Kaz shines as BBC pundit
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 26th January 2020
Men’s football resumes this month, with Blues fans dividing their interest between FA Cup and Premier League. Looking back to Saturday 21 March seems as far removed from real life as watching scratchy black-and-white First World War footage, but that was the day Chelsea should have travelled to Leicester for a lunchtime FA Cup quarter-final.
READ MOREChelsea Women, and the other teams in the Women’s Super League and Championship, have agreed to do the sensible thing – officially end this virus-interrupted season and focus entirely on starting afresh in August. Unlike the Premier League, both the WSL and Championship decided “in the best interest of the women’s game” to call it
READ MOREChelsea Women’s gaffer Emma Hayes has been crowned queen of the WSL after winning most fan nominations in a manager-of-the-season and team-of-the-season poll organised by the BBC at the tail end of this strange, truncated footballing year. Blues players Beth England, Magda Eriksson and Millie Bright feature in the team of the year, alongside a
READ MOREOf course it helps having a multi-billionaire owner, but Chelsea have gone above and beyond in looking after staff, players and the community during the current crisis. No furloughs, no lay-offs, no using government aid to pay the wages. In fact, Chelsea has gone further than any other football club. It is even paying its
READ MOREChelsea Women’s captain Magda Eriksson runs along the riverside in Kingston and Hampton Wick as part of her fitness regime during the pandemic lockdown. Magda, 26, said she is maintaining “a positive spirit” during the crisis, having borrowed a couple of pieces of exercise equipment from the near-deserted Cobham training ground to occupy her time
READ MOREA rare and welcome glimmer of good news on the sporting front… Chelsea Women have pressed ahead and announced a new marquee signing, even though she won’t kick a ball in anger until August at the earliest. With the remaining months of the Women’s Super League set to be abandoned to coronavirus, the Blues have
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