Kostas

Witty but no.

Yeah you should have posted that in the Cork thread. Oh wait..

André Villas-Boas was often accused of using CM to scout the opposition (think that was his job) during his stay here. Look where he's now

Not to Fergie.

I've heard you can bumb into some of our players in the Funky Buddha. Alcohol age restriction?

Well that actually makes some sense as 4-3-3 is the standard formation in every age level of our academy.I'm more fussed about the replacements that agent mentions. Rijkaard and Henk ten fucking Cate?

This just came in so I'm just forwarding stuff. Why Ancelotti will leave Chelsea this summer Could be (and hopefully is) bullshit but I think it's worth a view.

Exactly my point. Scouting the next Brazilian wonderkid after he took part in the World Cup isn't impressive. Getting him to sign is.

I doubt Samsung would accept such a tiny logo, certainly not after signing a new deal only a while ago.

This should be about keeping a clean sheet and getting some confidence back in our attacking play. Is Bertrand registered in our CL squad?

Seriously.

I'd gladly take a draw

What the.. ?

This is by no means an in-depth analysis but I feel our midfield has gone a few steps backwards compared to say December. It has gone from missing some creativity to missing creativity + some Mikel. It could be the 4-4-2 but I'm not very fond of the Lampard - Essien duo at the moment.

Not at all. He should have done better, simple as that.

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.