Despite suffering a second home defeat in a row, Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has insisted that his job is safe, saying that reports of his departure were ‘total nonsense’.

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  For all you stats fans get over to KickOff.  As ever, they’ll give you predictions, percentages and pretty much anything else you could wish for. You’ll be in stats heaven.

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                  Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Sunday, 20 November Kick-off: 1600 GMT   So, 28 games over the past seven seasons – 28 opportunities for today’s opponents to get out theit history and wave it at us, cobwebs and all, and god knows how many controversial decions along [...]

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Raul Meireles – another player who’s made the swap from Anfield to Stamford Bridge in recent times – faces his former club tomorrow.

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I’ve refused to buy newspapers for probably about 15 years or more now, I won’t have them in my house and every time I read shite like I came across in yesterday’s Sun, it just strengthens my resolve.  Some bollocks headline about AVB ‘backing’ Poyet’s opinions on racism drew me in – the intention of [...]

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Chelsea captain John Terry has given his support to Daniel Sturridge in the striker’s bid to make an impact on the international stage. The 22-year-old – who has been in fine form for Chelsea this year – is involved in Fabio Capello’s squad at the moment and has realistic ambitions of being influential when it [...]

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And the winner of the Savile Rogue Scarf is………

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With Andre Villas-Boas said to be thinking as much about Chelsea in the longer-term as he is about getting through his first season (which is pretty optimistic for a Chelsea manager it has to be said), he’s been linked with the potential acquisition of yet another emerging young talent.

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It’s fair to say we haven’t seen a lot of Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea this season.  We signed the 18 year old striker from Anderlect for £18m in the summer and whilst we wouldn’t have expected him to replace Drogba or Torres, we might have hoped to see a little more of him than we [...]

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I favourited a tweet on my Twitter account from the summer transfer window that says “apart from Martin Atkinson signing a new contract, nothing major has happened at our club”. It amused me at the time given United’s outrage at the ‘injustice’ of our 2-1 win with him in charge, so obviously I was delighted [...]

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