With all the mind games going on ahead of our game against City today, Petr Cech obviously didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity of his own wind-up.

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Venue: City of Manchester Stadium Date: Saturday, 25 September Kick-off: 1245 BST Much has been made of our ‘easy’ start to the season, so today’s game against City is a chance to put that one to bed – as long as we beat them obviously. It’s certainly looked easy enough for us in the league [...]

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Oh bless, our opponents for tomorrow are struggling with injuries ahead of the game. Diddums.

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You have to laugh at Fergie eh? How many years has he been managing at the top now? And yet he never tires of the game-playing.

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A week or so ago, TheChelseaBlog ran an article off the back of reports in The Guardian of Chelsea lacking a bit of backbone when it comes to addressing anti-semitism amongst some of its supporters. Today however, in the interests of redressing the balance, it’s time to hear the other side of the argument.

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Such has been the emphatic nature of Chelsea’s start to the season that many commentators are already suggesting we hand them the 2010-11 Barclays Premier League title. As starts go, it has certainly been impressive, with the Blues notching an incredible twenty one goals in their opening five leagues fixtures, conceding just one in the [...]

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Our injury problems don’t look like improving any time soon, with Hilario’s absence costing us midweek and the woe of our defeat only added to seeing one limp off and another stretchered.

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How many times have we said Michael Essien is like a new signing for us this season? How many times did we say how great a loss he was during his lengthy injuries? How often have we said he makes the difference in the big games? And how many times have we said he’s just [...]

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Half the country seems to have an opinion on whether or not our good start to the season is down to the ‘easy’ opposition so far, the other half are either rugby fans or cave dwellers, either way, it’s an argument we’ve had to face since the opening game of the season.

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I loved Desailly at Chelsea, as central defenders go, he really was like a brick wall and since he’s left, he’s been supportive whilst still generally honest in his opinions about us. Still, it’s fair to say he’s just gone up a bit more in my estimation with the news that he turned down both [...]

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