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If he doesn't improve on his performances until the end of the season, I would definitely consider to sell him. He's been the worst player of the team no doubt.

I'd also rather play Ferreira, good shout. He's got Champions League experience and always does what he's asked to, and a big shame that Benayoun hasn't even made it onto the bench yet. Benayoun is very quick and skillful, something very important that we're lacking, and he's the man that I would expect a change of the game or a comeback from.

Agreed. We need strength against United on Wednesday, Bosingwa doesn't have it. Sometimes he's good offensively, but defensively he's not good enough and makes mistakes often. Definitely our only weakness in the line-up, which United can clearly take advantage of.

Means that when Bosingwa fails in his attempts to push forward successfully, Nani will have too much space and so United will be a lot more dangerous in counter-attacks than we all and Carlo think.

How come is Real Madrid - Chelsea a dream final for you Riccy? How come you wish to beat your ex team-mates and the club that you played 7 years for and the club which you almost won the CL with, the club that you were so close in winning it so many times. Makes no sense to me. But I've always liked Carvalho no matter what - a role model of a centre back, brilliant footballer. I wish him the best with Real Madrid, but obviously not in the final if we meet them. And because Jose knocked us out last year, this time round we must definitely beat him and have our revenge.

People are expecting too much from Torres. In his first game, he was subbed in the 60th minute, he was subbed against Man City even though he was playing well and he didn't start in two games; against Copenhagen 2nd leg and against Stoke. I'm expecting Carlo to sub him early in the 2nd half if he starts against Manure, or even worse, leave him on the bench and give him the last 20 minutes of the game, then the saga will continue. The same happened with Shevchenko. He was constantly either substituted too early or not given the full 90 minutes.

The line up I would like to see against Manure: Cech Ivanovic - Alex - Terry - Cole Ramires - Essien - Lampard - Zhirkov Drogba - Torres If Bosingwa or Malouda start, we won't win. Nani will make Bosingwa look like a school boy and Malouda will play like a 55 year old, like someone else on this forum already mentioned.

And yet non-Chelsea fans never appreciate him and don't even consider him as one of the best GK's in the world. Cech is much, much better than Casillas or any other keeper in the world.

With all respect to MJ - he's still one of my favourite artists of all time, but that statue looks quite cheap and ridiculous.

He's very strong, our defence was struggling against him every time he had the ball. Probably things would of been a bit different had John Mikel played.

I can't wait for this red nose bastard to retire.

If I was Sporting Gijon's manager, I'd say: 'I ended Mourinho's 9 year undefeated at home record, so I think that I am a Special One'.

Credit to Stoke. They played much better than us during the whole game and their quick counter attacks and the great chances they had to score made the atmosphere and the game itself special, and quite entertaining to watch. They must be proud for the way they played against the champions of England. Well done to them and their manager.

I've got two things to say: We didn't deserve to win. We must be happy that we got one point. Shame that I cannot give you 10 rep points for the Malouda bit.

Even though we lost, that moment was the happiest of my life. I simply cannot describe it with words.

All of the Arsenal's games are quite difficult on paper, except Blackburn today and Stoke away. As for Man U, the games in which they're expected to lose points are: against us, Fulham maybe, Everton, Blackburn and Newcastle away.

Who are Arsenal yet to play?

If we win today and United lose, the points difference will shorten to 6 points. If we win our game in hand versus Birmingham, that's 3 points. Plus we'll be playing them at OT and they'll have to face Arsenal away at Emirates. KEEP THE FAITH.

If Torres plays, I really hope that his team-mates pass the ball to him when he's in a good position. Hoping for the three points and for Fernando to score. CMON CHELSEA!

Those Inter kits look awesome, the three of them.

Legend. There is only one Super Frank. Good article btw, thanks for sharing.

Aguero.

Haha I knew it as soon as I saw the title, before even clicking on the thread. But sometimes real tragedies happen on April fool's day as well, a friend of mine for example, about 7 years ago. His house was on fire and the Fire department didn't trust his repeated phone calls so he died.

Plastic fans. I was not supposed to rep your post but did so by a mistake, btw. I don't support those muppets who liked that page.

Fuck off Scolari. He wanted the whole Chelsea eleven to be Portuguese speakers, it obviously didn't work. None of our previous managers ever attempted to be as patriotic as fat Scolari did. You have to do the best for the club not what suits you best.