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  • The mojo is back

    The mojo is back0

    Chelsea rediscovered their mojo on a squally, rain-lashed night at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday as they produced an excellent display of creativity, dominance, tight passing and skill to defeat Lille. Yet at the last knockings of this absorbing Champions League encounter, they found themselves again clinging on, begging for the final whistle, against the minnows

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  • Morning sickness0

    If you want to beat Chelsea, persuade one of the TV channels to shift the match to the earliest possible slot. For some reason, the Blues cannot get their act together before mid-afternoon… especially if they’re playing away. So it was at rudderless Goodison Park, where an Everton team staring at relegation and with Duncan

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  • No plans for the January sales

    No plans for the January sales0

    As news filtered through that Chelsea’s appeal to sport’s court of arbitration had succeeded (the transfer ban has been lifted and the fine halved) there was a collective shudder of apprehension from fans. Might it mean that Frank Lampard’s courageous kids policy will be abandoned in favour of signing more ready-made ‘superstars’? Will it mean

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  • Cushions urgently needed

    Cushions urgently needed0

    John Terry, returning hero, signed and posed and chatted and bonded ahead of the Blues’ game against Villa, but he – and his old team-mate Frank Lampard – know that the points Chelsea won as the temperatures plunged could easily have been snatched away. Without the cushion of an extra goal, Chelsea will always look

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  • Blues lose ability to create

    Blues lose ability to create0

    If referee Jon Moss had added an hour and five minutes of stoppage time to the end of this perplexing London derby instead of merely five minutes, Chelsea still wouldn’t have scored. In a match which felt like a weird Life on Mars throwback to the 70s or 80s, the Blues came up against a

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  • Making progress

    Making progress0

    It’s a measure of how far Chelsea have come in the past nine months that instead of losing 6-0 to a rampant Manchester City, they ran the hosts close at the Etihad, taking the lead and matching Pep’s men every step of the way. That February defeat, pictured, still haunts fans, but Saturday’s result –

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