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Premiership review: Chelsea 2 - 2 Reading
Match reports Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter: “In the festive season of a thousand toasts, the poignant salute at Stamford Bridge yesterday was to absent friends. Chelsea would never have dropped two points had their commanding centre-half, John Terry, been present and the captain’s imminent operation to shave a disc in his back cannot come soon enough. [...]
Premiership review: Wigan Athletic 2 - 3 Chelsea
Match reports Sunday Telegraph, James Mossop: “On many a Saturday Jose Mourinho becomes the clown with the scowl but here absolute honesty prevailed. He admitted that Wigan deserved a point, that his Chelsea side thought the match was over when they went two up and publicly thanked his central defender, Ricardo Carvalho, for covering up the [...]
Premiership: Everton 2-3 Chelsea
Match reports Daily Telegraph, Clive Tyldesley: “Functional? Effective? Boring even? Not a bit of it. Chelsea’s true champion pedigree was underlined by moments of rare brilliance and beauty in a stunning success at Goodison Park. Trailing 2-1 with less than 10 minutes remaining, they turned a damaging defeat into what could prove to be a pivotal [...]
Premiership preview: Chelsea v. Arsenal
Irrespective of league positions and points at stake, football is often at its very best when there are a few juicy subplots simmering away under the surface. The first meeting of the season between Chelsea and Arsenal is one such game where the background provides enough sparks to make this one of the most [...]
Premiership: Chelsea 1-0 West Ham
Match reports The Guardian, Jon Brodkin: “Chelsea beating West Ham did not even register on the Richter scale. Mourinho’s players will need to raise their level in Bremen and Manchester but it felt as though they would have stepped up a gear had West Ham equalised Geremi’s nicely curled free-kick.” Daily Telegraph, Clive Tyldesley: “Both of the [...]
League Cup: Chelsea 4-0 Aston Villa
Match reports The Guardian, Jon Brodkin: “Anyone who imagined that Sunday’s defeat at Tottenham would have lasting implications for Chelsea was set straight by this rousing victory last night - one achieved without a whiff of confrontation with match officials or opponents. Their excellent second-half display was the type that ought to endear them to more [...]
Graham Poll: Why is that *!@?#% in the black?
In the aftermath of Sunday’s defeat to Spurs, it feels as though the fallout from the game is likely to go on for as long as Chelsea’s spell of dominance over the boys from No Point Lane (a temporary name, of course). Sunday’s London derbies provided enough drama and incident to keep the hacks in business [...]
Football’s Jedi Knights are a grass stain on the game
It’s not often one can quote Terry Wogan to illustrate a point about football, so I’ll take the opportunity while I can. The blarney-spouting bard from Limerick once said that every day, there are thousands of people sitting in front of their TV’s and radios, just waiting to be offended. It’s true. If there was no [...]
The all-new flexible Chelsea
Kevin McCarra writes in today’s Guardian about the emergence of a new, more flexible Chelsea side in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s epic encounter with Barcelona. Read the full article here.
Champions League: Barcelona 2-2 Chelsea
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 [...]
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