Stamford Bridge

The barmiest match: Cole nets 4 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 29th September 2024
One of the barmiest games in living memory saw Chelsea defeat Brighton 4-2 at Stamford Bridge, with Cole Palmer the first player in Premier League history to score four times in an opening half. Indeed a scoreline of 7-4 wouldn’t have been unreasonable after a surreal first 45 minutes, with spectators staring open-mouthed as goal
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New gaffer is a bad loser!0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 3rd September 2024
It might seem an impossible act to follow, but Chelsea Women’s new head coach Sonia Bompastor is confident she can build on the remarkable legacy of Emma Hayes and – crucially – win the one trophy that eluded the former Blues manager, the Champions League. The feeling at Kingsmeadow (and at Stamford Bridge, where a
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Getting shirty at Chelsea 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 12th August 2024
Walking back to the tube along Fulham Road after Chelsea’s 1-1 friendly draw with Inter Milan in front of a packed house, it was pretty clear who fans’ No1 hero is this season. Replica shirts with PALMER 20 on the back have outsold everything else in the Chelsea club shop, and when new Blues manager
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Hayes: I miss being me!0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 17th May 2024
I miss being myself, said Chelsea manager Emma Hayes at an emotion-charged press conference on Friday at the training ground as she got her squad ready for her final club game. Next week she jets out to the States to become the USA Women’s national coach, after first trying to steer her team to victory
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100th-minute winner for Blues 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 5th April 2024
I woke on Friday morning in a fuzzy cloud, wondering if I’d dreamt that Cole Palmer had netted a winner for Chelsea against Manchester United the night before in the 100th minute of a bizarre ding-dong game. In six decades of going to Stamford Bridge I thought I’d experienced it all; highs of European victories, lows
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Blues reach European semis 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 28th March 2024
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes had promised that her team would not be complacent taking a 3-0 lead into Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with Ajax… and she was as good as her word. Despite wholesale personnel changes with half an eye on Easter Sunday’s League Cup final against Arsenal (on BBC2), the Blues stuck to
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