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@kevinpp24Kevin Pietersen Who is the muppet coaching Chelsea??? AVB??? Hmmm!! 25yrs for Ferguson, hopefully not even 6 months for this AVB geezer!! #clown Cunt. Fuck off KP.

I've only got a few at the moment -

I've got a grudging admiration for him.

More of a one man team than Arsenal at the moment. That's saying something.

How do I get stuff into that spoiler thingy?

I love him but it's over I think.

Where's SeB disappeared?

A win would be nice. A clean sheet on top would be epic.

Hmm, but then he's always been that sort of player who's utterly invisible for most of the game, only to burst into life when it's most needed.

LMAO You should try and keep analogies in context before ... oh forget it, you're Henrique.

No thanks. We can't cross for money or love and he can't do much other than head balls.

Very rare clip of Frank's debut while on loan at Swansea -

Apologies if these have been posted before :

Welcome! What's BITC - WATP?

Impressive English there.

Great player. Can't wait to see him play in Europe.

Missed the game. That bad?

Don't forget Schmelzer either, very good LB. I love that BvB team, damn.

Not played much of any sport in your life, it seems.

I thought about this the year after we won the double and there's no easy solution to the problem. Taking into account the recent history of the club and factoring in the ambitions we have about the future, youth integration was always going to take a backseat. With Roman's investment it was obvious that the emphasis would be on your superstar players who'd guarantee silverware, enabling the benefactor to get immediate bang for his buck. Even City, who have one of the best academies in England for ages now, put that resource on the backburner so to speak once they found themselves swimming in petrodollars. So it's not like we're an isolated case. Then the tedious chopping-changing started and it once again dashed hopes for more opportunities for the young 'uns. Managers aren't going to experiment while their heads are on the chopping block. Everything stems from stability, you see. It's all good to play kids when you're winning things and everything's rosy. But not winning the league for 3 years between 06 and 09 made things difficult, it's no coincidence we saw 4 managers come and go while virtually the same squad of players played week in week out. There's also another dimension to this in that there's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario here. Are the players coming through from the academy good enough to playing a big role in a side as big as Chelsea? What was that stat about the number of international captains in our squad a couple of years ago? 5 or 6 of them. You can imagine what sort of quality the little ones are competing with, just to get a little toe anywhere near the team. You have to be ridiculously talented and committed to hope of coming through here. It's not as simple as at other clubs. Of course, that is not to say that academy players cannot threaten the ones on the bench. The kind of money going out to Belletti or Ferreira or Kalou for example is not productive because those players hardly play an awful lot. Would someone like a Cork or Sinclair or Kakuta or Bertrand do better than those pricey intl players? Maybe. Maybe not. But it wouldn't be for the lack of trying. Chances at this level at that age are hard to come by, they'd grab theirs with both hands. And it makes better financial sense too. Then there is the issue about the fans. I notice how this thread has sprung up after the week we've had. You want youth representation, I want youth representation. But it's not as easy as saying 'Right, off with this lot, let's get the youngsters in.' There's a time, a place. The Arsenal game sent the forum into a meltdown. You have to have patience, but football fans are a fickle lot. It's just as plausible for the people who run down managers for not playing youth to turn against those very people to turn the heat on the decision to play them, if it backfires. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. And it's not about us here sitting behind a screen having a moan. Can you imagine what sort of impact it would have on an 18 year old to have 50000 odd people jeering/abusing him for a mistake he committed that led to crucial dropped points? There's tremendous pressure at places like Chelsea, it's a world away from somewhere like Arsenal who're allowed to go 6 years without a trophy. The crux of the matter is this - if we're serious about youth, we as a club need to sit down with the manager and tell him that we're absolutely fine with 1, 2, even 4 or 5 years without much success trophy wise, if it means we could see a team after that period with a largely homegrown player base. Not saying the two are mutually exclusive, but it's certainly more difficult.

Had to log off in order to calm down lol. One positive : We can only upwards from here. Adversity forges character.

Lost for words. Get back to the fucking drawing board, you incompetent twats.

I hate Arsenal.

AVB is pretty worked up ...