Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole will play against Manchester United tomorrow, even amid the controversy surrounding him after an air-rifle incident at his soccer club’s training ground. According to yesterday’s News of the World Cole brought a .22 air rifle to Chelsea’s training ground. While clowning around with the riffle, Cole accidentally shot 21-year-old student […]
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A good night for Chelsea in the Champions League while Real Madrid’s struggles in the knockout stages continue. In France, Karim Benzema scored against his former club in the 65th minute and seemed to give Real Madrid a morale boosting away victory. But Lyon’s Bafetimbi Gomis tied the score in the 83rd minute leaving the […]
After two months of anticipation, in which time they have not played a competitive game, FC Copenhagen “are buzzing” ahead of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 visit of Chelsea FC on Tuesday according to coach Ståle Solbakken. Carlo Ancelotti is well aware of FC Copenhagen’s quality from their fine group-stage performance that ensured […]
Despite dominating the whole 90 minutes, it took an injury-time Petr Cech penalty save from Clint Dempsey for Chelsea to escape from Craven Cottage with a 0-0 draw tonight. The draw leaves Chelsea in fifth place, two points behind Tottenham and out of the Champions League positions, while Fulham are now four points clear of […]
It was a record breaking weekend in Spain as Barcelona set a new unbeaten record in Liga winning streak. Over in Italy the Serie A title race got closer as both Inter and Napoli closed the gap on leaders AC Milan. Spain Barcelona set another fabulous benchmark on Saturday as their 3-0 home win against […]
King Kenny continues to work his magic as a Raul Meireles goal so Liverpool beat Chelsea 1-0 ay Stamford Bridge. Liverpool are now only six points back of Chelsea for that final Champions League spot as they remarkable revival under Kenny Dalglish continues. The build-up to the match at Stamford Bridge had focused on the […]
The details behind Chelsea’s £68.6m loss for last season are starting to come out an they don’t make pretty reading. Chelsea’s annual wage bill soared last season to £172.5million, which is almost £40million more the next highest payers Manchester City paid. In 2009, Chelsea spent £165.6million on wages but that sum included pay-offs worth £12.6million […]
Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-1 to stay five points clear of Arsenal, who won 2-1 against Everton, at the top of the Premier League. Wayne Rooney had scored just one league goal from open play prior to his first-minute strike against Villa. The England striker controlled Edwin van der Sar’s clearance with delightful ease […]
The British transfer record was smashed twice in an hour as Liverpool paid £35m for Newcastle’s England forward Andy Carroll and then turned around and sold Fernando Torres to Chelsea for the staggering amount of £50million. And Chelsea were not finished there also landed Benfica’s Brazil defender David Luiz in a £25m cash-plus-player deal. Chelsea […]