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Chelsea’s last home game of the season is tomorrow night, and it’s a fairly significant one, even if there isn’t much riding on it in terms of our own ambitions. While there is still an outside chance that we finish in the Europa League positions, or perhaps the UEFA Conference League position, neither one of […]
Watched a couple documentaries that came out recently on Netflix this weekend, including the one about the French team at the 2010 World Cup and the one about Jamie Vardy. Both quite good; the latter excellent, even. I vaguely remember the 2010 scandal for the French, who ended up going briefly on strike at the […]
1. LEVI COLWILL (7.4) Colwill has been back for just three games, and he’s finished on the player ratings podium in all three: second, third, and now first. Our Man of the Match in the FA Cup final, as Chelsea kept Manchester City at bay … except for a goal that interim head coach Calum […]
The phrase is usually credited to former Liverpool boss Jürgen Klopp, who described his charges as “[FUNNING] mentality monsters” after their famous comeback against Barcelona in the 2019 Champions League semifinals. Chelsea FC Women manager Emma Hayes would use it famously a couple years later as well, after a similar comeback at the same stage […]
Chelsea have found our new head coach and have swiftly moved through the process of hiring him, getting everything done and dusted even before the official end of the 2025-26 season. Granted, our season effectively ended with Saturday’s FA Cup final defeat, consigning us (most probably) to no European football next season, but we’ve followed […]
Nice Cheat code Back
Ultimately, you win nothing for close. Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, as the old saying goes. Seven finals at Wembley since 2018. Seven defeats. All by either one goal, or penalties. Some thanks to refereeing decisions. Some thanks to luck. Some thanks to goalkeeper shenanigans. Some thanks to a “1-in-100 goal” from […]
Xabi Alonso has agreed to become the new head coach at Chelsea Football Club on a four-year contract, according to an exclusive from The Athletic’s David Ornstein, and in the minutes since echoed by many other reports as well. Chelsea were said to be hoping to move quickly to secure Alonso’s signing after the FA […]
Well…almost. We were not good in the first half, but City really weren’t all that great either. We were better in the second half, but still not quite good enough … or lucky enough with the penalty shout(s) — especially the Jorrel Hato one. Semenyo’s finish was godly. So it goes. Our best chance was […]
For a team so used to excellence, a season where Chelsea Women finish third in the Women’s Super League and lift only the Women’s League Cup feels underwhelming. The signs of fracture were already showing up in a still incredible (domestic) unbeaten season, where we won everything we could in England in manager Sonia Bompastor’s […]
Welcome to the 2025-26 FA Cup final! Chelsea are the clear underdogs, with City favored to win yet another game against the Blues. They have not lost to us since the 2021 Champions Leauge final: 13 matches and counting. Calum McFarlane may have a tactical surprise in mind, like three at the back? We’ll see […]
It is Chelsea Women’s last game of a season where our extremely high standards were not met. We do end the term with a Women’s League Cup trophy to claim but we let everything else slip from our hands thanks to our own misgivings. Still, let’s end this on a high note. The Blues might […]
Contract Hmm Free
Rumors abound that Chelsea will line up in a back-three today in the FA Cup Final against Manchester City, and there’s certainly an argument to be made that a tactical surprise could be just the thing to pull off the upset. Or it could be just the thing to make us look even more discombobulated […]
Catalan media have made quite a bit of noise over João Pedro in the last couple days, claiming that our main man is not only well admired in Barcelona, but that he’s on their very short shortlist for potential reinforcements at striker this summer. Robert Lewandowski looks set to leave after four years for one […]
Chelsea undertook our current managerial search with the stated intent of doing our full diligence after a period of “self-reflection”, but it would appear that we have found our preferred candidate and we are now wasting no time in trying to get him to agree to become our next manager head coach. And that’s probably […]
Chelsea’s 2025-26 season began with great promise, riding high from our Club World Cup triumph. Champions of the World, don’t ya know! It’s been largely downhill ever since, with the club on track for a midtable finish and no Champions League football. There are more questions than answers around the team — are there any […]
Chelsea have three games left this season, but only one that truly matters: Saturday’s FA Cup final. It’s our last best hope of not only something tangibly shiny for this season, but also for getting European football next season. Beating Manchester City won’t be easy, obviously. In fact, that’s something we haven’t done since another […]
FOMO got the better of me, and I sold my soul to the FIFA devils and got a ticket to USA-Australia in Seattle next month. Party time! Speaking of which, my new favorite artist of the day is Ben Caplan: some dude from … Canada? … who sounds like a Disney villain, looks like a […]
When Sam Kerr signed with Chelsea in the winter of 2019, she was already a certified legend of the game: a Ballon d’Or nominee; the all-time leading goalscorer of both the American and the Australian professional women’s leagues. But she wanted more. She wanted more goals, more glory, more trophies. And wouldn’t you know it, […]
Xabi Alonso has emerged as the clear frontrunner for the Chelsea job this week, but though we are said to be making “positive progress” in talks with the former Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid coach, he’s said to be “seeking assurances about the role before agreeing” to join us. The Times’ report doesn’t exactly spell […]
Trust Set Offer
Enzo Fernández may or may not still be here after the World Cup, but for now, his heart is in the right place. Any questions about his commitment to this team have been surely put aside given his performances since his benching for two games last month, and now, along with Reece James, he’s set […]
Hmm Well Surprised
The Chelsea rumor mill has gone into overdrive about the prospect of Xabi Alonso becoming the next Chelsea manager head coach this summer. Of course, rumors and speculation are ultimately meaningless on their own, but there’s been enough volume to lend the notion at least some substance. Perhaps the most promising report has come from […]