Chelsea

Happy Blue Year!0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 29th December 2019
The glum faces streaming away from the Emirates told their own story. With seven minutes remaining of Sunday’s London derby between Arsenal and Chelsea, the Gunners were comfortably in command. But when ref Craig Pawson blew the final whistle, it was Arsenal 1 Chelsea 2 – a last-gasp ambush that had manager Frank Lampard bear-hugging
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Frank’s conundrum 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 28th December 2019
It’s the conundrum facing Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, and he knows it. When I asked him, at the most recent press conference at Cobham, for the answer to the ‘consistency’ mystery, he looked heavenwards and puffed his cheeks out. If he, or his deputy Jody Morris, knew the answer, they’d have surely done something about
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3-4-2-1? Wait and see!0
- Chelsea First Team
- 26th December 2019
You’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
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I’m 100% with Toni: Lamps 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 24th December 2019
Chelsea 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
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Catapult to glory 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 23rd December 2019
Could Chelsea use a throw-in specialist? In the recent Chelsea Women v Manchester City Women clash at Kingsmeadow, City’s second sub proved to be a near-deadly secret weapon. Caroline Weir had put the light blues ahead on 59 minutes, hammering home Keira Walsh’s long looping cross, before Chelsea responded with two quick-fire goals with barely
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Are we at tipping point?0
- Chelsea First Team
- 23rd December 2019
Have 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
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