Two holding midfielders are in vogue. The man who has to face them for the Blues sits down with the Official Chelsea Website to discuss the tactical trend...
While many of his squad are away on international duty, Carlo Ancelotti is also abroad this week for a brainstorming session with other top-level managers...
Chelsea FC today confirmed that Dutch defender Jeffery Bruma has signed a 4 year deal with the club, tying him to the Pensioners until 2014. In comments made to the clubs official site Bruma stated: â…
Reaction from Chelsea officials and fans to Thursday’s Champions League group stage draw has been largely positive. Chelsea clearly feel they can beat anyone at the moment and that is hardly surpris…
Chelsea made it three wins from three with Drogba and Malouda adding to their impressive early tallies with another goal each. Stoke fans failed to take their whole allocation, with plenty of empty se…
Fabio Borini gave us the lead as a young blues side dominated Everton before a second-half equaliser undid all the good work. Everton arrived as part of the new reserve format that means the stiffs wi…
Our record for August ended with us scoring fourteen goals and conceding zero. If that record continues until the end of the season, I think that we would all be happy. Goals from Florent Malouda, his…
Feels like defeat, doesn’t it? We’re 4 under par! On a serious note, you can’t score 6 goals every match, can you? Frankly, we’re all a bit spoiled by generous goal serving by the Chelsea team…
Carlo calls it playstation gaming. I’ve been a playstation gamer for god knows how many years. Trust me, it’s not easy even on playstation to score at the rate Chelsea is scoring. This is not just…
Guys! I’m down with fever. I can barely write. I’ll make this a short post and as always, leave it open for your wise, interesting discussions. I know this result deserves a longer post but I canâ…
The season begins tomorrow. What happened last weekend has nothing to do with the league table. Despite a 3-1 defeat in the hands of arch-rivals Man Utd, odds are in favour of Chelsea to retain the ti…
There you have it. I would have loved to win this match but now that we haven’t I’m not gonna throw a fit. Chelsea were certainly a bit rusty and lacked sharpness. It was pretty clear that Chelsea…
This afternoon at 5pm all the Premier League clubs had to submit their 25-man squads for the season (or at least up till January's transfer window) and Chelsea have only submitted a 19-man squad. The…
Liam Bridcutt is another of those young players who have tried to make the break through at Chelsea but never really made any sort of break through. Farmed out on loan during the later years at Chelse…
With the news confirmed yesterday that Robinho had signed for AC Milan from Manchester City for a reported £22m it had me thinking to myself What if he had signed for Chelsea!?. With his time at Manc…
(Click the button above to take you straight there)The boys discuss the 2-0 defeat of a typically attritional Stoke, applaud some top performances by Ashley Cole, Florent Malouda, Mikel, John Terry an…
The Chelsea Daily Drivel is a daily update of all the stories concerning our club, the rumours, the opinions and more....So here are the Chelsea news updates on Tuesday 31st August 2010 including: Mal…
The boys discuss the 2-0 defeat of a typically attritional Stoke, applaud some top performances by Ashley Cole, Florent Malouda, Mikel, John Terry and Alex, and ponder the forthcoming challenges of th…
In this edition of the Inside Chelsea Podcast, we’ll be hearing from Carlo Ancelotti, Jon Obi Mikel and Florent Malouda following the recent victory over Stoke City, plus we’ll also hear from the…
Chelsea 2 Stoke City 0 Stoke were this week's roadkill and, if anything, this ruthless execution was more minatory than any number of six-goal massacres.
