Demba Ba returns today to St. James Park in a Chelsea shirt, and he will be one of the danger men for the reigning European Champions. Newcastle lifted the gloom and doom on Tyneside last Tuesday night with a vital 2-1 win at Aston Villa. That was after we played miserably in the second half [...]
It may be just three games into the new Premier League season - and plenty of players and teams
have failed badly after a bright start in the past - but Chelsea finally look the real deal again
and appear to have landed a future world star in Eden Hazard.
The Blues made it three wins out of three with a comfortable 2-0 success over Newcastle and the
European champions' impressive start bodes well for not only a sustainable top-four challenge this
season (bearing in mind last term's disappointing sixth-place finish) but also an all-out assault
on the title.
Newcastle will have their second tough game in as many days late tomorrow afternoon, when they take
on the European Champions Chelsea on their home turf at Stamford Bridge in London. And we think if
Newcastle can get anything out of this game it will be a good result, although it's still not
clear which players will [.
Newcastle have reached European competition tonight for the first time in a full six seasons, and
while there doesn't seem to be much money to be made in the competition, and it would be much
better to qualify for the European Champions League, we are where we are, and there's some
prestige on the line for Newcastle, if not big pay days [.
1. A Fergie never forgets. Make a mistake running the line once and it stays on your record for life. 2. No wonder Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea looked uncomfortable yesterday. He hates white things falling from the sky. 3. Even with Roman Abramovich's millions you can't justify throwing out a perfectly good coat.
Things are really hotting up in the Crappyteam Won Cup, the competition no self-respecting team wants to win. After Premier League side Aston Villa attempted to give League Two Bradford a bye to to the final in their semi-final first-leg on Tuesday night, last night it was the turn of European champions Chelsea to give [.
Another autumn swoon by Chelsea is threatening to cause Roberto Do Matteo his job.
Chelsea has won just three of their last seven games, and defeat against Juventus in Turin on Tuesday would leave Champions League dreams hanging by a thread. A loss in Italy would allow Juventus to leap-frog Chelsea in the standings and they would no longer control their own destination.
After a spirited but rightful unrewarding performance against the European ChampionsKenny Palmerreviews the game and other issues that came out of it regarding Kyle Walker.
Andre Villas-Boas was denied his redemption and revenge as Roberto Di Matteo's Chelsea confirmed their status as the Barclays Premier leagues pace setters with a deserved win over Tottenham, although a 4-2 score line was flattering for the visitors.
Premier League leaders Chelsea maintained their excellent start to the season as they cruised to a 4-1 home victory against Norwich City, after champions Manchester City had beaten Sunderland in the lunchtime kick-off.
Video: Chelsea v Norwich City Premier League Highlights 10/06/12
It did not go according to script early on for Roberto Di Matteo's side, though, as Grant Holt put winless Norwich ahead in the 11th minute.
Former England international Owen Hargreaves has announced that he intends to sign with Chelsea
in the upcoming EA Sports video game FIFA 13. The 31-year-old midfielder, who made just four
appearances with Manchester City before he was released at the end of last season, was unable to
find a new club during the summer transfer window.
English Premier League club Newcastle United started their 2012/13 campaign with a home win against
Tottenham followed by an away loss to European champions Chelsea. On Thursday, the Magpies
qualified...
Chelsea are finally set to seal the deal to bring sensational young German winger Andre Schurrle
to Stamford Bridge, with Daniel Sturridge poised to make a loan move out.
The Blues unsuccessfully chased Schurrle earlier this summer, with the player's Bundesliga club
Bayer Leverkusen turning down their offer with immediate effect.
Swansea City boss Michael Laudrup has demonstrated his genius once again by lining up the
brilliant signing of Valencia winger Pablo Hernandez in anticipation for Scott Sinclair's move to
Manchester City.
It was confirmed earlier today that the Swans had accepted a bid from the Citizens in the region
of £8 million and the same source has indicated that Laudrup is engaged in talks with Valencia to
bring Hernandez while Sinclair undergoes his medical in the Eastlands.
In a couple of hours, Chelsea kick off for the first time this season at Stamford Bridge as
European Champions!. It's the moment we have all been waiting for and hopefully it will be a double
celebration with three points against a good Reading side.
Chelsea must be professional and get out there and get the job done.
talkSPORTÂ are reporting today that Premier League Champions Manchester City have joined the race
with European Champions Chelsea, to sign Newcastle's central midfielder Cheick Tiote, with
only 11 days still to go in the transfer window. Cheick Tiote - both Chelsea and Manchester City
interested?
Defending champions Manchester City brought back memorable celebrations of May 13 to Etihad
Stadium as they started their new Premier League campaign with a dramatic 3-2 come-from-behind win
against newly promoted Southampton.
City dramatically came from behind to score two late goals in their 3-2 win over QPR on the last
day of the 2011-12 season, sealing a nervy title win at the expense of bitter rivals Manchester
United nearly 13 weeks ago.
Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta has rubbished suggestions that his side starts the Premier
League campaign this weekend in a weaker position than major rivals such as Manchester City,
Manchester United, and Chelsea.
The Gunners looked far from title contenders last season but hammered European champions Blues
5-3 at Stamford Bridge and Arteta scored a sublime goal when they defeated Premier League winners
City 1-0 at the Emirates.
History, as every third-rate writer already knows, has a tendency to be written by the victors.
In amongst the hysteria that accompanied the absurdly tight finish to last years Premier League
season, it was perhaps forgotten amongst the celebrations and tears just how close Manchester City
came to what surely would have had to be regarded as the failure of not winning the Premier League
championship.
As Promised the Premier League Predictions, 20 teams all vying for a league championship under
their belt, Man City current champions, Chelsea, European champions and FA Cup winners, Liverpool,
League Cup Winners. This league is turning into a festival of interest, 10 years ago only Man
United and Arsenal were probably the only teams with [.
Newcastle striker Demba Ba has finalised his move to European champions Chelsea. The Blues unveiled their new signing this lunchtime after he agreed a three-and-a-half year deal at Stamford Bridge. Ba said: "It feels good to be here, I'm very happy and very proud," the 27-year-old told the Chelsea club website.
Chelsea take on Shakhtar Donetsk tonight at the Donbass Arena and let's face it with the way they have been performing at home, this could be a potential banana skin. However, Chelsea are in fine form heading into this one and we take on the Ukranian side full of confidence.
We are the European Champions and teams have more of an incentive to do well against us and they will look to come at us and make life as difficult as possible.
Ashley Cole's days with Chelsea appear to be winding to a close.
According to the Daily Mail, the Chelsea left back is ready to leave the European champions at the end of the season after failing to reach an agreement on a new contract. Manchester United, Real Madrid and Paris St. Germain have all been linked to moves for the English defender.
Neil Ashton of The Daily Mirror is reporting that Roman Abramovich demanded answers from players and coaching staff at Chelsea's training ground on Thursday as to why the European Champions could not hold onto a two-goal lead at home to Juventus on Wednesday night.
Abramovich arrived unannounced at Cobham on Thursday morning with director Eugene Tenenbaumin and spoke with players, coaches and manager Roberto Di Matteo on the training field.
You could probably say that no one deserved the UEFA Super Cup trophy more than Atletico
Madrid and their Colombian wizard Falcao, whose glorious hat-trick handed
Chelsea a 4-1 drubbing tonight. But Adrian Lopez and Arda
Turan, creators of Falcao's goals, also deserve high praise for their wonderful display
against an uninspired Chelsea side who defended poorly and had clearly been blindsided (which
tactics video had Di Matteo been examining?
The weekend began Friday afternoon (for those of us on this side of the Atlantic it was Friday
night in France, where the match was played) with the UEFA Supercup between Chelsea and Atletico
Madrid.
By the time we tuned in to check the score, it was halftime, and the score already 3-0 via a
hat-trick for exactly who you would think would be lighting it up.
SPANISH FOOTBALL Club ATLETICO DE MADRID won the UEFA SUPER CUP 1 - 4 over the European Champions
CHELSEA FC. Spectacular performance from the Spaniards who put in an almost perfect match with
forward FALCAO being the main star (MVP). Falcao The Colombian used the "World stage" to show that
he is one of - if not - the Best Center Forwards on the planet with a HAT-TRICK & three posts.
The recently re-crowned European Champions & current World Champions SPAINÂ will be back in action
next 15th of August when they fly off to the Puerto Rico for a Friendly International. With this
motive Spanish Football National Selector & Coach Vicente Del Bosque has handed in the list of
players to travel.
I am amazed that Barcelona officials are still keeping up the appearances that they are not
really that interested in Brazilian superstar Neymay. Just this week Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova
insisted that he has never spoken about trying to sign the Santos striker.
"I've never spoken about signing Neymar," he was quoted as saying by Marca.
If you are somehow dead inside and don't feel sympathy for axed Southampton boss Nigel Atkins, youcertainlymust now. In one of his last acts before leaving the Saints training ground for the last time, the 47-year-old penned this farewell message on a changing room whiteboard. After being put out on his backside despite two [.
Still not really clicking, which is just about grumpily bearable against the European champions, but a darned sight more irritating against Slovenia's finest. The lack of cutting edge in attack had me thumping my head repeatedly against the nearest wall from around midway through the first half. Injury to Adebayor was a shame, for this game had ‘Two-Man Attack' scrawled across it in the sort of chunky font normally reserved for unintelligible graffiti.
As the Champions League draw takes place this afternoon I couldn't help but take a look back a
couple of months ago to Munich, our greatest night!
Yes the new season is upon us and the new Champions League quest begins with Chelsea looking to
become the first side to retain the trophy in it's current format but, I think the time is right to
take another look back at just what happened last season.
Headline featured in The Sun this morning.
This morning we have woken up to this headline as featured in The Sun that Chelsea
have rejected a bid of around £30m for David Luiz from Manchester City.
Now Luiz didn't feature in the game last night after "Tweeting" that he had a knee
injury as featured on here yesterday.
As it turns out, being a young footballer for the European champions has its odd points. First,
we have Chelsea's annual Academy dance-off. One by one, the club's youth players were thrust into a
small room lined with the entire senior squad and told to dance while the audience films and
laughs.
Lionel Messi missed a penalty kick and was denied by the post on another chance, but that still
do not stop him and Argentina from going into Germany and cruising to victory.
The Albiceleste extended their current winning streak to five games after picking up a 3-1 win
over Germany in  one of the marquee matches of Wednesday's busy international FIFA date.
If Mexico is to capture Olympic gold, it will have to do so without attacking star Giovani Dos
Santos.
Dos Santos has been ruled out of the final with a muscle injury, leaving El Tri without one of
its most lethal options in a game that features two of the more explosive teams in the Olympic
field.
The World governing authory in Football FIFA has made public the monthly World Nations Rankings
with SPAIN in the Nº1 position. Germany & England follow while Holland is surprising  low in the
ranking along with Brazil. Ecuador makes an impressive jump from Nº27 last month to Nº20 this
month. Spain European Champions 2012 Here is the Top 20 FIFA World Ranking Nations list: 1.
