Guardian Unlimited: Sport blog: Lack of depth leaves Chelsea least prepared for big-four meetings

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“Fab Cap” debate rumbles on; Are Chelsea and Liverpool the weaker sides in Grand Slam Sunday?; Introducing the blindfolded, penalty saving kepeer
Published 12/15/2007 by Arthur Antunes Coimbra at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more
... Of the big four, Kevin McCarra argues that Chelsea have the weakest squad now that Drogba is sidelined. “Chelsea are humdrum in attack whenever Didier Drogba, as is currently the case, cannot take the field… The only absorbing aspect to Tuesday’s 0-0 draw with Valencia was the gruesome failure of, in sequence, Shevchenko, Pizarro and Salomon Kalou as Grant scrambled to identify a lone striker of impact… With the purchase since then of Nani, Anderson, Owen Hargreaves and Carlos Tevez, Sir Alex Ferguson would now have approaching 20 players ...

“Fab Cap” debate rumbles on; Are Chelsea and Liverpool the weaker sidea in Grand Slam Sunday?; Introducing the blindfolded, penalty saving kepeer
Published 12/15/2007 by Arthur Antunes Coimbra at 101 Great Goals - latest football videos and international soccer goals from the Premier League, Champions League,La liga, Serie A, World Cup, UEFA Cup and more
... Of the big four, Kevin McCarra argues that Chelsea have the weakest squad now that Drogba is sidelined. “Chelsea are humdrum in attack whenever Didier Drogba, as is currently the case, cannot take the field… The only absorbing aspect to Tuesday’s 0-0 draw with Valencia was the gruesome failure of, in sequence, Shevchenko, Pizarro and Salomon Kalou as Grant scrambled to identify a lone striker of impact… With the purchase since then of Nani, Anderson, Owen Hargreaves and Carlos Tevez, Sir Alex Ferguson would now have approaching 20 players ...

McCarra : Pity Poor Little Chelsea
Published 12/15/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... . Surveying the Big 4, the Guardian’s Kevin McCarra declares that while “only a satirist would have portrayed a plucky little Chelsea battling the odds and putting up a fight for the Premier League against better resourced sides”, said club “may not be well enough equipped”. ...