Here are the full squad lists for the 20 Premier League clubs with their homegrown players in boldArsenal1 Almunia, Manuel2 Arshavin, Andrey3 Bendtner, Nicklas4 Chamakh, Marouane5 Clichy, Gaël6 Denil…
Hamstring injury forced John Terry to miss England qualifier. Chelsea captain has been ordered to rest for 10 daysJohn Terry has revealed the hamstring injury which has forced him to miss the start…
This week we use chalkboards to look at Wolves' shackling of Joey Barton, Nemanja Vidic's tackling, Mikel John Obi's passing, and Leighton Baines' positioningMick McCarthy's Wolverhampton side had a c…
Florent Malouda stopped short of sparking one of the deepest crises of French football history at the World Cup finals. He left that to his Chelsea team-mate Nicolas Anelka. The midfielder's tournamen…
Reported £4.5m bid for Bosnian goalkeeper rejected. 'They did make an offer and it was rejected' says chairmanThe Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has revealed the club have rejected an offer from…
Bringing you the best football videos on the web, every day at 3pm. Here's today's packet of three:1) We've been celebrating Bill Shankly's birthday elsewhere on the site today, and here's the great m…
Rangers veteran Davie Weir is almost certain to start for Scotland in their opening Euro 2012 qualifier in Lithuania tomorrow - despite being 40 years old.Davie Weir is probably the best centre-back w…
Fabio Capello insists Wayne Rooney will play with style against Bulgaria and start to banish his World Cup woe. The Italian is relieved that Rooney's goalless run has come to an end.
We've trawled the internet to find the most amazing and amusing sport videos which have been causing a storm in cyberspace - including brilliant Neymar losing his shorts!
Each week we bring you our latest chart of the bosses under pressure, and those on Easy Street. Here's Sportsmail's sack-race rankings - otherwise known as the Firing Line...
I don’t know how long I’ve waited to hear this news…..well actually I do, it’s been since September 2008 when Essien sustained an injury whilst on international, which was to keep him out for…
Jeffrey Bruma has been at Chelsea since 2007 and whilst he’s been missing through injury recently, having undergone hernia surgery, bringing him through to the first team always seemed to be part of…
Ironically, whilst TheChelseaBlog keeps harping on about defensive concerns due to current injuries and lack of cover, Nicolas Anelka believes that our defence actually holds the key to our performanc…
With just hours left of the transfer window, the Asmir Begovic row is getting a bit tasty. We’d already heard from Tony Pulis how the Stoke keeper had ‘refused to play’ but that he had no chance…
By my own admission, I’ve whinged a bit about our defensive cover lately, particularly when it came to sending Michael Mancienne back out on loan but with the news that Branislav Ivanovic has now be…
Newspaper reports The Observer, Conrad Leach: When Chelsea have got over the shock and shame of not winning 6-0 – as they had done in their first two games of this season – they will realise the…
Last updated Thursday, 26 August 10, 05:58 PM The draw for the Champions League group stage is scheduled to take place in Monaco later today, at 5 PM BST. Chelsea are among the top eight seeds again a…
Newspaper reports The Observer, Paul Wilson: Like Blackpool, Chelsea probably wish they could play Wigan every week, though unlike Ian Holloway's team, the London club's supporters would soon become…
Newspaper reports The Observer, Amy Lawrence: When you have scored 103 goals and set a scoring record in your last season, it is generosity beyond the call of duty for your first opponents of this te…
Newspaper reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: The prize itself was of little note but rivalry is inescapable for these clubs. If their minds were not on the Community Shield itself, each team must s…
Ok, so perhaps calling the departure of Joe Cole, Michael Ballack and Juliano Belletti on free transfers, and the sale of Mirolsav Stoch, an ‘exodous’ is pushing it a bit far. But now – four wee…
If the reign of Fabio Capello has taught us anything, it surely must be that hiring an expensive foreign ‘master tactician’ is no silver bullet for success. Not that Capello has proved himself the…
Even the most devout supporter of Chelsea’s free-scoring number eight would find it difficult to argue that Frank Lampard has been at his best for England over the past couple of years. Whilst never…
Just about two weeks ago now Chelsea announced that three players – Juliano Belletti, Michael Ballack and Joe Cole – would not have their contracts renewed and would be leaving the club. Speculati…
