Articles tagged with "didier drogba"
Michael Ballack on Jose, Making it into the Chelsea team, and always coming second
By Rob | May 15th, 2008Midfielder Michael Ballack has been the centrepiece to the Chelsea revival. At the begining of the season, Chelsea looked lethargic, and had two players considered by many to be the best in the world, sat on the bench on the whim of the manager. That ...
Choose the best strikers for you 2008 CL XI
By Rob | May 13th, 2008So here we are. All week you've been picking your favourite players to make up the Readers Annual Offside XI. Today you get the chance to vote for the striker who you want to lead the line. You can do that here. So, will SuperPippo breaking Gerd M ...
Chelsea try 'cheeky' Torres bid
By Rob | May 13th, 2008With Didier Drogba seeming likely to get the move out of London he's wanted since the day after he arrived, and Chelsea's general unwillingness to play Andriy Shevchenko, they need a striker. Apparently Roman Abramovich has decided that Fernando Torr ...
Photos of the Day: Or In Soviet Russia Photoshop Edits YOU!
By Rob | May 8th, 2008Over on the Guardian they've got you the people, to photoshop lots of amusing images to celebrate the upcoming Chelsea/Man United Champions League final. Most follow a Communist artwork route as the final is in Moscow, so if you want to see Drogba as ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares its teams of the tournament, and before we hand over to you to pick your team of the tournament ...
Highest Paid Footballers (and Guess Which MLS Star is #1?)
By Laurie | May 2nd, 2008The numbers are out. Guess who the #1 highest-paid footballer is? You'll never guess. I'll give you a hint. Plays in MLS. Has a "pop-star" wife. Made an estimated $49 million last year, of which only $12 million came from actually playing t ...
Cars of the Stars: Which Autos do Rich Footballers Drive?
By Laurie | May 1st, 2008According to Forbes.com, the average EPL player made $2.2 million last year. And what did he spend it on? Expensive toys. And it's not just the EPL guys, either. Highly-paid players all over are coughing up cash for the grownup versions of ...
Chelsea, to Moscow
By Sam | April 30th, 2008The Carragher | Drogba contest was going to tell a lot. DD will be singled out for his brace and another motivated performance, but Lampard & Ballack were positively balletic. Essien, a force of nature. Credit to Liverpool for making it a matc ...
The Other Photo Of The Day: Who's a Diver?
By Rob | April 30th, 2008After Rafa Benitez tried to influence the ref earlier in the week by saying us that Drogba was 'theatrical' (well, duh) the Ivory Coast hitman reacted in exactly the right way, not only putting in a fantastic performance, but paying resp ...
Chelsea Vs Liverpool Preview - The Battles That Will Be Key.
By Rob | April 30th, 2008Its time to step up and be counted. Can Liverpool break that 'Not Scoring At The Bridge' duck? Will Chelsea finally lose at home? More importantly, will the match be any good? Well Hopefully It will be some kind of entertainment, even though the trac ...
Birmingham Result and Diving Drogba
By CSD | April 27th, 2008Sorry for the delayed post, but I really couldn't think of anything to write other than, "it happened like I thought it'd happen." Rafa rotated out key players to give them a rest before Wednesday and they drew, securing their spot in Champions Leag ...
Benitez the Stalker
By Rob | April 27th, 2008You would think, after 19 matches against Chelsea, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez would know Wednesday nights opposition very well. Not, apparently well enough. It seems that the Spanish coach is stalking Chelsea striker Didier Drogba saying that ...
And Lo, Avram Grant came good on his promise.
By Rob | April 26th, 2008Over here at the Champions League offside, we've been as bemused and frustrated with Avram Grant as everybody else. Adam (a Chelsea fan) especially. The trouble was Jose Mourinho, who was in the job before him, was so damn popular. Mainly because Jos ...
The Offside Fantasy League: Squeaky Bum Time?
By Daryl | April 25th, 2008It's the big Premiership game tomorrow: Chelsea vs Manchester United. Chelsea are just three points behind the leaders and welcome Man Utd to Stamford Bridge knowing that a win would put the two teams level on points. Goal difference is another matte ...
