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Fate and football have always seemed to be familiar bedfellows, and the two almost conspired once again to give Chelsea's new manager a sense of deja vu. Jose Mourinho's first spell in charge of the Blues began with an opening-day fixture against ...

So the waiting is over. Jose Mourinho has signed a four-year deal worth a reported GBP;40 million to become the next Chelsea manager and returns to the place where he enjoyed so much success. It had been the worst kept secret in football, with Mourin...

A recently retired and highly decorated manager once said, "Football, bloody hell!" If you had to pick one phrase to describe Chelsea's turbulent 2-1 win over Aston Villa on Saturday, Sir Alex Ferguson's memorable statement would be the perfect fi...

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein coined that phrase in the early part of the last century and while he might not have intended it to refer to the game of football it perfectly en...

As Chelsea's 2-2 draw with Liverpool on Sunday showed in horrific style, football can be the cruelest of sports. For the second time in a week, the Blues were denied their just desserts through another shocking display of refereeing. Last Sunday, ...

In the summer of 2001 when it was announced that Chelsea had signed Frank Lampard for GBP;11m, there was a sharp intake of breath from most football observers, including the vast majority of Chelsea fans. These days GBP;11m would not even be enough to secu...

One of the many trials of being a football fan is that you have to endure whatever garbage your team churns out and accept it as part of the emotional contract you have drawn up with your club. You must persist through the torture, unable to leave yo...

Football club boardrooms and their fans have nearly always represented two definitively opposed sides of the same coin. The distrust between the moneyed men in their dark suits has always grated heavily against the gristle of the man of the street, a...

After yet another turbulent week at Chelsea Football Club, the 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion gave it a very welcome conclusion. - Evans: Hoodoos, mistakes and positives for Baggies - Delaney: Benitez beats the boo boys - Benitez praises Chel...

What Chelsea's 1-1 draw with Sparta Prague Thursday lacked in quality, it certainly made up for with drama. There is nothing in football quite like a last-minute winner - or in this case, a last-millisecond winner - and it made all the suffering t...

It's almost ten years since Roman Abramovich swept into Stamford Bridge and permanently changed the history of Chelsea FC, and with it the landscape of English football. It has been a decade full of constant surprises from deadline-day purchases t...

The FA Cup. If there is one football competition that conjures up romance, emotion, despair and ecstasy, it is the Football Association Challenge Cup. Every English football fan has a favourite memory as well as one -- or several -- which they wou...

Maybe it's the afterglow of beating one of your most hated rivals or maybe it's just the eternal optimism of a football fan, but if you look closely, you will see the slightest twinkle of light that suggests that Chelsea's fortunes might just be star...

If the timeless football cliche "a game of two halves" ever needed a dictionary definition then Chelsea's 2-1 win over Arsenal would provide the perfect entry. A match that was so utterly dominated by the home side in the first half was all but tu...

The smash and grab. There is little in a football match that is more satisfying or galling -- depending on your perspective. Unfortunately for Chelsea, they were on the receiving end of one from Swansea rather than being the exponents. - Brewin: T...

To say the first few months of Chelsea's season have been eventful would be something of an understatement. Free-flowing football coupled with positive results soon gave way to a protracted winless run and the subsequent removal of Roberto Di Matteo ...