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May
Future Chelsea stars
Future Chelsea stars
Young Josh Turnbull - son of keeper Ross Turnbull - gives the Chelsea supporters something else to cheer during the club’s end of season celebrations.
The toddler showed off his amazing dribbling skills in front of the Stamford Bridge crowd, giving the potential incoming manager - Jose Mourinho? - even more striking options. How will Fernando Torres react to this display?
We’ve revealed our picks for the best Premier League starting XI of all time. From the brick wall known as Peter Schmeichel, to the goalscoring assassin Alan Shearer, these are some of the best players to ever grace the Premier League.
Click through the gallery to see a recap and career highlights from our starting XI.
The Barclays Premier League has come to an end and the Champions League positions are set. The Premier League will be sending the same representatives as last year but will be hoping for a much better result as none of them made it through to the Quarterfinals in this year’s competition.
There will be a different look for the Europa League representatives this season.
Tottenham will be returning to the Europa League for the second consecutive season and will be joined by Swansea and a relegated Wigan club.
Swansea has secured their birth thanks to a 5-0 victory over Bradford in the League Cup final. Despite the impending relegation, Wigan will be heading to the Europa League group stage courtesy of a 1-0 defeat of Manchester City in the FA Cup Final.
Seemingly one of the most talked-about stories in football at the moment is Radamel Falcao’s next destination. Newly-promoted Monaco looked set to have won the race for the Colombian’s signature, but it has emerged that Manchester City is close to snapping up the Atletico Madrid star.
Also Chelsea looks set to have a busy transfer window, with Fernando Torres looking likely to leave Stamford Bridge in the summer.
For this rumor and the rest of today’s transfer gossip, click here.
With the 2012-13 Premier League season coming to a close, we review the top ten goals that made our heads swirl through the season.
In reality, there were too many to count this past season. Though we had to leave some out the list, strikes like Robin van Persie’s beauty to seal Manchester United’s Premier League title against Aston Villa or Gareth Bale’s magical strike versus West Ham come to mind.
OK, so we’ll stop and let you relive the best goals for yourself.
It wasn’t too long ago that Cristiano Ronaldo left Manchester United for a mind-blowing £80 million. If the rumors are true, he could be on the move again. It will take similar money for Real Madrid to part with their main man, who has bagged an incredible 55 goals already this season!
Today’s rumor is that Ronaldo is set to leave La Liga and travel back to the Premier League. Chelsea and Manchester United are ready to start a bidding war for the Portuguese international.
For this rumor and the rest of today’s transfer gossip, click here.
It’s every boy’s dream to celebrate a trophy with his heroes. This boy shares Chelsea’s Europa League victory with the players - before he is dragged off by a man in a suit…
Classic “Anchorman” prank!
An Australian news reporter was embarrassed by her colleagues while reading the highlights to Wednesday’s Europa League final. At the end of the highlight, her male colleague slyly changed the copy on the teleprompter to something completely non-soccer-related. Predictably, the reporter kept reading the script, sending the entire set into an uproar and reminding everyone of Veronica Corningstone’s prank on the legendary Ron Burgundy.
The lesson as always, don’t read everything you see on the teleprompter.
Photo: FOX Soccer
By: Jamie Trecker
BRUSSELS, BEGIUM
The conductor called the train: “Lille, Calais…and Chelsea FC.” The platform gave off a small roar of approval. Chelsea fans were headed home with another piece of silverware in their tuck. They seemed underwhelmed.
They should not have been. The Europa League final marked a number of firsts for the denizens of the Bridge: they became the first English team to have won all three major European titles (including the now-defunct Cup Winners’ Cup); the first European team to hold both European titles on offer simultaneously, and surely the first team to win back to back titles with, ahem, “interim” managers.
But as warmly as Roberto Di Matteo was regarded by the fans, his replacement, Rafa Benitez, is despised. Last night the ArenA and the arena of social media alike were filled with the moaning that has characterized Chelsea’s season.
Commentators made passing reference to the plastic flags that littered the away ends and a comment Benitez had once made about despising them. Unforgivable! The team started slowly – perhaps a reflection of the fact that they have now played more games in a season than any other English side since the Arsenal of 1970-71. So what! Chelsea’s now secured European play and won a major title under Rafa and erased a dangerous mid-season swoon. He was greeted by bedsheets and cardboard with the same message: “WE WANT MOURINHO.”
Photo: FOX Soccer
