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  • The problem with derbies0

    When Glenn Hoddle was Chelsea’s player-manager in 1994, he declared that the reason the Blues struggled to win the league was the sheer number of London derbies, each with their associated history, rivalry and bitterness. Hoddle argued that teams in Birmingham and Manchester had fewer grudge games, and were therefore better placed to mount serious

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  • Navigating the graveyard0

    The Blues travel to Palace this weekend, conscious of underperforming in their home defeat to Man City and only too well aware that Selhurst Park has a reputation as a graveyard for Chelsea ambition. Tony Conte has to get his tactics right as the Eagles’ desperation for points means that those wily foxes Roy Hodgson

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  • 33-1 spells great goal odds0

    The Ladies know how to keep ’em guessing. They adopted an intriguing tactic in their 1-0 victory over Liverpool at Kingsmeadow last weekend – mystify your opponents at every corner kick. Emma Hayes’ girls send two players to the flag; left-foot Swedish summer signing Magdalena Eriksson and right-footer Karen Carney, a 100-cap England international who also

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  • Sprinting duo lead the charge0

    A dramatic salmon-pink sunset over Surbiton was the backdrop for Chelsea Ladies’ first European night under the floodlights at Kingsmeadow, with Bayern Munich the illustrious visitors. That the Blues achieved a 1-0 victory, with backs against the wall, augers well, while the 2,136 attendance proves there is a local appetite for affordable top-flight women’s football

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  • These Ladies have ‘six’ appeal0

    Anything you can do, we can do better, whistled Chelsea Ladies while demolishing Bristol City 6-0 at Kingsmeadow… the day after the boys beat Stoke 4-0 away. Hard to say which is more impressive; the Ladies breezing to glory without six of their strongest players, or the men making it look easy at the daunting

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  • I trust them all: Conte0

    When Chelsea won the league last season, the team – and formation – could have been printed in the programme, just as it was in the good old days when brass bands entertained the crowds, er, rather like they still do at Stamford Bridge. There were so few changes that the Blues became champions with,

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