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Continue reading …Like a bad B movie, the Community Shield is the sort of game that everyone remembers for two minutes before forgetting for the rest of their life.
Continue reading …Monday 2 August Gaël Kakuta won the golden ball by Uefa, as the best player in the recent U19 European championship. Daniel Philliskirk will spend the next month at Oxford United. The 19 year old signed for us from Oldham in 2007 and has yet to make the first team. Daniel has turned himself into [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea rounded off a difficult pre-season with a fourth straight defeat, surrendering the Community Shield to Manchester United.
Continue reading …Stuart Peace has named his under-21 19 man squad which will face Uzbekistan on the 10th of August and it is full of Chelsea’s freshest talent.
Continue reading …Chelsea slumped to their third consecutive pre-season friendly defeat yesterday, going down by two goals to one in Hamburg’s Imtech Arena. The damage was done in the final twenty minutes as the Blues threw away their goal advantage.
Continue reading …So, that is now three in a row. Defeat came once again on our pre-season tour of Germany, after a 2-1 defeat to Hamburg left us perplexed and wondering what could be happening ahead of our Community Shield game with Manchester United on Sunday.
Continue reading …Chelsea’s final leg of their mini tour of Germany see the English Champions take on Hamburg this afternoon at the impressive Imtech Arena
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Continue reading …With first team players back in action, Frankfurt was the venue for another pre-season game. Much like our trip to Amsterdam though, after 90 minutes we were the defeated team. For Amsterdam, see Frankfurt, as a goalkeeping error led to Frankfurt’s first goal scored by Ochs. This time the error came in the shape of [...]
Continue reading …Michael Essien is from Ghana. He is an all-round midfielder who can play multiple midfield roles (defensively and offensively).
Continue reading …A bit of a lesson for the U19 side, out thought and out played by Spain. It will not help their development that their coach seemed intent on getting it forward early. It is a hopelessly archaic tactic most of the time but a suicidal one on an afternoon when you can’t get the ball in the first place. Spain gratefully accepted all the long balls and punished us for our stupidity.
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