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Back in 2022, in the heady, naive early days of Todd “Great Meals” Boehly’s ad-hoc sporting directorship, Chelsea made Wesley Fofana one of the most expensive center back transfers of all time (only Harry Maguire and Virgil van Dijk had cost more at the time; Joško Gvardiol then set the current record a year later). […]
As I was entering the ratings from this game into my trusty old Player Ratings spreadsheet, I noticed a pretty big error. I had not been including all the individual player ratings for the overall averages! The bottom five lines had gotten cut off at some point — as it turns out not only this […]
Deal Petition Pushing
It was a “dream come true” for young Jesse Derry to make his full senior professional debut last night as Chelsea took on Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge. The 18-year-old had been starring all season for our under-21 team, and he was getting his right reward to play from the start, with Pedro Neto, Alejandro […]
Hmm Talks? Oof
It was João Pedro’s turn to apologize to the fans after yet another horrendous result, our sixth league defeat in a row. At least we did finally score a goal, thanks to JP’s spectacular bicycle kick in stoppage time to provide (scant) consolation in our 3-1 defeat. The wait was almost worth it for our […]
Chelsea barely had a touch of the ball before Nottingham Forest had the ball in the back of the net. An excellent cross from the right flank found the head of Taiwo Awoniyi at the far post, and he made no mistake. The Blues set about overcoming that early setback, but we were not having […]
Welcome to the final month of the season, which we begin with a home game against Nottingham Forest. Nothing but a win will do if we want to keep pace in the race for sixth, and avoid another unsightly midtable finish. Interim head coach Calum McFarlane got his first win last weekend, and he’s kept […]
Never change a winning lineup: it’s a classic old adage in football. We haven’t had much chance to put that into practice of late, but we did win an important game last weekend, against Leeds United in the FA Cup semifinal, so now we have something to possibly not change. And sure enough, for the […]
Champions Hmm Offered
It’s been a couple weeks since Chelsea last played in the league, and in that time, we’ve fallen from an already disappointing position to an entirely unsightly one. Of course, it’s a bit of a bunfight in the middle of the table: four points separated positions six through twelve at the start of the weekend. […]
It didn’t take long for Chelsea Women to start dominating Leicester City at their home turf. This is after all a team that recorded only nine points in 20 Women’s Super League matches before today, and the way in which we took over the pitch showed why. They did try to put up some resistance […]
In the second-to-last match of the Women’s Super League season, Chelsea Women face an already relegated Leicester City team that have been in a crisis quite similar to their men’s counterpart, who have also just been relegated. A match of parallels, more or less. Leicester starting eleven:Keane | Kees, Tierney (c), Van Egmond, Jansson, Ale, […]
On one side a team that has very little to play for in the Women’s Super League but their own honour after confirming their relegation last weekend. On the other side a team that has to lock down a UEFA Women’s Champions League berth by preferably beating everyone left in their path so they don’t […]
First Target Promoted
We have to wait all the way until Monday afternoon to see Chelsea in action this weekend, by which time most of our closest rivals for the top-six will have played. In fact, we will be entering the match in ninth position. Three points will be needed to keep pace in the race for sixth […]
New Most Hmm
There’s some good news on the injury front, as revealed by interim head coach Calum McFarlane in today’s press conference: Reece James and Levi Colwill are not only back in training but are now back in contention for matchday selection. Of course, Chelsea are being very very careful in both cases. Colwill has been out […]
How’s everyone doing? TMIL has shirked his duties, so you’ll have to make do with me as your TDH guide for today. I’ll try twice as hard as usual to make sure it at least publishes on time today. Since our switch to the new site design and backend CMS, scheduling posts has gotten harder […]
I’m not one to ever dwell on the past too much, but found this somewhat instructive given that we’re (once again) in-between coaches and looking for the next man to take the thankless job of being Chelsea manager. Sorry, I mean head coach. Mauricio Pochettino was the guest on “The Overlap” podcast this week, and […]
It’s set to be another busy summer of football for all, with Chelsea heading east for a preseason tour not long after the conclusion of the World Cup in North America. Four fixtures across less than two weeks have been confirmed so far, two in Sydney, then one in Hong Kong, and lastly one in […]
Third Fewest Hmm
Legends don’t come much bigger than Chelsea captain Millie Bright, who’s worn the Blue shirt for the past 12 years and a club-record 314 appearances, winning 19 trophies and even scoring 19 goals along the way. And though the 32-year-old center back has today announced her retirement with immediate effect, she’s also not completely leaving […]
There’s been little else but silence around the case of Mykhailo Mudryk and his doping ban after testing positive for meldonium in late October of 2024. The winger was provisionally suspended by Chelsea that December, then formally charged by The English FA last June. The expectation was a standard 4-year ban, though it was not […]
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