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Detailed coverage of Chelsea football club and its players, including match reports, transfers, transfer rumours, kits and general football news.
We also have sections on Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho (including a dedicated Jose Mourinho quotes page), Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Chelsea players Andriy Shevchenko and Frank Lampard.
How Chelsea’s Champions League win affects City’s, United’s and Arsenal’s revenues
Chelsea winning the Champions League will see the other English Champions League qualifiers lose a few million pounds each from UEFA’s pot of TV money going to the Premier League. While this is a small part of the overall Champions League revenue split (explained in detail here for 2010/2011), it represents a loss nevertheless. As…
Drogba says goodbye to Chelsea as Torres grows impatient
Despite leading Chelsea to Champions League glory on Saturday it appears Didier Drogba has played his last game for the club. France Football magazine has reported that the Ivory Coast star has confirmed he is leaving Stamford Bridge. The striker has been quoted saying he informed his team-mates of his decision during the club’s open-top…
Drogba Completes Roman’s dream
Chelsea found redemption for the misery of Moscow and ended their long quest to win the Champions League by beating Bayern Munich on penalties in the Allianz Arena. Di Matteo delivered a surprise in his starting line-up, with youngster Ryan Bertrand handed a role on the left flank in front of Cole in an attempt…
Bayern Munich v Chelsea Preview: The Complete 2012 Champions League Final Guide
The 2011/2012 Champions League Final, to be played between Chelsea and Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in Munich on Saturday, 19th May 2012, is going to be a classic. Both finalists were unfancied going into their respective semi-finals and they overcame unlikely odds to beat Real Madrid and Barcelona. While Bayern came through their…
Top Five Bayern Munich v Chelsea Betting Tips
Chelsea and Bayern Munich go head-to-head in this season’s Champions League final on Saturday at the Allianz Arena, in what should be a mouth-watering clash. The Germans are favourites due to playing at home, however the Blues have upset Barcelona and are in great form in Europe. With two-evenly-matched sides taking centre stage it is…
2012/13 Pre-Season Schedules: Tottenham, Liverpool, Real Madrid and more
Despite the 2011-12 season just drawing to a close and Euro 2012 and the Olympics on the horizon, a raft of leading European teams are planning their warm up games for next term. With an increase in popularity in the game across in North America, it has been the trend for pre-season friendlies to be…
Will Gareth Bale and Luka Modric leave Tottenham?
It is widely accepted that most rumoured transfer rumours are made up. They’re made up by newspaper journalists under pressure from tetchy impatient editors who want new, fresh stories that will sell newspapers and garner a load of hits on the internet. So of course journalists lacking imagination get the same players, link them to…
Five reasons underdogs Chelsea can beat Bayern at the Allianz Arena
It has been quite the Champions League campaign this season, with a number of shocks, surprises and upsets, none more so than the fact that Chelsea ousted Barcelona in the semi-finals to set up a final against Bayern Munich. With the last fixture taking place at Die Roten’s home, the Allianz Arena, the Bundesliga giants…
Barcelona’s Summer 2012 Transfer Targets: Who’s coming in and who’s going out?
Depending upon the outcome of Copa del Rey Final on May 25th against Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona can finish the 2011/2012 campaign on a (relative) high. Winning the domestic Cup competition is nothing to sniff at but it pales to the accomplishments achieved in previous seasons. FC Barcelona finished the season with 91 points; in…
What does the future hold for Tevez, Baines, Drogba and M’Vila?
Here’s a look at the top transfer stories circulating in the Premier League today, with guest appearances from Carlos Tevez (will he stay or go), Leighton Baines (can he match the flying Frenchman) and Didier Drogba. Manchester City Manchester United’s so-called Noisy Neighbours are determined to build on their expected title triumph by completing their…
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