Thursday 3 September Chelsea have been banned from registering players until 2011. The, frankly, staggering decision comes from Fifa’s dispute resolution chamber (DRC) after a complaint from the French side Racing Club de Lens that we induced Gaël Kakuta to break his contract. Gaël signed for us in 2007 and has looked, head and shoulders, [...]
Continue reading …Tuesday 1 June Fabio Capello kept everybody waiting but finally announced his squad. All four Chelsea boys are in but then so are Michael Carrick and Shaun Wright-Phillips. This from a manager who declared loudly players must be in form and playing regularly for their clubs if they were going to make his squad. In [...]
Continue reading …As if the World Cup wasn’t enough action to keep you occupied during these quiet summer months, Premier League champions Chelsea FC will kick start preparations for the 2010/11 season with a series of away European fixtures against German Bundeslega sides Eintracht Frankfurt and Hamburg after taking on 29 times Dutch champions AFC Ajax. Tickets [...]
Continue reading …Sunday 9 August The Football Association Community Shield Chelsea 2:2 Manchester United (Chelsea win 4-1 on penalties) An important hoodoo might have been laid to rest but this match held so much more than our first penalty shootout win since Ipswich Town in the League Cup 11 years ago, when that cup was still sponsored [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea song-writer and season ticket holder Paul Baker has written and performed yet another superb World Cup anthem to get people in the mood to really believe in England’s chances of success. The track, “Cabanga (Come On England)”, is credited to The England Band Featuring Joe Public Utd. Cabanga is a Zulu word that means [...]
Continue reading …If you could have changed anything from your playing days, what would it have been? I wished I had been another yard or two quicker that I was. I lacked a yard or two in pace. It would have been nice to have been picked for England. However I captained the under 23s or the [...]
Continue reading …With Fabio Capello choosing to rest several first team Chelsea players alongside fellow FA Cup finalist and Portsmouth goalkeeper David James from the England side that faced Mexico at Wembley, the unbalanced team underperformed with a scrappy 3-1 victory that papered over the cracks. At the APC Arena in Graz, Austria this Sunday a more [...]
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