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Chelsea football club of London midfield powerhouse, Kante has continued to soar high under the bright colours of the blues. N’Golo Kante Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante has been voted the 2017 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association. The France international beat the poll of the 340-strong membership ahead of Blues team-mate Eden Hazard, with Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli in third place. Between them, Blues duo Kante and Hazard, who was the 2015 Footballer of the Year, collected more than 65 per cent of the journalists’ votes, which were spread over a record number of 17 different players. N’Golo Kanté is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the France national team. Kanté is of Malian descent and was born March 29th, 1991 and was instrumental in Leicester’s shock Premier League triumph last season and following his £32million summer switch to west London, the midfielder looks set to coll...

The former Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder has now recorded 10 assists or more in six seasons, a mark nobody else has previously managed Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas has broken a Premier League record after his assist for the Blues against Middlesbrough on Sunday. The Spanish midfielder teed up Nemanja Matic in the second half as Antonio Conte’s side added their third goal in a 3-0 win over the Teesiders at Stamford Bridge. And in doing so, he reached a mark never before achieved in the English top flight. Fabregas has now recorded 10 assists in the 2016-17 season, the sixth campaign in which he has managed double figures. He previously shared the record with Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs, who both set up 10 goals or more in five seasons at Manchester United. Antonio Conte’s first term at Chelsea appeared to be the end of Cesc, as he struggled to carve out a place in the Italian’s starting line-up at the beginning of the year. Indeed, this was only his 11...

Despite the lack of wins, Jose Mourinho’s men’s current unbeaten run is the best they have ever enjoyed in a single top-flight season in their history  Manchester United may not be completely satisfied with Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Swansea at Old Trafford, but they will take some joy from setting a new club record on the day.Jose Mourinho’s men looked set to take three points in controversial fashion as Wayne Rooney converted a penalty awarded for a Marcus Rashford dive. However, a stunning free-kick from Gylfi Sigurdsson in the 80th minute flew into the back of the net to secure a draw for the relegation-threatened visitors. The draw could severely hinder United’s chances of qualifying for the Champions League by finishing in the top four of the English top flight, but it maintains an impressive unbeaten run for the Red Devils. Having now gone 25 games without defeat, United set a new club record for their longest unbeaten run in a single season in the top tier...