Who Pairs Rooney Upfront?

... of course that's assuming Wayne Rooney joins Chelsea, which to me is a done deal by the way. It's one of those dilemmas you pray for as a coach and it's one of the benefits that comes with being a coach at a top club. You not only challenge for honours, medals and laurels every season, but you also get to make some decisions other not-so-lucky managers out there can only be jealous of. The fate of world-class footballers are in your hands and the whole world is watching and waiting to see how you will handle the situation. This is the case at Chelsea right now and it's the dilemma facing the Special One; the whole world is watching to know how he would pull this one off. With Rooney's arrival looking imminent, I guess the question on the lips of everyone at the Cobham training complex is who will pair Wayne Rooney upfront? It's a collective nightmare for the strikers at the Bridge. But that's if anyone would pair him there at all.

Chelsea's Sexy New Away Kit

The Blues unveiled their brand-new all-white away kit for the 2013-14 season earlier on in June with the "It's Not White, It's Blue" promotion campaign. But very few Chelsea fans knew exactly what it was like, until yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. The Europa League champions flaunted the new white jerseys in their 4-1 win over the Malaysian XI and it was only then that most Blues fans were able to catch a glimpse of what that kit really  looks like. Many assessed it and said that it was nice. At least it is an improvement upon a similar white kit that Chelsea wore in some of their away fixtures last season.

Countdown To The EPL (2): Tottenham Hotspur in Focus

Can Tottenham win the Premier League? Do they stand any chance of being crowned the EPL champions by the end of the upcoming season? Find out here as I x-ray their preparations for the upcoming English Premier League season.

Two days ago I promised that I would be reviewing a couple of EPL teams that I felt were the top six clubs in contention for the title (Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Manchester United) and analyze them in readiness for the new league season which is exactly four Saturdays away today.

Today in this series I will review Spurs and predict where they are likely to end up next season if statistics from the past three seasons and the current preseason are anything to go by.

Intriguing Facts About Chelsea You Never Knew

We all claim to know so much about the football clubs we support and we often brag with their "facts" to the fans of other clubs in a bid to show-off and tell them why our team is better than theirs. But how many of these facts are actually correct? How many of them are not made up just to stroke our egos and seem right in the middle of a hot argument? How much do we really know about our clubs? Yes, how much do you know about your club, Chelsea FC? Well this is what I know.





The Club

1. Chelsea is the first - and so far the only - London club to have won the UEFA Champions League. This was a feat it achieved by beating Bayern Munich on their home turf in May, 2012. The match ended 4-3 on penalties in favour of the Blues after 120 minutes of exhilarating attacking football proved indecisive.

Rooney In, Who Out?

Who goes if Rooney comes?

Nothing has been confirmed yet, at least not at the time of writing this post, but let’s assume Wayne Rooney swaps the Red Devils shirt for the iconic Blue uniform of the Southwest London outfit, who and who might be on their way out of Stamford Bridge? Which player or players are Chelsea willing to sacrifice? That remains the big question as there are some playing departments in the team which are not the way they should be, but if the worst comes to the worst, one or more players would have to look for another club in order to make room for any big summer signing that is to join the lads at the Cobhams training ground. This is what I will be looking at in this post.

Just yesterday it was revealed in the