Fascinating article in the Sun today about how today about how Andre Villas-Boas laid down the law to his Chelsea players. Between the defeat to Liverpool in the Carling Cup and the trip to Newcastle, AVB met with Chelsea’s four most senior players: John Terry, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and Petr Cech. It appears that AVB told […]
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The Daily Mirror today has a front page story that the London police are considering charging John Terry with making racial comments to QPR’s Anton Ferdinand. According to the Mirror story the police have quizzed six senior Chelsea players about what was said during the match and have sent the file to crown prosecutors to […]
Holders Barcelona and AC Milan are the first two teams through to the UEFA Champions League round of 16, while Arsenal and Chelsea failed to pick up the wins they needed in order to assure progression to the knockout stages. Milan were held to a 1-1 draw in Minsk by BATE Borisov, with Ibrahimovic getting […]
Earlier we covered Arsenal’s 5-3 win at Stamford Bridge from an Arsenal perspective. Here is the Chelsea viewpoint of the match from our Chelsea site: I cannot remember a worse defensive performance by Chelsea than what we saw today. Almost from the opening whistle, it seemed like both teams said lets forget about defence and […]
Chelsea cemented their position at the top of Group E after matching their record Champions League win, while there were also home victories for AC Milan and Barcelona as the group stage reached the halfway point on Wednesday night. Fernando Torres struck twice for Chelsea as they maintained their one-point lead over Bayer Leverkusen. Both […]
Arsenal suffered its fourth loss of the season at Tottenham while Frank Lampard’s hat trick helped Chelsea rout Bolton on Sunday. Rafael van der Vaart and Kyle Walker secured Tottenham’s 2-1 derby victory over Arsenal, which is just two points above the relegation zone after seven matches. Chelsea is third in the standings after Lampard […]
Barcelona and Arsenal picked up their first Champions League victories of the season while Marseille made it two wins out of two after thrashing Dortmund. Winners of the competition in three of the last six seasons, Barcelona were held to a 2-2 draw by AC Milan on matchday one, but turned in a clinical performance […]