Madmax

Thanks milan and choulo. lmao some petty cunt giving the topic 1 star. Grow up

One of the greatest playmakers of all time.

Terry, easy. That rushed clearance onto Luiz aside, he was a titan.

Yeah just read this. R.I.P

Donated, as promised

Hallelujah!

He's our best DM since Maka.

I don't get what's so special about that goal.

It's more a case of philosophy than personnel. Liverpool showed us the blueprint of how to cope with City's threats. 1. Absolute focus on hurrying the man in possession by constant closing down, to force them into making mistakes in their passing and upsetting the circulation of the ball. 2. Defending as a unit. The thing with pressing is that the enitre team needs to be synchronised and unified in effort, it's no good for one or two players to apply pressure on the ball while the others neglect their duty. 3. Defending from the front. The forwards need to be the first ones to initiate closing down. Often we see that our strikeforce don't close down too much and opposing fullbacks can slot cross field passes over and in behind the high defence. 4. Pace on the counter. Extremely important to play Sturridge, Meireles and Ramires in this one. Think Lampard should sit out.

Cheers all of you

I wonder how much that Chinese team has coughed up for Anelka.

Yes but we were helped by Newcastle coming at us. When we're made to force the issue against 8 or 9 men behind the ball, we often flounder. Newcastle played right into our hands by giving us space and time to run into.

WHS delivers again!

Yeah, just marginally, but offside nevertheless.

Wrong, Ba was offside.

It was a straight red, no question about it. Very lucky the ref missed it.

10/10 performance today.

Group of Debt : Spain, Italy, Ireland and Greece.

Would be unfair to term all loans this season as poor business. Courtois, Bruma and Kalas for example are getting a lot of game time and progressing well whereas Kakuta and Patch obviously less so. A bit hit and miss, but that's how these things turn out anyway. Kakuta will be back in Jan and Patch should be too. One thing that concerns me is that whenever we've loaned players domestically, it's never quite worked out, Sturridge being the glaring exception. A point to keep in mind while deciding about Josh in a month's time.

So ... Anelka's been sold then, not leaving on a free?

Ray Wilkins too. On Champs League games he commentates, you can usually hear him refer to Chelsea as 'us'.

There's a thing with Chelsea and the name Hutchinson.

Meaningless.