Chelsea were denied successive Champions League victories by a late penalty needlessly given away by Salomon Kalou. Frank Lampard had done his part to silence his critics with his 172nd goal for the club early in the second half, before Soldado leveled from the spot three minutes from time. Juan Mata made his return to [...]
Wednesday night sees Chelsea travel to the east coast of Spain for their second Champions League group stage match versus Valencia. The Blues got off to a perfect start to this year’s competition with a solid 2-0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen and will be seeking another three points on Wednesday, though a draw would not [...]
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Tuesday 20 September André Villas-Boas has complained to Mike Riley, head of the Premier League match officials, about United’s first two goals on Sunday. Both Smalling from the free-kick and Nani before he started his run were clearly offside but the linesman kept his flag down: “I’m very, very unhappy with the poor performance from [...]
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Meeting held at Millennium Suite 3, Chelsea FC at 10.30am on Saturday 24th September 2011 Opening remarks: The Chair welcomed new members to the Forum. There are still vacancies on the Forum for at least one more supporters club representative from the UK (to ensure at least two supporter club representatives), and for the disabled [...]
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Frank Lampard’s omission from the first eleven against Swansea represents a watershed for him and for Chelsea FC itself. Has his time come to an end? Or is it all a storm in a teacup with Frank just being used more sparingly and wisely? It’s probably a mixture of both. Yet it’s not just a [...]
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I’m always interested in seeing new teams both in the Premier League and of course when they visit us at Stamford Bridge. There’s something endearing about them and their raised tail, doe-eyed bouncy enthusiasm. Sadly it rarely works out, the gulf between the Premier League and The Championship often being exposed as being the same [...]
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17 May 1997, what a fantastic day that was. The sun shone relentlessly, an early rendition of One Man Went to Mow by 40,000 Blues fans was climaxed by Robbie’s 42-second wonder strike, and Chelsea won their first major trophy for 26 years. During the hour-long post-match celebrations, surely the longest Wembley has ever seen, [...]
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A mate of mine used to have a saying ‘if it was easy little girls would do be doing it’ and that kind of sums up this match and the last couple we have played in the League or Cup. Our theme tune now should be ‘we’ve only got ten men’. Chelsea got off to [...]
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Well I have to say, I haven’t had as much fun down at the Bridge for a long time. The Carling Cup win on penalties over Fulham encapsulates all that AVB brings to Chelsea and only goes to confirm why Abramovich was so keen to sign him: alongside essential tactical awareness and a renewed determination [...]
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It will be a reunion of sorts at Stamford Bridge on Saturday when two former Jose Mourinho protégé’s square off for the first time. Brendan Rogers faces his former employer for the second time in his managerial career when he brings Swansea City to the Bridge to meet Andre Villas-Boas’ side. Both Rogers and Villas-Boas [...]
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In the loss against Manchester United last week, Chelsea’s players covered a total of 125.99km, more ground than they have in any games since their first of the season against West Bromwich Albion.
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Chelsea won their second penalty shoot-out in nine attempts and first at Stamford Bridge in over a decade after a 0-0 draw against neighbours Fulham, who only managed to sell around half their allocation, in The Carling Cup 3rd round. An experimental and youthful looking Chelsea side, including youngsters Bertrand, Romeu, Mceachran and Lukaku, took [...]
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Chelsea’s Carling Cup campaign begins tonight with a home tie against near neighbours Fulham. Both sides played opposition from Manchester on Sunday with mixed results; Chelsea lost 3-1 at United while earlier in the day Fulham earned a very credible 2-2 against City. How many players that featured in those two games play again tonight [...]
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