SinineUltra

At the moment it is 17-20 C outside, can wear plain T-shirts without any jackets on etc. Any warmer and I will melt.

Have been looking for a job myself for the summer. Was offered one in Finland but sadly it was in June (last exam is practically in July), maybe get lucky if I manage to pull a few strings, especially in the construction area. Onnittelut suomi veli!

I'd go as far as suggesting a straight punch to the triangle, solar plexus in between the karate moves you brought out.

Everyone here are having their tests/exams this week, lucky bastards! After that summer holidays I presume? Last exam I need to take is practically end of June so the fun is just starting.

Exactly. He was the one who had to put all the superstars -that were bought- to play in the first place.

What did he say so wrong? Another excuse to throw stones at him?

Mate, it is not the pain killer substance that does more damage, it is the excessive movements you do after you feel no pain - take only one second to aggravate it. I totally get your point and agree that if he is having slight pain only and feels that he is ready to play. he should get some painkillers to feel more at ease on the pitch. Dirk Nowitzki had a broken finger, only mattered how he handled the ball if anything, Hazard LIMPS - he cant walk, let alone control and shoot a football. It is nothing natural for a body to be pumped with medication so you can't tell the difference between nervous system and muscular system. I'd rather he has a very productive pre-season and comes back fighting in September rather than be possibly out for months because he played in a Europa League final, where he couldn't actually give his 100% anyway due to a niggling injury.

Feels wrong voting for the most controversial figure, because for those guys it's like a sport in itself and we are just feeding oxygen to the fire.

This is wrong in so many levels, sorry! There is a reason why people die on the pitch, they ignore their body and DISGUISE the symptoms but don't treat the real cause. Pulling a hamstring is of course a less severe matter, but popping painkillers for a pulled hamstring only blocks n.ischiadicus and n.cutaneus femoris posterior nervous pathways. There is a reason why body experiences pain - so you don't aggravate the tear. Unless he can walk and play with very minimum help by medication, we shouldn't risk him getting a more serious tear. There is no 'hamstring muscle' - it is a common name for the region that consists of m.semitendinosus, under that m.semimembranosus and m.biceps femoris, maybe even m.adductor magnus - so the severity of his injury can be as little as just a little tear in one of the tendons or his whole posterior part of the thigh muscles having minor injuries that basically immobilize his range of motion. Sorry if I'm being a bit too conservative, hopefully he will recover in time and we will have a great game at our hands.

I think you are both right. A common sense substitution can be a good tactical move. One shouldn't rule out another.

Love the slight V-neck. Looks good! :blue scalf:

Who picks the players, who picks the formation,who picks the tactics, who picks the positions for the players, who gives side-line tactics? This year we have lost many points not only due to being inferior in tactics department but also your praised players becoming complacent and dozing off in the dying minutes. Before you say it is manager's job to babysit their every move then I've got a question why do we pay them 200,000 pounds/week? It's just too easy to blame everything on the manager. Just as we had haters here during Ancelotti days etc.

So when something goes wrong it is automatically Rafa's fault, but when things go well it is just random luck or 'common sense'? Give me a fucking break. I'd really like to see some people's comments if it was anyone but Benitez in charge. It's a big trend on this forum to make yourself look more of a fan, more important to google random facts regarding Chelsea, slate unpopular figures when you've got nothing personal against them and remind the 'good old days', when we weren't able to win Premier League, let alone Champions League/Europa League.

As were Villa lucky to play 15min with a man more due to Ramires.. whats your points again?

Oh woah, there is difference alright. Don't give up ,but keep showing up and results will come!

After you reach your target weight, make yourself a new avatar. Let's see the difference!

But personal weight plates, different machinery will make a deep hole into your wallet! Imagine the cost for security for this place so none of the metal equipment will be carried away to local metalshops.

