Following an excruciating summer hiatus, top-level football is back. A month into the season, the various narratives of England’s elite clubs are beginning to unfold, with Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham fighting on four fronts. These teams look to claim domestic and continental supremacy in the Premier League and Champions League respectively, as well as the […]
With both Liverpool and Manchester City making impressive starts to their respective Premier League campaigns, the race to reach the other two highly coveted Champions League places is heating up. Tottenham, Manchester United and Chelsea have all lost recently, making the chase even more intriguing. Both Liverpool and Manchester City have excelled in recent weeks, […]
Thursday 4th July 2019: Chelsea Football Club’s very own Independence Day. Shackled by a transfer ban and burdened by a disgruntled fan base out of love with Sarri-ball, the powers on the Fulham Road turned to record goal-scorer Frank Lampard, or ‘Super Frankie Lampard’, to give him his full title. There were whispers that this […]
With Denis Suarez reportedly set to be sent back to Barcelona early after his failed loan spell at Arsenal and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer supposedly wanting to ship the £500,000-a week Alexis Sanchez, here’s a look at some of the Premier League’s finer flops. Beginning with those already mentioned, Denis Suarez has had a time to […]
Chelsea Football Club’s transfer policy has always been a strange one since Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003. In its simplest form, Chelsea’s tactic is to spend the mega-millions on already ‘proven’ players – who ironically often flop and fail at the club – whilst simultaneously carrying out seedy under-hand deals for […]
Last week Frank Lampard was awarded an OBE for his services to football; another wonderful achievement in a career that has had a track record for consistency on and off the pitch. Lampard, long considered a model professional, is the epitome of greatness defying those who suggest that players over the age of 30 will […]
It has been a torrid weekend for all involved with Chelsea FC as they suffered yet another defeat in the Premier League to leave them languishing in the bottom half of the table. Goals from Zarate and Carroll secured a lucrative 2-1 win for an in-form West Ham, who now lie third in the table. […]
Few in the footballing world would have predicted that five games into the new season reigning Premier League champions Chelsea would be languishing just outside the relegation zone, and yet Jose Mourinho’s side have accumulated just four points from their opening fixtures. They lie in seventeenth position with only a single win to their name […]