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I was about to post the exact same thing. Need to find if this KTB/HTB have any online archives or had any programs on Abramovich/Chelsea.

Already being discussed in the player thread.

A World Cup winner who is more fragile than our 22 year old CL debutant. I'd sooner let Carneiro take a pen than him.

Apparently those are from after the final. Got to see the whole piece but his timing is horrible and if the rest of the text does not change the mood of the interview this is an enraging spit into the face of the club that has supported even when he did not deserve it..

I wouldn't be surprised if those are from even before the FA Cup final.

That's a lot of competitions for a season that will follow a fairly busy summer with the Euros and the Olympics. Hope our medical department and our players will cope.

A bit off-topic but Mata's penalty miss had me thinking. I remember a topic around the middle of the season in which the topic starter expressed his fears of how we may be turning into the Arsenal of 06-10, playing the entertaining "proper" football that both the owner and the fans have been craving for. The thing that the topic starter was concerned about is how we bottled games and threw away results in the very same manner that Arsenal team did. We set new records for goals conceded in the last 10-15 minutes of the game and gave away the cheapest of goals in games that we were by far the better footballing side. Yesterday Drogba and Lampard scored their penalties while Mata failed to. AVB's Chelsea was built around Mata. Mourinho's Chelsea (and all our successful sides since he left, including Ancelotti's) was built around Drogba and Lampard. Players that had at the time, and yesterday proved once again they still do, the strength of character needed in football, the winner's strength. A strength the serial bottlers of Arsenal lacked, a strength that Mata lacked last night. Apart from the footballing side of things (tactics, footballing style, substitutions, transfers, individual performances, rotten luck) and what the media forced us to consider pivotal (manager-players relations) the thing that IMO caused the downfall of AVB's Chelsea was coming to a successful club and trying to start from almost zero with players that were largely untested and unproven at this level and under this kind of pressure. Winning sides are built around winners.

This might help getting it through to your thick ridiculously bitter head

Do we give a fuck? No sir we do not. Chelsea F.C. are Champions of Europe

LMFAO @ Lampard's comment

Couldn't watch his penalty. Was afraid our luck would run out and he'd be our equivalent of Sergio Ramos (the memories of a certain FA Cup shoot-out also helped) as they already got plenty of similarities both on and off the pitch. If not a Chelsea legend then he's certainly going to be remembered as a Chelsea player rather than a Gooner.

This is beyond epic Even better than the photos with Roman :lol: Hear hear! While the Torres goal made looking at the Ovrebo game much easier I never quite thought I'd stop looking away at JT's pen.

I'm not quite sure how those 2 managed to be at the center of all celebrations, effectively pushing other players out of the way

There's just no way now that letting him go won't be the most heartless thing in football. I'm still not sure about whether he will or should stay but I can say with certainty now that he deserves to.

Kez we love you!!

Can't say I paid much attention to the defensive side of his game tonight but he was once again shockingly calm considering the pressure and efficient in his distribution.

MOTM of the final for me. He was at least as important as Drogba and Ramires to us winning the cup. I doubt there are many goalkeepers to have a legitimate claim like that at this level..

I think that pissing contest is well and truly over.

Didn't think those memories would ever fade. The sense of restored balance is exactly what makes this win all the more sweet.

Can't help but feel that footballing justice has been restored. This man deserves to have lifted the trophy.

I know it's just football. I fully realise sports should not play an important part in one's life. But this ranks as one of the best moments of my life.

What you say is true but I'd rather not let definitions get in the way. Unless you believe that nepotism is a one way process and someone who's repeatedly depended on it is somehow better than the nepotists themselves.

Fast tracked through Ivory Coast's football due to his brother. He was brought into Europe by a club for which his brother had been a pretty important figure. He's also been sucking up to Drogba ever since he arrived at this club.

Nepotism has played a major role in his career. He won't be getting much respect for me.