On the 23rd of January, 2024, Chelsea breezed past Middlesborough in the semi-final of the League Cup. They did so by hammering Boro 6-1 in the second leg at Stamford Bridge to overturn the 1-0 defeat they suffered in the reverse fixture in the North East. Hopes are now high that the Blues are turning … Read more
Chelsea have had plenty of highs in the Premier League era. They have been crowned champions five times, with only Manchester clubs, United and City, having surpassed that mark. On the flip side though, there have been times since the 1992/93 season when things went a little pear-shaped for Chelsea. Not disastrously so (they’ve never … Read more
Things haven’t been going exactly swimmingly for Chelsea in the Premier League for the last few seasons. Their 12th-place finish in 2022/23 represented their lowest-ever finish in a 20-team Premier League season. They haven’t won the title since 2016/17, and they haven’t really looked like challenging since then, despite lifting the Champions League and Europa … Read more
The 2022/23 season is set to be a campaign like no other, with domestic football pausing for a month in November and December for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. We saw plenty of penalties there, 23 in fact (excluding those in shootouts), not too far shy of the all-time record awarded four years earlier in … Read more