Bridge Banter: Chelsea's alternative approach to the Capital One Cup final
A team’s preparation for a cup final might include a few days’ carefree break somewhere warm, a communal meal to build team spirit and a lark around on the training ground, to aid relaxation.
View ArticleBridge Banter: The League Cup winners have a weekend off - it's good fun...
The emotion and exhaustion of the weekend’s League Cup win caught up with Chelsea on Wednesday night at Upton Park, as the Blues seemed to be running on empty in the second half of a wonderfully...
View ArticleBridge Banter: There is no time for Chelsea to feel sorry for themselves
Cup triumph one week, European grief the next.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Time to chose your Chelsea player of the season... and there...
It will soon be time to consider who should be Chelsea player of the season, though we are still nine weeks from the final match.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea have the upper hand on Liverpool, the ex-big five Reds
After Chelsea edged Hull City 2-3 to maintain a clear title lead, the action pauses.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Ambulances are ready for Stoke's arrival in west London
Chelsea can take another stride towards the title this weekend when Stoke visit Stamford Bridge.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea have striking issues ahead of vital double header
No disrespect to West Brom, Leicester, Palace and Sunderland, but this weekend sees the first of a quick-fire brace of fixtures – against United and Arsenal – that Chelsea fans view as pivotal to...
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea ready for the final big hurdle to the Premier League...
Having defeated one challenger last weekend, the Blues face the final big obstacle on their road to the title… Arsenal at the Emirates.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Beat Crystal Palace, and then Chelsea can strut their stuff...
Chelsea’s dream finish to the season? Three points against Palace on Sunday to clinch the title, then a triumphant strut on to the Stamford Bridge turf past an honour guard of half-heartedly...
View ArticleBridge Banter: Now Chelsea have won the Premier League, let us reflect on the...
As blue and silver streamers rained down from the rim of the east stand, and a discreetly manufactured consignment of woven celebratory scarves were dished out to the players taking the acclaim on the...
View ArticleBridge Banter: What becomes of the Chelsea loanee departed?
Whether he will win a permanent place, or be farmed out on loan and forgotten, remains to be seen, but Ruben Loftus-Cheek impressed on his full debut for the Blues.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea fans don't care about losing to West Brom, they're the...
Thank goodness the Blues were not relying on points from Monday night’s game at West Brom to clinch the title.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea's time for celebration
Street cleaners following Chelsea’s bank holiday open-top bus parade divided waste in two; recycling (cans and bottles) and organic (for battered bits of celery).
View ArticleBridge Banter: What now for Loic Remy?
With next year’s Premier League fixture list just five days away, Loic Remy is coming under pressure to quit Chelsea.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Time to say a Chelsea "bonjour" to the new season
To launch the new season with not one, but two journeys to Wembley on the same weekend speaks volumes about Chelsea’s intent.
View ArticleBridge Banter: No shortage of drama at Chelsea... as usual
Hearing Jose Mourinho declare that the best team lost after defeat to Arsenal in the Community Shield was scant comfort to Blues fans who have become blase about beating the Gunners.
View ArticleAthletics: Differing fortunes for Herne Hill Harriers
In the final match of the season, Herne Hill Harrier’s men finished fourth out of eight, to take fifth place overall and secure their place in the BAL National One.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Are Chelsea playing a secret goalkeeper card...
Chelsea’s goalkeeping strategy may seem all over the place… but it is part of a cunning plan.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Is Chelsea boss Mourinho looking for scapegoats already?
The Blues are in unfamiliar territory in 16th place, level with their next opponents, West Brom.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Why the long face Mr Mourinho?
Why the long face, Jose? A combative Chelsea achieved their first victory of the season at the Hawthorns, despite being reduced to 10 men for the second time in three matches with John Terry’s...
View ArticleBridge Banter: It's all a bit odd at Stamford Bridge right now...
Life’s bewildering at the Bridge, and Jose Mourinho’s transfer-deadline signings address that.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Mourinho has had to leave Stones unturned... for now
After all the international ballyhoo, it’s time for Jose Mourinho to focus his players back on Chelsea’s stuttering league title defence.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Euro win is just the tonic for Mourinho and Chelsea
A midweek clean sheet and four Champions League goals was just the tonic for beleaguered Chelsea.
View ArticleBridge Banter: At last, the Chelsea swagger is back
Three games, three wins, 10 goals for, one against. Finally, six weeks in, Chelsea’s season starts.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Should "pants" Chelsea remove the sponsor off their shirt
Ever since Chelsea have had Yokohama on their shirts, they’ve been pants. Tuesday’s Champions League defeat in Porto was another shambles, with the defence looking like they had never met.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea to be fourth by December? Think again Mourinho
Hey kids! Did you miss the 80s? We’d stream out of Stamford Bridge week after week and hop on the tube having seen Chelsea’s fancy Dans lose dismally to some lowly opposition.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Ask not for whom the "full support" tolls Mourinho, it tolls...