I don't think anyone is giving him credit for something we haven't done. If we do finish top4, though, then well done players, well done coaching staff and off with Benitez, who will be hopefully replaced by a more supported manager. TOP 4 used to consist of Manu, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. Now there is the addition of Tottenham and ManCity, Liverpool have been playing the second fiddle for some years now. Blaming it all on one man who hasn't even been here for the whole season is just a way to look excuses. Blamed share from the staff, players and fans for booing the manager (and the team) for half season, creating this lovely atmosphere to work in. It is not a big surprise we were better away rather than at home when Benitez took over. We will be unstable, up and down team as long as we keep changing managers. Next season will tell, but I think the reason why ManU are so successful in the league in particular is because they had Ferguson. They have had a weak squad on the paper for some years now and still they produce something every year. There was not even the slightest of doubts by the fans, club, players regarding his work. Only TOP4 games RDM managed this season was a home loss against ManU,an away win against Arsenal and a win against Tottenham. We can't really go in statistics and in hindsight say how someone else could have done this job so or so much better in such a hostile environment. On that basis Ray Wilkins is the best head-coach in the world, having managed us on 2 different occasions, total of 2 games and has 100% win record. Before anyone starts to blame me for being anti-RDM and how I don't appreciate his work - I did not support the fact that he got sacked, it wouldn't have made any difference anyway. There were only bad and worse managers on the market to replace him till the end of the season, but that's the route the club took and we can't change that. I didn't support the sacking of Mourinho and Ancelotti also, but that doesn't mean I would have hated on Scolari or Villas Boas comparing every stat imaginable to show how dire they were.

That's how politicians and lawyers try to wriggle out of trouble and back track their words when things go sour. Like I said, you can sugar-coat it as much as you want but you provoked it. Just questioning your arguments and offering another way of looking at things. Let's drop this. Anyway, I agree with @Ryan Gooding. As long as he is manager of Chelsea, I will support him. I'm dying to see, who will be the first people to call the head of the next manager. I bet it won't take long. Usually the same faces are very eager to pull the trigger when things aren't going exactly perfect.

We are not the only team behind them by a huge margin, but other than that I'm in the same boat as you are, but as @Martina mentioned, we can't take this competition for self-granted, regardless if we are Chelsea and striving to be the best. In the end of the day, isn't that what all the top teams are doing? If you were so civilised and angel-like, you wouldn't have questioned other people's intentions towards this club and compared them with rival club fans. Don't be a hypocrit - you know you were provocative and knew what kind of an impression you would make on anyone reading such rubbish, no matter what the adjective.

Is it success? No, never said it. It is compulsory for a club like Chelsea, but it doesn't mean we should go looking for a rope and a tall tree when we do not finish top4 - there are more quality teams than there are place for CL. Your Arsenal support nonsense sums up your long term vision and shows you as a proper cunt, well done! I think we have different reasons why we support this club. RdM didn't win us the CL single-handedly, you seem to forget that. It was a team effort, as much is this season's abysmal display both under Robbie and Rafa, we are not overachieving nor underachieving, like above poster said - we are filling the minimum requirements. Several fuck ups by RdM and we were playing in the Europa League, have you already forgotten that also? Selective memory. A quick edit: Thin squad is a thin squad, especially if we rely on couple of players to produce the goods. Fatigue affects everyone the same, no matter how fantastic or quality of a player you are.

Why not? You think Champions league is guaranteed to a club like Chelsea? We are playing in one of the most competitive leagues in the world with 5-6 teams challenging for the 3 automatic group stage spots + 1 pre-group place. This isn't La Liga where it is unthinkable for Real or Barca not to qualify. If we get TOP4, even better 3rd, then it has as much got to do with Rafa as it does with the players on the pitch. Personal hate or bias might shape your opinion, but it doesn't distort the reality.

You have to give it to Mourinho that he is very clever with his words. If he does come back, hopefully he will be successful and not depart with negative feelings. That's what I'm afraid the most, all these nostalgic feelings around him and Chelsea, but what if it doesn't work out once again? Egos do clash. He is a bigger name now than he was before he left, but the old guard are slowly retiring - will the new faces have the same tolerance, respect for his methods?

I think posting GIFs doesn't make anyone less of a fan of such a talent as is Falcao, just making fun of the rumors. Would I like to have Falcao over Cavani? Perhaps not, but we need real options besides Torres (and Ba). Though, I get your point.