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Hazard excels in Toon defeat 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 2nd December 2017
Eden Hazard may have been man of the match in the Blues’ lunchtime defeat of Newcastle, but the back-to-fitness Victor Moses and the back-to-form Danny Drinkwater were also stand-out participants. The Toon Army outsang Chelsea for the entire game, but on the field the Blues outplayed the Magpies and, in the end, a 3-1 scoreline
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Kante wins, Conte grins 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 5th November 2017
Welcome back, N’Golo Kante! To say you’ve been missed is an understatement. It’s been a bleak, listless, rudderless October… but thank goodness you’re fit and well again. That was the gist of the conversation on the way back to Fulham Broadway after the Blues’ 1-0 victory over Manchester United; a surprisingly open and oddly one-sided
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Sulky One v Rattled One 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 3rd November 2017
It’s The Sulky One v The Rattled One. Jose Mourinho brings United to the Bridge this weekend in snappy, surly mood, a million miles from the chirpy Special One who did so well at Chelsea. The Blues manager, on the other hand, has demons of his own. Tony Conte should have shrugged and smiled when
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The ambulance chasers 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 24th October 2017
The games come thick and fast as Ferraris fight for space with ambulances in the players’ car park at Cobham. We saw it last season, and we appear to be witnessing it again this one. When it’s backs-to-the-wall time, the Blues suddenly rouse themselves. At 3-2 down to Roma at the Bridge, board members wrapped
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A Bridge autumnal cracker 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 19th October 2017
An exhilarating, all-action, breathless whirlwind of a game under the floodlights saw Chelsea initially overpower Roma, then get pegged back, then fall behind and finally snatch an equaliser in a 3-3 classic. The scoreline was actually Chelsea 3 Manchester City 3, as two City old boys – Aleksandar Kolarov and Edin Dzeko – supplied all
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The problem with derbies 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 18th October 2017
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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