Injury Updates: Billy Clifford needs a knee op

By: Jamie | March 30th, 2011

The good news is that Yossi Benayoun played 20 minutes for Israel yesterday, Alex has returned to full training with the squad, and it seems that our first teamers emerged unscathed from the international break.

The bad news is that one of our star players in the Youth Cup run, Billy Clifford, injured his knee in training yesterday. It will require an operation and he will be out for six weeks, which means he misses the rest of the season and the Youth Cup semifinal against the Mancs.

Completely gutted. Billy has really stepped up this season to become an important member of the youth team. He’s played in defense but truly shone when given the opportunity to control play in midfield.

The FA Youth Cup resumes on April 10th at Stamford Bridge against Manchester United. The second leg will be at Old Trafford on April 20th.

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Terry

Get well soon Billy. We will wait for you.
Venkat

Sublime skill of Josh!!

http://thechelseablog.org/2011...
Devin Anand

Straight from the boy's twitter account:

Just had phone call from A.cole wishing me well n coming to visit me 2morrow top team mates #topguy
about 8 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Love the camaraderie.
Max

You know Devin, last night I was on twitter reading tweets from Chelsea players, and I saw that tweet, and I came to the offside and was gonna post it but you beat me to it. It is pretty awesome that first team players care about our youth players, creates great camaraderie and entices youngsters to move here.
Venkat

And about your previous post abt Mourinho.. I think "noone divides like mourinho"..!!! I can remember a supporter's reaction after ganguly scored 144 in brisbane against australia in cricket as a brave captain in tough conditions!! "He is a bastard" a supporter said and turned, after a pause turned again and said " But what a magnificient Bastard "!! Could relate the same to Jose i thought!!
knife

lol...I like this post. kudos to you my friend.
Venkat

Oh thats great to see..!! Time ppl understand the real ashley cole!! And btw, Devin u have an agent in "knife" who arranges gals for you n stands by you holding a light for you everytime you f**k!! (Or is he? By the details of his comment i tot he is!!) Damn these guys!!
knife

your wrong -i arrange boys for dev
Venkat

Then why waste time in commenting to football posts man!?! I know Roman is wealthy! But we dont know him personally, so better stay out!!
knife

Jamie seems like the only decent moderator, hes a true supporter unlike dickless anand here.
Dr. Dro 11

Complete and utter Troll! this is probably still that douchebag currytheif...i hate pendejos like knife, i hope to god i one day run into them at sw6 so i can run them off, unless they want to prove THEY aren't dickless. At which point they'll just catch a cold
Devin Anand

Trolls.