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Just a quick excerpt this morning as I tuned into the first of the EPL doubleheader on Fox Soccer Channel this morning to watch Chelsea annihilate a poor Sunderland team. The damage was done during a 5 goal outburst in about 26 minutes either side of the half in a match played in torrential rain. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool travelled to the fortress that is Stamford Bridge on Sunday.  A stadium where Chelsea have not lost for 86 games, since 2004.  However, by the time Liverpool left Chelsea they had put down a clear statement of intent to the rest of their title challengers and the Premier League as a whole, that this [. Click to continue reading...

After watching his Manchester City side demolish Portsmouth 6-0 yesterday with a devastating display of fast attacking football, boss Mark Hughes said his side had 'set a standard'. He said, "We saw the right pass at the right time on many occasions. We have set a standard for ourselves. Click to continue reading...

Not exactly hyping up the match-up there are we?

Lame.

I think this article about Chelsea's Phil Scolari talking trash about how he's gonna buy Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Something to read while you wish this was your postman... Mega Man: The future of football? (Wii FanBoy) When drunken streaking goes wrong (Deadspin) Meet Ismaël Bangoura (Guinea WCB) Big Phil not happy with 4-0 (Reuters Soccer Blog) Table football not just for landlubbers (M&C) More sad news about Gazza (Premier League Offside) It's healthy to disagree sometimes (Yanked Around) Click to continue reading...

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The Sun - WILKINS IN ... Ray's back at the Bridge
RAY WILKINS joins Chelsea today as shock replacement for Steve Clarke.
Boss Phil Scolari was left reeling by coach Clarke's exit to West Ham on Monday and has moved quickly to snap up another former Blues player.
Wilkins, 52, had six years with Chelsea back in the 1970s and also spent time at Stamford Bridge as a coach under Gianluca Vialli from 1998 to 2000. Click to continue reading...

It was not a great day for French teams in the Champions League. Marseille lost to Liverpool 2-1 after taking an early lead, and Bordeaux got decimated by Chelsea, 4-0. (And it could have been worse.)

The only bright side? Florent Malouda and Nicolas Anelka both scored for Chelsea.

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West Ham have wrapped up Gianfranco Zola as their manager, and the pint-sized Italian wants Big Phil Scolari's assistant as his own. The Scotsman reckons that although Zola will keep Kevin Keen and a lot of the West Ham backroom staff, he's casting jealous glances towards Chelsea and wants to nab ... Click to continue reading...

Phil Scolari is used to criticism. After all, he's been manager of Brazil, a role where the world and his wife have something to say about the way the national team should be managed. Nevertheless, he won the World Cup with his compatriots, and also did a pretty good job ... Click to continue reading...

There are an increasing number of Premier League clubs where the board decide which players to sign and the manager just gets on with coaching the team. This has been in evidence at Newcastle since Kevin Keegan took over, while Phil Scolari leaves the bulk of transfer dealings to Peter ... Click to continue reading...

The Arabian Business website has announced that Manchester City have been taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment. It says that the deal with current owner Thaksin Shinawatra, himself only in post for just over a year, was agreed on Sunday night. Shinawatra has helped to fund a number of big transfers in the past year but, with his assets currently frozen in Thailand, rumours of his wish to move on had been well publicised. Click to continue reading...

Phil Scolari is still waiting for the call to tell him Robinho is on his way to Chelsea.Blues chief executive Peter Kenyon is confident the Brazilian ace will move to Stamford Bridge from Real Madrid before the transfer window closes.But Madrid are keen to keep hold of their man and Scolari admits he is powerless to do anything about it. Click to continue reading...

Who will be the first Premier League manager to be sacked this season? Last term, it was Jose Mourinho who unexpectedly left his post first, although it's pretty safe to assume that Phil Scolari will not be walking away from Stamford Bridge anytime soon. However, there are already one or ... Click to continue reading...

Chelsea expect to unveil Robinho by Friday.The Real Madrid ace is set for a £28.4million move to Stamford Bridge after weeks of negotiations.And chief executive Peter Kenyon has revealed that the Brazilian should wrap up his switch in the next 48 hours.(the sun)

He said: "We're ever confident that it will be done. Click to continue reading...

It looks like Mark Hughes and David Moyes are set to go head to head over Chelsea's Sean Wright-Phillips, a man who has been tossed aside by Big Phil Scolari, but is highly prized by these two managers. The wise money is on Mark Hughes and Man City - ... Click to continue reading...

There's no rumour that the three flags set to fly outside Stamford Bridge will be that of Russia, Portugal and Brazil. However, there's little doubt that when it comes to signing players, Big Phil Scolari wants them to be from a select group of two countries. Even better if your ... Click to continue reading...

And how right he is. Phil Scolari must be wondering what all the fuss is about when it comes to the Premier League. He's inherited a vast squad of talented internationals, been given a shedload more cash to land Deco and Bosingwa, while also been told that Kaka and Robinho ... Click to continue reading...

