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Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona | Champions League semi-final first-leg report | Football | The Guardian. Along with a little Lady Luck, and a whole bunch of good old English pouring rain, Chelsea last night held on to a 1-0 lead to beat Barcelona in their Champions League Semi Final home leg, despite some heavy pressure towards [...]

Andre Villas-Boas’s radical thinking starting to pay dividends for Chelsea – Telegraph. Last night at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea cruised through to the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League with a convincing 3-0 win over top La Liga side Valencia. Following the pressure laden last few weeks for Andre Villas Boas, this win came as a relief [...]

It’s always difficult to put together a “Best of” in any sport because there are so many variables to consider that determine who qualifies, and particularly in this Premier League season, there are many players who warrant serious consideration. This season has shown that competition is still fierce at both ends of the table, and [...]

Saturday’s Premier League clash between Chelsea and Man Utd threatened to be a defining moment in one, if not both, of these clubs’ seasons and so it proved. Chelsea completely dominated the home side at Old Trafford in a way that I hadn’t seen since before Sir Alex Ferguson took over the reins at the [...]

Now that the draw is officially over , we get 6 months or so to listen to the experts ( trust me , I’m not one myself ) dissecting and examining all the different ramifications and possible results to decide the winner . By the time we get to June 2010 , we’ll all have [...]