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They obviously know that and are trippling up with Lucas and Meireles helping Kelly. No real quality, just getting players in numbers.

Mikel's the senior midfielder. Mad that.

Did you hear how quiet it was before the goal? Famous atmosphere my arse.

Unlucky. Scuffed it into the ground and it bounced over Cech. Otherwise he'd have probably got something to it.

Added Bosingwa to our bench.

Drogba on the bench for us. No Essien. Ramires, Kalou and Malouda start. Cech Ivanovic Alex Terry A.Cole Ramires Mikel Zhirkov Kalou Anelka Malouda Subs: Hilario, Ferreira, Kakuta, Drogba, Sturridge, McEachran, Bosingwa.

Liverpool team, no Johnson or Cole. Woeful bench. Reina Kelly Carragher Skrtel Konchesky Lucas Meireles Kuyt Gerrard Maxi Torres Subs: Hansen, Wilson, Spearing, Poulsen, Shelvey, Ngog, Jovanovic. Compare that team to the times we used to go up there and play against the likes of Arbeloa, Mascherano, Alonso, and an inform Riera and Torres....

From press conference live on official website: Lampard OUT. Little problem with Essien, 'not sure' if he'll be back. Hopes he is available to play, decision Sunday morning. Malouda IS available. The names to start: "Cech, Ivanovic, Alex, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Zhirkov, Anelka, Drogba. Ramires or Essien, and Malouda or Kalou."

Cech Ivanovic Alex Terry A.Cole Essien Mikel Lampard/Ramires Anelka Drogba Zhirkov Team picks itself for me. Can't see Frank getting more than 60 minutes after two months out though.

Johnson will be back for them.

Iva!

Anelka you are superb.

All that's true. But, the way things are, benefits are only going to grow. I came out of uni in the summer, with a very good degree, and i've found it near-on impossible to find any work. And a lot of people who were in my classes are the same. Add the amount of qualified people who are being made redundant to that. Education and health care should be the priority, of course. But if the money isn't there (which it isn't) what more can we do?

Can't do anything though if the money isn't available to the country.

That can't necessarily be a bad thing though. Right now, its far too easy to get into uni. 10 years ago, my A Levels would have got me no where near a good University, and only the best and brightest went to Uni. Now, we have thousands of people coming out every single year, expecting to walk in to amazing jobs straight away, when the amazing jobs SIMPLY are not there. A huge reason as to why our shops, our factories, warehouses and indeed, country, is full of foreigners who will take them jobs. And I mean no disrespect by that.

Just FYI, if you start Uni in 2011, paying £3,000 a year, and fees go up to £9,000 in 2012, you'll continue to pay £3,000 a year for the remainder of your course. When I started in 07, it was the first year the fees went from £1,000 to £3,000, so if i'd been just 5-6 months older, I'd have paid £3,000 for my entire course at 1k a year. £27,000 on tuition fees means your going to be at least 40k in debt by 2015. The whole thing is ridiculous, but something has to be done. There are FAR too many people at University, the majority going for a piss up, not to work hard, but the way to change that is to increase grade requirements NOT fees.

Zhirkov forward, Ramires in CM?

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LivePressConferences/0,,10268,00.html Carlo's press conference due to start in a second. News re: Ramires and Frank hopefully.

Hope our fans give him a bit of banter though. Respectful and polite applause for him at the beginning, and then mock.

October 1996.

To be fair, a lot of this is Portsmouth's fault and they only have themselves to blame. But like has been said, its always a shame to see a club go, especially one as unique as Portsmouth. Why they ever spent all the money they did a few years ago is beyond me and everyone though.

I read a few. Paul Gascoigne and Sven Goran-Eriksson. Both were interesting, but not in the same way as this one. Alot of footballers books detail every single season and it gets a bit repetitive and boring, where as every chapter of Carlo's was interesting and seemed to have a point. For what he's done in football, its relatively short in comparison to others.

Source: Official Portsmouth FC Website. Someone just save them. Its probably pocket money to Roman to solve it. Such a shame.

RIP Matthew Harding.

I've really liked 3/4 home shirts, the exception being the 'Moscow shirt'. That's all that really matters. The majority of the away/third have been tosh though.