Madmax

@Blue Armour - The 3 in the picture : Cole and Lampard - reportedly 'up in arms' and sore over not being picked to start Mikel - knows won't be getting a game with Romeu around. Not difficult to see they'd stick close and act like bumchums.

If being the youngest ever manager to win a UEFA tournament doesn't get you respect, little else will. From the start though it was crystal clear his age and 'experience' (lack of), would be used as a stick to beat him with when things would get astray, like they normally do at Chelsea, where the inmates run the asylum. Explicit cold-shouldering of the media doesn't help his cause with them. Then you have the lazy journalist's most fallen-back upon line when writing a Chelsea-in-crisis headline - 'Russian billionaire oligarch running out of patience'. It all chugs along to a perfectly predictable yet infinitely tiring tune.

Cech Ivan Cahill/Luiz Luiz/Terry Cole Essien Lampard Ramires Mata Malouda Drogba ?

Ooh Hopefully he's double-bluffing.

Since when do Gazzetta refer to Lampard and Sturridge as 'Lamps' and 'Studge'?

3-4-2-1 is their standard template.

Same. I have it under oath that my first overseas trip will be a London SW6 pilgrimage.

Chelsea Football Club in all it's glorious wisdom rejected Eriksen not once but twice .. OT : Neymar's a no-hoper, Hazard is most likely out of the trio but I'm a big BVB admirer so I'll be greedy and say Hazard + Gotze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMF030WoYgY&feature=related

Villas Boas doesn't need money, he's from a pretty prosperous background. Passion and love for football makes you do the things he did to get himself initialized into the game.

Fucking excited. European nights - that's what it's all about.

1) 2) More -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2012/feb/21/the-gallery-juan-mata-chelsea?picture=386242409#/?picture=386242404&index=0

Marcelo Bielsa.

Inzaghi 2.0, if you believe Carlo.

17m?!

I don't think nationality comes into it, Meireles could be playing more because he offers a bit of both - attacking and defending (in theory he does, anyway). Ramires is a shoe-in for the energy he provides, a DM is our favourite position here at Chelsea and we had a choice there between Romeu or Meireles with Mikel and Essien injured till recently.

You're assuming a lot there.

Giallorossi have no chance so would rather Bianconeri win it than anyone else.

Bertrand isn't even in the CL squad. Or was that just for the group stage matches? EDIT : Just checked, he is in it. Nevermind this post.

Hope that's sarcastic, the clip is from 4 or 5 years ago. I could post Torres videos from his liverpool days and caption it "who says torres can't score?" Lampard isn't helping his cause for regular action with his body language, is he? He looks wound up about being benched and more in the direction of a 'How dare you bench me?' wound-up rather than 'I'll show you why you shouldn't bench me.' wound-up. Not good.

The assist from Kakuta for their second is quite brilliant. Classic #10 play.

Supposed to be jack of all trades ... think 'jack' means 'shit' in today's lexicon.

BVB's going to go up another level next season with Reus coming in. Bayern have a battle on their hands for retaining their status as Germany's bona fide world class side.

Artinho's not trying to emulate Bosingwa

He needs to leave, so does Drogba. Start afresh next season. Sorry Torres, you're a nice guy and all but patience runs out eventually.