With Paul Clement back in charge, Chelsea lined up in a 4-2-1-3 formation, with Jacob Mellis playing in an unfamiliar centre-back role. Kakuta was given the number 10 role, and schoolboys Frank Nouble and Jacopo Sala flanked reserve team striker Morten Nielsen. Charlton lined up 4-4-2 without top scorer Danny Uchechi, but with recent England [...]
Continue reading …The main topics for discussion will be that of away matches (all aspects, including ticketing and travel), where we will be mentioning the success of the Wigan away trains and club travel. We are hoping that they will be repeating this for future games as it was well received all around. We’ve had emails from [...]
Continue reading …After seven wins in a row and, only one victory away from Group stage qualification in Europe, things are looking bright in the blues camp. There was a rumour Grant was smiling after the City game. It’s more likely he was upside down and his face appeared to be smiling but you never know. Even [...]
Continue reading …Many of Chelsea’s players will have gone even longer than three weeks without action in a blue shirt. Last time out away to Portsmouth, Paul Clement took the opportunity to use some older players in preparation for the FA Youth Cup, which Chelsea enter soon. So the only football the likes of Jeffrey Bruma, Gael [...]
Continue reading …Rushed roast dinners and pre-match pints all round then. A 2:00 kick-off is not ideal, but let’s hope it doesn’t come too early for the Blues, who face an in-form Everton side looking to record a sixth consecutive win in all competitions. One man who will be ready is stand-in ‘keeper Carlo Cudicini, playing his [...]
Continue reading …A quick run over the players who played in Serie A in the eighties makes the present Premiership line up pale into insignificance. Apart from the 22 players who won the World Cup for Italy in 1982, the following were regulars with their respective clubs – Platini and Boniek at Juventus, the Brazilians Falcao and [...]
Continue reading …All three goalkeepers proved unbeatable in a scrappy Champions League encounter, with Manuel Neuer recovering from his Stamford Bridge blunder to make a number of good saves, whilst Petr Čech kept the German side at bay in the first half. He was replaced due to a calf injury at half time, and fans favourite Carlo [...]
Continue reading …Damn you, Chelsea. Damn you to hell. Why couldn’t you just have the good grace to do what everyone was expecting you to do – collapse – and save me any more emotional investment in this season?It was all going to be so sweet. I had my faintly superior, dismissive persona all buffed and ready [...]
Continue reading …Well, it’s been nearly fifty days since Avram settled into the manager’s overcoat at the Bridge and for the best part of that time I’ve been mostly holding my tongue. Partly because I’d been abroad, partly because (even though she’s no bigger than a large bag of sand) I caught a hideous cold off my [...]
Continue reading …The champagne football continued for Avram Grant’s side as they blasted Wigan out of the water early, before holding on comfortably to win 2-0. Frank Lampard’s fourth goal of the week, plus an absolute stunner from Juliano Belletti, sealed Chelsea’s seventh win in a row, and a fifth consecutive Premiership clean sheet. After starting with [...]
Continue reading …Following a successful away day against Wigan on Sunday its time again for Chelsea to get on their travels again with a flight to Germany, and a game against Schalke 04 which could decide our path to the knock-out stages of the Champions League. After our 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge, clinched by goals from [...]
Continue reading …Come on then, who’s got any fingernails left? With barely time to catch breath following that thrilling (maybe too thrilling to tell the truth) 4-3 win over Leicester on Wednesday, its time to get back on the road for a trip to Wigan. It’s not just any normal away game though, the visit to the [...]
Continue reading …After having our own ‘bubble’ of invincibility burst, and by ourselves rather than any pins from outside the Chelsea sanctum, it was nice to see on Saturday that we were still able to put our own sharp edges to better use. Man City came to Stamford Bridge with a decent record behind them and a [...]
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