Petr Cech: Life After Scolari

There’s been a bit of back-stabbing in the weeks since Scolari’s departure, most notably around certain players’ alleged involvement in the Brazilian being offered his P45 prematurely.
Ok, so the story was in The Sun but anyway, the suggestion was that Scolari had told a ‘close friend’ he held Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack and Petr [...]

John Terry & Ashley Cole On Borrowed Time?

Ok, so John Terry should know better and Ashley Cole……well, he’ll always be Ashley Cole unfortunately, but all this talk about the pair of them being kicked out in the summer after a night out went a bit tits-up is a little over the top surely?
Yeh, I know it’s not the first time either [...]

Drogba Hoping To Impress Again As Anelka Misses Out

It’s Juventus next for us tomorrow night and it looks as if this is another game our top goalscorer is likely to miss, with Guus Hiddink saying “Will Anelka be fit? I doubt it. He is working but has been out now for many days. We’ll see what his reaction is to some treatment plus [...]

Hiddink Cautious Over Essien

Michael Essien made his long-awaited return to the first team in our 2-0 win against Coventry on Saturday. The Ghanaian midfielder came on for Mikel for the last 25 minutes and obviously, we’d all love to see him play against Juventus on Tuesday night as well.
His team mates were no less delighted to see [...]