The Blues cruised to a 3-0 victory at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening, looking every inch as though they were Premier League champions-elect. However, one of the West Brom players wasn’t best pleased with the Chelsea captain, claiming that he was hurt deliberately by his ‘mad’ opposite number.

The Blues aren’t top of the Premier League because they have fluked their way through a number of matches. Indeed, it’s commonly acknowledged that Chelsea have turned on the style in some matches, but have also rolled their sleeves up when necessary, especially in games away at Stoke City and Hull.

One the Blues’ senior players is heaping the praise on Liverpool ahead of Sunday’s Premier League title six-pointer. Frank Lampard has already stated this week that the Reds ‘mean business’ this season after their unbeaten start, and now another Chelsea footballer can see echoes of Mourinho’s team after witnessing the Merseyside club win some games […]

Country before club is not something that many footballers seemingly think these days. With the likes of Paul Scholes and Jamie Carragher prematurely retiring from international football so that they can focus on playing for their clubs, it doesn’t appear that footballers would die for the chance to represent their country, which was the case […]

If Kazakhstan were an English club side, they might be a Leyton Orient, or maybe even a Gillingham. Therefore, does it really matter whether Lampard and Gerrard are playing together, or if Fabio Capello wants to give Shaun Wright-Phillips a match instead of Theo Walcott? Even if England had twenty players out injured, this should […]

After all, it’s only a game of football, yet it doesn’t stop the media and footballers inappropriately using war and gangster metaphors to describe big matches. In the past couple of years, the Croatians have demonstrated what a tough nut they are to crack under Slaven Bilic, and it’s little surprise to see them as […]

What do you make of Fabio Capello’s decision to make John Terry the permanent captain of England? Do you strongly agree that the self-styled JT should have been given the role, do you think that someone else like Rio Ferdinand or Steven Gerrard were better choices to take this position of responsibility, or do you […]

It’s a bit like two political parties sniping at each other, whatever happened to just focusing on your own team and talking up your chances, rather than trying to pick holes in the opposition? Sir Alex Ferguson claimed a few weeks ago that the Chelsea squad looked a bit long in the tooth these days, […]

John Terry made a fool of himself last season after Manchester United made a slow start to their Premier League campaign. Draws with Reading and Portsmouth, along with a defeat against Man City, saw the Red Devils lose ground on Arsenal and Chelsea. This prompted the Blues captain to claim that the champions that a […]

Poor old Michael Ballack. Nobody can deny that this guy is a class act in the middle of the park, although he must have been born under a bad sign after finishing runner-up in every competition last season, apart from the FA Cup final (his team were beaten by Barnsley in that competition). Nevertheless, the […]