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No love for Dion?

I've always said Carlo is just a motivator. He isn't the greatest manager but he is one hell of a cool dude. Has to be one the most suave manager around.

People hated Busquets for his peek-a-boo dive. People loved Luiz for his grinning dive. This is the standard of the average football fan, Chelsea or otherwise.

Cech 5/5 Courtois - 7/7 Ivanovic - 4/5 Cahill - 3/6 Terry - 8/8 Azpilicueta - 6/6 Zouma - 2/7 Luis - 3/4 Fabregas - 8/6 Matic - 7/6 Oscar - 5/3 Mikel - 4/4 Ramires - 5/5 Willian - 3/6 Hazard - 8/8 Salah 1/0 Cuadrado - 0/0 Schurrle - 4/0 Remy - 6/4 Didier Drogba - 3/5 Costa - 8/5 If you have to know 5 is average relative to the player. So a 5 in my mind isn't harsh, it is what is expected. Anything higher than 5 is more than what I've expected.

Season review: Success - 10/10 Won the league. Not much else to say. Performance - 5/10 While there were some amazing matches. Swansea 4-2, and Everton 3-6 most of the matches this season were dire to watch. Aside from moments of brilliance there really isn' t much to remember at the end of the day. Found myself very bored during a lot of match days, especially during the second half of the season. But saying that Mourinho did what had to be done and the team is champions for the result of it. In the future exciting games coupled with the same success would be ideal but at the moment it seems to be one or the other and success is ultimately more important right now. The results were nearly always perfect but I will refuse to say that I enjoy watching every Chelsea match. Win the team kick up a gear as seen in the second half against Leceister, they are a joy to watch but that isn't seen in every match. It was kind of ambivalent, I always knew the team was going to win so there was no relief nor excitement when the team did actually come through with a victory and the league title. It is hard to get excited for something that has been apparent for several months. I was probably more excited during December and November than the day Chelsea actually won. Mainly because that is around the time that it became very apparent that Chelsea were not budging from the number one position.

Goal: Andre Schurrle against Burnley away. Moment: 3-6 Everton away.

How is that even possible? There is hair on my head, chest, legs and all over. Surely, they'd be equally as disgusting. I don't buy that the hair on my face has a magic magnetism that attracts germs and bacteria.

Hopefully Hozay treats this like a pre-season match. I look forward to some experimentation.

Use your brain m80, had to sell someone.

Diego Costa Cristiano Ronaldo - Lionel Messi - Arjen Robben Vidal - Pogba Alaba - Ramos - Varane - Lahm Neuer Bench Courtois Woodgate Azpili Cesc Matic Sanchez Paolo Guerro

Didn't his son commit suicide?

Absolutely fantastic.

Cesc and then Azpi.

Looks like there has been justice for the guy that died in police custody. I don't agree with the methods necessarily but at the end of the day hopefully this is the start of more justice. At the very least no one else died...

That doesn't discredit anthing he did. Malcolm X was a proponet of any means necessary, I believe he was murdered also.

I don't even know why you lot are arguing with me so much. I'm just saying that it could be done peacefully FFS and that violence isn't the only answer. I don't even see the arguement. Sometimes violence gets shit done, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes peaceful revolution is an option, sometimes it isn't.

Do you people even know why I believe peaceful revolution is possible? Because it has happened several times in Australia. Nobody ever mentions all the work people like Eddie Mabo, PM Gough Whitlam and Gurindji People did for Indigenous rights. Sorry it wasn't in your condescending cartoon, Cholou. I guess Aboriginal rights movments are mainstream enough to be thought relevant. If people that have faced segregation, institutional racism, their children stolen from them, their land stolen from them, their people murder ted, can instigate man changes in a peaceful manner, then anyone can. Even now with the threats of the stupid far right government taking their lands away (again) the Indigenous people (and everyone else in between) of Australia are protesting in a peaceful manner.

He will only leave for as much as Benzema. Lyon are very good at selling players. The only time their hands were tied was when Lloris wanted to leave.

Smile? I don't know. It's not like a spur of a moment thing like the CL win, we've known this is happening for the last several months.

So there was a violent act that was succeded by a peaceful revolution? America has had it's fair share of violence that instigated change so why can't it transition into peaceful change? Why couldn't the Ferguson riots be the violence that brought peaceful movements? America is stuck in a cycle of violence that needs to change, both from the powers that be and the people. Violence will only beget violence.

I just don't think it helps in the long run. If police are racist and this is causing brutality why would the riots make them any less racist? In fact I'd see the cops becoming more aggressive, and more violent because now they have an even larger chip on their shoulder due to retaliation. What if one day while patrolling the streets a pair of officers recognise a man from the riots, a man that was rioting an injured one of their friends. What do you think the police would do? I wouldn't be surprised if they took that young man (who only wanted change) and beat the fuck out of him and maybe even kill him. I honestly don't think riots will make things change for the better, they can only exasperate what is already broken. I can empathise what has happened to a lot of black Americans (I don't know if that term is racist or not as I've met a lot of 'African Americans' that hate being called African because they don't associate with African culture or nations) throughout history, I can't understand what it's like to be in their shoes but I hope that as a community they can rally together and make change that doesn't rely on hitting back and causing more suffering.

People cry out agianst the death penalty yet are okay with rioting? Both are attempts to instigate change using violence. In the case of riots sometimes people do die and people do suffer. Two Australians dead in an attempt to change and stop drug trafficking. Will it change anything? No, but no two people are dead. A man has died in police custody. Many people injured, lively hoods ruined, property stolen and damaged. Will it change anyhting? No, now there is chaos and everything has become worse in the city of Baltimore. Enquiries should be made into the police force by the federal government. Corruption should be stamped out, those responsible should be punished. But now justice and progression is hindered because people are burning shit.

The French Revolution was over 200 years ago. To bring this into discussion would be imply that humans haven't changed nor has society in that given time. What about the Indian Independance Struggle? That was peaceful, that changed more than this riot ever will. You think that injury and violence is an okay way to force change? I do not believe so. That is an inherently sad way to view life. Of the 98 police officers injured how many actually deserved it? To say that they did in any way means you are okay with violence and for me that is not okay. La haine attire la haine

98 police officers injured, 2 people shot. One fire victim in critical condition. Is this the price to pay for change?

Just because MLK said something doesn't mean it is true, he was only a man and his words aren't divine mandate. Great things have been achieved peacefully and I believe rioting is the wrong way to achieve what you desire.