Nico saves the day; New Guy in town

Off a defender, off a post, in the net. Mr. Anelka took care of business away for France, making their trip to South Africa ...

Blues Brothers 2000 (not the movie)

In following with this week's pattern of posting hilarious pictures, photoshopped or no, we bring you this marvelous offering from the Sun. Luckily, the accompanying ...

Rant Box: Chelsea v Blackburn

This man struggles to sell hard copies. He certainly doesn't have any trouble bulging the ol' onion bag (no Tommy Smyth) against the Blackeyes.

Lead up: Chelsea v Blackburn

Atletico Madrid presented little in the way of resistance during Chelsea's 4-0 Champions League shellacking of young Kun's temporary home in midweek. Saturday's contest against ...

Lead up: Chelsea v Aston Villa

Time to get back to work. The international break is finally over -- congratulations, by the way, to Ghana for becoming the first African nation to ...

FA Cup buildup: The Road to the final

Nico is golden.

I believe congratulations are in order. Big Up to Chelsea forward Nicolas Anelka for securing the Premier League's Golden Boot on Sunday against Sunderland. The French ...

Weekend Quiz Answers: Who's Gunning for Those Titles?

First, if you haven't yet taken our quiz, stop by this post and make your guesses, then come back here for the answers. You ...

Rant Box: Chelsea v Newcastle

What. The. Hell? Could we be playing Newcastle at a worse time?. The Messiah (Alan Shearer for those of you who have been living under a ...

More good news

Can you tell I'm avoiding touching on the weekend's festivities? You're quite the observant ones, aren't you? Whatever. Following that debacle, it just keeps getting better for ...

Weekend Dose 02.22.09

Some news to read as we take a look at this gentle, dainty, delicate Up Yours to everybody who says that Nicolas Anelka can't score ...

Gallery: Hiddink in training

Sorry about the lack of posts lately guys. This week has been hella hectic. Anyway, here are a few photos of Guus running the squad ...

Match Report: Nico is 'golden'

Well, that was surprisingly entertaining. Following 70 some minutes of mindnumbing football, things finally livened up at Vicarage Road. Watford substitute Tamas Priskin scored with his ...

Gallery: Chelsea 3, Watford 1

Rant Box: Chelsea v. Southend

Drogba's been dumped and Uncle Phil doesn't care, either. Actually, he doesn't care about anything at the moment. Who else is excited for the "game of ...

Weekend Dose: 12.21.08

Some news to read as you watch a holiday video so completely, incredibly and utterly wrong that even I cannot make myself embed it on ...

In France, Hostages Apparently Get Detained by Beautiful Women in Their Underwear

Apparently in France, when you get kidnapped and held against your will, you are tied to a chair by a beautiful model in her underwear ...

A Day of Thanks

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, and we've decided, like most Americans will do, to go around our Offside round table and list some things ...

10 Things We Learned in the Premier League: Anelka > Drogba

1. Nicolas Anelka > Didier Drogba Great player that Didier Drogba is, he seems a little too injury prone and a bit of a danger to ...

Why Chelsea are better off without Drogs

I know, I know. After all that Didier Drogba has done as a Blue, a statement like that is damn near blasphemous. But hear me out. I ...

Gallery: Chelsea 2, Aston Villa 0

Injury crisis: Relief?

Yesterday afternoon, during the second half of Chelsea's horrific display against CFR Cluj, Didier Drogba suffered what looked to be a season-ending knee injury. Key ...

A special thank you goes out to ...

Salomon Kalou for preserving Chelsea's home unbeaten run. And for bailing out Nicolas "I have no business being here" Anelka and Joe "I don't pass" ...

10 Things We Learned in the Premier League

1. West Brom are the best sponsor-less team in the Premier League We know this because they beat West Ham 3-2 in the big "your name ...

Match Recap: Reason to worry?

A gift (from Frank Lampard) + dreadful second half + an opponent content to defend = a monotonous 1-1 draw between Chelsea and Tottenham at ...

Match Recap: Throwing down the gauntlet

So much for settling in. Uncle Phil set Stamford Bridge ablaze on his debut, guiding Chelsea to a superlative 4-0 win over Portsmouth in the Premiership ...

Chelsea Vs Portsmouth Liveblog!

Last years Champions League and Prem runners up Chelsea, kick off thier season today with a tough game against FA Cup winners Portsmouth. Its on ...

Prem Preview: Let the games begin

The time has finally arrived. Word. Chelsea begins a new era today as it opens the 2008-09 season against Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge. The match marks ...

Photo of the Day: Andriy! You've Picked Up a Tan!

Picked this up, complete with caption, over at the generally extremely accurate Yahoo photo site. But even the best strike out once in awhile. Either ...

Saturday morning MEGA update...

I promised myself I wouldn't make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft ...