VAR

100th-minute winner for Blues 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 5th April 2024
I woke on Friday morning in a fuzzy cloud, wondering if I’d dreamt that Cole Palmer had netted a winner for Chelsea against Manchester United the night before in the 100th minute of a bizarre ding-dong game. In six decades of going to Stamford Bridge I thought I’d experienced it all; highs of European victories, lows
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The new wingers 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 12th February 2023
A team of 11, expertly switching – in perfect formation – from one end of the pitch to the other. Not West Ham, and not Chelsea either, although both teams showed glimpses of promise at the London stadium during last weekend’s 1-1 draw. I’m talking about a flock of pigeons having a lunchtime peck on
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James knee scare mars victory 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 28th December 2022
The Potter’s wheel is turning again after a run of dismal results in the lead up to the World Cup. A 2-0 home win against Bournemouth has steadied the ship, but a serious setback to the returning Reece James has left fans down in the dumps. James played brilliantly through a first half at the
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Last-gaspers 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 24th April 2022
Chelsea left it late, earned a penalty, missed it, then – with 24 seconds of normal time remaining – fired home a winner against West Ham, briefly silencing the boisterous away fans, pumped up ahead of their European football adventure. For 95% of Sunday’s match it was a kind of weary stalemate of a derby,
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A match that had the lot 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 4th October 2021
It’s rare that a match has everything – goals, near misses, red and yellow cards, a penalty, reverberating woodwork, VAR drama… and horizontal rain. But last weekend’s monsoon-soaked clash between Chelsea and Southampton will live long in the memory as every box was ticked. It’s just as well that there’s another international break this weekend.
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Not a fortress, a food bank 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 18th February 2020
Never mind the football! All 81,008 eyes (slightly fewer, if there were any one-eyed fans present) were on the giant screens rather than the action as an inordinate amount of Monday night’s Chelsea v Man Utd match was spent waiting for VAR official Chris Kavanagh and his assistant, Sian Massey-Ellis, to determine: a) if Chelsea
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