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Jared Kushner is Very Tight With Chelsea Owner, Vladimir Putin Crony Roman Abramovich

May 27, 2017 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment

Today’s top news story centers around Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Friday night, yet another news bombshell broke, via the Washington Post.

WaPo informed the world that: “Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.”

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Predicted Chelsea FC Starting XI vs West Bromwich Albion

May 12, 2017 By copy-editor 5 Comments

This is it.

The game that the English Premier League season has built up to. The game that could earn Chelsea their 6th English Premier League title. The season has been a cracker for Chelsea so they will want to end it with a bang. With West Brom having not won a game in seven, this clash will be one that Chelsea believe they will overcome, and therefore win the English Premier League.

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N’golo Kante Could Surpass Makele as Chelsea FC’s Best Ever Defensive Midfielder

May 11, 2017 By copy-editor Leave a Comment

It’s not easy to make a comparison between N’Golo Kante and Claude Makelele. They’re a pair of five-foot-six defensive midfielders from France who have played the position better than almost anyone in a Chelsea shirt. Makelele effectively created the position of the modern defensive midfielder and N’Golo Kante is in the process of building upon it. He’s certainly not there yet but Kante is on course to become one of the best players in Chelsea’s history.

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How To Be Taken Seriously As A Soccer Fan In The US

May 10, 2017 By copy-editor Leave a Comment

Generally speaking, soccer fans in the US get a lot of stick. Most of it stems from the fact they call it ‘soccer’ instead of ‘football.’ What fans back in Europe don’t seem to understand is that American Football is the number one sport over here. Of course, we don’t call it ‘American’ football, it’s just ‘football’ to us Americans.

So, if everyone started calling soccer ‘football’ as well, everyone would be confused! We don’t use the term soccer because we don’t respect the game or understand its history, it’s purely out of convenience.

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Will Chelsea FC Have Enough Depth for Champions League Football Next Season?

May 10, 2017 By copy-editor Leave a Comment

By Ian Preston

Chelsea FC need just one more win in order to bring the Premier League title trophy back to Stamford Bridge this season. With glorious victory comes the spoils, as the old saying goes, and part of those spoils for Chelsea will be a place back at European football’s top table, the UEFA Champions League, next season.

Having gone a whole campaign without European football, however, it does beg the question of whether or not Antonio Conte’s squad will be strong enough to stand up to the added demands of Champions League football.

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Antonio Conte Calls Monday Night a “big step” Towards Chelsea FC League Title

May 9, 2017 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment

Chelsea essentially clinched the Premier League title once Tottenham Hotspur fell at West Ham United last Friday night. The comments of Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino seemed to imply concession. Today, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said that his side has taken a big step towards clinching the club’s sixth league title (fifth in the Premier era).

Monday saw Conte’s Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 3-0 in a very lopsided defeat that was of major consequence for the opposition as well.

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Romelu Lukaku Voices His Issues with Chelsea, Manchester United Transfer Reports

May 8, 2017 By paulmbanks 4 Comments

Both Chelsea FC and Manchester United are after Romelu Lukaku, the Everton striker- that’s a narrative we’ve seen quite a bit on the back pages this past month. It’s certainly nothing new, as Lukaku was linked with a move back to his former club, Chelsea this past summer too.

The Stamford Bridge return rumors have been buzzing for awhile, but a new report from The Sun has set the striker off, and he made some Tweets yesterday indicating how upset he was. (Someone taking issue with The Sun and their “reporting”…SHOCKING! WOW!)

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Predicted Chelsea FC Starting XI vs Middlesbrough

May 8, 2017 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment

With Tottenham Hotspur being upset by West Ham United on Friday night, Chelsea FC pretty much have the Premier League title wrapped up. Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino made comments in the postgame media session that seemingly implied concession of the league title already.

Now Chelsea could become champions as early as Friday if they win their next two games. The first of the two clashes is against Middlesbrough, who will be relegated if they fail to beat Blues.

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Chelsea FC Injury Report vs Middlesbrough: David Luiz, N’Golo Kante, Thibaut Courtois

May 8, 2017 By paulmbanks 3 Comments

In one corner, Chelsea FC are just two wins away from officially claiming the 2016-17 Premier League title. In the other corner, you have Middlesbrough who will be relegated with a loss.

Chelsea have a pair of injury doubts in David Luiz (knee) and N’Golo Kante (thigh), but we may not know until kickoff whether each, or both, are match fit.

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Manchester United, and every other English Premier League Crest, if it were “Americanised”

May 6, 2017 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment

You previously saw what would happen if the National Football League became British. If not, then go here to this link and see NFL logos re-imagined in the style and theme of Great Britain. Clubline Football.com took the Premier League and converted the crests to how they would look if they were was branded up like the MLS, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL in America.

Club line took every Premier League team and AMERICANISED them. Sorry, it’s Americanised, not Americanized.

The infographic embedded below shows you each team in alphabetical order.

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Juan Mata Denies Ever Having Tension or Friction with Jose Mourinho

May 5, 2017 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment

There were many reactions a year ago (roughly) when it was learned that Jose Mourinho was replacing Louis van Gaal as Manager at Manchester United. One of the most basic impulse responses, among those well-informed, was “hey Juan Mata isn’t going to like this. He’s going to want out.”

It seemed logical given how Mata was glued to the bench at Chelsea when United brought him over, for a then club record £37.1 million transfer in January 2014.

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