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Cant believe there were people against signing him Could u imagine the sense of regret we would have felt if we saw him put these performances on at the Bernabeu or good for bid Eastlands?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/leicester_city/9410062.stm He is out for a month Although i dont think the Leicester fans give a toss there absolutely bashing him.

In decades gone by when Luiz is retired the roaming centre half will be known as "the Luiz role"

Then next year it will be the same shit about how their team are finally coming off age, tbh its getting very boring but the cycle will never stop until they win the league (then there be even worse).

good shout

fair point although it would be nice for him to hit another late surge, similar to last year.

He has got 7 goals so far this season now he scored against the Mancs? Am i the only one that thinks a strong end to the season could see him hit 20 again?

With our hugely succesfull and powerfull spine off the last 6 years entering its twilight years are we slowly seeing the basis of our next spine at Stamford Bridge? Cech-Terry-Carvalho-Makelele-Essien-Lampard-Drogba has been our spine in general over the last 6 years (4 in Maka's case), it has been a brilliant spine for us and saw us finish in the top 2 for 5 of those 6 season's, winning the title on 3 occasions along with 3 FA Cups and 2 league cups, but with Maka and Ricky gone, Lampard and Drogba well and truly in their twilight years, Terry slowly approaching them and Essien inconsistent in comparison with 2/3 years ago, are we seeing a slow transformation in this hugely successful spine? David Luiz and Ramires have been brought in firmly with the next 7/8 years in mind, David Luiz has started like a house on fire and Ramires after a tough start is starting to show us why we parted with £18 million for his signature, if both carry on like this for the next decade they will prove to be bargains, hopefully we will start seeing a lot more of Josh next season and he could be a key part of our next spine. Torres still has a good 5/6 years at the top level. Aswell as Josh we have players in this youth cup team that are impressing and the stand outs for me are Josh (obviously), Chalaboah, B.Clifford and Deen-Conteh with the right training and attitude i think all have a serious chance of being Chelsea 1st team players. Also on Chelsea's raidar seems to be Neymar and i cant help but think Carlo wants a Brazillian spine on the pitch similar to one he attempted to make at Milan (Silva-Kaka-Pato) he signed Silva but left before he officially became a Milan player. Petr Cech still has a good 10 years left and with the likes off Delac and Sebek up and coming we are fine in that area for some time. Looks like work is already starting for our new spine, what do you think it will look like? KTBFFH

Blainitant publicity stunt that was. He is that desperate for attention now hes retired he will probally sit in the kop on sunday.

i was thinking exacly the same. Dont like the sound of doing Arsenal a favour but tbh i dont even think about that, getting back into the top 4 was what we needed to do and thats what we have done, we did it for us not Arsenal. If this wont kick start our season nothing will, all it takes is droped points at Blackpool and were back to square one so lets not let it happen this time. Am i the only 1 that thinks a top 2 place is still up for grabs? We will go above City if we win our game in hand not to mention if we beat them at home and if you look at Arsenal's record at the buisness end of the season its hardly something that will stricke the fear of god into opponents.

While were all seeing how good Ramires is, he is still the scapegoat amounst rival fans, i keep hearing how "bad" he supposedly is Thats Arsenal, Man.Utd and Tottenham games he has dominated now, just a shame he werent playing aganist Liverpool then it might have been different.

Bloomfield road is a tough ole place to go but if we go there, keep our heads and stick to a game plan we should be fine.

After the last 3 it would be about time

Stoke City (away) on April 2nd according to the Chelsea website, although knowing sky that could change.

