Carling Cup third round Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Wednesday, 23 September Kick-off: 1945 BST Last season’s Carling Cup was one to forget for us, with us exiting in a penalty shoot-out to Burnley. They were still in the Championship then and despite Ray Wilkins assurance that Scolari would respect the competition in terms of [...]
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It’s ironic really, if we’d sold Didier Drogba in the summer, I’d have been happy to see the back of him. Off the back of letting us down in the Champions League final, instead of doing everything he could to make amends, the Ivorian followed it up with a bloody disaster of a season. For [...]
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Going into this game, we’d repeatedly heard it would be our first real test seeing as we apparently hadn’t actually played anyone worth playing in our first five games – not sure the sides we’ve played would necessarily agree but whatever. Anyway, the Manchester derby was out of the way and the pressure was on [...]
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What is going on? Here I was at the start of the season totally convinced Manchester City would do absolutely nothing. Ok, so just like we did when Roman arrived, they’ve bought themselves some pretty good players, but so what? I’ve always maintained it takes more than money to get anywhere in the Premier League. [...]
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Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Sunday 20 September Kick-off: 1600 BST Chelsea’s game this weekend sees us at home to Spurs in the late game today. So, even before we kick off, we’ll have seen how things have panned out in the Manchester derby before we try to maintain our 100% start to the season – [...]
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Two days ago we heard the news that Peter Kenyon was stepping down as Chelsea’s Chief Executive – and for two days TheChelseaBlog hasn’t offered an opinion. Don’t worry though, I haven’t been in mourning – that would require a complete turn around in my opinion of him, or a full-on lobotomy and I’ve had [...]
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Porto up for us in our first Champions League game of the campaign and whilst it was the sort of weather that’s very heavy on the legs, at times it was the sort of game that’s not exactly easy on the eyes either. Porto’s Brazilian striker Hulk looked lively from the off, with Cech needing [...]
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Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Tuesday 15 Sept Kick-off: 1945 BST Chelsea have made the semi-final of the Champions League in five of the last six years, losing the final in a penalty shoot-out against Manchester United in 2007, and after yet more disappointment in Europe last season, which ended for us with what has [...]
With Europe beckoning again, TheChelseaBlog has picked out a few of today’s relevant articles to get you all in a Champions League frame of mind. Sport.co.uk runs a piece looking at the financial gains involved in the Champions League – especially if you’re Chelsea it would seem. Whilst Vital Chelsea pose the question over which [...]
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After our late win against Stoke at the weekend, I was having a bit of a debate with someone yesterday around our results so far this season – or rather, his perception that we’ll come a cropper as soon as we play ‘bigger’ sides. I’m sure he’ll correct me if I’m wrong but I think [...]
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