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Chelsea Balls: John Terry ‘Takes A Pay Cut’ To Reduce Ticket Prices And Hell Freezes Over
TO Chelsea, where, as the Sun reprots, “JOHN TERRY vows this week to speak to Chelsea’s board of directors about the sky-high ticket prices at his club.”
Good old JT, sticking up for the fans.
But the Chelsea players are hoovering up all that cash – “69 per cent of it [income] went on wages.”
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Posted: 6th, November 2014 | In: Chelsea, Money, Sports | Comment
Former Chelsea Footballer Frank Leboeuf On Acting And Dining With John Malkovich
THE Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything features a face familiar to fans of Chelsea FC.
The doctor is played by none other than Frank Leboeuf, star of such hits as Taking Sides (2001) and Le foot fait son cinéma (2003).
He tells the Radio Times:
In France I can’t audition because they still think I’m a footballer and don’t take me seriously. But in England they’ve given me the opportunity. I shot two movies here last year, Allies and The Theory of Everything. They give me a chance to show my new skill, and I’m thankful for that. People said very stupid things: they say, “Oh, every football player wants to act.” But there are only three really: Vinnie Jones, Eric Cantona and myself.
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Posted: 5th, November 2014 | In: Celebrities, Chelsea, Film, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Sami Khedira Heads To Arsenal Before Moving To Manchester City And Back To Chelsea
The Mirror says Khedira is a Gunner
TRANSFER Balls: Anorak’s look at football speculation passed off as sensation and fact. Let’s see ehat the mesi has been saying about Sami Khedira and his move from Real Madrid to Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City or anywhere else.
It sesm that Arsenal need Khedira most, with former Gunner Perry Groves (he of the Perry Groves world) quoted in the Evening Standard:
“If Arsenal can get their injured players back while making sure the gap to the top doesn’t get too big with Chelsea and City then they have a chance to challenge for the title. If they can get to within six or seven points by the time the January transfer window opens and then sign Khedira, they could win it.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Hands Off In The Box: The Daily Mail’s Campaign That No-One Wants
THE Daily Mail has campaign. It wants readers to:
Join Sportsmail’s Hands Off In The Box campaign by parading the logo at matches.
You can just see football fans holding up the Daily Mail’s logo with pride. To date, the only newspaper referenced at football matches is the Sun. Liverpool fans upset over the Sun’s Hillsborough coverage ask fellow fans not to buy it.
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Posted: 29th, October 2014 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Crystal Palace To New Chelsea Fans: ‘Romans dirty money is a disease that has plagued our game’
WHOEVER could Crystal Palace fans be talking about as their side hosted Chelsea in the Premier League?
The Palace fans’ banner declared:
‘Romans dirty money is a disease that has plagued our game’
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Posted: 18th, October 2014 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comments (2)
Transfer Balls: Chelsea, Arsenal, Sami Khedira And A Bouncing Cech
TRANSFER Balls: Much talk about Sami Khedira, the Real Madrid and Germany player linked with a move to Arsenal and Chelsea.
The Mirror has news:
Chelsea have stormed ahead of Arsenal in the race for Sami Khedira – after it emerged that Real Madrid are looking to sign goalkeeper Petr Cech despite being linked with Manchester United’s David De Gea.
That entire story is based on the Daily Express. Yes, we know. The Mirror suipplies no link to the Express.
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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Manchester United’s Paul Pogba Dreams Of Arsenal, Wants Chelsea, Hunted By Liverpool But Moves To Manchester City
TRANSFER Balls: Is Paul Pogba heading to Manchester City. The Times says City are weighing up a move for the former Manchester United player, now with Juventus.
And he’s heading to the Etihad. Well, maybe:
Pogba, 21, has established himself as one of the top young players in Europe since leaving Manchester United for Turin two years ago and City are understood to have identified him as one of a number of possible midfield targets.
Such as…?
