I'm so proud of Daddy!
- Chelsea First Team
- 5th May 2019
Chelsea’s first home game after the lockdown break showed that Frank Lampard’s team is still advancing. Despite having to weather endless Manchester City onslaughts in the evening heat at an echoey Stamford Bridge, the Blues emerged 2-1 winners, in the process deposing the reigning champions and gifting Liverpool their first title since Margaret Thatcher was
READ MOREChelsea managed to turn a 1-0 halftime deficit into a 2-1 victory at Villa Park in their opening match back after the Covid break, notching up their first away win of 2020 and making a clear statement about their intention to hang on to a Champions League place for next season. But the biggest takeaway
READ MOREMen’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 MOREPremier League clubs bicker about whether or not to finish the interrupted season, despite many countries deciding there’s no point, and English football’s public relations disaster rolls on. Every statement from football governing bodies begins with the insistence that safety of players, staff and spectators is the paramount concern. Frankly, it should only be news
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 MOREIt was more of a surprise when The Cat wasn’t playing. I’d meet the others from school, noon on Saturday, on the bridge linking the platforms at Wimbledon. Up the now-redundant stairs at Fulham Broadway, we’d push through the boys’ turnstile to stand as close to the nasty bit of The Shed as we dared.
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