Tomo

Swansea really aren't all they are cracked up to be, are they? there hype is still on the start they made last season. If i had to pick the 5 worst games played by an away team at The Bridge in 2013 (not necessarily results), i would pick all 3 games against Swansea.

Im starting to think some of the Galatasaray fans are actually Gooners on the wind up.

I have been saying that all season.

Neither are good enough anymore to lead the line in a team with designs to win the league, so it's about the lesser of the two evils.

This, at-least if all else fails with him he gets the basics right, unlike the £50m one.

Hilarious isn't it, i remember against Newcastle he had no chances, and all i heard was "he worked hard" and even more laughably "he scored the winner against City, so surely we can forgive him this one", Eto'o came on and found himself having 2 chances, yes he missed them both but that alone was better than anything Torres done all game, and he apparently was and we should have kept Torres on Its laughable the favoritism treatment he gets, it use to wind me up but now i just laugh at it. Tottenham fans do exactly the same with Soldado in the fact they make excuse after excuse for his poor performances while bashing Defoe for any little thing but is Soldado does the same thing it's a good sign

What's worse is that Torres on a lazy day makes Berbatov look like all action, energetic high presser.

Put it this way, if Eto'o or Ba performed like he did yesterday, there wouldn't be many going on about how 'hard' the supposedly worked.

This isn't what Fulham needed. The reason they have nosedived so bad is because half the squad have peaked out, Dempsey is going to nothing to help that whatsoever.

If most of those games were at home you would be right. While we should have done better the general rule is to beat the home teams and get what you can away. So far we have played one big team at home, and won.

This argument annoys me. There is many valid reason's as to why Mata should play, but saying "he's the best player of the last two years" just doesn't wash with me. Lampard was the best midfielder in the Premier League in 2009/2010, the following year he was below par and many wanted him to see less game time. Likewise with Malouda. Also i believe if Rafa stayed he would have rotated Mata aswell with the option's we now have, his Liverpool teams always had a balance to it, for that reason alone Schurrle would have probably been Rafa's most used player if he stayed on, with the Mazacar rotating the other two spots.

Swansea aren't all their cracked up to be, they have been bang average for the best part of a year. Having said that we will still need to play well to win, Laudrup is a very good tactician.

I felt a better striker would have won us this match, Torres did lose the ball in key areas. He tried hard last night ill give him that, but he just isn't Chelsea quality.

What we played tonight is called the percentage game, Fergie was the master of it, he use to go to tough arena's for draw's, get them, and guess who ended up as Champions come May? It was a really good tactical percentage game away from home we have just played, yes as time went on we started to settle more and more for the draw, but what's conveniently not mentioned is Arsenal left Cazorla and Podolski kicking their heels on the bench, if this was at Stamford Bridge and Mourinho made no subs, the media/no nothing's would have a field day. The fact he is getting criticized for tonight's match is hilarious. Most big games between the big seven this season have ended up in home wins, any point you get at the home of a rival is a good one, that has always been the case. A repeat of this in Eastlands in February, and i will be delighted.

I never thought i would say this, but Bushman is well off the radar right now, if this thread and the match thread is anything to go by.

Mainly by United fans, which is quite ironic considering how Rooney' only still there because they made him the highest paid player in English football history. Maybe he will sign a 400k p/w deal soon, really confirm his love for United.

Not going to lie, i was screaming into my I pad when i saw it was Cahill and not Luiz starting, not only does Luiz always play well against Arsenal, i felt we needed a proactive defender in this type of match. But he had a good game, really good game, made that vital interception in the first half, that prevented whoever was behind him having a tap in,

i am at the end of my tether with ChelseaMessiah and BMK, i really am. they are fucking born trolls and worse people keep getting baited by them.

Don't really have any feeling either way to the signing. In the past when i feel that, they turn out to be really good (Schurrle, Ramires) or flop (Pizzaro), i would say Zhirkov but the part he played in our run up to the title in 2010 (particularly against Bolton) means he was worth every penny, even if he didn't have the best of times overall.

Milner and Barry (before he left) were key elements in City's success despite neither being that good. It's the British players that will step up and rally everyone when the going get's tough, there's a reason Lampard and Terry still play almost every game.

We don't need to field an all English team, but a British base is vital to any successful English club and not just on the pitch.

When he played for us, i was never convinced, his defending looked like coming from the school of Bosingwa, and Leicester fans couldn't wait to get rid of him and said Kyle Naughton (who they had at the same time) was a class above him. However if he has improved at Vittesse, then i would rather we gave him the squad slot (if Bertrand leaves) instead of spending £7m on some average joe around Europe.

There's a mathematically chance Arsenal could fall down to 5th tomorrow too, it's nuts.

Well tbf, we were awful in the Champions League final (bar Cech). The players tried, they were just comprehensively outplayed by the better team. We are forever in debt to the fact that Cech had the game of his life.

With central defenders, for truly top one's to blossom they need a truly top one to play next to them aswell, to compliment eachother. Their are some exception's, like JT in his prime or Thiago Silva now, but mainly defender's are only as good as the defender they are paired with. Carvalho was the main example to that rule with us, when he had JT next to him, he was incredible and probably every bit as good as Terry was, take Terry out and replace him with Bolourhouz, Ben Haim or Essien, then Carvalho looked a shadow of what he was with JT. If we had Thiago Silva or JT was still in his prime, Luiz would be every bit as good for us as he is for Brazil, for sure.