I'm so proud of Daddy!
- Chelsea First Team
- 5th May 2019
Another home shocker for Chelsea on Boxing Day… and another trail of angrily torn-up tickets between the stadium and Fulham Broadway station. All you can do is laugh. Nottingham Forest, who visit in the FA Cup shortly, will be packing a case of prosecco in the boot of their coach – it’s that easy to
READ MOREYou’ll have to wait and see whether Chelsea use the 3-4-2-1 formation that ambushed Jose Mourinho last weekend, or stick to a 4-2-3-1 that has been employed for most of this eventful season, when the Saints come marching in to Stamford Bridge or when the Blues head to the Emirates on Sunday. Blues manager Frank
READ MOREChelsea manager Frank Lampard has given German defender Toni Rudiger his 100% backing in the aftermath of the weekend’s ill-tempered Blues victory at White Hart Lane, and the allegation of racist chanting that marred the match. It follows Tottenham lodging an appeal against the red card shown to Son Heung-Min for a studs-up rake of
READ MOREHave 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
READ MOREThe 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
READ MOREFrank 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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