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Hazard’s strange cameo role 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 22nd September 2019
It looked like we’d stepped back in time at the start of Chelsea’s hard-fought, and ultimately frustrating, clash with Liverpool on Sunday September 22 at the Bridge when the wrong giant banner was wheeled out to be manhandled across the Matthew Harding lower tier ahead of kick-off. It saluted Eden Hazard – the player whose
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Blues earn cup win over Irons 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 22nd September 2019
Chelsea manage Emma Hayes and central defenders Millie Bright and Magda Eriksson discuss tactics ahead of the Conti Cup clash with West Ham at Kingsmeadow… a conversation which ultimately paid dividends as the Blues finished as victors. However, it was anything but convincing in a soporific goalless first half under leaden skies that seemed to
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Penalty miss proves costly 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 17th September 2019
The second half of Chelsea v Valencia – Frank Lampard’s first Champions League game as manager – is about to begin, with the match goalless. While goalkeeper Kepa is attended to be one of the trainers, substitute Ross Barkley begins his preparations to come on, to try to snatch the goal that would set the
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Engman blossoms 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 16th September 2019
Adelina Engman – that’s her leaving the pitch two steps behind the distinctive figure of Millie Bright – is an underestimated talent. The quiet 5ft 6in Finn, who turns 25 next month, got Chelsea out of jail at Brighton last weekend, coming on as a sub to score a leveller when all looked lost in
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Taking cider with Toni 0
- Food
- 15th September 2019
Half a tonne of apples have been pressed and made into 12 gallons of cider with the help of a team of cheerful volunteers. The back garden of The Lamb, Brighton Road, was a hive of activity as members of Abundance Kingston chopped cookers and eaters, then mashed them through a cider press. It took
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5:2 – a diet of goals!0
- Chelsea First Team
- 15th September 2019
If you thought 5-2 was a diet, think again. The outrageous scoreline represented one of Chelsea’s finest Premier League away wins… all the more so as each goal was scored by the youngsters that Frank Lampard has entrusted with weathering a difficult season in which the club has been barred from bringing in experienced players.
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