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
READ MOREChelsea 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
READ MOREIt’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
READ MOREChelsea 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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