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If it wasn’t for some baffling calls from a team of referees clearly out of their depth, Chelsea Women would be heading into this second leg confrontation with more of a fighting chance to beat the defending UEFA Women’s Champions League champions for a semi-final spot. No crying over spilled milk, however. We’re still two […]
All is not well on the Chelsea front, that much is abundantly clear. Four defeats on the bounce, three of them by three goals. No goals scored for 300 minutes. More goals conceded than we care to count. A season that’s gone from promising, to concerning, to outright infuriating (or depressing, depending on your approach). […]
Before he was a fresh-faced Olympian at the 2012 summer games in London, Adam Gemili was a Chelsea Academy trainee, running around the green grass of Cobham alongside the likes of Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Nathaniel Chalobah, and the one and only Josh McEachran. And running was certainly the operative word for young Adam, who would leave […]
Close Lowest Decided
We’re in the middle of the last international break of the season before the start of this summer’s main event, the World Cup Silly Season, so it’s not at all surprising that we’ve been seeing more stories in the rumor mill than usual — especially when combined with Chelsea’s current malaise, on and, seemingly, off […]
Most Only Clear
We roll into the second week of the international break after a quiet weekend of not much happening on the Chelsea front. Malo Gusto’s France had a game against Colombia on Sunday, which they’d end up winning pretty easily, 3-1, even while rotating the side from their first friendly of the break the other day, […]
In this weird season where Chelsea Women have let themselves down against big and small teams alike, the confidence in the Blues being able to turn around deficit is at an all-time low. It’s also an understandable situation as we rarely go into matches with a losing score early on. Again this is a weird […]
We haven’t been used to so many ups and downs in Chelsea Women. They’ve always been atypical in their winning ways and given recent movements and rumours around the squad it seems we’re in for more upheaval — although always on the lookout for an upside. Given how we are completely left out of the […]
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Malo Gusto may be away on international duty with France at the moment, but he has heard and seen the growing criticism of Liam Rosenior and has come out in defense of his head coach when asked about him this weekend. “I think he is a top coach, I saw that a lot of people […]
Leaving Hmm Official
Argentina and Spain were supposed to play the “Finalissima” this weekend, for intercontinental bragging rights between the winners of the 2024 Copa América and Euro 2024. The game was supposed to be played in Qatar, but due to the “security situation” going on in the region, UEFA decided to cancel the game. One would think […]
Catarina Macario’s time as a Chelsea player has come to an end, with a move to her hometown San Diego Wave confirmed today by both clubs. The 26-year-old USA international is signing a 4-year, $8m contract with the Wave, which is a new record contract for the NWSL (beating the mark set by Trinity Rodman’s […]
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It was a busy day of World Cup qualifying playoffs in Europe and around the World today, Thursday, but there were no Chelsea players involved in any of those games. (A few familiar ex-Chelsea faces did pop up, with Armando Broja playing 30 minutes as Albania were eliminated by Poland, Ethan Ampadu captaining Wales to […]
Most Ready Working Back
Liam Rosenior has engineered a remarkable downturn in Chelsea’s fortunes over the past few weeks, but the only way his job would be in jeopardy, according to a report a couple days ago from The Telegraph, is if that downturn continued to spiral into a full-on “implosion”. Which … well … have we looked at […]
Candidate Leaving Rattled
“It’s only ever been Chelsea,” read the caption on Chelsea’s announcement in 2023, when Moisés Caicedo joined us from Brighton & Hove Albion. The accompanying video was brief yet powerful, featuring not only Moisés (obviously), but his mother as well, as they posed for a picture at the back of a car. The reveal at […]
Trips to the Emirates are never easy. But in the recent past Chelsea Women still managed to eek out good results at Arsenal’s turf despite the hosts’ best efforts. With the Blues’ squad ravaged by injuries and tiredness it was hard coming into this match with high expectations. Clearly the team thought otherwise as we […]
Sonia Bompastor’s sophomore year as Chelsea Women manager has been far from ideal given the standards set by herself and her team last season. But all is far from lost. This Blues squad has been depleted by injuries and today’s starting lineup shows. In such circumstances a result that at least keep us alive in […]
One of the better books I read (well, listened to on audiobook, to be more precise) in recent years was Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary”, and I was happy and excited to see that as with Weir’s “The Martian”, it was being made into a movie (with Weir himself also involved). So I went to […]
I’ve maintained for a long time that by overall average, we’re never going to get a game worse than our 6-0 defeat against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium back in 2018-19. And this weekend’s 3-0 surrender to Everton did indeed manage to avoid those lows. But it did come close top the “top” three, […]
To be the best, you need to beat the very best. It’s the reason why Chelsea Women will be up against Arsenal at the Emirates this Tuesday for the first leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarter-finals. For the first time in a while the Blues come into a tie like this as underdogs. […]