Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Chelsea D
Not the best season for Chelsea then, for a variety of reasons although one of the main one’s – as we all deliberated before the season even started anyway – has to have been the depth of our squad. For the first time ever, we’d had a genuine clear-out in the summer and whilst that [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2011 by Chelsea D
It’s heading towards summer and another transfer window, so for Chelsea that can only mean one thing – our annual links with Kaka. Having been linked with the Brazilian midfielder in 2008, 2009 and 2010, it’s only natural we’d be linked with him again this summer. This time though, the ‘inside information’ seems to have [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2011 by Chelsea D
So, Liverpool may well have missed out on a Champions League place again on top of seeing their record of titles surpassed by bitter rivals United this season, but no-one can say Kenny hasn’t achieved something during his time at Anfield so far.
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Posted on May 12th, 2011 by Chelsea D
As the season winds down, with nothing in the cupboard to show for it this year and the Chelsea manager under fire, yesterday TheChelseaBlog was pleading the case for Carlo Ancelotti. It’s inevitable his job will be touted in the press, it’s an annual event on the journos’ calendars anyway, but that doesn’t mean it [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2011 by Chelsea D
I really like Carlo Ancelotti. Not exactly headline news for supporters to like their manager I guess but, a bit like Ranieri really, as speculation about his job has intensified, it’s suddenly dawned on me – I don’t actually want him to go.
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Posted on May 9th, 2011 by Chelsea D
Well what can we say? We were invited to the title bash, turned up 45 minutes late, just about got a foot in the door then decided we didn’t fancy hanging about after all.
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Chelsea D
UNITED: Van der Sar, Fabio, Ferdinand, Vidic, O’Shea, Valencia, Carrick, Giggs, Park, Rooney, Hernandez Subs: Anderson, Berbatov, Smalling, Nani, Kuszczak, Scholes, Evans CHELSEA: Cech, Ivanovic, Luiz, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Essien, Lampard, Kalou, Malouda, Drogba Subs: Turnbull, Ferreira, Alex, Ramires, Benayoun, Anelka, Torres
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Chelsea D
In the run-up to this afternoon’s game against United, Carlo Ancelotti has claimed if there was a choice for him to make between Wayne Rooney and Lionel Messi, it wouldn’t be the Barcelona star he’d go for.
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Chelsea D
Having seen his players battle back from what must have seemed like the wilderness this season, Carlo Ancelotti quite rightly points out that no-one actually expected today’s game to have any relevance to the title race at all.
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Posted on May 8th, 2011 by Chelsea D
Today see’s United and Chelsea in what has to be the biggest clash of the season, ahead of the battle on the pitch though, TheChelseaBlog has had its usual head-to-head with Scott the Red from TheRepublikof Mancunia. Yesterday it was Scott posing the questions but today, it’s payback:
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