All the recent media talk involving Joe Cole has been around how Capello should use him to inject some life into his almost paralytic England team. They are right. As he has done at Chelsea, Joe Cole…
Chelsea have only managed to rustle up four homegrown players (over 21) in their squad, which means they have lost four senior places in the declared team. John Terry, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and R…
The coach of the Ghana national team has explained the reasons why he agreed to leave Michael Essien out of the team for next weeks matches, and says that it was an amicable arrangement. “As you kno…
The youngster Jeffrey Bruma has made it into the Blues first team squad, and also been given a new contract to keep him at the club for the next four years, despite just recovering from a hernia opera…
The Chelsea star midfielder Frank Lampard is really happy that the team has started well, and thinks that it is good that there hasn’t been many changes over the summer months. “Continuity is nice…
The Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovich is desperate to take advantage of Chelsea’s offer to be Peter Cech’s deputy, and says that he is very annoyed with the treatment he has received from Stoke sinc…
The club has confirmed that Jeffery Bruma has signed a four year contract extension, keeping him at the club until 2014. The young 18 year old has been at Chelsea since 2007 and is quickly working him…
Carlo Ancelotti had submitted his squad for the 2010/11 season. Premier League clubs must register a minimum of eight players who have trained for three years with any English or Welsh team before the…
Didier Drogba has told new coach Francois Zahoui that he wishes to focus on his fitness and pull out of the squad. Francois traveled to London to meet Didier personally. “I truly met Drogba in Londo…
Franco Di Santo has completed a permanent move to Wigan Athletic on a 3 year contract for an undisclosed fee. He joined Chelsea in January 2008 from Chilean side Audux Italiano La Florida. Franco star…
In the summer of 2009 Carlo Ancelotti came in as Chelsea’s new manager with the task to turn Chelsea’s fortunes around following a period of relative turmoil at the club since the departure of Jos…
A Tottenham-supporting friend of mine, a couple of hours before that second semi began, asked me if I could help him out with some tickets for the final.
   Summary of The Performance in The Opening Month of The Premier League Scored 14, Conceded 0   Winning Record - W W W    Bookings -   Yellow - 2 (terry, Ivanovic)       Red…
 Santo Says Sayonara to Chelsea    Chelsea's 21-year-old Argentine striker was sold to Wigan Athletic for an undisclosed fee on the last day of the summer transfer window. The Argentinian who…
   List of The 25 Men Squad (Though Club Has Submitted 19 Men Squad) 1. Petr Cech 2. Branislav Ivanovic 3. Ashley Cole 5. Michael Essien 7. Ramires 8. Frank Lampard 10. Yossi Benayoun 11. Didier D…
 Loaned out to Vitesse   Hot Croatian prospect Matej Delac has signed the contract with Chelsea. He signed from Inter Zapresic where despite being teenager, he had been the first choice goal-keep…
Young Dutch Signs New Contract   Promising defender from the academy and on whose future club and all the fans all looking with bright hope, Jeffrey Bruma has signed a contract with Chelsea.  …
Defender Jamie Carragher accepts Liverpool's best chance of silverware this season will come in cup competitions as they have too much ground to make up on the likes of title-contenders Chelsea and Ma…
Defender Jamie Carragher accepts Liverpool's best chance of silverware this season will come in cup competitions as they have too much ground to make up on the likes of title-contenders Chelsea and Ma…
Stoke chairman Peter Coates has revealed the club have rejected an offer from Chelsea for goalkeeper Asmir Begovic believed to be around £4.5 million.
Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti hails a professional display from his players after the champions keep up their 100% record with a 2-0 victory over Stoke.
Didier Drogba will miss Ivory Coast's opening qualifier for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.The Chelsea striker has been left out of the Elephant's line-up by their new coach Francois Zahoui.
Chelsea - Queensbury Rules News!Vitalfootball:Â Chelsea:Â 02/09/2010 16:42:00For those who follow the pugilists and who might be eagerly anticipating the next fight of Chelsea supporting Darren Barker…
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