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Babayaro began his playing career at Nigerian side Plateau United, before moving to Belgium giants R.S.C. Anderlecht in 1994, and eventually would make a name for himself, quickly gaining first-choice status although still a teenager. Babayaro was signed by Chelsea F.C. in April 1997 for £2.25m million - a club record paid for a teenager at the time.[citation needed] During his time there, the team won the FA Cup and Charity Shield in 2000, and reached the FA Cup finals in 2002. He faced competition from Graeme Le Saux during his seven-year spell, but managed to play over 200 games for the London side. His acrobatic celebrations with backflips were a highlight and loved by the Stamford Bridge faithfuls. The steady form of Wayne Bridge saw Babayaro start only four English Premier League games for Chelsea in 2004-05 under new manager Jose Mourinho - their Premiership winning year.

A pacy and tough-tackling defender, "Chapi" Ferrer began his professional career with FC Barcelona B, then serving a loan with CD Tenerife in 1989–90, making his La Liga debuts at age 19. He returned to the main squad the following summer, and became the club's first-choice right-back, remaining as such for the following eight years, in which he scored once; he often partnered another club graduate, Sergi Barjuán, in the defensive wings. Ferrer was a key member of the famous Dream Team and, during his time in Catalonia, won five leagues, a European Cup, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, two domestic cups, four Supercups and two UEFA Super Cups. As the Dutch dominance at the Camp Nou - in terms of players - was still an important one (the club was coached by Louis van Gaal), Ferrer left the club in June 1998 amongst other club greats, as Guillermo Amor, moving to Chelsea for £2.2 million, and quickly established himself in the side, helping the club qualify for its first ever Champions League campaign, in his first season. Chelsea won the FA Cup the following year (but he missed the final through injury) and reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League; during the run in the latter, he played in 14 of the club's 16 games, and scored his only goal for Chelsea, in a 2–0 win against Hertha Berlin. A combination of injuries[3] and manager Gianluca Vialli's squad rotation policy reduced Ferrer's opportunities in the following season and he made only 14 league appearances. The club reached another FA Cup final in 2002 (which he again missed, though this time through not being selected). Out of favour and facing strong competition from younger defenders at the club, Ferrer made just seven league appearances in his final two years at Chelsea and left in May 2003, upon the expiry of his contract, playing 113 overall games for the London-based club, and retiring shortly after, at 33.

Welcome along mate, strange username.

Norwich City, don't live that far from the stadium.

Happy Birthday Kez

FFS

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Wrong topic, not really a bug is it.

Was reading the comments, retards. Link - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/29072010/58/premier-league-four-minute-hat-trick-downs-chelsea-xi.html

Remember him joining Norwich onloan and scoring a goal on his debut. --- Don't know if his been mentioned or if you can class him as random, what about Andy Myers?

Oscar Welcome back mate!

You need to get the psd off Essien first so there the same style.

Essien has been busy making a new avatars set for the forum, please use them and leave feedback. More Coming Soon. To add a avatar Click Here

I can remove member number from the skin. 'Fan since' is a good idea, i'll set that up.

Anyone caught going off-topic will receive a warning and have their posts moderated. All of their posts will be previewed for a minimum of 24 hours. Repeat offenders will be suspended. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

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If your happy to do all that then yeh.

Got a few dutch on here now, welcome along!

Also looking for people to write news, articles and match previews. If anyone's interested let me know.

I can't remember what happend to that Essien profile, i'll have a search for it. No ones doing the players you mentioned.

I'd like to know what you think of the forum, good points and bad. Is there anything we can add to improve the site? Dont be afraid to say what you think, do think before posting. Thanks Jim.

I've had a white iphone 3gs for about a month now, love all the different apps.

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