by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 16 hours ago
Didier Drogba has confirmed he will leave Chelsea this summer but Fernando Torres will not be following his fellow striker out of the club despite the Champions League winners' hierarchy having been left distinctly unimpressed by the timing of the Spaniard's publicly expressed frustration at life as a bit-part player at Stamford Bridge.
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 16 hours ago
After heart surgery, crown court trauma, on-field stresses and the dance with England, Harry Redknapp might have thought the season had run out of ways to torment him. The final kick in the guts, though, was brutal in its novelty and execution and it promised a wide-ranging test of even his powers of recovery.
Motorsport
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 16 hours ago
After seeing five different drivers in five different makes of car win the first five races of the new season Formula One is patting itself on the back. For the men who run the sport, all that tinkering with the rules seems finally to have eradicated the kind of situation in which they found themselves exactly 20 years ago, when the grand prix circus pitched up in Monaco, as it will do again this weekend, with one man and one car celebrating a royal flush of five straight victories.
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by Dan Coombs (RSS feed) - 2 days ago
Recently released Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon edged former Manchester United stopper Peter Schmeichel in the fan poll.
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 days ago
Fernando Torres has admitted that winning a first European Cup has made up for the toils he has endured since swapping Liverpool for Chelsea for a British record fee of £50m, though the striker tempered that sense of relief by stressing he will not be satisfied with a bit-part role in the side next season.
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 days ago
There are times, as Didier Drogba said, when there are barely enough words to do justice to the ecstasies and agonies that sport can conjure up. Roman Abramovich tried to find a few in the dressing room but only briefly. Then a Russian billionaire, operating from a level of financial power and status that means bodyguards are never far away, stopped talking and something extraordinary happened. He started wiping away tears of elation.
by The Guardian (RSS feed) - 2 days ago
Roberto Di Matteo had suggested he had something unexpected planned to motivate his players in the buildup to the Champions League final. Yet, as they gathered in a private room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on the eve of the showpiece for what they anticipated would be a routine tactical team-talk, none of Chelsea's players had quite envisaged the lengths to which their interim first-team coach had gone in his preparation.