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Saturday 13th September
Premier League: Manchester City 1 - 3 Chelsea
Match reports
The Observer, Daniel Taylor: "In the end, it was a reminder for the Premier League's newest billionaires not to get too far ahead of themselves. Manchester City's supporters will have enjoyed their first sight of Robinho and the swish of his right boot that brought him a debut goal. Yet, ultimately, Chelsea made it a bruising experience for all those fancy-dress 'Arabs' who had walked down Joe Mercer Way with tea-towels tied round their heads and something that looked suspiciously like Cherry Blossom smeared on their cheeks."
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Sunday 31st August
Premier League: Chelsea 1 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur
Match reports
Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter: "Two dropped points should not alarm Chelsea unduly, particularly with Manchester United slow out of the traps, and particularly if their own reinforcements arrive soon. For all the talk of Robinho’s little bit of magic being needed to unlock the door, Chelsea could really have done with Didier Drogba. Still recovering from injury, the Ivory Coast battering-ram allows Chelsea an extra option, the direct ball. When Luiz Felipe Scolari’s men played it high towards Nicolas Anelka, he was too often outmuscled by King and Woodgate. "
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Friday 25th July
A Blue Tomorrow
With just a few weeks before the new football season starts, it's time to look in my crystal balls (I need more than one) and see what the future holds for our beloved boys in blue.
After the utter weirdness of last season, with the ejection of
Jose Mourinho, our very own enfant terrible and our most successful coach ever, the appointment of a nice, but bumbling and ineffective unqualified coach in uncle Avram Grant and the
subsequent highly polarised highs and lows of the actual football, we have now had a good couple of months to dust ourselves down, chop out some of the deadwood, banish our mental demons, wake
up and smell the coffee and get ready to grab the bull by the horns. Why use one hackneyed old cliché when five will do the job equally as well?
Of course last seaso...
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Many great managers have never won the Champions League - a big example is not far from us.
