Madmax

Nice to have you around, lad

We are in a 'fantastic moment' Steve said everything that needed to be said, though I hope many more start participating in discussions.

Top post mate. Very balanced, something rare to see these days.

Cole was given the number three shirt at Chelsea, and made his first appearance for the club as a substitute for Wayne Bridge in their 2-1 win over Charlton Athletic on 9 September. On 31 January 2007, Cole suffered a serious knee injury in the 3-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers in a Premier League game at Stamford Bridge, although after a scan it was revealed to be not as bad as first thought, with Chelsea optimistic that he would return before the end of the 2006-07 season. Cole did indeed make a return at the end of the season, playing in the last twelve minutes of the 2007 FA Cup Final at the new Wembley Stadium against Manchester United. Chelsea emerged victorious 1-0 after extra-time with a goal scored by Didier Drogba, to win the FA Cup. During the 2007-08 season he was dropped in favour of Wayne Bridge for the 2008 League Cup Final, which Chelsea lost 2-1 to Tottenham Hotspur. However, Cole scored his first Chelsea goal in Chelsea's very next game, on 1 March 2008, the fourth goal in a 4-0 away victory against West Ham United. In Chelsea's final league match of the 2008-09 season against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, Cole scored his second Chelsea goal in the Blues' 3-2 win, before picking up his fifth FA Cup winners' medal in the final against Everton. Cole was voted Player's Player of the Year at the end of the season, and on 2 September 2009 Cole signed a new four-year contract, tying him to Chelsea until 2013. The following season, after starting Chelsea's first six games in the league, Cole scored his third, fourth and fifth Chelsea goals at home to Burnley, Tottenham and Sunderland respectively. On 10 February 2010, he suffered a fractured left ankle in the 2-1 defeat against Everton that kept him out of action for three months. He eventually made his return against Stoke City, a game which Chelsea won 7-0. Cole also scored a goal against Wigan Athletic on the final day of the Premier League season in an 8-0 win that clinched the Premier League title, Cole's first at the club. Cole went on to appear in the 2010 FA Cup Final, the victory against Portsmouth earning Cole a record sixth winners' medal - his third at Chelsea. The victory also completed the League & FA Cup Double for Chelsea, for the first time in the club's history. Cole had also been part of a double-winning side at Arsenal in 2002, and he became the first player, along with teammate Nicolas Anelka, to win the double with two different clubs. Cole was again one Chelsea's most consistent performers during the 2010-11 season, starting every Premier League game as Chelsea finished second in the league in what was a relatively disappointing season following the success of 2009-10. His continued importance to the side was demonstrated at the end of the season when he was voted Player's Player of the Season by his peers, the second time he had received the honour. Near ever-present once more during the 2011-12 season, Cole largely performed to his usual high standards, particularly in the latter part of the campaign, as Chelsea won the FA Cup (Cole winning the competition of a record seventh time) and the UEFA Champions League. In the latter competition the England international put in several excellent performances, including goal-line clearances against Napoli and Barcelona, to help Chelsea reach the final of the competition for the second time. In the final itself he was one of Chelsea's outstanding performers. With the match finishing 1-1 after extra time, he scored a penalty in the shoot-out as he had done in Moscow four years earlier but this time he was on the winning side as Chelsea won the competition for the first time. Click here to view the record

Barcelona, easy. United won't be the first team to have their treble dream shattered tonight.

Can the eventual winners have a title displaying badge below their ava till the next time the awards are held? P.S I protest Alex withdrawing the Biggest Moron award I had someone in mind ...

Good grief now we have people issuing Henrique-esque quit threats *palmface*

4-3-3 is our bread-n-butter. And we shouldn't change unless the players it's built around (Lampard-Drogba) are sold / given a squad role.

No no, we will moan about Lampard getting undeserved starts yet want Torres to be given that benefit, just to keep Liverpool fans of all people, quiet. Everything has gone tits up sadly.

He got the goal, wrongly disallowed by the ref. Fail. And bigger fail = Torres not bothering to turn up against United and the likes, when it actually mattered. Case closed.

Time to send these dirty hammers down.

All the attacking excitement was down to Brom who allowed us all the space in the world - they know they're safe for the season and have no shot at Europe, basically nothing to play for now. On our part, the plethora of chances we missed in the second half showed we'd taken our foot off the pedal. Had this been earlier in the season I guarantee you we'd have hit them for 7 or 8.

But he did, didn't he? What can the poor sod do if the linesman is blind? Oh wait, that's Carlo's fault as well surely.

The most important issue is to replace and more accurately, improve upon the ones who leave.

We weren't really playing for anything, there was nothing at stake for either of the teams and it showed really. It was a typical end of season match that's got nothing much riding on it. Torres though - dearie me, it's just not going to happen, is it? Once again incorrectly called offside. So that makes it two, counting the perfectly legitimate yet disallowed goal against United in the league. MOTM - Ashley Cole for me, put in his best performance in a long while.

This is not about Torres scoring, this is about Chelsea winning and getting points on the board to put Arsenal under pressure. Sort out your priorities ffs.

See that's what the problem is - you just can't see the player's fault no matter how poorly they play. Granted Carlo makes some mistakes, but you conveniently lay the blame entirely upon the manager, because it's easier to find one scapegoat and sack one person than sack eleven. lol okay, whatever you say Like I said, I give up. There's only so much I can try to make someone see sense. Peace out.

You're telling me it's the manager's fault if a player can't make a 10 yard pass? An international captain like Essien or Lampard fails to make a simple sideways pass, and it's Carlo's fault? Fuck me. I give up.

Mourinho won the treble last year ... he's a 'winning manager' in your words, and yet what exactly are Madrid, the biggest, most famous club in the world, going to win this season?

Oh no ... it's not the player's fault if they can't make a 10 yard pass, or score into an open net, or keep an eye on the player they're marking while defending a freekick. It's the manager's fault.

Jose you suck, go back to Portugal / Guus, you fat oldie, you shoulda stayed with Turkey!

Isn't it lovely how while saying Carlo's got no balls that people forget him leaving out Drogba for the title decider last year at OT, for the vital Spurs away game at Shite Hart Lane this year (one which we would have won had Drogba not missed that penalty in extra time) and leaving out both Drogba and Torres for what was essentially the 3rd place decider against City a few weeks back? Those are just off the top of my head in terms of big games that have a lot riding on them. Oh and where has the 'we want 4-4-2' crowd disappeared? First they criticised Carlo for constantly playing 4-3-3 but now that the 4-4-2 has failed, they're all quiet and not speaking a word about it. Fickle fickle fickle.

A majority of our fans are unbelievably spoilt. There ain't a word called 'patience' in their dictionaries. To make it worse, they actually ridicule ones who're willing to be patient.

The most fickle thread in history has reached 50 pages. Bravo