Lady luck might have played a small part in the soft penalty that saw us progress in this season’s FA Cup at QPR’s expense yesterday but she wasn’t keeping an eye on Ramires was she?

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Not only was the game and the result shite against Norwich at the weekend but we lost Frank Lampard to injury as well and yesterday we were hearing that whilst the rest of the squad went off to Spain, Frank hasn’t gone with them.

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After yet another 6 month absence with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien made his return for our reserves last night against West Brom.

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Just when we thought Michael Essien was all set to return from his injury sooner rather than later – he suffers a setback.

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    Remember when we used to have some bloke called Michael Essien playing for us? I know, I know, you’ll have to cast your mind back a bit, it’s been a while! Well, the news on our missing midfielder is that he’ll be home for Christmas – or at least the expectation is that [...]

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14 October 2006. Remember that? I know I do although I’m not sure how much Petr Cech remembers of it.  It was pretty harsh to watch him go down under Stephen Hunt’s challenge and even worse once the severity of his injury became clear.

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Still no new signings to bring you but TheChelseaBlog brings you a selection of links to the rest of the gossip:   AVB wants an ‘untouchable team’ according to GiveMeFootball Goal.com give us Fergie’s warning to the Chelsea manager Frank Lampard tells SkySports he has every faith in his new boss TheShedEnder brings us Torres’ [...]

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With Andre Villas-Boas still uncertain whether or not he’ll get the attacking midfielder he’s after and Michael Essien ruled out for the next six months following knee surgery, the Chelsea manager’s thoughts have turned to potential cover for the Ghanaian.

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There seems to be a bit of confusion over at White Hart Lane where Luka Modric is concerned.  I mean, it’s one thing for Daniel Levy to somehow have no recollection of the agreement he had with the Croatian – although I suppose selective amnesia was to be expected once a bid went in for [...]

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