Venue: Ewood Park Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010 Kick-off: 1600 GMT Well, we might have gone out in the Champions League but now’s the time to pick ourselves up and get a bit of pride back. Today’s trip to Blackburn gives us the opportunity to do that but it’s up to the players to show [...]

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It depends what paper you read as to what happened in the aftermath of our Champions League exit and what’s still to come. According to some, Abramovich read the players the riot act, questioning their motives for being at the club whilst on the other hand, he is reported to have given them the silent [...]

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CHELSEA 0-1 INTER MILAN (1-3 AGG) Well that was bloody painful. Yet again we let Jose Mourinho come between us and the Champions League and ‘sick as a dog’ doesn’t even cover it.

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I was having a conversation with my son at the weekend, as the goal we conceded to West Ham signaled that already this season we have conceded more than in any full season since 2003-04. If you think about it logically though, that makes complete sense because that was the last season our play was [...]

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How unusual for Jose Mourinho to be surrounded by controversy eh? Arriving in London in the middle of the fully expected media circus, Mourinho announced he’ll still be ‘The Special One’ at the end of tonight, no matter what happens. Although whether Mario Balotelli agrees after he was rumoured to be left back in Italy [...]

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In case any of us dare forget, Jose Mourinho enjoyed a great record at Stamford Bridge during his time at Chelsea and not even I would dismiss that. How long would he have kept it up if he’d stayed?

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Champions League last 16 second leg: Chelsea v Inter Milan Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Tuesday, 16 March Kick-off: 1945 GMT Right, here we go then, Jose Mourinho’s first game at Stamford Bridge since he left and he’s milked the publicity for all it’s worth. I know, I know, it’s very unlike our shy and retiring [...]

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You’d assume no-one could be as confident ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League game at Stamford Bridge as Jose Mourinho but you’d assume wrong because Samuel Eto’o is every bit as certain of a win.

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Jose Mourinho comes back to Stamford Bridge for the first time on Tuesday since he left in September 2007. It goes without saying he’ll come back in a blaze of publicity because let’s face it, that’s Jose Mourinho, but that’s the only similarity between this visit and any other time he’s been inside the ground. [...]

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When the opposition talk about our dangermen ahead of games, it would usually be all about Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Nicolas Anelka maybe. Whoever it is they think will do the most damage though, it’s fair to say none of them would put Florent Malouda down as much of a worry – and yet, he [...]

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