Here we go again then. For the fourth season in a row, Chelsea’s youth team are in the Semi Finals of the FA Youth Cup. They’ve lifted the trophy twice in that run, with a last four defeat to Manchester United sandwiched in between, and now face another trip to the North West of England to face Liverpool as they seek to become the first team to retain the title…
With Easter out of the way, the final push to the finish line in the 2012-13 season has begun in earnest, and many of Chelsea’s young loanees have high stakes to play for in the final weeks of the campaign. Many of them are fighting for high rewards – titles, promotions or European qualification – but at the bottom of League One in England, Sam Walker and Billy Clifford are…
There was an unfamiliar name in the Chelsea Under-18 line-up away to Manchester United earlier this afternoon. Midfielder Kasey Palmer started in midfield, wearing the number eight shirt for the visiting Blues. He has thus far spent the most notable period of his career at Charlton, where he has this season been playing up with the main youth team despite still being a schoolboy. A 1997-born player, he featured in…
A busy Easter weekend across Europe has given us plenty by way of talking points for the latest instalment of the Loan Report, and we begin with a couple of new goalscorers. Patrick Bamford’s second spell at League One’s MK Dons has gotten off to an excellent start as the former Nottingham Forest man has struck twice in his last two games. A regular feature now fit after a hamstring…
Chelsea’s bid to be European Under-19 Champions fell at the last hurdle on Monday evening as they lost 2-0 to Aston Villa in the NextGen Series Final. Despite dominating the first half, two penalties from Villa’s Graham Burke saw them claim the glory and follow Internazionale into the competition’s history books. Alex Kiwomya was sent off late on for a second bookable offence to compound an ultimately frustrating day for…