Ross Barkley is another option being considered by City, who inquired in June about the prospect of signing the Everton and England midfielder, only to be quoted a £50 million fee.
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Posted: 11th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Chelsea, Liverpool And Raheem Sterling In Classic Reader Sting
TRANSFER Balls: A look at utter drivel being passed off as football news in the mainstream media. The Daily Express has a question:
Chelsea lining up sensational £48m bid for Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling?
The cunning is to make a statement and end it with a question mark. But what to drive-by Liverpool and Chelsea fans actually learn?
The 19-year-old midfielder is currently negotiating a new deal with Brendan Rodgers’ side, but it is believed that the two parties are far from close to agreeing terms.
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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Chelsea, Liverpool, Sports | Comment
Manchester United Hardman Roy Keane Beats The Living Daylights Out Of Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho
BY now you’ll be wondering what former Manchester United captain Roy Keane has been up. How’s the anger? Are the dogs well?
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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Arsenal Pay More For Edison Cavani Than Chelsea Paid For Him
TRANSFER Balls: Can it be that the Gunners are going to buy Edison Cavani?
The Daily Express tells its readers today:
Arsenal are working on a deal to try and sign Edinson Cavani.
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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Arsenal and Chelsea Balls: Wenger Misses The Misses
ARSENAL manager Arsène Wenger spoke to the Arsenal website after his side’s 2-0 Premier League defeat to Chelsea. This is what he had to say:
Yes, a point was in it. It was down to us not to make defensive mistakes and use the dangerous situations we had and I think we were a bit short on both sides. We made a defensive mistake at the moment when we couldn’t afford to do it, and also when it was 1-0 and we were all over them I felt it was important not to concede a second goal. We did produce a good performance and both keepers had no saves to make.
Well, sort of. The Arsenal goalkeeper had two saves to make, but, we guess, he decided against making them…
Posted: 7th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Arsenal V Cheslea Balls: Wenger Says Mourinho Would Know It If He Really Attacked Him
ARSENAL manger Arsene Wenger looked like he’d strike a blow for everyone who values sport over gamesmanship and win-at-all-costs when he menaced Chelsea’s charmless manager Jose Mourinho.
The newspaper react:
Arsene Wenger is hardly contrite about intimidating Mourinho.
No, what is there to regret after that? I wanted to go from A to B and somebody confronted me in between without any sign of welcome… B was Alexis, to see how badly he was injured…
I trust that you will teach me all the moral lessons over the next three weeks and I can accept that. But I’ve been in the game long enough to give it the right weight…
I can try to push you and when [I do] you will see what my [pushes are really like]. It was a little one…
The Mirror goes overbaord:
Oh, puh-lease. We all loved it, including one former Daily Mirroe editor.
More!
Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
All True Sports Fans Wanted Arsenal Boss Wenger To Lamp Chelsea’s Prattish Jose Mourinho
SO. There was Arsene Wenger promising to do what so many managers, football fans and people who enjoy sport without the insessant charmless gamesmanship demand: lamp Jose Mourinho.
Sadly, like Arsenal, Wenger promised much but fell short on the Stamford Bridge touchline.
But good to see the niggling, spoilt bellend Mourinho looking unsettled.
He really is the face of the Premier League, the embodiment of all the greed, preening, self-aggrandizing and vanity it stands for.
When the football bubble pops and English football returns to what it once was, Anorak will rejoice. Until then, come on AFC Bournemouth. In the lower leagues, the sport lives on.
(Vine: Artekkers)
Posted: 5th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Chelsea Balls: Thibaut Courtois, Topless Stunna Jeny Sanchez And An Old Story ‘Exclusive’
THE Sun has a kiss ‘n’ tells. News is that Chelsea’s new goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois “cheated on his long-term girlfriend with a £4-an-hour tapas bar waitress he met on the internet, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.”
The Sun says it is an “EXCLUSIVE”.
