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• Remember When... Jimmy Armfield's Blackpool Towered Above Arsenal
• By Jason Mellor 19/8/2010 4:00 AM GMT
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• Ian Holloway readily admits he's had sleepless nights after watching DVDs of Arsenal as Blackpool prepare for their first league trip to face the Gunners in almost 40 years. Considering the ... More »
• Lord Triesman's Departure Leaves Power Vacuum Best Filled by Goodwill
• By Ian Ridley 18/5/2010 7:49 AM GMT
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• Now that Lord Triesman has confirmed the age-old truth in relationships between men and women that there is no fool like an old fool, the English game is left with a power vacuum. There are acting ... More »
• Didier Drogba's Eye For the Big Occasion Makes Life Easy For Carlo Ancelotti
• By Ian Winrow 16/5/2010 8:52 AM GMT
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• It should hardly come as a surprise that the closing week of Chelsea's first ever double-winning season turned into the Didier Drogba show. The striker knows exactly how to milk a moment and his ... More »
• Ancelotti Sets His Sight on Champions League Glory After Doing the Double
• By Ian Winrow 15/5/2010 2:08 PM GMT
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• Carlo Ancelotti led Chelsea to their first ever Premier League and FA Cup double and reacted to the success by confirming his priority is now to deliver the one major prize that continues to elude the ... More »
• Chelsea 1 Portsmouth 0: Didier Drogba Secures First Double For Blues
• By Ian Winrow 15/5/2010 10:54 AM GMT
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• Didier Drogba's second-half free kick secured Chelsea's first Premier League and FA Cup double although Portsmouth left Wembley knowing they had an outstanding chance of capping a miserable season ... More »
• Chelsea v Portsmouth FA Cup Final As It Happened
• By Evan Fanning 15/5/2010 8:00 AM GMT
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• Minute-by-minute commentary from Wembley. ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Chelsea Can Make History, but a Bigger Target Lies Ahead
• By Jon West 14/5/2010 11:11 AM GMT
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• Chelsea have the chance to make history by winning the FA Cup. Never before have the club won the league and the most prestigious of the two domestic knock-out competitions in the same season. But ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Tal Ben-Haim's Day In the Sun After Season of Broken Promises
• By Matt Butler 14/5/2010 9:26 AM GMT
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• There is a scene in Shawshank Redemption where the main character, Andy DuFresne, convinces the prison guards to give the inmates a crate of beer to toast their hard work in fixing the roof of one of ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Chelsea v Portsmouth Preview
• By Jon West 14/5/2010 7:00 AM GMT
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• FA CUP FINAL: WEMBLEY STADIUM, SATURDAY MAY 15, 2010. KICK-OFF: 1500 BST ... More »
• Bet on Chelsea Securing league and Cup Double in Ancelotti's First Season
• By JP Shaw 13/5/2010 9:01 AM GMT
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• It's safe to assume that Carlo Ancelotti, Chelsea's unassuming manager, is likely to win the League and Cup double in his first season. The Blues are finally stepping out of the shadow cast by ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Sorry England, Resting John Terry is Not an Option for Chelsea
• By Jon West 13/5/2010 7:39 AM GMT
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• No England World Cup preparations would be complete without a metatarsal scare but, unlike David Beckham and Wayne Rooney in previous years, fears that John Terry had suffered a broken foot proved to ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Jamie O'Hara Desperate to Make Portsmouth Exit at Wembley
• By Matt Butler 13/5/2010 3:14 AM GMT
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• It may be a cliché to say it is the dream of every football player - and fan - to play in an FA Cup final, but Portsmouth's Jamie O'Hara is so determined to make an appearance against Chelsea ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Hayden Mullins Grateful for Second Chance of Final Glory
• By Matt Butler 12/5/2010 7:28 AM GMT
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• For Portsmouth, this weekend's FA Cup final represents one last spot in the limelight before they drop into the Championship where they will attempt to rebuild following their financially calamitous ... More »
• Remember When... Chelsea and Portsmouth Last Met in the FA Cup
• By Jason Mellor 12/5/2010 7:00 AM GMT
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• It has been a week to forget for Gianfranco Zola, but there were happier times for the recently departed West Ham United manager on the last occasion FA Cup final opponents Chelsea and Portsmouth ... More »
• Cup Countdown: Portsmouth's Avram Grant is Joking All the Way to Wembley
• By Matt Butler 11/5/2010 4:53 AM GMT
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• With a delivery as deadpan as Jack Dee or Woody Allen, it is sometimes difficult to tell whether Avram Grant is joking. Grant, the manager of Portsmouth, has also had little to laugh at with ... More »
• Bet Against Teams With Nothing to Play for on the Last Day of the Season
• By JP Shaw 06/5/2010 8:11 AM GMT
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• Manchester City fans were left wondering where do we go from here after the disappointment and (financial) disaster of failing to qualify for the qualifying stages of the Champions League. Meanwhile, ... More »
• Remember When ... Geoff Hurst Suffered as Wigan Stunned Chelsea
• By Jason Mellor 06/5/2010 8:00 AM GMT
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• Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson admits he's clutching at straws as he clings to the hope that Wigan Athletic can help divert the title to Old Trafford by frustrating Chelsea on the final ... More »
• Remember When... Wolves Profited as the Wembley Jinx Hit Dave Whelan
• By John Wardle 22/4/2010 8:44 AM GMT
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• Two weeks before the anniversary of their most famous encounter, Wolverhampton Wanderers face Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. It was nearly half-a-century ago - on May 7, 1960 - when the two clubs ... More »
• Portsmouth Will Be Such Dangerous Opponents in Final Games of Season
• By Chris Brereton 15/4/2010 8:44 AM GMT
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• There is an old saying that suggests "nothing is as dangerous as a man with nothing to lose". Avram Grant knows exactly what it means at the moment. Portsmouth's relegation from the top-flight, ... More »
• Premier League Refereeing Crisis Exposes Severe Flaws in English Game
• By Brian Glanville 14/4/2010 6:45 AM GMT
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• No doubt, alas, about it. English football is in the grip of a severe and increasing crisis of referees. As all too sharply embodied in the top referee of them all, the man who will officiate in the ... More »
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