Venue: Stadio San Paolo, Naples Date: Tuesday, 21 February Kick-off: 1945 GMT   When we can’t buy ourselves a win in the Premier League – or even in the cup against Birmingham – an away tie against Napoli is just what we need, right? Ok, so we’d probably prefer Northampton but then it wouldn’t be [...]

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I was watching some old Chelsea videos at the weekend – well let’s face it, it was preferable to our highlights against Birmingham wasn’t it? With everything that’s going on at the club right now, particularly the pressure AVB is under and the (mis)reported chants for the return of Mourinho, there’s definitely a feel that [...]

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CHELSEA: Cech, Bosingwa, Cahill, Luiz, Bertrand, Ramires, Mikel, Meireles, Sturridge, Torres, Mata. Subs: Hilario, Bosingwa, Essien, Lampard, Malouda, Kalou, Drogba BIRMINGHAM: Doyle Carr Davies Caldwell Murphy, Gomis Fahey Mutch, Redmond Rooney Elliot Subs: Butland, Caldwell, Burke, Spector, Asante, Reilly, Jarvis

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Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Saturday 18 February Kick-off: 1230 GMT   After so much doom and gloom surrounding us lately, I’d really like to be at least a little bit optimistic about today’s game – but since I’m neither drunk or on drugs, I’ll stick to realism. In our last five games, the only win [...]

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I was in a cab when I heard we’d signed Andriy Shevchenko. I remember it because I’d been saying for two seasons we should sign him.  I remember how I took the absolute piss out of the other passenger in the cab with me – a Milan fan who’d sworn all along Shevchenko would never [...]

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When it’s supporters rather than the press calling for the Chelsea manager’s head, you know he’s in trouble.  Mind you, let’s not pretend the press hadn’t already sown the seed, they had, months ago and now it seems that following our first defeat of 2012, the ‘AVB out’ campaign is in full swing.

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              Venue: Goodison Park Date: Saturday, 11 February Kickoff: 15:00   After somehow going 3 goals up against United last weekend, even more bizarrely we only came away from the Bridge with a point thanks to some rather benevolent officiating and whilst it wasn’t exactly a bore draw, it [...]

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              It’s Everton away for us today and as ever, KickOff have done their stuff in putting together all the predictions and stats you could possibly want ahead of the game. Click here to have a look.

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