The tapas bar waitress is Jeny Sanchez, 25.
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Chelsea And Arsenal In ‘Fabregas On The Brain’ Shocker
CHESLEA v Arsenal in the Premier League. And the Sun is, as ever, looking for controversy. The headline screams:
You’ve got Cesc on the brain – Hazard in Fab taunt to Wenger
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Posted: 5th, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Edinson Cavani Joins Arsenal But Wanted Heavenly Manchester United
TRANSFER Balls: The Guardian looks at Arsenal and a top player and wonders aloud:
Football transfer rumours: Arsenal to end Edinson Cavani’s PSG hell?
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Posted: 2nd, October 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Chelsea Balls: Manchester City Made John Terry Cry
CHELSEA captain John Terry cries when he doesn’t win. Other footballers have cried, of course. But Terry is such a divisive character. His tears invite a reaction. And most football fans will point and laugh. He says:
“I was in tears over the Premier League last season, over throwing it away and not winning it, behind closed doors. It’s emotions, that is what I play for week-in, week-out.”
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Chelsea Balls On Twitter: Filipe Luis Flashes A ‘Crows Cum-Shot Agonisingly Across The Face’
THE Offical Chealse FC Twitter account was tracking the Blues’ Champions’ League match at Porto. One tweet containted a glaring error:
Neat Chelsea play in and around the Sporting box concludes with Filipe Luis flashing a crows-cum shot agonisingly across the face
Did you see the error?
Yep: No apostrophe on ‘crows’.
Posted: 30th, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Chelsea Balls: Mourinho Is A ‘Liar’ To Keep Costa Out Of Spain
Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas (left) and Diego Costa (second left) warm up with their team mates during a training session at Cobham Training Ground, Surrey. Picture date: Monday September 29, 2014,
CHELSEA Balls in The Daily Express, which says “Diego Costa in Chelsea training… despite Jose Mourinho saying he can’t!”
Mourinho is a liar? No.
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Posted: 29th, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Manchester United To Spend £40m On ‘Chelsea’s’ Nicolas Otamendi
TRANSFER Balls: The Daily Express says Manchester United are looking to spend £40m (!) on “Chelsea and Man City target Nicolas Otamendi to bolster defence”.
Top Transfer Balls works by the Express, there, to link a player with three of the top five English clubs. The only shock is that Arsenal and Lvierpool ar enot also linked with Otamendi.
But, of course, according to the Express, Otamendi already plays for Chelsea. As Ben Jefferson told us:
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Posted: 25th, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, manchester united, Sports | Comment (1)
Arsenal Balls: Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas Overlooks Ramsay To Blame Ozil For His Disloyalty
CHELSEA mifielder Cesc Fabregas “reveals how Mesut Ozil BLOCKED Arsenal return”.
The Express adds:
CHELSEA star Cesc Fabregas has revealed that Arsenal rejected the opportunity to sign him from Barcelona because they already had Mesut Ozil.
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Posted: 25th, September 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comments (2)
Chelsea Balls: Wtch Jose Mourinho Play For Rio Ave In 1981
ONCE upon a time, Jose Mourinho wanted to be a professional footballer, like his father Felix.
Felix Vitoria kept goal for Setubal and Belenenses. He won a Portugal cap in a 2-1 win over the Republic of Ireland in 1972.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, Sports | Comment
Manchester United: Just another Chelsea
FOR a long time now, Manchester United fans have goaded other clubs for throwing their money around and buying various titles, accusing their rivals of having no soul.
Of course, ManYoo are no better, from their club-made banners that hang in the stadium to the very obvious huge sums of money they’ve thrown around themselves at their various squads. Sure, they’ve played some lads from the youth team, but that doesn’t make them any better than their competitors. In fact, in a lot of cases, they’ve spent more money that the rivals they mock.
This year, we saw Man Utd spend 18% of ALL the money forked out by Premier League clubs in this summer’s transfer window.
