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Just read this. Seems Magic Box gave him his 1st start when he was in charge at Cagliari Gianfranco Zola could be key to Chelsea signing Manchester United target in January https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/transfer-news/gianfranco-zola-key-chelsea-signing-15542210

Astounds me. But I know I'd rather have a guy who can find the goal without a GPS no matter how old he was.

Lots of links to him I read right now with him saying hes open to getting back together with Sarri, After the Victimpool game the scousers hate him. 1 good reaon to sign him. One of many reports plus Jims got one in articles. Maurizio Sarri eyes reunion with 203-goal ace to bolster Chelsea attacking options https://www.caughtoffside.com/2018/12/14/maurizio-sarri-eyes-reunion-with-203-goal-ace-to-bolster-chelsea-attacking-options/

Every year mate. Great eh! Theres stil honest peeps who pay it too. The goverment send round detector vans that can read the signal going into your home!! I just ignore all correspondence and never been caught - YET! Touch wood.. Gotta love our government.

I saw in the match thread she was one of the pundits on the game yeah. And someone didn't know who she was. Womens footballs come a long way but has a lot further to go. I reckon I would only be able to recognize her and a couple of the blond girls but have difficulty remembering their names till I read them I do know they aren't doing as good as last season and the gooner women I am reliably informed are top with a +35 gd and Shitty are 2nd. Chels Women are 3rd

LOL playing ignorant don't work apparently. EVERYONE who owns a TV MUST have a licence to watch it. Sorted by our lovely government. £155 for a color one or £50 for B&W. Its archaic and ridiculous And the gov. takes £millions from it!.

Good lad. If I have to crawl there I shall be in north London for the gooners. I so missed seeing Manure and Spuds. They are like rituals. Been chatting with my gooner best mate who can get me a ticket with him. I was with him at the Semis of league cup this year when we lost. But was removed from the stand when we scored FOR MY OWN SAFETY haha But watched it standing in the tunnel. He said if I went with him he would go to Shitty with me in Feb so has to be done.

I had a site too mate and the Captcha messed up on me after I changed skins. It was down for 4 weeks but as all coding looks like gobbledygook to me I got the guys i rented server space to sort it. They sussed it in 15 minutes. The old Captcha is a pain in the arse. The moved to a reCartha and then a noCaptch which are much easier But I used the Honeypot and had no problems after that.

Ahh capice! Never watched a game from down there.

Mate its the same the world over. Theres just no proper justice anywhere. People going to jail over trivial crap like none payment of fine or poll tax and shitbags walking around laughing. Small thing complare to before but in England we need to have a licence for a fishing rod as well as a permit from whichever water you fish at. Some lakes buy fish (carp) that are say 40 or 50lb in weight and anglers spend either £30 or £60 for a rod license and £120 a week for the lake or river. They have these bailiffs that patrol the waters with the authority to confiscate your tackle and phone the cops if you have no rod license and then you goto the magistrates court and can be fined upto £2k. Then if you dont pay you get to stay with Her Majestys play park for awhile. All well and good you might say. You know what the outcome is its upto you. But then we have many east Europeans and Portugese here that do have a taste for anything with fins and do everything they can to empty or ivers and lakes ofd whatever they can catch. Whether its a 2" bleak or a 50lb carp that cost some lake owner £30k!! There was a guy last season who was caught in full scuba diving gear, air tanks, rubber suit the lot who went diving with a speargun and killed one of these prize carp. He gets nicked, gets bailed out, gets caught again.Gets bailed again Goes to court explaining that its his custom to eat fish on this special holiday but he had a big family and couldn't afford to feed them fish. He gets a suspended sentence. Not even a fine!! But someone without a license gets a bloody big fine or maybe jail ffs!!! And same with no TV license. Up to £1k fine for not having one now (OR D'L'ing a torrent). But they're £150 and I cant remember the last time I watched a normal TV channel. Probably why Ive not bought one in over 25 years lol The laws an ass!! Rant over ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)