Alex (Blue Lion) has the guardian ratings above

Name: Ryan Bertrand Position: Defender Number: 34 Joined From: Gillingham Fee: £125,000 Signed by: Frank Arnesen?/Jose Mourinho? Age: 22 Ryan joined Chelsea in the summer of 2005 from Gillingham, he has gone on loan to Bournemouth, Oldham, Norwich, Reading and Nottingham Forest. He has recently became a squad player for Chelsea and was on the bench for the FA Cup replay against Everton at Stamford Bridge. His debut for the Blues finally came in a 3-1 win over Birmingham City, where he replaced the injured Ashley Cole midway through the second half, it was however his only appearance that season. He was named in the 25 man squad by Andre Villas Boas for the 2011/2012 season but found opportunities limited under the Portuguese, only appearing six times, but it was when Roberto Di Matteo took over his Chelsea career and career as a whole really kicked off. When Cole picked up an injury, Bertrand started two games in the space of three days aganst Wigan and Fulham and produced solid performances both times, unlike Andre, Robbie trusted the youngster to fill in when Cole was injured or needed a rest. His best Chelsea performance came at The Emirates against Arsenal, where he completely nullified the threat of Theo Walcott and picked up his first man of the match, after that afternoon he was picked for all bar one of the remaining league games as Cole was getting rested and redied the FA Cup and Champions League finals. But his season didn't end there, injury's and suspension's meant he got a shock Champions League debut in the final against Bayern Munich but where most in his situation would be riddled with nerves, he simply came of age, performed incredibly in tanden with Cole to keep the Bayern right side of Lahm and Robben quiet and when he was replaced by Florent Malouda in the 74th minute he and all Chelsea fans knew whatever the outcome he done us proud. We ofcourse went on to win on penalties and made history. Following on from that, he was given a call up to the Team GB Olympic team, despite a poor tournament overall, Ryan never put a foot wrong in defence and came out of it with his reputation further enhanced. Now if all that in a few months wasn't enough Roy Hodgson has given the lad his first England call up for the friendly against Italy. A few days after that he came on as a substitute for Chelsea against Manchester City at Villa Park with the Blues 3-1 down. He scored his first Chelsea goal to bring them back in the game and make it 3-2, although Chelsea didn't bring the game back level, on a personal level it's good he got of the mark in Chelsea colours.

The guardians rating for Micheal Essien is a joke, he was fantastic all night.

That day is my 20th birthday Dont mean to scare you but our record on my birthday is shocking. I can only remember 3 games on my birthday and they were Arsenal in 2005 at Stamford Bridge ended 0-0, the fatefull night in France against Monaco the year before and 2 years before that was the last time Utd won at Stamford Bridge on my 11th birthday in 2002. That doesnt bode well, although the last time Brum played on my birthday (my 17th) they lost 5-1 to Villa so there is hope

Yuri should defo start now

On a side note when Rooney scored and taunted us in the Matthew harding stand, if Drogba did that at the Stretford end he would be getting mullered by the media drunkards.

I was wary about the 4-4-2 we seemed a bit open at times against Copenhagen. Eating my words now tho and more than happy too

Good review Personally i think Essien was MOTM he looked so much like his old self Scholes looked completely out of his depth against him in the second half. Torres just needs a goal and we will see them in left right and centre. Back in the top 4 now and if Tottenham drop points at Wolves and City labour to a draw against Wigan we will be in a glorious place to finish 3rd and with Arsenals track record of falling after Birmingham games who knows we might even get 2nd. Great game to remember Ossie.

Guys you should see my facebook homepage, Luiz is getting under evrey one of my united fan mates skin already

Petr Cech 7 Got all his desicions spot on could not to nowt with the goal. Branislav Ivanovic 6 did ok but was troubled by Nani at time David Luiz 7 got caught out a couple of times but very good for his full SW6 debut, look like he is taking over Carvalho's role in scoring regually against Utd as well. John Terry 7 Good performance from the captain led from the back. Ashely Cole 6 solid but unspectacular. Micheal Essien 8 MOTM for me i thought he was outstanding, looks like he has finally escaped from where his twin brother hid him. Ramires 7 bit sloppy a couple of times in the 1st half but he will be a huge big game player for us in years to come. Frank Lampard 7 Slowly but surely we are getting our Frank back. Florent Malouda 7 again better worthy of a 7 lets hope he improves from here on in. Nicolas Anelka 6 Couple of neat touches but was quite quiet tonight. Fernando Torres 7 getting there as soon as he scored his 1st there fly in SUBS Didier Drogba 7 Yuri Zhirkov 7 Jose Bosingwa 6 back in the top 4 time to stay there for good.