Pre-match briefing: West Ham United V Chelsea

The last time Chelsea played at Upton Park the team enjoyed the biggest win there. Another good victory would be just what the doctor ordered. Club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton look forward.

29/02/2008

Mikel: Up for Upton Park

The plaer arrives at cobham this morning for their penultimate training session before facing West Ham on Saturday, and John Mikel Obi is determined to use that game as an opportunity to return to winning ways.

28/02/2008

Giles Smith's midweek view

As the Wembly post-mortem draws to a close, columnist Giles Smith looks for a final lesson from the school of hard knocks.

27/02/2008

~You still have our support!~

A suprisingly lose from Chelsea to Tottenham 1-2 in the Carling Cup final. What a pity but do not worry coz we fans are not going to change our favourite teams. We will still support you all! Go Chelsea FC go! Win the Barclay Premier League! Do not think about the past! Move Ahead to the future! Think about winning every trophy! We have ur support! Go for it!

25/02/08

Chelsea FC players

Sorry about not putting up the players in Chelsea...
Here are the players:
Chelsea Players

1 - Petr Cech
2 - Branislav Ivanovic
3 - Ashley Cole
4 - Claude Makalele
5 - Michael Essien
6 - Ricardo Carvalho
7 - Andriy Shevchenko
8 - Frank Lampard
9 - Steven Sidwell
10 - Joe Cole
11 - Didier Drogba
12 - John Obi Mikel
13 - Michael Ballack
14 - Claudio Pizarro
15 - Florent Malouda
17 - Scott Sinclair
18 - Wayne Bridge
20 - Paulo Ferreira
21 - Salomon Kalou
22 - Ben Haim
23 - Carlo Cudicini
24 - Shaun Wright-Phillips
26 - John Terry
27 - Ben Sahar
28 - Michael Woods
30 - Rhys Taylor
33 - Alex
35 - Juliano Belletti
39 - Nicolas Anelka
40 - Hilario
41 - Sam Hutchinson
42 - Lee Sawyer
46 - Jimmy Smith

~Carling Cup final~

Today Chelsea will be challenging with tottenham for the Carling Cup trophy. And Avram Grant will be taking his first silverware with Chelsea if they win this match.
From the prediction, the final will be hard for Chelsea as in the semi-final between Arsenal and Tottenham, Tottenham won with a 5-1 win to kick out Arsenal and get to the final. It will be hard for Chelsea but Chelsea we have your support! Win This!

24/02/2008

Grants special Wembly Guest

As he approaches his first chance to win silverware as Chelsea manager, Avram Grant has spoken openly about influences that made him the man he is. For anyone involved in a major sporting showpiece such as Wembly cup final, the sense of pride can only be magnified by having family and friends inside the stadium to watch. As he leads the chelsea player out of the tunnel for the first Carling Cup final at the rebuilt national stadium, Grant will experienced those emotions as his father, Mier, watches on from his seat. the two celebrated Mier's 80th birthday on thursday and the party continues at the match against Tottenham. A ticket from his son helps to repay money borrowed by a football-obsessed young Avram to watcch numerous cup finals in the past. 'My father is a great man, one of the greatest that i know,' the Chelsea manager claims. 'He is an optimist like i have never seen in my life, and he suffered alot when he was young. He was the survivor of the holocaust. I have the same name as my grandfather who died in the holocaust with many other of his family.' Avram's father was just 13 in 1941 when his family fled their native poland and sought refuge in the forest of nothern Russia. Mier survived the harsh conditions but his father, mother and five of his brothers and sisters didn't. 'What impressed me about my father, and he give me alot in my life, is that he always saw the positive,' Avram reveals. 'Even when i was at school, he saw only the good marks. 'And he is still like this now. If you speak with him about the past, he will say there were wrong things in the past, but i live in the future - and he is 80! I wish him all the best. I love him.' The Chelsea boss has also paid tribute to the part played by his late mother, Aliza, an immigrant from iraq who Mier met after relocating to a town near Tel Aviv. 'My mother came from totally another world from my father and they were totally different. My mother was a perfectionist and did not accept it if you got 99 marks from 100. My father would accept everything in a positive way. Everything that happened to me in my life, I can only thank them for this. They gave me alot, without them i couldn't succeed.' One strength of character Avram believes he enjoys in adult life is the ability to thrive under pressure, even at the levels that accompany a London derby Carling Cup final. 'The pressure of this job is exactly what i thought, not more, not less. It is good pressure. The good thing in football, especially when you are at a big club, is the pressure to think how to win. I wish to have this pressure all my life, i cannot live without this. 'I am not worried about myself because if i don't take this trophy on Sunday, I will take trophies at Chelsea in the future. But even if it wasen't good for my future, I would want to win this game anyway, especially when it is so important to the fans and the club.'

-23/02/2008

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