I'm sure thats what every single one of us feel about him mate. But the days that he does this are few. He just cant seem to keep his form. I laughed when there was all that chatter about the 40 goals in a season. Hes just not a goal scorer. I thought at the start of the season that everything was going to be alright as Bob tells us. He was looking like he really meant business. He wasn't his usual bouncy cheeky chappy but I thought maybe the captainship of Belgium had give him a new sense of maturity and comitment. But he soooooo pisses me off and more each time he opens his mouth about whatever team he can pick. I said 2 seasons ago we should capitalize on him and put it to buying some players with that grit and urgency to find the goal. But I don't think I see us getting £100mill for him. I see RM trying to do some player swap and our board accepting it. IMHO we have lost better players han him before and no doubt will again in the future. I just hope we manage to get a fill in who stays with us as long as Eden. This is the Eden I want to remember

I still hold Emoligate against him. And tho I really have tried to get behind him and forget about it I find he manages to do summet to remind me hes a twat. Even last might I thought he was having a OK game but hes got this thing about him where he keeps the ball or shoots where he should have passed it and passes it when he should keep it or shoot. Its not once in awhile but quite oftren. And its far too late to train it out of him. Hes gotta go.

Am always MH upper East Whys that mate?

Mate I watched the game this morning and thought the exact same thing. That 2ng half it seemed we took up the middle 1/3 of the pitch. The wee baldy man got a ;ot closer to Jorgi so could do a proper B2B job. I hope we stick to that. Think the only bad side is if the opposition has someone fast as hell and they boot it over us to him. Thats when we need fast CBs

Loved that report. And I totally agree with it. I do think IF we fully take on Sarri and properly back him, and the lads we have start listening to him (like it seemed they did at half time Vs shitty) then I reckon we could make something really good. Klopps had 3 years and 8 transfer windows. Peps had 2 years 7 months and 5 windows. I really want to see what Sarri could do in that time WITH the right backing. And it doesn;t look like the clubs scrimping after paying out for Kepa so lets hope theres the right players we need available in a couple of weeks AND both Sarri and our board are both in agreement about signing them. We need to show commitment that we don't just want to contend but conquer! Rule Chelsea!

The guy does actually look on fire this season to be fair. Its always a bloody gamble buying any player which we have leaned only too well. But whats the option? not buy abyone? We could pay world record prices for someone only to find they dont suit the PL or want to go home in a huff.

It really does piss me off that hes being linked to Manure right now. I've wanted the guy for 3 years now and I would dearly love to see him next to Rudi.

Theres no lying that hes been one of my fave players in the past and have loved watching him even when he played for those north Londoners. And even tho the lads done all that he could possibly do to keep fit theres no way to put life back into old legs. Hes still got a wicked pass and I wish he could be able to use it more but I sadly think its time we parted ways. Itrs awful watching a player you like getting slow. Like Mz Vesper says Tonali looks the dogs dangleys and it looks like Barella is too so I think either under Sarri would be good here.

I THINK RLC will be wanting out and personally wouldn't mind it. I really did hope the loan last year would have given him a jump start and tho at times it seems like hes catching on then the next week its back to usual. As for Barella from what I have made out both Magic Box and Sari both want him and think hes great, And both Pirlo and Del Piero both think he is the 2nd coming so hes got to have summet about him.

I read thru the old legends thread and the Pub etc way back and loved seeing the banter. Some of it misunderstood IMHO and rather harmless. Its quite difficult at times to KEEP active and I reckon its got to be in your personality or not. But I do think you lads who were about and know all the old posters should drop them a email or even a msg on here. Let them know they're being thought of and not forgotten. And Jason cant you send out a bulk Email even just wishing new/old members a happy holidays (not Xmas as a lot of diff religions etc etc) Remind them TC is still around (Even if we can't sign any new members!!!!) Would be cool to get some life about. I tell ya I put all the shit I make in Photoshop up on Pinterest and always link back to the site with them all. And I keep getting sarcastic remarks saying why am I linking to a site that they can't join. It's quite embarrassing that its gone on for so long.

Big hug! Hope you're well mate.