Did Scolari change Capello's mind? Was Capello going to pick Rio but his mind was changed over a phone call? You probably no that yesterday Chelsea captain retained the England captaincy over Rio... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Click to continue reading...

Amongst all this weekend's first-day excitement, there were many moments to cherish and many new faces to absorb, but my personal highlight came in an unusual form; a man called Flavio ‘Murtosa' Teixeira. And just who is he you may ask? Well, he is the new assistant manager at Chelsea, and has been Big Phil Scolari's right-hand man for more than 25 years now. Click to continue reading...

Now that we've skated past the deals that didn't happen, let's take a look at the ones that did.

The big four

Chelsea signed three Portuguese internationals, Deco, Jose Boswinga and, of course, Big Phil Scolari. Boswinga was terrific in Euro 2008 and looks like adding the pace and attacking verve to the right back slot that Chelsea already have at left back. Click to continue reading...

United legend Roy Keane has tipped rivals Chelsea to win the title, when saying that they have a new manager and there's no African Cup of Nations distraction to worry about. It was probably a throwaway line, but it was one that will have bemused United supporters on the eve of another Premier League season. Click to continue reading...

Don't miss out on the first set of predictions for this season. You can find them here. Join now before Shane takes an unassailable lead.....

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I suppose we'd better get this out of the way before the season actually kicks off, eh?

ST's CUAS Predictions for the 2008/9 Premier League Season

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Real Madrid's love affair with Brazilian footballers seems to be slowly coming to an end. At its height, back in Florentino Pérez's last season as club president, the squad boasted five Brazilians in its ranks: Roberto Carlos, Cicinho, Baptista, Robinho and Ronaldo. As of today, with the sale of Julio Baptista to Roma for €12 million, this number now stands at two: Robinho and Marcelo. Click to continue reading...

Transfer rumours are circulating that West Ham could be set to make a sensational move to bring back former trainee and star player Joe Cole to Upton Park. Since Phil Scolari took over as manager at Chelsea, Cole isn't thought to be guarnteed a starting role. And if this remains the case when the campaign kicks [. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea have already brought in wily old bruiser Phil Scolari, with a bulging cv and a World Cup winners medal. Now it seems they are ready to go for one of the biggest superstars in the world... The ever-reliable Independent is whispering in our ear, and they are telling us that Kaka could still [. Click to continue reading...

A new era is upon us. Having left the controversial and candid words of "The Special One", to the dull and discreet methods of Avram Grant, a new man has stepped up to the plate. That man is Phil Scolari. We take a look at what Brazilian manager has to do to win over the demanding Blues fans.

Nobody can doubt his astonishing talent when it comes to international management. Click to continue reading...

There's no doubt that Phil Scolari has been brought in at Stamford Bridge to a) win lots of silverware and b) achieve this and still play sexy football. Roman Abramovich wants his Chelsea bears to dance as well as mauling the opposition, something that Jose Mourinho and Avram Grant seemingly ... Click to continue reading...

Fergie thinks so... do you agree with him? Alex Ferguson thinks Chelsea have too many thirtysomethings to challenge his squad of young bucks this season. The Man Utd boss said of Big Phil Scolari's team: "How can they accelerate beyond what... Click to continue reading...

Quick which one? Or both?

As per Chelsea, two days ago it was Robinho that was supposed to alight on Stamford Bridge on a bid of £40m. Today it is Kaka for double the price. How about importing the whole Brazilian and Portugese team and rendering the Premiership moot? Having Big Phil makes these pipe dreams possible.

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Big Phil Scolari seems determined to bring some fellow Brazilians to Chelsea. After the recent massive €60m bid for Real Madrid's Robinho, news today is that there's an even massiver bid on the table for AC Milan's Kaka. The Guardian have been confidently reporting that a record busting €100m deal has been negotiated, as has [. Click to continue reading...

It looks like the metronomic efficiency and robotic play of the Mourinho and Grant-sculpted Chelsea is going to be a thing of the past... With Manchester United's star player openly eyeing the exit door, and a number of Arsenal's team in a state of transfer flux, Big Phil Scolari ... Click to continue reading...

CHELSEA have today announced that Joseph Stalin's NKVD will be mediating peace talks between the club and ageing midfielder Frank Lampard. The two parties have fallen out over new boss Phil Scolari's erroneous claims that Frank Lampard had pledged his future to the club. The Chelsea midfielder maintains that this is complete bollocks and had [. Click to continue reading...

It's the opening press conference for his signing and Big Phil Scolari is already hiding from Roman. This does not look promising. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Click to continue reading...

When new Chelsea boss Big Phil Scolari talked about bringing his own brand of football to Stamford Bridge this season, nobody actually expected that meant he was going to clear out most of the Mourinho era in in one summer, did they? Well apparently that seems to be the case. ... Click to continue reading...