Zola hails ‘complete’ Chelsea player and ‘surprise’ hero

Gianfranco Zola thinks Mason Mount has “become a complete player” at Chelsea after their Champions League triumph over Manchester City on Saturday. England midfielder Mount’s excellent through-ball set up Kai Havertz for the game’s only goal in the first half at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto. Chelsea had beaten newly-crowned Spanish champions Atletico Madrid, […]

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‘He’s gone and you think ‘sh*t’’ – Wise on Zola-like Mount

Dennis Wise admits he would have hated playing against Mason Mount and backed the Chelsea academy product to go on to captain the club. Wise skippered the Blues in the 1990s before handing the captaincy to John Terry, who in turn passed it to Gary Cahill and on to current skipper Cesar Azpilicueta. Azpilicueta will […]

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Football’s Greatest Goals No.23

This week’s greatest goal comes from Gianfranco Zola for Chelsea in the 2002 FA Cup against Norwich City.The goal has been rightly considered one of the greatest in Chelsea’s 105 year history and showed a real sense of skill, initiative and class by the diminutive Italian. With the score at 2-0, Chelsea won a corner […]

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On This Day – 5th July

The 1994 World Cup in the USA was to be a hugely disappointing one for Gianfranco Zola.The Italian playmaker had been a spectator for all three of Italy’s group stage games. Zola finally got the nod though in the Second Round in the knockout match against Nigeria as he made his World Cup debut on […]

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