Category Archives: Chelsea

03 FEB

Three games which can shape the season

By Harry Drew

All of this weekend’s Barclays Premier League fixtures will, as they always do, excite punters across the world. If we look beyond Saturday’s games, there are three contests which have outstanding significance: Newcastle at home to Aston Villa, Chelsea playing host to Manchester United, and the encounter between Liverpool and Spurs.

The next round of fixtures will signify the two-third mark in the season – we tend to scrutinise the final third of the campaign as ‘squeaky-bum time’, with results in this period having immense consequences. The matches mentioned above have repercussions for the fundamental battles within the Premier League: the title race, fight for fourth and struggle to stay in the league. Read More »

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23 JAN

From Russia with love?

By Charles Scott

Location aside, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham have little in common, something that suits their own fans down to the ground. They do however share one similarity. Each has invested large sums of money on highly rated Russian internationals in recent years without seeing any kind of positive return. Despite promising much and impressing at first, Arsenal’s Andrey Arshavin, Tottenham’s Roman Pavlyuchenko and Yuri Zhirkov, formerly of Chelsea, have all failed to shine in London. Read More »

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04 JAN

City’s rise will be the final straw for the dominance of the “Big Four”

By Sam Cooper

The Premier League has come under much scrutiny over it’s twenty year life span. But no subject has raised more arguments than the dominance of the “Big Four.”  There are facts that back up the argument that the Premier League will always be a four horse race. Since Blackburn’s successful league campaign in 1994-95, there have only been three league title winners. Those of course being Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. Read More »

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13 DEC

Adaptable AVB proves why Roman dug so deep into his pockets for him

By Josh Handrick

After last night’s victory over the unbeaten league leaders Manchester City, AVB’s Chelsea seem to have turned a corner from a run of tough games after some previously bad results. Is the erratic Portuguese manager now proving why Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich paid his buy out clause at former club Porto.

Despite enduring mass criticism of his tactics, Andre Villas Boas has shown that learning from your mistakes can provide huge results. With a number of recent unexpected loses (Liverpool, Arsenal and Bayer Leverkusen), more than likely down to his defences high line creating numerous mistakes at the back, AVB has shown great adaptability. Read More »

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22 NOV

Match report: Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2

By Mark Jones

It was supposed to be a day when an established performer stood up and produced a goalscoring display against his former club, and ultimately it was.

Chelsea’s Fernando Torres had been on the pitch for just three minutes when he saw the Liverpool full-back Glen Johnson cut a swathe through a defence that he used to be a part of, winning a match for the Reds that owed just as much to their high-octane first half display than it did their defiant second. Read More »

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09 NOV

Long way to go as season reaches second checkpoint

By Douglas Elder

So, as the Premier League breaks for a fortnight, we are left with an interesting – if unfamiliar – picture at the top of the Barclay’s Premier League. The mid-season assumptions, the hyperbolic descriptions and the doom-mongering are in full swing, and here is my take on what has been a season of ups (not if you’re a Wigan fan) and downs (not if you’re a Newcastle or a Man City fan).

A Manchester side top the league, but this time it is those “noisy neighbours” Manchester City who look down upon old rivals Manchester United, still bearing the scars of a chastening 6-1 home defeat to City two weeks ago. This weekend, after United defeated struggling Sunderland with more efficiency than effervescence, the City juggernaut – an irresistible force at times – eventually overcame QPR, who did their best impression of an immovable object. Read More »

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28 OCT

Chelsea v Arsenal preview: Will Arsenal turn the corner on Saturday?

By Alex Smith

After the midweek Carling Cup action it’s back to business this weekend as Arsenal take on London rivals Chelsea in the Barclays premier league.  After two wins on the bounce Wenger’s men will be looking to continue this form and replicate their last win at Stamford Bridge which was in 2008.  The hero that day was Robin Van Persie as he scored two goals in quick succession to sink the blues and again there will be pressure on his shoulders to deliver in the big game. Read More »

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