December, 2019 | The Good Life

Are we at tipping point?0
- Chelsea First Team
- 23rd December 2019
Have we reached tipping point on the issue of racism at football matches – a problem that has dogged the game since the 1970s, but which remains insoluble until the authorities take a firm line. Clubs have been reluctant to do more than window-dressing up to now. After all, a life ban on someone spending
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Happy Xmas, Jose!0
- Chelsea First Team
- 23rd December 2019
The giant message board on the side of the new-look White Hart Lane stadium beamed out a message of festive cheer as fans made their way back up the 10-mile kebab-lined road to Seven Sisters. And Chelsea wished their old manager reciprocal greetings, by comprehensively outwitting, out-manoeuvring, out-thinking and out-playing him. Pupil beat tutor, Frank
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A quick heads up…0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 19th December 2019
When Chelsea Women travel north for their match at newly promoted Man Utd on Sunday February 9, the focus will undoubtedly be on the football… but with added meaning and significance as the women’s game joins forces with the Premier League in backing the Heads Up campaign, writes Jane Grove. Launched by The FA, and
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Blues to face Villa in cup 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 18th December 2019
There’s an 8pm kick-off at Kingsmeadow, under the lights, when Chelsea host Aston Villa on Wednesday January 15 in the quarter-finals of the FA Women’s Continental League Cup, writes Jane Grove. The match is one of four all staged that evening, building up to the final on Saturday February 29. Holders Man City face Sheffield
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I’ve got the muddy blues 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 16th December 2019
A furious Emma Hayes questioned whether the weekend match up at Liverpool should have been played at all, because of the state of the muddy pitch. In the end Chelsea’s winning streak came to a sudden and unexpected end with a 1-1 draw against lowly Liverpool… and Reds manager Vicky Jepson appeared to back up
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Like an old silent film 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 16th December 2019
Frank Lampard isn’t the angriest person in Stamford Bridge. There are 40,000 angrier ones. Chelsea’s pitiful performance against Bournemouth – another 1-0 home defeat – means the honeymoon is well and truly over. Lampard better get his act together, because much more of this type of dire, lazy play by his cosseted team of ‘superstars’
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