What We Learned: A convincing win with a ‘reserve’ line up at Swindon
Another game this week and another convincing win with a perfect clean sheet as we didn’t concede a goal in both games against Fulham and Swindon. And as the title points out, Jose Mourinho fielded in what is supposed to be a ‘reserve’ line up that included the likes of Juan Mata, David Luiz and […]
What to look forward to this weekend? – Spurs vs Chelsea
Chelsea and Spurs lock horns this weekend in the London derby. Chelsea and Spurs are both separated by just 2 points at the top of the table and both sides on Saturday will be looking to get all three points. Spurs have responded strongly after losing to Arsenal at the Emirates. Chelsea too have had […]
Marco van Ginkel ruled out for the rest of the season
Marco van Ginkel’s first season at Chelsea has been wrecked by a knee ligament injury which will rule out the midfielder for around nine months and has ended his hopes of playing for Holland at next summer’s World Cup. Scans confirmed day that Van Ginkel tore an anterior cruciate ligament in the opening 10 minutes […]
Tales from the Terrace #2: The Obi One For Me
Just like Chelsea’s winning ways, Tales of the Terrace is back. And A LOT has happened since last week, so lets have a quick round up of what went on: – Mourinho wants to convert Juan Mata to a RM, with Oscar his preferred number 10. – Chelsea beat Fulham 2:0 – Oscar and John Obi […]
Torres- “It is difficult to play in this great team, but we are fighting for the positions”
Fernando Torres was delighted after the last night’s game against Swindon Town for the third round of Capital One Cup . Torres was given all the 90 minutes of the game to impress Jose Mourinho ; and the Spaniard certainly did. He opened up the scoring for the Blues after Mata’s brilliant shot was saved […]
Victory not perfect as Van Ginkel and Ramires suffer injuries
Van Ginkel suffered a potentially serious knee problem early in the 2-0 third-round win and was replaced by Ramires, who was also taken off at half-time with injury – which he picked midway through the first half. Marco van Ginkel injury seems to be very serious, but isn’t yet confirmed. The British papers this morning have […]
Massacre at Manchester, yet crisis is at Chelsea!
It’s not the first time, it won’t be the last time we are going to be experiencing this sort of biased treatment by the media. Heck, we are to be blamed as we have not yet adapted ourselves to their habits! Yes, you guessed it right; I am talking about the constant negative scrutiny that […]
Match Preview: Swindon Town FC vs Chelsea FC
Chelsea returned to winning ways against Fulham, after a mini-slump in the previous game-week. This mid-week Chelsea begin their Capital One Cup campaign, the first ever trophy won by “The Happy One” during his first spell at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea’s first test will be against Swindon Town FC, who pulled off a mini-upset when they […]
What We Learned: West London Derby victory and guess who scored finally?!
Chelsea beat Fulham at Stamford Bridge to secure all three points and in the process go top of the BPL table on the night. The game was build up as a crisis situation for Chelsea and anything less than a win was not acceptable and according to the media Chelsea were undergoing a mini crisis […]
Analyzing the future of Chelsea’s Left back berth
In this article, I want to discuss my points and opinions of the future of our Left back berth in the wake of Ashley Cole’s bad run of form in the previous games. We lost to consecutive matches against Everton last weekend and against FC Basel. He seemly has lost the pace and stamina to […]