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The new wingers 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 12th February 2023
A team of 11, expertly switching – in perfect formation – from one end of the pitch to the other. Not West Ham, and not Chelsea either, although both teams showed glimpses of promise at the London stadium during last weekend’s 1-1 draw. I’m talking about a flock of pigeons having a lunchtime peck on
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Talk on the children of the Titanic 0
- Arts, News
- 11th April 2022
The haunting face of a survivor. This girl from Leatherhead was one of 112 children aboard the Titanic when it hit an iceberg on April 15, 1912 en route from Southampton to New York. Fifty children perished in the maritime disaster. David Lawson Lean, a drama teacher who researched the fates of those children who
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Insults fly at Chelsea 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 27th October 2021
You started it! No, you started it! As a 54-year-old Austrian traded insults with a 48-year-old German on the touchline at Stamford Bridge, Ralph Hassenhuttl and Thomas Tuchel’s deputies also joined in, barking abuse across the divide during the League Cup clash on Tuesday night while fourth official Graham Scott tried to act as the
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A match that had the lot 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 4th October 2021
It’s rare that a match has everything – goals, near misses, red and yellow cards, a penalty, reverberating woodwork, VAR drama… and horizontal rain. But last weekend’s monsoon-soaked clash between Chelsea and Southampton will live long in the memory as every box was ticked. It’s just as well that there’s another international break this weekend.
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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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Going back to her roots 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 20th October 2020
Keeping a large squad happy is proving such a challenge for Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes that she’s turned to her hairdresser for help. With so many quality players to choose from, the problem is the morale of the ones left out of the team, rather than the ones featuring regularly. “Look at my grey
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