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...The team recently brought in a pair of players who once starred for the English Premier League club Chelsea — Michael Essien and Carlton Cole....
...SH imaginewatford.co.uk , festival runs to June 29 … Michael Essien, I want to play as you …, Stratford Circus, London All eyes are on international football as the World Cup rolls forward....
...Essien and Salomon Kalou....
...Local sporting celebrities added sparkle – in attendance were Ashley Cole, Michael Essien and other Premier League footballers, as well as two Olympic champions: Phillips Idowu and Christine Ohuruogu....
...“In reality, many national associations, particularly those in Africa, would struggle to meet the cost of covering the wages of the likes of Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and Kolo Toure,” Mr Murray said....
...Ghana won despite playing without its injured star performer, Michael Essien, the Chelsea midfielder....
...Last November, three of Ghana’s more feted players, Michael Essien, Asamoah Gyan and Sulley Muntari, failed to turn up for a friendly against Angola....
...Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o, Michael Essien and other African stars all live abroad, as do many other African professionals....
...There were neither changing rooms nor showers, but that did not stop Hamza harbouring big dreams – to follow in the footsteps of fellow Ghanaians such as Michael Essien (above) by becoming a professional...
...Here they are likely to come up against either Didier Drogba’s Côte d’Ivoire or Michael Essien’s Ghana – two of the out-and-out favourites....
...When Michael Essien suffered knee ligament damage playing for Ghana in the first week of September, there were sharp intakes of breath at Stamford Bridge....
...In his absence, Chelsea’s Michael Essien will be expected to take increased responsibility, and he will probably operate in a freer role than he does for his club....
...It had all begun rather cagily, before being set alight as Ronaldo – who was otherwise largely subdued by Michael Essien – met Wes Brown’s cross with a precise downward header and gave United a 26th-minute...
...Although they had enough chances themselves – Lampard was twice denied his hundredth goal for the club by superb saves from Friedel, and it took a lunging challenge from David Dunn to thwart Michael Essien...
...So when Michael Essien goes [to Chelsea for a fee of £24.4m], we already have players ready to replace him....
...Their lack of strength in depth was exposed as the suspension of captain John Mensah left them having to field Michael Essien as a central defender, losing his surging runs through midfield that had been...
...Essien, Salomon Kalou and Mikel Jon Obi with him....
...After Michael Essien last night stormed back from injury to deliver a 91st minute blow to Valencia and put Chelsea through to the Champions League semis, his boss is already onto the next project....
...Chelsea made sure of at least two – and, with Liverpool almost sure to go through against PSV Eindhoven tonight, probably three – English sides in the semi-finals, Michael Essien hitting a last-minute winner...
...In 2005, when Chelsea paid Lyon £24.4m for Michael Essien, they still followed the “reassuringly expensive” philosophy of shopping....
...Ferguson blamed tiredness for his team’s failure (Christiano Ronaldo, the player of the season, looked completely whacked) – plus the referee, for denying United a penalty for a foul by Michael Essien on...
...Another £325m would buy 11 new Andrei Shevchenkos, 13 Michael Essiens and an undisclosed number of Frank Lampards....
...There have been successes – Drogba, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Essien – but, even before Shevchenko and Ballack, there have been some shockers, notably Mateja Kezman, Asier Del Horno and Shaun Wright-Phillips...
...■Sky Television broadcast Michael Essien’s knee-high tackle on Liverpool’s Didi Hamann hundreds of times because it hates Chelsea and wanted Essien suspended. In fact, all of England hates Chelsea....
...And there is luck as well as ability that has sent so many late long-range shots – not just Drogba at Everton, but Frank Lampard in the same game and Michael Essien against Arsenal – screaming into the...
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