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Cuddling up to Jose before Utd match..... what with Costa, Kenedy, Luiz......he will be next. Watch yer back Willian son....looks as if our head Coach don't like you Brazilian chappies

Totally agree Luiz has been no more than average this season and his on pitch discipline that was there last season seems to have gone awry. He was sometimes so far out of position he was in another postcode. In my opinion, he had got too comfortable with his status and position in the team and maybe thought he was undroppable. This could be the boot up the backside needed to get him back to the Luiz of last season but it is totally down to him...no-one else....not even Cahill can be blamed for this one. luiz is a talented footballer ....lets see if he has any gumption about him and work hard to prove to the staff and his team mates that he deserves a place back. Those that say...he is a leader etc...he might be , but not a very good one. There is no way he should ever be captain of this team.... let him worry about his own game, nevermind worrying about others. Also, this thing about 'the others players like him and he is a good laugh' etc etc...... I will just remind you...that Diego Costa was loved by all in the dressing room as far as we know .....and we all know what happened there

think we have u23 match as well tonight so that might involve a couple of the youth that might have got minutes for the seniors

Where is Cahill and who is David?

cept' he aint going to nick and he ain't yer man

its awful....the designers should stick to blue, white and yellow

its been around for years in various forms. Even England national team played a form of it under Terry Venables all those years ago.

dont you get it? Mourinho is doing one of the things he does best after a bad team display by doing or saying something that deflects talk away

Well that was a long day but great fun at the Bridge. Loudest we have been this season and didnt hear the Mancs (who are recognised as about the best away support in the premier league) until last few minutes after we had done all our "ole's". Great tribute to Matthew Harding. And some of you lot will find this hard.....but even Mourinhos name was sang.....admittedly we were 4-0 up ;-) Controlled match from beginning to end and after we went 2-0 up, we were doing the old Mourinho tactic of setting traps for them knowing they had to push forward. Great team performance but Moses was brilliant and bossed the right side Hope a few changes for West Ham so other players get used to the syatem before a tricky away at Southampton

most on here wouldnt have a clue who or what he was to the club. A decent bit of respect to Mourinho before the match....then 90 minutes of Matthew Hardings blue white army

should be a good one for the travelling support. Approx 5.7k allocation if they play by the 10% rule

thats the spirit...hope we get Leeds or Liverpool

a win against a mainly 2nd string Leicester that papered over the cracks. I would rather Luiz defend decently first for 90 minutes rather than see his long passes come off. Once that is sorted he can try his hollywood stuff. He was just as much at fault for their 1st when he was ball watching instead of tracking the player....of course there were other errors leading up to that. Organisation and leadership all over the pitch goes missing during periods of every match . Certain 'senior' players need to show up more especially when JT is out. Is Bego up to it as a number 2 anymore...or does he need a run of matches and bench Tibo for a while? Always a hard call with goalkeepers Positives: Costa is right in top form at the moment and I fancy him to score v Arsenal Once the team settled down, the shape looked more balanced and efficient proving you dont have to have superstar names in every position Fabregas comes into his own once he has more space and can operate further forward. Chalobah looked assured bar a couple of minor errors. Hopefully he can gradually get more game time and become a regular within a season

Wouldnt it be great if the kit manufacturers started modern takes on old classics such as the red/green kit that was popular . We use to have a lot of red kits/green socks as away strip and even the red/green/white scarves were popular back then It would pay homage not only to the kits back then, but having red/green/white in a certain way can also pay homage to Italian players and staff padt and present who have served us proud

fancy us to score a couple from set pieces in this one i.e. corners, free kicks where our CB's can exploit their poor defending. Massive match for Kante plus 1 in the middle to protect our back line against their pace. If the defence can keep the low shots on target ratio going (7 in 4 games) then I think we will win by a couple of goals.

think he meant from the Matthew Harding towards Fulham Broadway

agreed...even on Match of the Day they said he was fouled. The keepers knee definitely makes contact to make Costas leg give way and him lose his balance. Had this been the same incident by an outfield player on the halfway line, a foul would have been given

At least Costa was shown not diving and there was contact which took his knee and lower leg. Nice to be backed up by MotD for once

If things stay on schedule then May 2018 will be last match at the Bridge for 3 years

There is a public consultation period until October 7th. The build is being done in 4 stages with the plan to open a new stadium 2021 summer as shown in upload image Through each stage there could be more consultations and planning applications/revisions but with it having gone this far, there will be an urgency to get it right from the off by all parties concerned. Of course there will still be objections to overcome but the main design first shown over a year ago remains pretty much intact

Main amendments to stadium design.....lots more trees ;-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B126upA2hRn-R3lBZThwckVPMVE/view 2015_05050_FUL-DESIGN_AND_ACCESS_STATEMENT_AD-001-1707670.pdf

I find it even odder that you think that as just about everyone has talked about Luiz being in a three.

I hope its the same 11(bar any last minute injuries) and formation that started against Burnley Perhaps give Luiz and/or Alonso a run out later in the 2nd half

yeah...that way the club do not get any extra as in a percentage of shirt sold

so far so good then. Minor cosmetic changes to original plans plus revised enviromental issues, rail network building etc to be looked for the next month of consultation period. Club still confident of everything being on schedule