DavidEU

Pathetic BL. As soon as we drop any points, its Grant's fault. We've just won 9 on the trot FFS, and Pompey is a tough place to go.

No Frank 1. Petr Cech 35. Juliano Belletti 33. Alex Rodriga da Costa 22. Tal Ben-Haim 3. Ashley Cole 24. Shaun Wright-Phillips 4. Claude Makelele © 13. Michael Ballack 10. Joe Cole 15. Florent Malouda 39 Nicolas Anelka Subs: 23. Carlo Cudicini; 20. Paulo Ferriera; 18. Wayne Bridge; 9. Steve Sidwell; 14. Claudio Pizarro.

Welcome back!

Did Sidwell even play in the CL? Will be good to have official confirmation of this. I didnt think we had originally named a full squad of 25?

Taken from "Chelsea Chat" on TOCFCWS: All game long the Chelsea faithful abused Hunt with some rather predictable plays on words that rhyme with his name, and booed him mercillessly whenever he was able to touch the ball, which thanks to the absolutely immaculate Makalele was not very often. The final insult for Hunt though came after the final whistle. Our source in the Chelsea backroom area informs us that after the game Hunt's shirt was passed to the Chelsea kitman to swap for a Chelsea player's shirt, with Ballack's the one requested by Hunt. This is a normal occurance after most games; typically most shirts are traded over after the whistle but sometimes the Kitman is asked to do it as the player is getting changed. Our Kitman disappeared into the dressing room and came out five minutes later having asked the Chelsea team for a swap. He handed Hunt's shirt back to the Reading Physio with the terse reply: 'You can have it back mate.'

Perhaps Ivanovic on the bench for this one, with Carvalho out.

UK on Sunday evening? 9ish?

What was the Cole song?

Got my ticket today, along with three others. Set me back £268.30. Ouch.

Oh. Haha. Sorry. Thought you had just heard it on TV and posted it.

You do realise its fake right?

Discuss this in the other Maradona thread please.

, I wasn't implying that! Him and King sound a pretty decent pairing though to be honest.

Now official. He can play in the Cup final. Thoughts?

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For what?

Cheers guys.

Good stuff Alex.

Done. Your log-in name remains the same.

Yup mate. He converted to Muslim when he got married I think.

Carvalho is suspended for Pompey and Belletti for Reading mate.

No Belletti so Paulo in for him, and hopefully Ballack will return. If thats the case, Maka may make well and not Sidwell as Maka has played 4 in a row now.

Don't think I ever did this, but I've been predicting. If you haven't already, sign me up Alex. Cheers.

Malouda was worse than 5 Elliot unfortunately. Cech 7 Belletti 7 Carvalho 7 Alex 7 Bridge 7 Makelele 7 Sidwell 7 ^ SWP 8 J.Cole 8 Malouda 4 Anelka 8 MOTM: Anelka.

Great to hear it a fair bit tonight, although i'm not a huge fan of it.