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Liverpool To Kickstart A ‘New Era’ With Joe Cole Signing?

Abramovich’s wife of 16 years – Irina Abramovich

It was Roman Abramovich’s second marraige when he married Irina Vyacheslavovna Malandina in October 1991. They had five children together and they divorced in 2007 after there were reports of Abramovich’s relationship with the 28 year old daughter of a Russian oligarch, Daria Zhukova. It was speculated that Irina Abramovich had hired two top UK…

First Lady of Chelsea – Daria Zhukova

Daria is currently dating owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich. She is also the mother of his sixth child.

Sheer embarrassment as harmony returns to the Bridge

Two weeks ago I went to see Chelsea vs Fulham at Stamford Bridge. As a Chelsea fan I was horrified by what I had encountered. Chelsea had conceded in the first few minutes and stayed behind until the 78th; swinging in average crosses, and failing to string together more than three passes. Not until the…

The transfer merry-go-round- somebody make it stop!

In life there are only a handful of things that are certain. You will watch Big Brother. It will irritate you. MPs will lie through their back teeth (and their front ones). Summer does make girls more attractive. And makes you feel less so. People who ring in radio stations with traffic updates are idiots….

From Ukraine with Blues – Why Shevchenko should remain at Chelsea

Shevchenko was given unfair treatment by Mourinho and the new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti knows how to use Sheva properly and help him regain top-form.With the recent appointment of Carlo Ancelotti as the new Chelsea manager and the recent announcement that Shevchenko will be coming back to the Bridge now that his one-year loan deal with AC Milan has expired. While Shevchenko and many Chelsea fans are not optimistic about his future at the bridge, Sheva still has great potential to finish his career in style and justify the money that was spent on him. The following will be reviewed

1) Why Shevchnko did not live up to his potential at Chelsea

2) How Chelsea could have made better use of the Ukrainian international

3) Why Shevchenko deserves one more season as a Chelsea starter under Ancelotti.

Barry Signing Shows Solid Manchester City Development Strategy

When Manchester City were taken over last Autumn by foreign investors with pockets deeper than their oil wells, there was hysteria across the footballing world. The media whipped up a frenzy feasting on a seemingly endless list of managerial and transfer targets encouraged by ambitious and occasionally ridiculous club transfer targets. Manchester City’s performance last…

Chelsea’s future rests in the hands of a manager not named Ancelotti

Last weekend’s FA Cup final merely served to rubberstamp what we all knew anyway, Guus Hiddink is something of a managerial genius. Indeed, it is a testament to how the Dutchman has gotten his Chelsea side to perform over these past 3 months, that even when Everton opened the scoring at Wembley, there was still…

Chelsea Manager – The Best (Paying) Job In Football?

Looking back over the years, during the ownership of Roman Abramovich many Chelsea fans can be proud of what their club has achieved, and rightly they should be. However there has been one issue that has disrupted their game more than any other; not the outrageous wages or telephone-number transfer budgets but the man leading…

Scolari Speaks, Chelsea Bleeds, Becks and Giggs Learn Their Fates and More!

Luiz Felipe Scolari shed some insight into his situation at Chelsea right before he was given the pink slip by Roman Abramovich on Monday. He admitted that he had no relationship with his players off the pitch, and took several players (their initials are D.D. and F.M.) to task for not playing well. Oh, and…