Drogba throws an object back at Burnley fans. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images
The Metropolitan police and the Football Association are both to investigate last night’s incident at Stamford Bridge when the Chelsea striker Didier Drogba threw an object back at Burnley fans during their Carling Cup tie. Drogba gestured at the visiting supporters and threw what [...]

Ray Wilkins is set for a return to his former stomping ground. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
Chelsea have appointed Ray Wilkins as the club’s new assistant first-team coach following the departure of Steve Clarke to West Ham.
Wilkins, who made nearly 200 appearances for Chelsea in the 1970s, embarks on his second coaching spell with the club, having [...]

Jonathan Woodgate scores past Petr Cech in the Carling Cup final. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
69 min: Malouda receives the ball on the left and as he’s about to try to take on Jenas (who’s at right-back rather than Zokora), Huddlestone lumbers across and fouls him. Deco wastes the free-kick.
68 min: Lampard is being [...]

Kaka insists he is staying put at the San Siro. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian
Milan playmaker Kaka has publicly declared that he has no intention of leaving the Serie A club for Chelsea. Kaka has been linked with an £80m move to the London club for several weeks, with some reports suggesting that Andriy Shevchenko’s return to [...]

Avram Grant says he wants to spend time away from football. Photograph:Richard Heath/Getty
The former Chelsea manager Avram Grant has admitted that he faced a dressing room that had little confidence in his skills when he replaced Jose Mourinho at the club last year. However, Grant believes he won the players over by guiding them to [...]

Scolari has coached in English before. Photograph: Ant Nio Cotrim/EPA
The new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari will not be inhibited by his lack of fluency in English when he takes over at Stamford Bridge, according to his spokesman. Despite never coaching in England before, the current Portugal manager communicated in English during spells in Kuwait, [...]

Claude Makelele is the engine that runs Chelsea’s midfield. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images
When Frank Lampard described Claude Makelele as “an absolute dream to play with” before last night’s final training session in Moscow, he had no idea of what was to come barely an hour later, when the Frenchman’s rash tackle jeopardised his team-mate Ashley [...]

Michael Ballack scored twice in Chelsea’s 2-1 league victory over Manchester United. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Despite Chelsea’s huge expenditure since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003 and their resulting success they have achieved, Michael Ballack believes the team is still only a developing force and that the reason they lack the worldwide appeal [...]