Articles tagged with "frank lampard"
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 ...
Granting a Wish
By Sam | May 1st, 2008Avram Grant's new respect comes from his and Chelsea's advancement past Jose Mourinho's highest achievement (with Chelsea) in the Champion's League. It is well-earned because he could have done very well indeed and still failed to get here -- and no ...
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 ...
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 ...
Photo of the Day: Lamps is baaaack
By Jack | April 29th, 2008Frank Lampard takes center stage as Avram the Great makes a point. Good to see you back Lamps, good to see you back. ...
The Champions League Semi-Final Drinking Games
By Rob | April 27th, 2008So we are just a couple of days away from the mammoth second legs in the Champions League semi-finals. To make them even more fun, I've constructed drinking games for either night - though you would be pretty unwise to try both I fear you may need it ...
New Kit and the Two Blues
By CSD | April 24th, 2008The new home kit has been officially announced along with the new keeper kit. It looks remarkably like what I posted before. It's almost like...someone knew. I can't wait to get mine. I'll be sporting the #9. Hopefully, it won't be too long befo ...
Thoughts are with you Frank
By Jack | April 24th, 2008Frank Lampard's mother, Pat, passed away this morning after a much-publicized battle with pneumonia. She was 58. A statement released by the club reads: "Everybody at Chelsea Football Club is absolutely devastated to hear the tragic news of the ...
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 ...
Do You Miss Special One?
By Sam | April 15th, 2008There's a good career profile of Jose Mourinho over here. I don't know about you, but this year has had a ... what? ... bit of a void ... without the Special One. Knowing he's a family man, this year off will have been a healthy one; and will assu ...
The Ultimate QF Second Leg Preview
By Rob | April 7th, 2008So its nearly upon us. The excitement as 4 more teams dreams of reaching Moscow are cut short and they go home to ponder Rome next season. 4 teams will advance to be one step closer to be being crowned kings of Europe. Will there be any upsets? Maybe ...
Turkish Turnaround, and Lucky Liverpool - HT in the QF
By Rob | April 2nd, 2008Its now halftime in the QF of this season's Champions League, with the other two first legs played this evening. Both ties are well and truely still alive - even after the only shock result of the round. Arsenal Vs Liverpool Arsenal will f ...
Try to follow me
By Chris | March 25th, 2008I wrote a pretty lengthy entry about this earlier. We all know that Raphael van Der Vaart is leaving HSV one way or another after this season. His destination is what remains up in the air. We have heard Valencia, Milan, Juventus, and Inter(?!)since ...
EPL Round 16: Chelsea FC vs Sunderland AFC
By Lucas | December 8th, 2007This should be easy, right? Most fans would be pleased with a point from Chelsea today, and it looks like Keane feels the same way, going with a defensive 4-5-1 formation with Kenwyne Jones alone up top (and I have poker buddies to vouch that I was bla
Another Rant about England
By Matthew | November 17th, 2007When England is barely capable of beating Austria in a friendly, at a time when the team should be at the peak of its form, you know something is seriously wrong. After an embarassing performance, in which only Micah Richards distinguished himself in any
International round-up: Bentley snubbed again
By Dan Clough | October 15th, 2007Despite getting man of the match in our last game against Birmingham, and scoring a superb goal, Steve McLaren thought better of giving him another chance in the England game against Estonia. Fair enough, if we are 1-0 up, or drawing, or it's just a ti
Bolton v Chelsea: FINAL SCORE
By Andy | October 7th, 2007FINAL SCORE BOLTON 0-1 CHELSEA Kalou on 41 mins Half-time from the Reebok Bolton 0-1 Chelsea 41 mins and almost 4 1/2 Premiership games gone Kalou gives Chelsea the lead Bolton 0-1 Chelsea (Kalou 41mins) Bolton 0-0 Chelsea 30mins
David vs. A Wounded Goliath
By Matt | September 26th, 2007Carling Cup: Chelsea FC at Hull City AFC As Hull City takes to the pitch at the KC Stadium tonight, they will face a side in turmoil. The shock exit of their 'Special' manager, injuries to various key first team players, and a weekend loss to t
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!
Interesting quote re Gerrard/Lampard debate
By ed | September 12th, 2007I know how much Liverpool and Chelsea fans love to battle it out over which seemingly super-human central midfielder is better than the other seemingly super-human central midfielder and I'm no different. Apropos of that, here's an interesting quote fr
Bad News for Chelsea and Frank Lampard, But Good News for the England BOO BOYS!!!!!
By Andy | August 31st, 2007Jose's plans for Sunday's game at Aston Villa have been thrown into disarray with the news that Frank Lampard has sustained a tear in his thigh muscle during training and is out of the team for the foreseeable future. Although Chelsea has not annou
Chelsea 1-0 Portsmouth
By Andy | August 26th, 2007Top of the League, first clean sheet of the season and Frank scores his third goal in a week. COME ON THE CHELS!! I walked out of Stamford Bridge yesterday afternoon just like Rafa Benitez - red faced because of the blazing hot sun beating down on
Nephew v Uncle - Chelsea v Portsmouth
By Andy | August 25th, 2007It's family time at The Bridge this afternoon as Chelsea take on Portsmouth in the Premiership - kick off 3pm (UK time). Harry Redknapp brings his team up from the South Coast to pit his wits against his nephew Frank Lampard and the Blue Boys. Portsmou
England 1-2 Germany: David Beckham - Only 'Time Difference' Will Tell
By Andy | August 22nd, 2007Now that David Beckham is commuting from LA to play for England does that mean we can have some fun?!!?!!?!! Think about it. By the time Beckham flies back to LA after playing for England, did he really play for England and did England really lose
Chelsea wanks off the ref, get draw
By Brian | August 19th, 2007In what was probably one of the worse refereed matches ever, Liverpool loses two points because the ref is a ponce. That wasn't a penalty, if anything it was a foul on Malouda, or Daffy Duck, or whomever. He wasn't even playing the ball. Obi Mikel trie
Malaysia Champions Youth Cup: Malaysia U19s 0-0 Academy and Lump it like Lampard
By Andy | August 11th, 2007I ain't gonna apologise for writing this late 'cos really there ain't too much to apologise for and to write about. The Academy's chances of qualifying for the next round of the Malaysia Champions Youth Cup look really slim after being held by the U19
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
Rangers v Chelsea - PREVIEW
By Andy | July 28th, 2007As I had so much fun blogging Feyenoord v Chelsea the other day I am going to LIVE blog Chelsea's game at Ibrox this afternoon from 2.30pm UK time. I hadn't written anything about the Feyenoord game before because honestly there wasn't too much to wr
Gabriel Milito transfers to Barcelona!
By Isaiah | July 11th, 2007Yay! Gaby Milito is going to sign with Barcelona! If you can read Spanish, here is Real Zaragoza's official announcement of the transfer. That's great news because we needed more defensive help and so far we've brought in Eric Abidal, Yaya Toure, and now
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