Great, so Chelsea will be playing MLS newcomers the Sounders on July 18th in a pre-season friendly. Let’s all bloody jump for joy as Peter Kenyon excels himself again. This season’s pre-season saw our players dragged across China, Malaysia and Moscow for the Railways Cup and whilst at the time I assumed the press were [...]

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Chelsea have been rumoured to be keen on Yuri Zhirkov already this year and the arrival of Guus Hiddink appears to have re-ignited this rumour. According to the press, Hiddink – who, let’s remember, is only a temporary fixture at Chelsea (what manager isn’t anyway?!) – has told the club to make the Russian winger [...]

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Chelsea’s open training session on Tuesday seems to have gone down pretty well and Juliano Belletti for one, would like to see it happen more often. Belletti says “At Barcelona, every training session was open to the fans, so there was good contact between the players and fans. I would like to do this more [...]

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Ok, so Manchester United are running away with the title this season.  The fact that the title race is just about sorted in February is old news and I’m bored with it already, so I won’t put up any argument there at all but I don’t understand Ferguson’s point about us ‘playing into United’s hands’. [...]

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Chelsea are still in three competitions this season. With the exception of the Carling Cup – which is the least important of the lot – the team can still end the season with at least one football trophy. Fair enough, this may be a little bit too optimistic, but it could happen and that’s why [...]

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There’s been much talk about what formation Guus Hiddink will go with against Aston Villa on Saturday, particularly when it comes to our frontmen. However, the decision of whether or not to play both Drogba and Anelka together seems to be one of the easier one’s he’ll have to make. The harder decision for Hiddink [...]

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Didier Drogba really hasn’t done a lot for us this season although even I was surprised to realise he’s only made nine starts. Mind you, while the press are trying to make out this was somehow down to Luiz Felipe Scolari, I’m not buying into that one. Drogba started off the season with an injury [...]

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Claudio Pizarro’s a funny bloke. Apparently he had no intention of leaving Chelsea in the summer, with his agent rubbishing transfer stories as ‘crazy’ but as we know he ended up packing his bags for a loan deal at Werder Bremen. Then last month we were hearing how he’d “love to carry on playing for [...]

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Ok, it’s pretty much to be expected really that the world and his wife are having a laugh at our expense, so here’s a few that are being bandied about: Q: What have Chelsea and Ian Beale’s mum got in common? A: They both got screwed by Grant and Phil.

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Guus Hiddink sat in the stands for our game against Watford at the weekend and despite our 3-1 win, his expression said it all really – there’s a lot of work to be done at Chelsea. And that work started yesterday, with our temporary manager taking charge of his first training session. And having watched [...]

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