Chelsea

Morning sickness 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 8th December 2019
If you want to beat Chelsea, persuade one of the TV channels to shift the match to the earliest possible slot. For some reason, the Blues cannot get their act together before mid-afternoon… especially if they’re playing away. So it was at rudderless Goodison Park, where an Everton team staring at relegation and with Duncan
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No plans for the January sales 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 6th December 2019
As news filtered through that Chelsea’s appeal to sport’s court of arbitration had succeeded (the transfer ban has been lifted and the fine halved) there was a collective shudder of apprehension from fans. Might it mean that Frank Lampard’s courageous kids policy will be abandoned in favour of signing more ready-made ‘superstars’? Will it mean
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The writing’s on the wall 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 5th December 2019
The writing’s on the wall at Kingsmeadow, where one of the crunch matches in the Women’s Super League is being staged this Sunday. Poster girl Jonna Andersson, set against a Christmassy backdrop, is plugging the Chelsea Women v Man City game, which could have a big influence on the final placings in a closely fought
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Cushions urgently needed 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 5th December 2019
John Terry, returning hero, signed and posed and chatted and bonded ahead of the Blues’ game against Villa, but he – and his old team-mate Frank Lampard – know that the points Chelsea won as the temperatures plunged could easily have been snatched away. Without the cushion of an extra goal, Chelsea will always look
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Freeze lets Arsenal go top 0
- Chelsea FC Women
- 1st December 2019
Arsenal have gone top of the table after an extraordinarily one-sided WSL game following the late cancellation of Chelsea’s match against Everton Women. With just half an hour to go before kick-off at Haig Avenue, Southport, the referee decided it was unsafe for the Blues’ match to go ahead. Arsenal instantly leapfrogged Chelsea at the
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Blues lose ability to create 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 30th November 2019
If referee Jon Moss had added an hour and five minutes of stoppage time to the end of this perplexing London derby instead of merely five minutes, Chelsea still wouldn’t have scored. In a match which felt like a weird Life on Mars throwback to the 70s or 80s, the Blues came up against a
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