Venue: Molineux Date: Saturday, 20 February 2010 Kick-off: 1500 GMT Chelsea will be hoping to improve their recent poor form away from home in the Premier League on their trip to Molineux today. After being fined £25,000 by the Premier League this week for not fielding a full strength team against Manchester United in December, [...]

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Finally, the press have published something colourful about Chelsea players – and it’s got absolutely nothing to do with their sex lives. Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba have been stripping off as well apparently, but unlike Ashley Cole and John Terry, these two have been doing it in the name of advertising ahead of the [...]

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Around the start of the year TheChelseaBlog recalled a conversation with an opposition supporter about the possibility of Joe Cole leaving. Prior to that, with Cole’s repeated insistence he had no plans to play anywhere other than Chelsea, I’d always been quietly confident a deal would be sorted. At the turn of the year though, [...]

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Back at the end of 2008, John Obi Mikel was copping a bit of flak. Fair play to him though because he seemed to take some of what his critics were saying on board and resolved to address the issue of his previous lack of discipline. His early seasons at Chelsea had certainly left a [...]

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Surprisingly enough, Rafa Benitez isn’t a big fan of the proposed Champions League play-off system. Well ok, so it’s not actually surprising at all really. I mean, if it was this year he probably wouldn’t have too many complaints because it would at least give him a chance at getting into the Champions League but [...]

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I remember having a distinct dislike for Jose Mourinho when he was At Porto. I mean, aside from seeming to do a decent job there, there wasn’t that much to like really.  He was just arrogance personified, so when he was linked to us – to put it mildly, I was not impressed. Like anyone [...]

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So, Guus Hiddink has signed a two year deal with Turkey eh? I don’t know about anyone else but as soon as I heard it was a four year deal, two years of which are optional, I couldn’t help thinking about the significance of that. You see, whilst the press seemed to be saying this [...]

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What is it with the British press eh? It’s World Cup year, we’ve got a squad capable – if not of actually winning it, at least of giving it a good shot – and they seem to be slowly picking our players off one-by-one in their best efforts to derail the campaign before it’s even [...]

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So, the 6th round of the FA Cup has been drawn and sees us face either Stoke or Team Bridge. Personally I’d prefer Stoke because I don’t think any of us could stand the circus coming to town for a quarter final against City.   6th Round Draw In Full:   Chelsea v Manchester City [...]

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I suppose the one thing all the press focus on John Terry’s sex-life has done, it’s leave Joe Cole alone for a while. Prior to the recent revelations about the Chelsea skipper and his sacking as the England captain, we had one ‘story’ after another about the problems surrounding Cole’s contract negotiations and potential links [...]

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