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20 minutes vs most of the season.

Could the girl be any more cuter?

Is it just me or does Josh look a bit of a nervous pigeon? Not in his play, his expression. Rarely seen him smile.

Taarabt > Torres

Every time after a shameful performance I say to myself this is a one-off, it won't happen again, blah blah. And every time, I'm proven wrong. It was painful to watch us play today. Just no desire, no commitment, no fight, no creativity, I could go on. The players looked like they were holidaying already, Carlo looked helpless, the fans were probably wondering if they'd be better off getting a tan somewhere. Couldn't help but laugh when they equalised. Perfect summary of how our season's gone. Decent, but not good enough. How did Anelka, Lampard and Torres manage 90 minutes? The phrase 'shadow of a player he once was' is an understatement for Lamps. And it's excruciating to watch. I've grown up loving the man and it's just unbelievable it's the same guy. Oh well, victim of his own high standards I guess. I can't remember one meaningful contribution made by Anelka. Torres - well, the less said, the better. Congratulations on the assist, btw . Then Carlo does his usual subs fuck-up. Taking off Bena who I thought was decent and doing all the right things and bringing on Malouda. All 4 of Malouda, Anelka, Drogba and Torres on the pitch together. God help us. Both goals from set-pieces, says it all. Not one clear cut chance from open play. It's been done to death, but one creative force and two wingers, pretty please with custard on top. About the first goal, no blame attached to anyone really. Even though Alex's pass sold out his partner, the deflection was as jammy as it gets. The second one though - where was the marking? Add this to Villa, Everton and whichever ones I forgot. Cech - 6 Ivan - 7.5 (our best attacker, oddly, but not surprisingly when all the others were so poor) Alex - 6.5 Terry - 6 Cole - 6 Josh - 6.5 Ramires - 6 Lampard - 5.5 Anelka - 3 Benayoun - 6 Torres - 3.5 Special mention to Josh, delighted for him to make his full league debut. Thought he was very calm initially but felt the pressure and made a couple of errors later on. Still, good debut, that one ball to Ashley in the first half and the one occasion where he maintained possession under pressure from two of their guys showed us what he's all about. Keeping my liking for Carlo aside, if he's gonna be here next season, he's seriously got stuff to sort out and issues to address. P.S. The new kit looks awesome in action!

Shush, don't bore me. And don't make veiled attempts at derailing a thread.

Shush cry baby.

No seriously, if say United or Madrid had spent 50 million on him for what we saw today, I guarantee that you and I and our neighbours and their dogs and the fleas on them would be laughing our respective asses off! I'm not criticizing the signing, of course not. He will come good, form is temporary and class is permanent and all that, but he was horrific today. Got taken off the ball as easily as a 5 year old. A first touch worse than anyone else on the pitch, no composure, no menace, no fight, no hunger. You only need to see the way he performed against Ham to know what desire is. If it hadn't been for the even more shambolic Anelka he would have definitely been my flop of the match. Completely made jokers out of us who were calling for him to given a full game. The contract is for 5 years and not 5 months as I like to say, but the lad isn't worth a fiver atm.

Err ... None of them are 'world class'.

If Carlo goes, the little faith I have or like to try and have in the direction this club is going will be eroded beyond repair.

What the fuck was that? Dearie me. Absolute bollocks. We cry before every game for him to be given 90 minutes and when he does get it, he comes up with this stinking pile of horse radish poo. We're the laughing stock of world football.

We've dodged a bullet. Now I can sleep peacefully.

I haven't been around for even a year, I'll give it a go next year. LDN has my vote!

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I don't want Sturridge back with us if it just means we'll play him out of position on the wing in order to accommodate the 'bigger' name/s. His time is now, he has to start more often than not, and it has to be as a striker, none of this winger bullshit.

Haters gonna hate

Welcome, stick around :cfc:

Non, merci beaucoup.

Super! But I have dibs on the October review

Carlo don't go

How long before Pele opens his big trap again? "Neymar don't go ... yada yada ... I'm still best in the world ... yada yada .... Maradona is shit ... yada yada ... Andy Carroll will be the Golden Boot winner at next WC ... yada yada"

But they have nothing to show there. Those poor kids ... and that pitiable anorexic, lanky French guy ... he hasn't seen display worthy stuff in such a long while that's been left to kick out at water-bottles and tell anyone who'd listen, "I zizn't zee it"

Take him in a jiffy. Earlier I was against this because of his attitude, now I realize when we can have 33 yo drama queens like Drog in the side, a 19 year old future WPOTY but currently temperamental kid is something I can deal with.

Just 103 league goals ... how dare we play such disgraceful ultra defensive football under that funny eyebrow dude!