It’s been a weird month or so for us Chelsea fans hasn’t it? Depending on what your choice of journal from the Fourth Estate is we’ve gone from well run Premiership/FA Cup/Carling Cup/Champions League contenders to a strife torn dysfunctional bunch of headless chickens. We are apparently a club in crisis on and off the [...]
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Jose Mourinho will rest several players but has told Newcastle not to expect an early Christmas present.
Mourinho said: “I’m going to rest some players, that’s obvious. People think we have a massive squad but it is not true. Our squad is very short and at this moment we have some problems.
“We have a game [...]
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An unproductive afternoon spent surfing YouTube turned up these two videos of the mercurial genius that is Gianfranco Zola, the greatest ever player to wear a Chelsea shirt. They’re guaranteed to lift the winter blues, as it were.
Watch them before copyright lawyers kill YouTube as we know it.
If you’re aware of any other good Chelsea-related [...]
Match reports
The Times, Matt Dickinson: “If talent prevails ”” and the gods of football are feeling truly mischievous ”” these teams will meet in Athens in May for a Champions League final of such explosive possibility that it might shake the ancient columns of the Parthenon. Uefa would not know whether to fear the mayhem [...]
Tuesday. It must Barcelona then. Some eight hundred miles and several stratospheres in football terms separate the cities of Sheffield and tonight’s destination: while the gung-ho graft of Jagielka and Montgomery presented one kind of test, the guile of Deco and Messi will pose another entirely. Hilario may have made light work [...]
There are few better feelings in football than pure, cold blooded, revenge. Okay, we didn’t knock them out of the competition. They could easily still win it. When we play them in just under two weeks’ time they could easily beat us. I know all that. But what a feeling. Barcelona beaten at Stamford Bridge. [...]
Chelsea’s annual dalliance with Barcelona in the Champions League kicks off at Stamford Bridge later this evening.
The appalling injury to Petr Cech at the weekend has overshadowed the build-up to this game. The press has tried their utmost to stir the pot but Jose Mourinho expects this latest meeting to be less intense than previous [...]
The ashes of Chelsea legend Peter Osgood were laid to rest under the penalty spot at the Shed end of Stamford Bridge at the conclusion of a memorial service this lunchtime. 2,700 fans, former stars, current players, family and friends gathered to pay their tribute.
Peter Osgood died suddenly on March 1st aged 59. He scored [...]
Predictably, from the enemies’ camp, the huge knives are out to carve up Chelsea. And, as has become customary in these times, the Fickle Fans Brigade are also out in force with their own little razor-sharp blades to do complementary damage to their club in an attempt to appear ‘unbiased’. Chelsea’s crime is that they’ve [...]
William Gallas’ sniping in the press in recent days has clearly upset certain elements within the Chelsea hierarchy.
This evening the club took the unprecedented step of issuing a strongly-worded statement to inform fans about the lack of respect Gallas showed in a bid to get a transfer away from Stamford Bridge.
The statement revealed how he [...]
