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Blues’ time-wasting fails 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 29th December 2021
The TV monitor shows Reece James’s pain as he limps off after half an hour in a frustrating draw against Brighton Pics: Trisha Morin Chelsea tried to time-waste their way to victory against Brighton on Wednesday night… and failed. A stoppage-time equaliser meant that any prospect of chasing down leaders Man City after
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Servette fold like napkins 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 9th November 2021
It was women against girls as Chelsea, domestic champions and Champions League finalists, found themselves 5-0 up after less than half an hour against Servette of Switzerland… in Geneva. The goals flew in as the Blues’ nifty passing, cool finishing and superior fitness simply crushed their midweek opponents as Servette folded like napkins. Mellie Leupolz
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Lauren’s ready to start 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 4th November 2021
She’s avoiding me, joked Blues manager Emma Hayes as she chatted about Chelsea-mad striker Lauren James, her frustration at the slow start to her Kingsmeadow career… and her impending debut. Chelsea Women’s not-so-secret weapon is now ready to be unleashed, adding another up-front option to the gaffer’s armoury. Protected and nurtured by the Blues’
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Saints fans, keep your cash 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 28th September 2021
Spare a thought for Chelsea’s programme sellers, who are left with boxfuls of unsold £3.50 souvenir mags… because Stamford Bridge has gone cashless. Even in last weekend’s important clash against Man City, as the European champs faced the English champs, many programmes failed to shift as baffled away fans offered coins and fivers, only to
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Zola returns to the Bridge 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 25th September 2021
What a treat! Franco Zola back at Stamford Bridge; sitting in the press box for the Chelsea v Manchester City game. And how Chelsea needed him! If only we could have turned back the clock, handed him a blue shirt with 25 on the back and given him free rein in the second half, the
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Short, snappy, but determined 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 10th September 2021
Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes was prickly and short with questions ahead of the team’s first home match of the new season, against Everton on Sunday lunchtime. She batted off journalists’ queries without her customary warmth and bonhomie, perhaps feeling the pressure after last weekend’s defeat at the hands of Arsenal. Although she is keen
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