Michael Ballack is the latest international casualty, with the German midfielder pulling out of tomorrow’s game against Ivory Coast. It seems Ballack has a knee injury and the Germany coach confirms “We can definitely say that Michael Ballack will not play on Wednesday.  He has an infection in the back of the knee and there [...]

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As I’m sure we all know by now, our ex-keeper Carlo Cudicini had a right nasty accident last week that left him in a pretty bad way. Initial reports suggested he’d broken both wrists and his pelvis, so it really wasn’t sounding too good for the Italian. Well, the good news is he didn’t break [...]

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Tut, tut, it seems that while Carlo Ancelotti was taking a nice little rest during the international break, he should have been over in Italy – appearing in court.  Our forgetful boss has now failed to turn up not once, but twice and the judge is threatening to send the police after him. Ancelotti is [...]

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Our injury list has steadily increased lately, first Ashley Cole, then Jose Bosingwa, then Ashley Cole again – who it turned out had just about dragged himself through the pain barrier to play against United anyway. This week, we heard that not only had Didier Drogba had suffered slightly more than the bruised ribs we [...]

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As if internationals aren’t a big enough pain, we then have international friendlies – and whilst it’s easy to point out our players weren’t subjected to what must have been an exhausting 90 minutes in the heat yesterday, that doesn’t mean England’s latest trip hasn’t cost us. You see, not only did Frank Lampard end [...]

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Given our track record over the last couple of seasons, it looked as if ACON would be our main concern this season because we hadn’t been doing too badly on the injury front. Unfortunately, that’s not the case though. We heard earlier this week that Ashley Cole had suffered a depressed fracture in his leg [...]

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What’s that old saying? ‘You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family’. Something tells me our captain might be wishing that wasn’t the case right now because unfortunately for John Terry, his dad has been caught red-handed – selling cocaine. In a really embarrassing set-up by the News of the World, Ted [...]

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The minute’s silence before kick-off was to be just about the only calm moment in what turned out to be yet another ill-tempered encounter with Manchester United. Carlo Ancelotti made a couple of changes, with Ricardo Carvalho back to partner John Terry in defence and Nicolas Anelka and Michael Ballack both back after their rest [...]

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If we’d had an early kick-off it might be just about forgivable but is there any real excuse for needing to brush your teeth during this afternoon’s game? Bizarre.

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John Terry is in for the inevitable stick for his latest comments in the press.  In the wake of Didier Drogba’s admission that his 8 year old son shamed him into getting his act together, the Chelsea captain has spoken out in defence of the Ivorian’s Champions League rant. Drogba had an initial 6 game [...]

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