Is it ever a wise move for the club to publicly express confidence in the manager?
View ArticleBridge Banter: It's not the time for West Ham to start mocking Chelsea
Ahead of a crunch fixture at Upton Park this weekend, Chelsea have started to rediscover their mojo.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea boss Mourinho faces a high noon date with Liverpool
High noon. Well, 12.45pm. Will Jose Mourinho still be in charge of Chelsea after Saturday lunchtime’s clash with Liverpool at the Bridge?
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea must build on Champions League momentum
Willian’s curling free kicks bring back joyous memories of watching Gianfranco Zola lift balls over walls and into nets.
View ArticleBridge Banter: The Chelsea car crash continues
Chelsea’s bizarre car-crash season stumbles on after defeat at Stoke, with fans hardly daring to look at the Premier League table.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Visit from the Canaries just what the doctor ordered to cure...
On paper, the visit of Norwich to Stamford Bridge on Saturday afternoon is just what the doctor ordered.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea need to beat Tottenham Hotspur to complete the turnaround
It takes two miles to turn around a fully laden oil tanker, and changing Chelsea’s fortunes seems just as prolonged.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Has Diego Costa already bagged his bags ready to leave Chelsea...
“That was the best Chelsea team of the season,” said Jose Mourinho after the Blues left White Hart Lane with an away point few had predicted.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Champions League win goes some way to wiping out the memory of...
Fans walked back to Fulham Broadway on Wednesday night with a spring in their step after a well-earned 2-0 victory over Porto in the Champions League.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Next up for Chelsea is Sunderland, and it's a relegation scrap
The Blues could find themselves in the Premier League drop zone this weekend – defeated, deflated and dumbfounded.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Where Hiddink and Chelsea's once special one differ....
"Guus Hiddink is undemonstrative, thoughtful and observant. Far removed from The Special One."
View ArticleBridge Banter: What a difference a manager can make in the life of Chelsea,...
If anyone was in any doubt about the dramatic effect a change of leadership can have, such feelings were surely dispelled at the Emirates last weekend.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Terry hopes to be back to guide Chelsea into the top half of...
Chelsea captain John Terry hopes to be back in the Blues’ starting line-up when the team travel to Southampton today, dreaming of the giddy heights of the top half of the table.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Chelsea getting into the Champions League? You're not laughing...
Blues defender Kenedy was the unlikely scorer of the Premier League’s fastest goal of the season this week, netting in 39 seconds at Norwich as Chelsea continue their extraordinary belated surge.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Chelsea could yet have the best season yet - denying Tottenham...
“We hate Tottenham, we hate Tottenham…”
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Is it time to give the Chelsea youngster a chance?
Chelsea travel to Birmingham at the weekend for Saturday’s early kick-off against doomed Aston Villa.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: The kids are getting a chance to impress the new Chelsea head...
The worst kept secret in football was let out of bag this week – that Bryan Ferry lookalike Antonio Conte is Chelsea’s new first team head coach.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: If you're a Blue and you missed the first half of Swansea v...
Some Chelsea fans didn’t arrive until the second half of last weekend’s game at Swansea after a truck laden with eggs jackknifed on the M4. Before you ask, the air ambulance wasn’t scrambled.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: How best to stop Tottenham Hotspur winning the Premier League...
Chelsea’s approach to life, the universe and football remains blurred as the season’s end comes into focus.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Take a punt on the all-conquering Chelsea youth
The Blues stormed to victory in the FA Youth Cup on Wednesday night… literally. Hailstones bounced off the Stamford Bridge pitch and lightning flashed as Chelsea ensured the club’s trophy cabinet...
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Hazard will never have to buy a drink in Leicester again
He’d struggle to locate it on a map, but Eden Hazard – arguably the most disappointing Chelsea player this season – will never have to buy a drink in Leicester as long as he lives.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER: Who does flapper Begovic think he is impressing, certainly not...
This topsy-turvy season draws to an improbable close with new champions Leicester City being given a celebratory guard of honour at Stamford Bridge.
View ArticleBRIDGE BANTER IS BACK: No pressure on Chelsea boss - it's all on the others
IF Chelsea found last year’s Premier League tough going, this campaign adds different challenges.
View ArticleBridge Banter: Willian's goal for Chelsea at Brighton was mesmeric
It’s the kind of goal that inspires folk songs. The fact that it broke Dry January’s drought made it extra special.
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