This stirs up bad memories in me. My sister died at 22 in a car crash in exactly the same way. Her twat of a BF was a milkman, a boring git but was a complete headcase on the road. Had the biggest fastest nike at the time and a new Mazda RX7 which at the time were a fast car. I was at work one Easter Sunday when the cops came. I thought to bust me but told me about my sister, 6 years younger than me. The twat had overtook on a hill over double white lines at 80mph. Hit a old couple in their car head on. Killed the lady passenger and broke the husbands back. My sister BF had a cut on his forehead! I had to go to Leicester hospital to ID her. While there I heard he was there too being treated. I was with my uncle - a complete nutter who got me into Chelsea. I found where he was being treated. My uncle stood outside and I ended up hurting him pretty bad. I ended up getting nicked, charged with ABH. My sisters BF ended up getting 18 months. Served 6months. I hot a 3 year suspended sentance. I saw him the week after he got out in some club up West with his 3 brothers. He was dancing around without a care in the world chatting birds up. I went off the head. Had all 4 of them Got nicked again! But they wouldn't press charges. not once did he go knock on my mums door or show any sort of sadness and he had gone out with my sister 6 years since she was at school. Still hurts to this day. So I can appreciate how the girls family must feel when they see him. I hope he learned his lesson. No matter how shit faced Ive ever been I have only once neen on the road under the influence. And I was 17 at the time. We are too soft on stupid drivers. Drink Drivers should get life bans Death by careless driving should get 20 years minimum. Sorry. Got emotional. I read when I made this thread that he used to often play LB also so I dont see a problem with us getting him We obviously wouldnt buy him as a Dave backup for big money. Nor to backup Alonso And it SEEMS Alonso is liked by Sarri - or Emerson is just not liked or trusted by him?? So yeah get shot of Alonso and bring Hysaj in.

It's strange ya know cause in real life I very seldom swear. Its only when i get ranting about something passionate that stirs them emotions and top of the list of course is Chelsea. I know i toss a f in so I apologize but I text like it 1st comes out of my head - without thinking lol We should have a swear box and have a piss up at the end of the year. I'll stick a fiver in it now! Anyways. I'm really not sure WHO or IF we will buy in Jan. If it was me we would be skint in Feb! SEEMS as usual we are linked with most players. I HOPE we get a striker tho. We havem't got 1 lad we could go to the bookies and put down a bet on that we thought had a good chance of scoring. I was so hoping that we was going to get goals from Mat Kova and Barkles. I was wrong! And I really hate seeing that KK being linked to Manure. We shoulda stumped up the extra £5mill that Granny refused to pay 2 seasons ago.

1st thing I did at 4am when I put PC on was download a torrent for the game as it was the 1st bit of Chelsea I've seen for ages. I thought when I saw the line up that it looked good and was quite excited to see CHO,Ampadu,Emerson get chances to start and really liked the Cescy,Barkles,RLC MF 3. But how disappointing. I was expecting them to be buzzing their tits off wanting to show how good they were and up for it. But there didn't seem to have 1 drop of urgency or real commitment between them. And I know its probably no big deal but I never saw 1 lad smiling. Whats going on? After reading some of the match threads its seeming that none of the lads are holding any of their form and from what I've read the lads dont seem to be happy. I know them keeping their form is nothing new. Edens been like that from day 1. But you would think being in the top 4 would be enough to give the lads an extra gear when it was needed. But it reminds me of when we was playing bad and still winning. I read that Sarri doesn't think that buying players is the answer, and of course its not the full answer, but blimey we need to make some changes. I do think Sarri is the right man for the job tho and we need to have faith in his system. I reckon with some fresh blood in the right places and the lads having a word with themselves we could have the makings of a good thing. EDIT :: Can't comment on the Shitty game as the threads closed but just been watching that. What a difference from after the wee baldy man scored eh! I looked to me that in the 2nd half the team got much tighter and they seemed to park themselves in the middle 1/3 of the pitch. Kante was closer to Jorgi boy so had more coverage plus could still press high up/ Great idea.. The lads showed they had some salt and stayed with it till the end. I know Sarri seems a gentle old chap but I do hope I'm wrong and he gave them a bollocking at half time. Whatever it was his tinkering worked. GREAT WIN!

WHY would Barca want him? I don't understand it. Can we do him and Willian in a package deal?