsky.social
Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City (WSL) – “Up and running”
For the second season in a row, Chelsea started our title defence on a Friday – kicking off the WSL season under floodlights as a warm summer day turned to night. Rather than Aston Villa at K…
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September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Good start to the season, with an encouraging performance, an exciting debut - and the promise of more to come thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL @chelseafcn.bsky.social
New season, questions old and new: thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/u... @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC #WSL
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September 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
New season, questions old and new: thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/u... @chelseafcn.bsky.social #CFCW #CFC #WSL
The final blog post of the season, and a final triumph of a historic - Treble-winning - year thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/c... #CFCW #CFC
Chelsea 3-0 Manchester United (FA Cup final) – “The Treble completed, and domestic dominance deserved.”
A season that began long nine months ago, back in September, finally culminated on the very biggest stage of all, this Sunday. Wembley, and the FA Cup final. Traditionally this has been the biggest…
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May 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The final blog post of the season, and a final triumph of a historic - Treble-winning - year thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/c... #CFCW #CFC
Undefeated, a points record, and a record title-winning margin. Nobody came close #CFCW #CFC #WSL #BarclaysWSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/c...
Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool (WSL) – “Unrivalled.”
Could we do it? If we avoided defeat in our final league game of the season, we would achieve an invincible season – the first time this would ever have been done in a 22-game WSL season. The…
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May 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Undefeated, a points record, and a record title-winning margin. Nobody came close #CFCW #CFC #WSL #BarclaysWSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/c...
What a difference three days - and five Aston Villa goals - makes. Chelsea, champions again - and there could be no better response to Sunday's disappointment #CFCW #CFC #BarclaysWSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/m...
Manchester United 0-1 Chelsea (WSL) – “The best response possible, and Chelsea are champions again.”
Forget “football, bloody hell”. More like “Chelsea, bloody hell”. The talk before tonight’s game was of needing to bounce back from the crushing defeat against Barcelona at the weekend, which saw u…
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April 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What a difference three days - and five Aston Villa goals - makes. Chelsea, champions again - and there could be no better response to Sunday's disappointment #CFCW #CFC #BarclaysWSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/m...
So anyway, let's move on... because there is a lot still to play for #CFCW #CFC #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/c...
Chelsea 1-4 Barcelona (WCL semi-final second leg) – Barcelona win 8-2 on aggregate – “Moving swiftly on.”
It was a comeback that never seemed likely – and one that never remotely came close to be. The odds were stacked well against Chelsea, trialling 4-1 heading into the second leg of our Champio…
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April 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So anyway, let's move on... because there is a lot still to play for #CFCW #CFC #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/c...
No easy games at this time of the season... but maybe that was one #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
Chelsea 4-0 Crystal Palace (WSL) – “Pressure relief.”
At this time of the season, when fighting on as many fronts as Chelsea are, there are no easy games. Every match, too, is a must-win – meaning that after the painful defeat in Barcelona…
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April 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
No easy games at this time of the season... but maybe that was one #CFCW #CFC #WSL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
Not the most fun blog post to write - once again, we are undone by Barcelona in the #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/b... #CFC #CFCW
Barcelona 4-1 Chelsea (WCL, semi-final first leg) – “Quadruply crucified.”
Treja vu? (With apologies to the French.) This was the third season in a row we faced the behemoth of Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Champions League – having fallen at this hurdle on ou…
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April 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Not the most fun blog post to write - once again, we are undone by Barcelona in the #UWCL thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/b... #CFC #CFCW
Aggie Beever-Jones in the crunch moment, at the crunch time of the season thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL #AdobeWomensFACup
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool (FA Cup semi-final) – “Crunch time.”
The two weeks between Chelsea’s last fixture in March and the first in April had not seen much rest for the players, and had also led to the loss of Lauren James to a hamstring injury. Such is the …
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April 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Aggie Beever-Jones in the crunch moment, at the crunch time of the season thekingsmeadowchronicles.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/c... #CFCW #CFC #WSL #AdobeWomensFACup