The Semi Finals - Liverpool Vs Chelsea preview
By Rob | April 21st, 2008And then there were four. Before however, the potential magnificence of Barcelona taking on Man United at Camp Nou, we have Liverpool inviting Chelsea to Anfield. OK so this isn't the game everyone is wanting to watch, but it has the potential to be ...
A look at what could be a fascinating summer of transfers
By Rob | April 18th, 2008After Sir Alex Ferguson announced today that he intends to 'Stock up' on players over the summer, it struck me this summer could be a real classic one for big transfers. And in my excitement I decided to bring you this insight into the possible moves ...
Drogba Says France's Problems Can be Fixed with New Stadiums
By Laurie | April 7th, 2008If you build it, they will come. "It" being a new stadium, of course. Or so says Chelsea and Ivory Coast superstriker Didier Drogba. He believes that if the French put money into new stadiums, they'll have better success at keeping their young ...
If the BPL Was Being Attacked by Zombies...
By CSD | February 9th, 2008It's been sort of a slow news week at Anfield with nothing new on Mascherano and nothing but injuries to talk about. Instead, let's delve into a hypothetical question. Zombies are raiding the Barclays Premier League. Who do you let them have? Who do y
Didier Drogba flies to the rescue of Djibril Cissé...
By Magnusson | October 30th, 2007It's a secret for nobody that Djibril Cissé is not having the best time of his life right now. The best paid player in the Ligue1 has only scored twice and given three assists in ten games as a starter. When you compare those with his french National Tea
Media Make a Mountain from a Molehill...As Usual
By Inara | October 25th, 2007You can imagine my befuddlement when I opened my inbox yesterday morning and saw dozens of google alerts informing me of Lyon's determination in signing Chelsea want-away Didier Drogba. It's caused such an uproar that even the Skegness Standard is reporti
Middlesbrough v Chelsea
By Andy | October 20th, 2007What a bad International break this time round for Chelsea. Forget about the international team, England always flatter to deceive. Nope. Its all about John Terry and Ashley Cole. Terry has been ruled out for a minimum of four weeks with knee trouble and
Valencia 1-2 Chelsea AGAIN in the Mestalla
By Andy | October 4th, 2007Never in a million years did I expect to write such a surprising scoreline as written in the the subject header line. I have always believed that you should always 'EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED' when it comes to the fortunes of Chelsea Football Club and that
Impossible is not Marseillais...
By Magnusson | October 4th, 2007"Impossible n'est pas marseillais" This is a saying people use talking about Marseille and we saw why tonight. It's too late for me to write anything but we did it. At Anfield. As I predicted, they underestimated us and thought the Tottenham game w
Make them walk alone...
By Magnusson | October 3rd, 2007The Last time we met. During the 2003/2004 season, Marseille was having a lackluster season and our coach Alain Perrin was fired after less than ten games after having helped us qualify for the Champion's League. We didn't get very far in that competit
Can we break Chelski's run?
By Dan Clough | September 14th, 2007Rovers travel to the capital tomorrow hoping to avenge the cup semi-final defeat of last season and continue our unbeaten run against Chelsea. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked heavily against us with the Pensioners on a crazy 65 game unbeaten run!
Community Shield: Chelsea 1-1 Man Utd (Utd win 3-0 on Pens)
By Andy | August 5th, 2007Chelsea's pre-season worries escalated this afternoon when it was announced that Captain John Terry and last season's Premiership top goal scorer Didier Drogba were out of the Community Shield match against Man Utd. Also missing was Claude Makelele wh
My EPL Predictions
By Brian | August 2nd, 2007Champions: Chelsea Though it pains me to say it, Mickey Mouse FC made all the right moves during the offseason. First, they boosted their backline by adding Tal Ben Haim and Alex. Though the latter seems to be stuck in work permit limbo, I'm sure it'll
Brondby 0-2 Chelsea RESULT
By Andy | July 31st, 2007To update proceedings from below, Chelsea were a far better team in the second half against Brondby and they were truly inspired by the second-half appearance of Joe Cole who again looked like he had the 'free' role, caused Brondby all sorts of proble
Didier Drogba - Golden Boot Winner
By Andy | May 14th, 2007Although Chelsea finished 2nd in the Premiership, albeit with a whimper with five draws in their last five games, Chelsea DO have two reasons to celebrate. First, Didier Drogba scored more goals than any other Premiership player and therefore finished
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