The Champions League campaign kicks off this evening when Chelsea host Rosenborg at Stamford Bridge, in the first of the group stage games for this season. Chelsea again have injury worries ahead of the match with Lampard, Drogba and Pizarro all out, Bridge is still unavailable and long term-absentee Michael Ballack not even listed in [...]
Continue reading …The Champions League campaign kicks off this evening when Chelsea host Rosenborg at Stamford Bridge, in the first of the group stage games for this season. Chelsea again have injury worries ahead of the match with Lampard, Drogba and Pizarro all out, Bridge is still unavailable and long term-absentee Michael Ballack not even listed in [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea attempts to bounce back from the 2-0 defeat at Villa Park were stalled by Mark Hughes’ stubborn Blackburn side, who managed to thwart the Blues, holding them to a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge. Ricardo Carvalho was once more deemed unable to play through to injury, whilst our two most reliable goal scorers, Frank [...]
Continue reading …First and foremost if you didn’t know already, this game kicks off at 5.15, not the standard 3.00 commonly (well, fairly often…regularly…ok, sometimes) seen on a Saturday afternoon. I only found out after booking my train tickets to get me to Paddington for 11am. So while I’ll be awkwardly hanging around in the city killing [...]
Continue reading …‘The Champions League is my objective,’ Michael Ballack had said with customary Teutonic arrogance after joining Chelsea courtesy of a Bosman transfer from Bayern Munich last summer. An eventful year later and the Germany national team captain finds himself marginalised by Jose Mourinho, his name notable by its absence from the 25 man Blues squad [...]
Continue reading …Who would have thought it? Just when the backs were against the wall, when other teams were playing well and earning points to pull them up the league table, just when things were looking disastrous and a positive result was absolutely essential, Ramprakash and Butcher team up to score two centuries and see Surrey crush [...]
Continue reading …José Mourinho’s Chelsea tasted defeat for the first time in 18 matches in the English Premier League, losing 2-0 to Aston Villa at Villa Park. The result means that it is the only Premiership ground that Mourinho has never won at, Chelsea having not tasting victory at Villa Park since 1999. With midfield talisman Frank [...]
Continue reading …One of the very good things the Fans Forum does is enable the club to clarify to supporters what their position is on current issues, for us to feed back on issues and suggest improvements, as well as allowing us to raise issues that affect supporters generally. It’s been a core area of communication between [...]
Continue reading …After a big weekend which saw Manchester United finally win a Premier League game, the pressure is back on, meaning it is time for us to stop coasting and start extending our lead at the top of the table. What better place to do it than Villa Park, which has recently become one of our [...]
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