I don’t tend to venture away from covering the youth and reserve teams on this website, but this was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. Give me the chance to take aim at Nick Metcalfe and the Daily Mail? I’m there.
Continue reading …The floodgates aren’t open quite yet, but the water is beginning to flow. At Portsmouth last night, Patrick van Aanholt became the fifth recent Chelsea academy product to feature in the first team this season (John Terry aside), and the fourth to debut. Whilst there’s clearly still a lot more to come, Carlo Ancelotti has [...]
Continue reading …For readers familiar with the phrase ‘after the Lord Mayor’s show’, Tuesday night’s 2-1 Reserve defeat away to Fulham can be summed up quite nicely in such a manner. If you’re not au fait, a wet night in Merton for Chelsea’s second string came as something of an anticlimax to Monday night’s breathtaking youth team [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s youth team like their 4-0 cup scorelines. For the third time this campaign, Dermot Drummy’s young charged put an opponent to the sword to the tune of four unanswered goals, and on this occasion recorded a 5-0 aggregate victory over Semi Final opponents Blackburn to progress to the Final for the second time in [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s title hopes may have taken a rather large dent this afternoon at Blackburn, but for two young loanees, this weekend saw them take big strides towards the first senior title of their fledgling careers. It’s in Holland where we start a rather tame and quiet week’s loan review.
Continue reading …Chelsea’s 3-2 reserve friendly victory over Charlton at Cobham was marred by a serious knee injury to centre-back Carl Magnay, and the nature and severity of the problem raises immediate concerns as the long-term future of the Northern Ireland Under-21 international and Football Icon 2 winner.
Continue reading …After a tough and hard-fought tie in which tempers occasionally boiled over, Chelsea’s youth team prevailed in the first leg of the FA Youth Cup Semi Final on Wednesday night and returned to London with a 1-0 advantage, courtesy of an own goal from a familiar name to Blues followers.
Continue reading …It took a long time coming – 129 games to be precise – but Ryan Bertrand finally put his name on a professional scoresheet this past week. Now sure, it may have come against Robbie Savage, but they all count, and you can be sure he’ll remember it. That’s where we start our loan round-up [...]
Continue reading …Saturday’s matchday programme featured an interview with Frank Arnesen on all things Chelsea academy related. The Blues’ Sporting Director previously served as Head of Youth Development and Scouting, and is still deeply involved with everything in that area.
Continue reading …In their final match before the biggest occasion of the season to date, Chelsea’s Under-18s cruised through Saturday’s academy league fixture against Birmingham City with a 2-0 win, as Milan Lalkovic and Jacopo Sala both netting for the second week in a row.
Continue reading …Back in October, Chelsea’s Reserves travelled to Stoke’s Brittania Stadium to face a team in which every member had football league experience, and came away with a last-minute 3-2 defeat. In the return fixture on Wednesday evening, Steve Holland’s boys won for the first time in four games in impressive fashion, for this time theirs [...]
Continue reading …The weekly loan review gets that little bit shorter again this week after Patrick van Aanholt returned to Chelsea after his spell at Newcastle, but there was still a lack of major news, by and large. Ryan Bertrand saw his FA Cup run with Reading come to a grinding second-half halt, whilst there were also [...]
Continue reading …Chelsea’s Under-18s dropped two points at home in the FA Premier Academy League on Saturday morning, drawing 2-2 with Southampton. Having led 2-0 in the first half, defensive lapses and one error of monumental proportions allowed the visitors to come away with a deserved share of the spoils in what was an engrossing affair.
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