Matt Beard

Beams meanz Hinds 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 29th January 2023
Chelsea Women squeezed into the 5th Round of the FA Cup after being chased down by a Liverpool team who fought back hard in a dramatic second half at Kingsmeadow on Sunday lunchtime. The Blues won 3-2, with manager Emma Hayes perplexed that her team had allowed the visitors to dominate the last half hour
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Maren fears eclipse cup win 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 14th March 2021
The haunting screams of Maren Mjelde, writhing about on the pitch after what could prove an extremely serious knee injury, eclipsed a walkover win for Chelsea Women as they retained the Conti Cup against Bristol City. Manager Emma Hayes later described her first-choice right back, pictured, as Chelsea’s ‘mother hen’, and said the whole squad
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Chelsea firm up top spot 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 14th February 2021
Chelsea cemented top spot in the Women’s Super League on the last day before the international break with a 5-0 win at Bristol City. The result was an important sighter ahead of next month’s Conti Cup final, which sees the teams meet at Watford’s ground, and has improved the Blues’ goal difference… a factor which
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We were relentless: Hayes 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 3rd February 2020
It’s hard to imagine two more starkly contrasting reactions after the Blues’ 8-0 win over the Hammers at the weekend. Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes was fighting the urge to grin like a Cheshire cat, while her predecessor, West Ham coach Matt Beard, looked like he’d lost a winning lottery ticket. But it’s not in
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After Eight, anyone?0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 2nd February 2020
Chelsea didn’t so much blow West Ham away as annihilate them. Eight goals were hammered home against the Hammers, with none in reply, and it could have been worse for the Irons in this dramatic east/west clash. Not that the afternoon’s visitors to Kingsmeadow were bad or sloppy or careless. Chelsea Women were simply superb
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