Madmax

In other words ... he's a footballer who's better when he doesn't have a ball at his feet.

Yes, but don't care either way. Carefree ...

lol k.

This. This so much. Winning is addictive. Watching that crap United team walk the league while we lagged 25 points behind got on my tits.

Guillem Balague saying on twitter that Abramovich wanted Guardiola before 'accepting' Mourinho and that he wouldn't enjoy the style we played yesterday. Someone should ask him whether he thinks Abramovich enjoyed losing to Corinthians and Swansea last season while we were under Ballague's mate FSW. Hang on, I'll ask. Let's see if he replies.

He is the real playstation defender.

I can see this so clearly - Everything's shaping up for the bindippers to get it ... so OF COURSE evil-enemies-of-football-plastic-rentboys Chelsea turn up to piss on their parade. Perfect.

I wouldn't call Adriano amazing. Scolari would, though.

Hazard should be getting the Young POtY at least but you just know they'll hand it to Sturridge, with Suarez picking up POtY. How Silva, Coleman and Azpilicueta didn't make the shortlist amazes me.

Thanks, now I don't need to read the article. Paul Parker. Paul fucking Parker. My favourite moment was before the first leg in PSG when the anchor said Mourinho had picked a very defensive side and the bald cunt jumped in saying "YES! VERYYY DEFENSIVE!", before the anchor said he actually meant to say offensive and the fucking bald cunt tried a pathetic attempt at backtracking saying something along the lines of "Well .... err it looks that way ..."

Fabregas? The 'I'll-shove-your-legend-Lampard' Fabregas? The 'I'll-spit-in-Ballack's-face' Fabregas? This Barcelona cunt can rot in that shithole with his 'Barca DNA'.

Serious question - does Avram Grant do punditry in Israel?

This. Let them obsess over Liverpool while we play the party poopers.

(4-4-1-1) Cech Coleman Cahill Terry Azpilicueta Hazard Gerrard Toure Lallana Silva Suarez Subs : de Gea, Kompany, Ivanovic, Barry, Ramsey, Sturridge, Remy

Think the PSG game will affect the starting selection here. In Paris we'll probably go with a three of Hazard, Willian and Ramires behind Torres so here Oscar will start alongside Schurrle.

He looks fucking hideous in red. Like a garden gnome on some abandoned mansion's overgrown, overrun with weeds lawn.

Title's gone. City are going to have to drop more than 3 and we have to win at Liverpool. Not gonna happen.

There's talk about Klopp coming in next season and while two years ago I'd have laughed at that notion, I'm not so sure now. He's taken Dortmund as far as he can, he now competes against a Bayern team whose bench would win the Bundesliga on their own, a team who has won the league with a record number of games left, a team who have taken his 2 best players in 2 years, his current stars don't want to commit long term (Gundogan and Hummels). Football goes in cycles, Dortmund's is over and a smart man like Klopp would surely know that. We might (and should) laugh at United now but they'll always be a big name and maybe their fall from grace will entail fighting it out on a more even keel with other top 4 contenders but that's about it.

If we have ANY sense at all, we'll keep this guy around till his retirement. Absolute Rolls Royce of a player.

I really, really like Ramires but games like today show what we're missing when he plays. Fantastic work rate, runs all day but is nigh on useless with a ball at his feet ... which is sort of an issue in football. Can't pass, can't tackle, gives away numerous silly fouls, can't shoot (not that it's his game in a pivot). I'm really liking the Matic + Luiz pairing and it's no coincidence we control the game very well whenever they've played together (City away, Liverpool home, Arsenal home ... I might be forgetting others). I remember one of the Egyptian posters here (@BLionHeart I think?) saying 2 seasons ago how Chelsea need to move beyond Ramires as a starter to truly become a top team - how right he was.

Schurrle not as a striker please. Scoring goals when making midfield runs into space is very different to playing as a striker. He started as one against Man U at OT early in the season and did absolutely nothing.

No I know what you mean, but I was speaking in terms of players that - how do I put it - just blow you away. So while Chelsea had guys like the ones you mention - Vialli, Hughes, Gullit then Lamps, Maka, Didier and recently Oscar and Mata - you appreciate them, you know they're in complete control of what they do and what they want to do (look, what a tackle by Claude! I just knew he'd get there or hey, Lamps arriving unmarked in the box, goal no. 10000) but with Zola and Hazard, they just seem to be able to hit heights you didn't think someone could (fuck, how did he manage to do that?!). They are the definition of a fantasy.

Our generation is going to be able to boast about watching Hazard don the Chelsea royal blue just like the one before us boasts about Zola.