Elliott

I think you're right that we do this more. Jose HAD instilled this argumentative streak in the player, but you know what? That's fine. As long as you only do it when you genuinely feel hard done by! And many times we have in the past, in this season, but clearly that's not what the players are doing if you look at the reaction to Ashley Cole's lenient booking against Spurs. I would suggest it is as much Grant not doing anything about it than worsening it. On the one hand you'd think Ten Cate, being the disciplinarian one, might stamp his foot down, but no, instead he is probably just as argumentative as Mourinho. It is definitely a problem, and it's you that's convinced me of that misschief. I wouldn't have a non-Chelsea fan telling me such a thing even if it IS obvious!

Darn

Badboys gonna have a field day on this one. I doubt Mikel was ever going to be as explosive as Messi, he just doesn't have the pace or the ball skills, but he's still a very very good player on his day.

Good result, now for Tuesday

If you're behind the times, and being with the times is to harass loyal fans over their opinion, the current times can go fuck themselves.

Perhaps the best post this forum has ever seen. I can't disagree with a single word.

Bloody scousers.

Malouda didn't do quite as badly as I expected, but he was still very ineffective. It was either him or SWP, and Shauny didn't cover himself in glory against Boro so Malouda was given the nod. It just goes to show we lack quality on the wings.

We dominated from the 1st minute until the minute they scored, after that we were second best.

Are you forgetting we scored? If they score one goal at the Bridge, it will be 3-1 on aggregate. So if we score 3 goals, then it will be 4-3 to us on aggregate, thus we go through.

Well, no, 3 goals will do if they score 1. Don't fancy us to score 3 either though.

Well, no way Kalou could have started after that shambolic performance against Boro. I don't think it was a time to experiment with formations either, but there's zero point in bringing on Anelka for Joe Cole unless you're going to create a... well I don't know, some hash of a 4-4-2? Simply doesn't make sense.

First Half, and well, up until the Anglo Turk scored... We were completely on top, controlling the pace, controlling the game. But for all that control, we created a minimum of chances, and score from a non-chance. Drogba did not play well tonight, and we just didn't penetrate effectively. Malouda was lively but his delivery was poor, the same could be said of Joe Cole too. Lampard's range of passing was impressive tonight, but didn't offer much going forward and Ballack wasted his chances. Then we let them back in, probably by not knowing what to expect out of Kazim Richards and that has to be the fault of the management. Suddenly the confidence switches sides and we're on the back foot. I hold my hands up to the 2nd goal, what a strike, Then came the bad substitutions. Taking off Lamps or Ballack was 50/50, but Joe Cole off, Anelka on the wing, same old story, we know it doesn't work, why doesn't Grant? Learn from your mistakes, for fuck's sake! Plus point - we have an away goal. 1-0 at home will do us. I can see it being 2-1 and us losing on penalties.

For a muslim, he sure has a big nose. I wonder if his fellow countrymen ever confuse him for their enemy.

Hard fought my pale arse, they fucking collapsed.

I was just waiting for those cops to run Rambo straight into a wall, head first. Now that would have been funny. Not confident of a win tonight, a draw will do.

I dunno how that fooled anyone with the Scottish mannerisms in the quote, but to be frank, I'd welcome it the move over Grant!

How the two possible punishments of 3 points docked or relegation are in anyway similar I have no idea.

Merged threads.

Can't thank Ranieri enough for what he did for this football club. With no resources, he got us into the Champions League. If he hadn't, we probably wouldn't have interested Abramovich, and as a result, done a Leeds.

That performance was woeful, shocking, awful, disgraceful, disgusting, pathetic, horrible and just plain shit. I really feel for Boro, they should have rightfully walked away with our unbeaten record, yet instead we somehow use the rest of our season's luck up in one game and get 3 points. Lets just forget about that one and hope they don't come up with that on Wednesday, because if they do, we're doomed. Can't say I'm looking forward to watching that.

2-0 now

Wow. Just wow. Can't wear a replica shirt in a football club's restaurant? Absolutely barmy! No common sense.

Good for you BA. You should definitely claim your train fare off them.

Unfortunately will fall on deaf ears.