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Drogba signs new contract
Didier Drogba has signed a new four-year contract which will keep him at Chelsea until 2010. The 28 year-old striker put pen to paper at Cobham this afternoon. “I am playing well because I feel good and I am happy to train with my friends,” Drogba told Chelsea TV immediately after signing. “I want to say thank [...]
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 [...]
Premiership: Sheffield United 0 - 2 Chelsea
Match reports The Observer, Jamie Jackson: “‘We played last time against Barcelona without two keepers. Maybe on Tuesday we play without any strikers. So I take the bus there,’ joked Jose Mourinho, after what were, ultimately, three regulation points for Chelsea. There are, though, signs that the champions can be worried if a side are willing [...]
Premiership: Sheffield United v. Chelsea
Chelsea play newly promoted Sheffield United at lunchtime today. Jose Mourinho expects United to be tough opponents. “When a team rests 11 players and gives up a competition like the [League] Cup to play against Chelsea it is because they are motivated for this game,” he said. Carlo Cudicini is set to return two weeks after he [...]
League Cup: Blackburn Rovers v. Chelsea
Chelsea’s League Cup campaign kicks off later this evening with a third round tie against Mark Hughes’ Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Jose Mourinho insists he will be going all out to repeat 2005’s success in this competition, his first trophy as Chelsea manager. “The Carling Cup is important. It’s not The Premiership or the Champions League [...]
Chelsea 2-1 Portsmouth: Why Chelsea will be the death of me
Last week I ventured off to my local doctor’s surgery for my annual MOT with the clinic nurse. As an asthmatic this involves merely blowing into a contraption that feels like it’s been made by the Blue Peter team from old toilet rolls and Smartie tubes to ensure that I’m still breathing and that my [...]
Goalkeeper Porato on trial
Stephane Porato has been given a trial at the club as Jose Mourinho seeks a third choice goalkeeper following the injury to Petr Cech, who may not play again this season. Former Monaco and Marseille keeper Porato is a free agent. The 33-year-old Frenchman has been without a club since he left Corsican outfit Ajaccio in [...]
FA to consider Cech complaint
The Football Association will look into complaints made by Chelsea following the Premiership game at Reading during which Petr Cech sustained a fractured skull. An FA spokesman said: “We have received a letter and will respond in due course to address their concerns.” A Premier League spokesman added: “We will ask Reading for their observations and the [...]
Premiership: Chelsea v. Portsmouth
Fourth-placed Portsmouth are today’s visitors to Stamford Bridge. After Wednesday’s superb defeat of Barcelona, Jose Mourinho has told the players they must up the team’s goals-per-chance ratio. “[A]gainst Aston Villa and Barcelona, the two last games at home, we had so many chances to score but at the end of these 120 minutes, we had scored twice. [...]
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