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Oh great i do love playing Blackburn. Just when we think we are doing badly there is always Steve Kean and co. to fuck up twice as much as we could ever hope of doing. Hopefully by this time Kean will have lost the plot completely and try to play beautiful Barcelona-esque passing football as oppose to the usual hoofball we are used to seeing on a damp, miserable night at Ewood Park

Some points to take from today: The title race is not over. We were way off the lead in December last season and ended up pushing United to the limit in May Villas-Boas is a young manager who is still learning his trade. I think some people are expecting too much of a 33 year old who has barely managed 100 games. Of course at his age he is going to make mistakes because he is still learning. He may have got the tactics slightly wrong this time but look at when we played Man U and he got them spot on. Had it not been for bad luck and poor refereeing we could have tonked United We have to accept that the striker who we came up against today, Robin van Persie is one of the best strikers in the world at the moment. He has scored 29 in his last 28 Premier League games All big teams have these freakish results. Man City lost at home to the likes of Wolves last season, Man U lost 1-6 last week, Arsenal lost 8-2 and Liverpool spent most of last season struggling to beat teams like Blackpool. Terry slipped over today. This sort of thing happens to all players for every club.

lets all make a long list of players we want to show the door to and then a long list of players worth in excess of £500m and hope that Roman gets his chequebook out. OK if we have had a very poor season then we should consider this but we have just lost 3-5 and people are calling for us to get rid of half the squad. Agreed Bosingwa and Malouda should go but what has Ivanovic done so badly to warrant a place in the 'out' list? The same goes for Alex. I think in a way this shows how spoilt we have become as fans that we can make such a long list of players we want and over-react so wildly to one defeat.

says midday on here actually http://www.carling.com/carlingcup/ but they have said that before and started at 12:30. I'd tune in at 12:00 just in case though

I'd like Palace or Arsenal away. Simple close range trips (although the same could be said for all the Man U fans if they get a tie away to these 2) with a better away atmosphere

12:30 ish I think

If Roman could buy Earls Court and tell us more about stadium design, timescale etc then I think the CPO would vote yes. At the moment Buck and Gourlay are just saying what the fans want to hear (about us not moving further than 3 miles etc). Once they prove their words with actions then the CPO would probably start to listen.

I do sort of agree with you Badboy. Before Roman we had very talented players like Vialli, Di Matteo, Zola etc etc but they did not have the big-name player arrogance that you get from players today on the massive wage bill. We still had something about us that we had since 1905 which does not seem to be there today and it is hard to put our finger on what it is. Before Roman we were never apart from the late 60's a top, top side at any point so we were a club in a fancy part of London quietly going about their business. It was local sponsors and pre-season tours, not going to Malaysia with Samsung and Adidas branding thrown across our shirts. The fans back in the 90's never expected too much either. If we lost at home to say Aston Villa today it would be a catastrophe whereas 10-15 years ago it was just one of those things. We were a club with more heart and passionate supporters before. We had The Shed, one of the most feared stands in football. You could cram in 15 000 people standing on the terrace. Today we share half of a 6000 seat, not very intimidating stand with away fans, paying £50 a ticket. Things have changed and I still love the club as much as I ever did, we have just moved into a different era with its pros and cons. I have just listed the cons but obviously there are the pros to being a big club such as: Watching world-class players every week Winning trophies every year Competing at the highest level in every competition

Anelka

i was just writing how we were going to lose on pens

YES

fuck off Anelka

Have a quick nap and I'll wake you up if we win

fucking hell extra time with Ivanovic, Luiz and Sturridge on the pitch, all in contention for a place in the team against Arsenal in 3 days

Extra time

lets not forget that Everton are only getting a draw at the moment against our 10 man second team with their first team

A big fat no to that. I might sound a bit spoilt but if we move to a new stadium it should at least be made for football and be new. I think other fans would see us in a bad light if we just acted like squatters in England's national rugby stadium

I have a feeling Anelka will get it. For brownie points who scored our first goal?

Dont forget Everton have an early kick off on Saturday against Man U so they probably wont go all out with 1st teamers either

At the moment Mikel or Romeu McEachran or Ramires Sturridge or Lukaku Drogba or Torres Ivanović or Bosingwa Mata or Malouda Turnbull or Hilario Alex or Luiz Bertrand or van Aanholt Lampard or Meireles

No Gourlay I'm not going to trust you http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2493970,00.html

What by picking up yellow cards unfairly given to them by Chris Foy?

well I went to Tesco the other day...

Torres will tear apart Mertesacker who is slower than a snail after a night out