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FA Cup Final Live Blog: Everton v Chelsea

by Michael Scallon on May 29, 2009 · 3 comments

The last dance of the season, of every season, the FA Cup Final is the jewel in the English Football Crown. Last year’s final between Cardiff and Portsmouth was arguably the exception, but this year’s certainly isn’t:
Underdogs Everton come into the final for the first time in 14 years, since Joe Royle’s infamous ‘dogs of war’ – [...]

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Chelsea’s UEFA Conspiracy Claims Are Laughable

by tyduffy on May 8, 2009 · 29 comments

With their typical class, Chelsea players and staff asserted their belief, following their 1-1 agg defeat to Barcelona, that UEFA conspired against them to prevent an all-English final in the Champions League.
Players, such as Didier Drogba, displayed their sentiment by all but physically assaulting the referee as he left the pitch. Manager Guus Hiddink took [...]

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No Away Goals For Chelsea

by Ethan Armstrong on April 29, 2009 · 2 comments

What was Guus Hiddink thinking?
Yes, clean sheet at the Camp Nou is a commendable achievement, and I still feel Chelsea are the more likely to go through to the final. But after promising that the Blues would try to score in the away leg, Hiddink’s tactics against FC  Barcelona show he had absolutely no intent [...]

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Hiddink Is Right To Fear Barcelona, Not Just Messi

by Paul Bestall on April 28, 2009 · 10 comments

How do you stop the best player in the world, Lionel Messi will probably be keeping Guus Hiddink awake tonight as he prepares for his stiffest test yet as Chelsea’s interim manager. Whilst I appreciate the bravado that Hiddink is giving in regards to his own players, he is right to dampen down the furore [...]

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The Grass Was Too Green And The Ball Was Too Round

by Christopher Walker on April 27, 2009 · 4 comments

Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger’s post match reactions following last weeks FA cup semi finals predictably brought up the issue of the Wembley pitch. To be fair to the man with a KBE and his old rival, the surface at Wembley doesn’t seem fitting to a stadium as iconic (and costly) as the re-built Wembley. But as Guus Hiddink rightfully pointed [...]

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Chelsea’s Biggest Enemy Tonight Is Complacency

by Paul Bestall on April 14, 2009 · 2 comments

So Chelsea have one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions League after the marvellous 3-1 win at Anfield last week and Saturdays 4-3 win against Bolton was probably the kick up the backside the Blues needed. It’s easy to fall for the fallacy that Liverpool can’t overturn the deficit that they’ve given themselves from [...]

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Spurs End Hiddink Magic

by Jason Davis on March 23, 2009 · 1 comment

Guus Hiddink and Chelsea saw the magic come to a deflating end against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, as a Luka Modric’s  strike in the 50th minute put a serious dent in the West London club’s title chances.  After the improvement in form that always seems to come with a change in managers, Chelsea had won [...]

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