John Obi Mikel’s discipline on the field has shown a vast improvement this season. Yeh ok, he missed Saturday’s game through suspension having racked up 5 yellows, but for him to make it as far as January before that happened is pretty good really. Unfortunately though, it’s his discipline off the field that could see [...]

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The FA Cup fifth round draw sees a reunion with our former reserve team coach Brendan Rodgers, as we take on Watford at Vicarage Road. The ties are to be played over the weekend of the 14/15th Feb.   DRAW IN FULL Sheff Utd v Hull Watford v CHELSEA West Ham v Middlesbrough Sunderland or Blackburn [...]

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He’s agreed a deal; we’re not selling him; he’s in talks…… Sounds like the latest adventures in the Didier Drogba saga maybe, and yet it’s not. This time, the daily speculation is around Carlo Cudicini, with stories initially suggesting he’d already signed for Spurs counteracted by Luiz Felipe Scolari allegedly stating the exact opposite. However, [...]

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The news on Michael Essien has always been the subject of change since his cruciate knee ligament injury last September. Early estimates had him coming back as early as January, although more conservative guesses suggested he’d be back around March, whilst last month, we were getting our hopes up for a return to action next [...]

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CHELSEA 3-1 IPSWICH I didn’t get to see this one yesterday, courtesy of work, so I haven’t got much to go on except what I’ve read and a few highlights. So briefly then, looks like we had a nervy start, again missing early chances and despite taking the lead through Michael Ballack on 16 minutes, [...]

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FA Cup fourth round Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Saturday, 24 January Kick-off: 1500 GMT Today sees us take on Ipswich Town at Stamford Bridge. The Tractor Boys might well be 28 places below us in the league but that doesn’t mean there’s any room for complacency bearing in mind it took a replay to get [...]

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Tomorrow’s game sees us take on the Tractor Boys at Stamford Bridge. Watch the FA Cup preview here.

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I was reading all these ‘takeover’ stories about us this morning and having got through several different versions on the same theme, I’ve got to say that my overriding feeling was one of disgust. I mean just who the fuck do these Arab’s think they are? Despite Roman Abramovich making it clear he does not [...]

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John Terry’s back has been a cause for concern several times over the past year or so and that’s the case again at the minute with the Chelsea captain ruled out of this weekend’s game having failed to recover from the back spasm that saw him withdraw from the stoke game in the pre-match warm-up. [...]

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There’s certainly been plenty of confusion over Carlo Cudicini this week, one minute we’re hearing he’s been sold to Spurs, although that story seemed to be a bit hasty because the next we heard was that the North London club were prepared to offer us £1million for him. Now though, almost inevitably, we’re told that [...]

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