LDN Blue

Marks another end of a legendary chapter in Chelsea's history. Drogba 2012 and now Cole 2014, can't have a bad word said about him over the last 7 years! I hope one day we see him back at the club in some kind of coaching role & I certainly hope he pops in generally! I can understand why he wouldn't want to announce his departure before the game, he's never been one to want the headlines. Even when he entered the England 100 club. He'll forever be one of the best of a generation and no-one will ever take that away. Hope he gets selected for the World Cup because England won't go far anyway and it would be a perfect swansong for him.

I don't think so. It was never a case of biding his time, it was just a difference of ideology almost. Such differences can't be resolved, it was good for both parties.. Even Jose realised you can't have someone like Mata on the bench for the sake of it.

To be fair, seems isolated.. Most comments are telling OP he's being ridiculous & we've done it with with all our players at one point or another too.

"If we have them, no-one else can :D"?

Yeah, but like with any campaign it'll fizz out. The only thing they can really start doing to send a message is penalize the clubs, point docks as well as monetary incentives..

Yeah. Well thankfully (..well you know what i mean) Hull didn't beat Villa so I would've lost out anyway

God damn Pellgrini annoys me. Aguero goes off on 30th minute injured, he's got Negredo & Jovetic and he bring on Fernando. We do that sort of thing because we don't have such options! Now it could bite them on the ass because Pony's leading their attack

Whatever happened to Shonex anyway? Lmao, it'd be like "Keane-Viera: Best of Enemie" mk II.

New-manager-syndrome - I've seen it work for us lol!!

What would be effective is UEFA/FA/FIFA taking a page out the NBA's book and imposing life-bans on it.

So apparently this was a marketing PR student.. Guerrilla marketing at its finest. http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/30/anti-racism-banana-campaign-was-planned-by-neymar-dani-alves-and-marketing-firm-4713797/

I still don't Mourinho being a 4-4-2 guy with Chelsea..

Because I bet on them to win. Villa are awful at home so I expected Hull to beat them. In the end, Sunderland & Aston Villa fucked it up for me

Well my accumulator's fucked up. Backed Hull to win, they're 2-1 down at Villa. Backed United to win they're 1-0 down. The only teams that are going my way are Newcastle, 1-0 up, and Stoke, who are also 1-0 up.

Tim Sherwood seems like such a pub guy, how did he turn into a football manager? Poor guy probably just wants a pint of Fosters on the touchline..

Idea's good and all, but that OP just made me laugh

...& then he was sold the following summer

I just want a youth player or 2 to climb the ranks and come through, is that too much to ask?!

Not very, they're more of a tabloid.. Will report anything that's popular lol

Torres v Bayern for me because it was more of a team goal of out all those. I base on GotS on that, but if it was on individual class then Baker all day long.

Could've agreed with it if it wasn't for the fact it's more than Pardew's ban!!! That's ridiculous because he didn't hit anyone

Lmao Beasley is reporting the inevitable.. Any journo could've said it and it wouldn't be any less true. It's easy to report. If it doesn't happen you just make an excuse like 'couldn't agree on wages' etc

Did we have an official we hate Arsenal thread? Their fans are driving me absolutely insane tonight. They think they have the right to taunt us?! The balls they've imagined they've got smh.

Definitely. I was raging early in the game because how good Koke's were but Willian didn't do a bad job either, they just need a bit more fizz on them

Come off it. He's exactly what we need imo. Imposes himself, doesn't take any shit and will dominate most defenders.