

Academy News
The Loanee Roundup
By: Jack |You’re may be wondering: Where have all those talented Chelsea youngstas buggered off to? Well, you’re in luck.
Here’s a roundup of those youths — the two youths? — that have been shipped out on loan before the start of the 2009-10 season. Let me know if I missed anyone, people.
Franco Di Santo
Destination: Blackburn
Loan [...]
Cleaning Boots: Lamps & the English youth quandry
By: Jack |Our resident professor, Frank Lampard, spoke candidly regarding youth players a little over a week ago. Here’s what he had to say:
“There are good young pros out there but nowadays it’s made much too easy for them.
“We’re all lucky to be where we are, leading nice lifestyles, but that lifestyle is coming earlier and earlier. [...]
FA Youth Cup: Liverpool 1, Chelsea 0
By: Jack |Chelsea travelled to Merseyside for the second time in a week. And, once again, the Blues left empty-handed.
Chelsea’s Under-18 side crashed out of the FA Youth Cup on Thursday, suffering a 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in a nip-and-tuck affair on a brisk night at Anfield. Liverpool scored the night’s only goal on 16 minutes, David [...]
Video: Under 18s defeated
By: Jack |The Chelsea youngstas dropped a 4-3 decision to Southampton on Oct. 13. Jocopo Sala, Fank Nouble and Josh McEachran netted for the Blues.
Pre-teen joins Chelsea
By: Jack |I bet The Voyeur is pissed.
Chelsea scout Guy Hillion confirmed that the club inked 12-year-old Jeremy Boga from ASPTT Marseille.
The Blues beat out Lyon, Bordeaux and big Marseille for the young one’s signature. More to the point, his father has been working in London for a couple of years, leading to Boga’s decision to join [...]
Mitrovic glistens at Cobham Cup
By: Jack |Chelsea’s Under-16 showcase, The Cobham Cup, kicked off today. And Marko Mitrovic stole the show.
In his Chelsea debut, the highly-touted Swede — signed by Chelsea last December — found himself on the scoresheet less than a minute into the Blues’ tournament opener with River Plate. Mitrovic drove home a penalty, which he had won by [...]
Cobham training facility unveiled
By: Jack |Chelsea broke in its newest addition today with the official opening of the new academy at Cobham. Among those on hand for the shindig included Sir Trevor Brooking, John Terry, Uncle Phil and Romes himself — nice, dude!
The ceremony came prior to the Cobham Cup kickoff, a subject I’ll tackle in my next transcendent blog [...]
FA Youth Cup: Chelsea runs riot
By: Jack |The Chelsea youngstas booked a place in the FA Youth Cup semifinals Tuesday night.
They dominated Port Vale 5-2 at Vale Park, a sublime hat-trick from Frenchman Gael Kakuta the highlight of the night. Morten Neilsen and Miroslav Stoch added to the tally.
Vale scored boths of its goals in the second half, the first through Jonathan [...]
John Terry: Will He or Won’t He?
By: Andy |I feel so jealous that my fellow ‘bloggers’ can post goal action of their favourites from the weekend’s action and ‘appen from the last few weeks LOL LOL LOL!!
Anyway. Will he or won’t he? Thats the question that is being debated and discussed on the varous Chelsea chat boards concerning our own Captain Marvel – [...]
Academy, Reserves and Chelsea Ladies UPDATE
By: Andy |The Academy travelled to Aston Villa on Saturday morning and like the first team a couple of weeks ago, were beaten. The game ended 2-1 to Villa. Read all about it here.
The reserves were in action last night at their new home Griffin Park, home of Brentford FC and in front of a fair sized [...]






