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TALKING CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

“So what are you up to this week?” “Me? I’m watching the Champions League, how about you?” “Yeah, same.” An ordinary conversation between two guys you might think, but when you realise that one of those guys is in London whereas the other in Buenos Aires it takes on greater significance. The Champions League is [...]

Younger supporters and our good friend Johnny Come Lately would surely find it impossible to reconcile the current Chelsea with the late-70s/early-80s version, when the only thing worse than the club’s league position was its financial one.  In the aftermath of chairman Brian Mears’ ambitious but ultimately disastrous East Stand redevelopment, a club that had [...]

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