https://webplayer.whooshkaa.com/episode/659324?theme=dark&visual=true&scrolling-title=true&enable-volume=true Simon Phillips Show #1 - Transfer News & QnA In our first episode of the Simon Phillips show, Simon discusses the latest news regarding the Football Club, including the most recent transfer news, such as Coutinho, Milik and Boga. In part 2, he answers your questions which you gave him on his twitter.Make sure... Continue Reading →
Marcel Desailly: Chelsea’s best bargain signing ever?
Marcel Desailly joined Chelsea in 1998 in a £4.6 million switch from Italian giants AC Milan. This was during a time when transfer fees were not as excessive as they are nowadays; Chelsea were managed by former player Gianluca Vialli. So what makes Desailly a candidate to be the best bargain signing ever? Image by... Continue Reading →
How to create a Football Data Graph in 2 minutes!
Want graphs like these made for you and for free? Well, you are in the exact right place (kind of!) Over the last few months, I have been working on a Python program which creates these graphs automatically for you, with data imported from fbref.com after entering some very simple information. To create your own... Continue Reading →
Havertz and Diaby shine as Leverkusen put four past struggling Bremen
After the long awaited return of elite European football competition this weekend, it was finally the turn of Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen to entertain the Bundesliga’s newly-added-to audience. Along with the rest of the brilliant writing team at the Chelsea Spot, I was tasked with following the performances of a number of Chelsea targets... Continue Reading →
The Chelsea Spot Podcast #5: Bundesliga Recap & Project Restart
https://webplayer.whooshkaa.com/episode/657239?theme=dark&visual=true&scrolling-title=true&enable-volume=true Bundesliga is back! In our fifth episode of The Chelsea Spot podcast, Dan (Host - @danbarkzr) and Orlando (@0rland1nho) discuss some of the best games from the first week of the Bundesliga return, and talk about players who Chelsea could keep an eye on and how some of the linked players performed. In part... Continue Reading →
Reliving Our Famous UCL Run in 2012- The Final Showdown
As the Chelsea players walked out of the tunnel, led by our current manager Frank Lampard, they had just one thought in their mind, and that was to go back to London as the only club from the city to have won this famous big-eared trophy. Walking out, looking around the Allianz Arena, they knew... Continue Reading →
Dortmund breeze past Schalke in the Revierderby
I spent my Saturday afternoon watching the highly anticipated Revierderby, in which Borussia Dortmund welcomed FC Schalke 04 to an empty Signal Iduna Park. I kept an eye on a certain few players that Chelsea have been linked with in the past few months, as well as doing a bit of tactical analysis of the... Continue Reading →
Gladbach put three past Frankfurt in entertaining matchup.
Along with the other talented writers @TheChelseaSpot, I’ve been given a Bundesliga game to cover and monitor certain players that could suit this current Chelsea system under Frank Lampard. The game I chose was the Frankfurt vs Borussia Munchengladbach match which ended with Marco Rose’s Gladbach taking a 1-3 away win which allowed them to... Continue Reading →
RB Leipzig and Freiburg play out draw in Bundesliga reopener
Football today returned in Germany after the outbreak of the Coronarus pandemic, with games being played behind closed doors. I watched the clash between third placed RB Leipzig, who welcomed eighth placed SC Freiburg to the Red Bull Arena - with an eye on players who have been linked with Chelsea over the last few... Continue Reading →
The Chelsea Spot Podcast #4 – The U23’s & U18’s
https://webplayer.whooshkaa.com/episode/653847?theme=dark&visual=true&scrolling-title=true&enable-volume=true Episode 4 - The Academy In our fourth episode of The Chelsea Spot podcast, Paree (Host - @ACParee) and Orlando (@0rland1nho) discuss the most talked about academy players in Cobham. Prefer to listen elsewhere? Click your preferred streaming platform – Apple Spotify Make sure to check us out on all our social media platforms,... Continue Reading →
Is Kanté still a World Class player?
The summer of 2018 saw the happy ending to N’Golo Kanté’s incredible rise from Ligue 2 to World Cup winner materialise. At 27 years old, the Frenchman was at the peak of his powers, and arguably the best midfielder in the world. Now two years older and increasingly more injury prone, can the Premier League’s... Continue Reading →
Ross Barkley: The Enigma
Dubbed the ‘Scouse Zidane’ by some fans and ‘Dross Barkley’ by others: I’m going to take a look at why the midfielder creates so much divide in the Chelsea fanbase. Ross Barkley is a player who many Chelsea fans thought would be leaving the club in 2020, but, in the recent weeks before the postponement... Continue Reading →
Reliving our Famous UCL Run in 2012: Part 7- Defying All The Odds
The Chelsea players walked onto the Nou Camp pitch with the odds stacked against them. Despite bringing a lead along with them from Stamford Bridge, they were tasked with keeping one of the greatest sides ever assembled at bay for 90 long minutes, with the vociferous home support always ready to spike up the adrenaline... Continue Reading →
Federico Chiesa: Scout Report
Fiorentina winger Federico Chiesa has been one of the latest players to be linked with Chelsea over the last few days. But who exactly is the young Italian and what would he bring to Frank Lampards squad? Son of former Italian and Fiorentina forward Enrico Chiesa, Federico made his Fiorentina debut in 2016 in a... Continue Reading →
Chilwell vs Telles: solving Chelsea’s left back conundrum
When Ashley Cole left Chelsea after eight years of incredible service in the summer of 2014, it was inconceivable to most Chelsea fans that the left back slot which he left behind would not be convincingly filled for another six or more years, and yet here we are, still searching for a reliable replacement. Filipe... Continue Reading →
The Chelsea Spot Podcast #3 – Keep, Sell or Loan (Part 2)
https://webplayer.whooshkaa.com/episode/648662?theme=dark&visual=true&scrolling-title=true&enable-volume=true Keep, Sell or Loan - Part 2 In our third episode of The Chelsea Spot podcast, Dan (Host - @danbarkzr), Orlando (@0rland1nho) and Lewis (@CFCLewis_) go through every single Chelsea player in the squad and give their opinion on whether they would keep, sell or loan the players. Prefer to listen elsewhere? Click your... Continue Reading →
Scout Report: Aubameyang
There is a long-standing tradition of Arsenal players leaving North London in search of a more ambitious club, and a lot of the time said players end up at Stamford Bridge, whether that is directly or later on in their careers. Chelsea made Ashley Cole a Champions League winner, gave Cesc Fabregas not one but... Continue Reading →
If the season finished today: Ranking Frank and the boys (Part Three)
No rival fan can accuse Chelsea of being a boring watch this season and that is largely down to our possession based, free-flowing brand of football which has incorporated young, hungry players eager to make their mark on the league. In the third part of my review of our 2019/20 season so far, I will... Continue Reading →
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