Kostas

Having not played a competitive game in over two months I'd say it's possible. That incident was embarrassing

Petr Cech 6 - Was lucky not to do a Reina in the first half. Think he should have dealt better with their goal. Jose Bosingwa 5 - He was fine offensively, responsible for their Blackpool's goal and a couple other lost balls. David Luiz 6 - Unimpressive but solid. John Terry 8 Ashley Cole 6 - Regular Ramires 6 - Not as good as in previous games, certainly not bad Frank Lampard 8 - Average in the first half but got better later on, can't look past his 2 goals. Micheal Essien 6 Yuri Zhirkov 5 - Tried but lost the ball too many times. Fernando Torres 3 Didier Drogba 5 - Did some neat things but still a frustrating figure as he's on a different wavelength SUBS Florent Malouda 6 Salomon Kalou 7.5 Josh McEachran 6

Exactly. And he doesn't even have the excuses Didier had..

I care about our performance. And when we've only scored 26 goals from open play in March I know I'll pay attention to such stuff.

Not when 2/3 are from dead balls. Frankly the scoreline flattered both us and Lampard.

Can't decide whether Torres was shocking or to blame the fact he had no delivery. Know it's a bit of both but that was easily his worst Chelsea game.

Now that's class. Well done Kalou and Frank.

Good. McEachran could come on now.

So that's how we pick our subs.. Sturridge must be one unlucky lad

Ash ignored his runs a couple of times but I didn't think he was that bad. He was involved in our attacking play more than say Torres or Lamps.

Phew, got lucky there. If that had gone in it would have been Luiz's fault. (Or was that Yuri?)

Captain!

What's brave about it ? :unsure:

I was surprised to see Zhirkov get his deserved start. I wouldn't go as far as saying Drogba deserves a start cause it's more down to Anelka's inconcistency. Ivanovic was probably dropped because he's got too many yellos cards and we don't want to risk him getting one against Blackpool.

Confirmed XI Cech Bosingwa - Luiz - Terry - Cole Essien - Lampard Ramires ----------------- Zhirkov Torres - Drogba Subs:Turnbull, Ivanovic, Malouda, Ferreira, Kalou, Anelka, McEachran

Dunno about the others but scouting Ronaldo was no feat. He was probably as famous as Neymar is now when he signed for PSV.

Same here. Actually I'll be livid if we get anything less than 3 points. We've developed a habit of throwing away games after great results but we cannot afford it now. If we fuck this up Ashley should start shooting everyone.

Is there any team with Adidas kit without the three stripes? I've missed kits that look clean.

Rumoured Arsenal and Barcelona kits

Bringing it to (reportedly) the level of established top English (or even European) academies is admirable no matter the resources he had.I'm not exactly sober atm so you'll have to excuse any glaring grammatical,syntactic or logical mistakes

To his credit, besides international and regional scouting he's been also responsible for the reforming of our academy. You can't take away from that.

They've got a big enough squad to deal with that.

LMAO : lol:

Now we've got enough material for the next Zeitgeist