Tuesday 8 December Chelsea 2:2 Apoel On the bright side, Gaël Kakuta continues to shine, playing at the tip of the diamond he found passes and angles others wouldn’t have thought of, his pass to Zhirkov to set up the second goal was a beauty to behold. Carlo wasn’t really looking on the bright side, [...]
Continue reading …The headline on the back page of yesterday’s News of the World screamed (as all NOTW headlines do) “1 Billion Chinese Takeaway at United”. According to the NOTW six Chinese billionaires are lining up a deal to buy the Old Trafford club for a whopping one billion pounds. United fans are said to be excited [...]
Continue reading …Miroslav Stoch continues to grab the headlines, and for all the right reasons. This past Saturday he scored twice for league-leading FC Twente as they maintained their unbeaten league record with a 3-1 win over NAC Breda, courtesy of two goals from our young Slovakian, and it’s in Holland where we start our latest round-up [...]
Continue reading …More set piece woe has cost Chelsea maximum points at home to Everton, the visiting side handed three goals upon arrival and a point as they left. Didier Drogba’s excellently taken double and Nicolas Anelka’s classy finish were not enough as the match ended in a 3-3 draw. Chelsea started brightly enough, the nigh on [...]
Continue reading …We wait until well into November for a home Saturday 3pm Kick Off, and then just like buses… Everton are the guests this time as Ancelotti hopes to see out the weekend with us maintaining our top of the table status. Our home league form can’t be faltered, seven wins in a row, netting four [...]
Continue reading …Four months into my fifty first year, I confess I still look at most Chelsea players, past and present, with a certain hero worship more befitting a 13 year old. But try as I might there are ten blokes who have worn our beloved royal blue shirt, and some dodgy away ones too, who, try [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea slumped to their first league defeat in over six weeks with a 2-1 reverse at Manchester City on Saturday evening. Dubbed the ‘Clash of the Cash’, it was Sheikh Mansour’s Sky Blues who prevailed in a pulsating encounter, despite going behind as early as the 7th minute. Adebayor responded to scoring an own goal [...]
Continue reading …The last week in loan land has seen its usual share of ups and downs, with hits and misses aplenty, but what it has also given us is a rare flurry of goals to report on. Miroslav Stoch’s 8th of the season is one thing, but there were also special moments for Tom Taiwo and [...]
Continue reading …For the corresponding fixture preview I got a bit of stick from some APOEL fans for not taking them seriously as a team and for not bothering to do my research and find the English section of their club’s website. My justification was that they would not be around for much longer anyway, as they [...]
Continue reading …Monday 30 November Chelsea spent £9.6m on agent’s fees in the year to September this year. No further breakdown is offered but as we only paid a fee for one player in that time the bulk must be made up from hiring Ancelotti and renewing contracts. When replacing one of the players who’ve signed extended [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s penalty woes returned on Wednesday evening as they exited the Carling Cup following a shoot-out failure against Blackburn Rovers. The dramatic encounter had finished 3-3 after extra time. Carlo Ancelotti made a spring of changes to the side which had demolished Arsenal on Sunday; Hilario, Ferreira, Belletti, Zhirkov, Malouda, Ballack, Deco and Kalou were [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea are back, Chelsea are back, hello, hello. OK we didn’t sing that but we should’ve done, after beating Man United on penalties in the Charity Shield it looked like maybe the curse had been exorcised, and there were signs of the start of things to come. But it appears not. Ancelotti made eight changes [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea travelled to the Fly Emirates Stadium to thump title pretenders Arsenal on Sunday with a convincing 3-0 win. Didier Drogba contributed two of them (but apparently not much else), Vermaelin proved that Drogba’s finish for the first was the sort of finish he to is capable of, and let’s not forget that Ashley Cole [...]
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