The club splashed £59.7m on Angel di Maria from Real Madrid alone, while in the meantime, selling off two promising young strikers from their squad in Welbeck and Hernandez. Even in Falcao, a mere loan player, Man Utd will be paying him more money than Wayne Rooney earns. Falcao will be getting more money from Old Trafford bosses than Arsenal will pay Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil combined.
And now, former Manchester United defender Phil Neville thinks that the club need another spending spree, with a £100 million-plus blurt required if they’re going to challenge for the league title.
With new manager Louis van Gaal throwing money around like a new lottery winner on Di Maria, Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind and Radamel Falcao, Neville thinks that there’s more cash to be spent.
“I know United have spent £150m,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live. “I think there’s another two transfer windows of similar amounts of money needed – maybe £100m – before they can even think about winning the title. There are still key positions in the team that need filling. I think the centre-back position is obviously the key area. Holding midfield or centre midfield needs addressing too.”
‘There were no world-class centre backs out there (this summer). I think that’s why in the next two transfer windows, United might still be looking for that world-class defender.”
Of course, there’s a number of fans who will love this, because a maintainable business model or the heart of a club don’t matter when all you’re concerned about is numbers and trophies. It must stick in the craw of older Man United fans who see their fellow fans concerning themselves only with how many trophies the club have and how much money they can spend.
There’s Manchester United fans who sing to smaller teams “We’ve got a stand that’s bigger than your ground”, or supporters who mock Arsenal for their lack of trophies. A product of the ‘football is a results business’ rhetoric, which is making many elements of professional football so achingly tedious, Manchester United, naturally, does have a heart and soul, just like Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City & Co, but it has been swallowed by short memories and overdrafts.
The Top 5 Mentality is the single most tedious facet of modern football, with more games happening each weekend that aren’t even in the Premier League. Manchester United’s fans who define their love by success are, whether they like it or not, the thing they level against hooting Liverpool fans who bleat on about the 70s and 80s, and the thing they berate Chelsea and Manchester City for.
And now, in the post Ferguson years, Manchester United fans are finding out, or being reminded, that reputation and cheque books count for nothing and that, you better find something else to love and enjoy about football because, without the success, you’ll have nothing to cheer about.
At Old Trafford, the young players aren’t valued like they were, the club is getting into dangerous debt, managers are binned off without completing a season and it doesn’t look like the rot in the boardroom is being protected from the people who are required to get results on match day.
It’s easy to tell yourself you’ve heart and soul when you’ve got a club that has the money to design it and implement it for you…
Posted: 23rd, September 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, manchester united, Sports | Comment
Transfer Balls: Manchester City And Chelsea Hope Everton’s Ross Barkley Forgets His ‘Dream’
TRANSFER Balls: Is Everton’s Ross Barkley leaving Goodison Park to play for Manchester City or Chelsea?
The Daily Express says he is. The Express says Barkley is worth £50m to both teams. That sounds a lot for the 20-year-old. City signed Yaya Toure for £24m. The Express says Barkley will be his replacement.
Richard Tanner reports:
With 17 overseas stars in their first-team squad, City need to sign more England players to comply with the Premier League and UEFA’s home-grown quotas. That is why they are desperate to hold on to England pair Joe Hart and James Milner.
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Posted: 23rd, September 2014 | In: Chelsea, Manchester City, Sports | Comment
Manchester City And Cheslea Balls: Watch Diego Costa Not Throttle Pablo Zabaleta
TWITTER is great. Well, it can be sink of human bilge and a herd. But when it comes to football, twitter is great. In today’s Premier League match between Manchester City and Cheslea, The Citizens’ (and how arcane a nickname is that given the club’s regal owners) Pablo Zabaleta was sent off. His second yellow card featured an altercation with Chelsea’s Diego Costa.
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Posted: 21st, September 2014 | In: Arsenal, Chelsea, Sports | Comment
