A dormant site is a rubbish site – we apologize

By: Jack | July 16th, 2012

You may be wondering why The CO has been largely comatose for nearly two months. It’s a good question.

A lot of it could be traced to lethargy. Both Devin and I work full time; we also have lives to attend to. Not really a fitting excuse (at least from my perspective), but it’s true to an extent. Some of this also comes down to apathy. Why apathy? Well, here’s why – the servers on which The Offside is built are, well, fucking rubbish. It’s difficult to stay motivated when each time you attempt to sign in to do a piece, your Wordpress dashboard is unavailable. Waiting 30-plus minutes for the problem to be rectified isn’t my cup of tea. It’s not Devin’s, either.

sorry

Still, we founded Chelsea Offside with a view to raise the standard of Chelsea blogging on the Internet. In this sense, we have failed over the past two months. We strive to bring you a regular account of our favorite club. We’re talking breaking news, incisive analysis and hard-edged editorial – all this with a bizarre sense of humor that may take you a while to warm to. We haven’t done that since the end of the season.

We apologize. There are a number of projects in the pipeline, one pretty massive, but we’re unsure when this will go down. In the meantime, we’re going to work our asses off to return The CO to where it was just a few months ago. We encourage all of you to make suggestions on how we can make this unique space better. Without you, we don’t exist after all. Furthermore, we thank you for sticking it out with us of late. It means a lot.

Anyway. Enough with the formalities – let’s get back to the grind.

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Keaton_the_Eskimo

glad your back!
Mateo

first weeks i was kind of dissapointed, but on the other hand its nice to take a break from the oscar, hulk, maicon, modric.....sagas.

just want the season to start again
Kenny Shackelford

We're still here. KTBFFH
Matthew Buzzi

Hey listen, I (and I'm sure mostly everyone else) appreciate what you guys do, and your efforts here. I love the content and the humor, and despite the lack of activity recently, check the site at least once a day (usually more). I don't blame you for this being a quiet time, even, since the team hasn't played in quite a while now, and transfer rumors are just that--rumors. It's hard to report on every one, that's what online forums are for so people can go nuts with comments.

That said, I most of all appreciate your candor displayed here. With all you do during the season, and everything I said above, it's a great showing of faith to us readers to still come out here and say you don't think you've done enough or right by us. A lot of places just settle, so good on you for pushing to improve. So, thanks, and I look forward to reading what's ahead!