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Crooksy, Brighty, chilly nighty 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 1st December 2017
Wrapped up against the bitter cold, former Spurs legend Garth Crooks sits alongside half of the most iconic strike partnership in Crystal Palace history, Mark Bright, enjoying the view at Stamford Bridge. How the Eagles could do with a young Brighty these days! The Wright and Bright partnership at Selhurst Park scored 230 goals between them, while Crooks scored 48
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Rotating like ballerinas 0
- Chelsea First Team
- 26th November 2017
No time for signing autographs at the moment… the games are coming as thick and fast as snowflakes in Tromso. Chelsea fans in need of a serious dose of football have a bonanza on Saturday when the men take on Newcastle at lunchtime at the Bridge, and the ladies battle Yeovil five hours later. Tony
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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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