Leicester City striker, Jamie Vardy has been named the Football writers’ Association Footballer of the Year. The prolific English striker won with due to a vote of 36 percent as entered by 290 journalists. The player won the award ahead of team mates, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante.

The 29-year old striker has scored 22 premier league goals this season including netting in a league record 11 games in a row. Leicester City need just two points to ensure they lift the trophy if their closest rival, Tottenham lose to Chelsea on Monday.

José Mourinho has praised goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for his display against Chelsea, who are his parent club, in the Champions League semi-final. The Belgian goalkeeper is currently playing for Atletico Madrid and he has done so for the last three years. Since moving to Chelsea in 2011, he has not played a game for the blues.

However, he has racked up more than 150 appearances for Atletico during this period. Courtois is now widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He has been a major reason behind Atletico staying unbeaten in the competition this season.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has praised the attitude and skill of striker Demba Ba by saying that he reminded him of former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, who is considered a legend in these parts.

Demba Ba scored the second goal in Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Paris St Germain. This goal helped the blues reach the Champions League semi-final at the expense of PSG. Chelsea are in danger of missing out on the competition’s latter stages despite having secured the opening goal in the match through Andre Schurrle. This was because of the 3-1 defeat suffered the first leg.

Chelsea captain John Terry has stated that he wants to remain at the club, but is aware that the club only take the decision to retain him in the end of the season. The contract of the 33-year-old comes to an end in the summer and there has been no talk of a new deal.

Although Chelsea has become the top positioned team in the Premier League points table, but, their manager Jose Mourinho reckons that his players are still not playing as well as they should.

The Blues got better of Hull City in an away game earlier today to go past Arsenal in terms of points. At the moment, their points’ tally reads 46 which is one more than what Arsenal has got, but, the thing which needs to be noted here is that the Gunners have played one game less than Chelsea and that means they can get back to the top position very soon.

Chelsea are keeping a close eye on Wolfsburg’s Swiss player Ricardo Rodriguez as a probable replacement for England player Ashley Cole, whose contract with the London club comes to an end at the season end and Chelsea has not signed a new deal with him yet.

Ashley Cole, who is awaited to start for England in the match against Germany, has been left off of the London’s club’s starting XI in the past 2 games, with right back Cesar Azpilicueta replacing him.

There have been a lot of criticism of Chelsea manager José Mourinho in the last few days. He has been unable to get the Chelsea team to even a single victory in the last four matches.

There has also been a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of several key players like Juan Mata. Despite being the club’s player of the year for the past two seasons, Mata has been unable to get into the first team under Mourinho. In his absence, Chelsea have been unable to create many chances. Mata has been one of the best goal creators in Europe over the last two seasons.

Chelsea manager José Mourinho has said that pressure is entirely on Manchester City in the coming season because they have spent a lot of money.

The Premier league runners up of last season have already spent close to £ 100 million in this transfer window by bringing in four players. Even though they are expected to be a replacement for the likes of Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli who departed the club recently, it will undoubtedly strengthen the squad. City already had one of the best squads in the Premier league last season.

Chelsea defender Gary Cahill has praised the manager Rafa Benitez by saying that he has done an extremely good job. Benitez managed to guide Chelsea to their first ever Europa league triumph, as the London club beat Benfica 2-1 in the final of the competition.

Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic were the centre back partnership in the match due to the absence of captain John Terry. Benitez was given the objective of finishing in the top four and possibly winning a title when he took over from Roberto di Matteo at the end of November.

The Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez has hit back at the claims from the Chelsea fans that he doesn’t know what he is doing by saying that the changes he made at half-time clearly showed that is not the case.

Chelsea were losing 1-0 in the match against Brentford in the fourth round of the FA Cup. This led to the angry chants from the Chelsea fans towards the interim manager Benitez. In response to the poor performance from the team in the first half, Benitez made the change by bringing in the Spaniard Juan Mata in place of the German Marko Marin.