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Neil Ashton @neilashton_ Chelsea's lovely press officer Thresa Connelly tells us she is supervising the 22nd managerial appointment of her distinguished career here John Cross @johncrossmirror At Chelsea presser for Benitez's unveiling at Stamford Bridge. There's so many tweeters in the room - this will be the ultimate tweet-off!

Yeas, i understand what you are saying. But Club had it's own internal inquiry where it deemed NOT to pursue with Mata's allegation. But seeing how confident Ramires was, club clearly cannot ask it's own player to shut up on such an issue. I just hope the issue is buried now and everybody just moves on.

Club has first and foremost duty to look after it's players. Ramires & Mikel were very confident they heard. Why shouldn't club back it's players over a random ref? Now that it's clear, move on but Chelsea were well withing their right. Shouldn't hesitate to back it's players ever.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/2988432/title/statement-on-clattenburg-decision Chelsea Football Club has issued a statement regarding the FA decision concerning Mark Clattenburg:

http://www.thefa.com/News/governance/2012/nov/john-obi-mikel-charged.aspx John Obi Mikel charged

http://www.thefa.com/News/governance/2012/nov/statement-mark-clattenburg.aspx

Are you sure about that? I know Roman bought us after Gronkjaer scored against Liverpool. But we have played CL in 1999-200 too. Chelsea beat Barça 3-1 in Stamford Bridge but, in a game that finished with a nail-biting 3-1 after 90 minutes,we were finally beaten 5-1 in extra time by the Catalans in Barcelona.

We were playing champion's league football in 1999 . We eliminated Invicibles Arsenal in the quarters finals of CL an were in the last 8 before 2003. How did that happen if we were usually finishing 6th in the league??

Final game of RDM: Torres benched. Final game of AVB: Torres benched. Title decider against MU for Ancelotti: Torres benched. All sacked.

What the . . ! Man, this is just embarrassing. Plane embarrassing. I need to go into my shell for a day or two now!! :banghead:

Cahill: "All the lads are aware of what we have to do tomorrow and hopefully we'll be well prepared to go and do it." #CFC Cahill: "Losing games isn't acceptable here and people are upset when we do. Sometimes things need to be said." #CFC Cahill: "Everybody's behind Robbie, he's definitely the right man for the job." #CFC Cahill: "David Luiz is so comfortable on the ball and has great ability, you don't captain Brazil if you're not a top footballer." #CFC Cahill: "Defensively this season we have been good apart from the last few weeks, so we need to improve on that." #CFC Cahill: "Being a part of a club like Chelsea, you're expected to perform and expected to go out and get results." #CFC Cahill: "When you lose games it does knock confidence, but we have strong characters and it's important not to dwell on it too much." #CFC RDM: 'I feel confident. I have a good team and we know we have to play a big game tomorrow.' #CFC RDM: 'I will see how the players are in training and then I will make my final selection decisions.' #CFC RDM: 'It will be a difficult game but Juve are under pressure as well.' #CFC RDM: 'Our intention is to cause Juventus problems so certainly we will attack as well as defend.' #CFCRDM: 'There was frustration on Saturday & we owe ourselves a good performance. In the past the players showed they can be counted on.' #CF CRDM: 'Ashley Cole is available to play. The defensive focus of the team will be very important tomorrow.' #CFC

May be sturridge was not 100% fit or didnt impress RDM much and now he has. Also to torres's defense i would say he needs a rest. Lets be honest he was quite good at the starting of the season(newcastle, Arsenal) but he has been playing continuously. I hope he gets a rest and also a kick in the arse by making him sit on the bench.

RDM on Torres: "If I believe it is the right thing to do for the team, then yeah, I will leave him out," #CFC Oh yes, There is God.

Well, i still have 3 very very close friends who when i go out with, we never touch our phones. It's proper chit chat, girls and sophisticated amount of booze. But then again we 3 friends don't usually meet regularly ever since high school got over and everyone went to different colleges. With most of everybody else, it's one of the most boring times but hey they will talk to you at lengths when on whats app or online or on mail but when we meet personally, it's like we are all sitting in a mourning. I had some relatives coming home a week back. They had a 13 yr old girl(my cousin sister hence), i thought well i should initiate some chit chat. But that girl's head was buried in her iphone. I even gave it a full day to see if she opens up and i tried talking again. Her head never came up to make an eye contact. I so wanted to take that iphone from her and break it into two and then ask her parents to teach her some manners on how to talk to people, rather than giving her expensive gifts. But then again, it won't matter. It's the new style supposedly.

Mirror-Bidding war between City and Chelsea would force up the price of a player(Falcao) who has a £28million release clause in his contract. Twist in the tale. Thinking about the £28million release clause?? Well, i did so i surfed through internet and found this interesting article regarding ownership of Falcao. http://www.football-espana.net/26072/do-atletico-own-falcao

Fair to say Cahill-Luiz were Shane Long's bitches. Finally felt what opposition's fans must have felt when Drogba led our line. (Just so that i am clear , in no way am i comparing Shane Long to Drogba)

Eden Hazard has scored 61 goals for club and country - his header against West Brom was the 1st with his head.

While i am not saying that he is a very good signing but to say he will be the worst signing of the season is taking it too far TBH.

So when does the 'AVB out' thing starts taking momentum? PS: It will always hurt me that we made 13 million to Porto for his services. Bah.

RDM: "With JT we're looking at approximately three weeks out, fortunately it's not as bad as we first thought." #CFC RDM: "Frank Lampard won't be featuring at West Brom but he's not far off, we want to make sure he's 100 per cent and not take risks." #CFC RDM: "Frank's been a fantastic player for us and it would be nice for him to finish his career at Chelsea." #CFC RDM: "Oriol Romeu is a young talent with great prospects, he's been playing a bit more lately and will in the future." #CFC RDM: "I had a great time at WBA, worked with some great people and the fans were really good to me, I have fond memories." #CFC RDM: "We didn't play well there last season, the defeat led to a reaction and it was a very difficult time." #CFC RDM: "I was asked to fill in until the end of the season and I was very pleased to be able to help the club." #CFC RDM: "If you have a long career you will get the sack at some point, it makes you stronger and doesn't mean you are a bad coach." #CFC RDM: "Terry's injury was unfortunate as he looked sharp and gave the team a lot of confidence, but you have to deal with injuries." #CFC RDM: "Roman's arrival has allowed us to sign the best players, next year he will have been here 10 years and he's in it long-term." #CFC

Allright! Let's check how many of you can become a Ref in the Premire league with this test. http://www.ultralase.com/vites/referee-theory-test

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Marko Marin ‏@MM_MarkoMarin Finally I played full 90minutes after a long time. I feel fit and enjoyed scoring a header;)

6 day dance off thing? I am not sure which festival you are referring to because there are too many here() and you might be referring to some particular cultural thing. Diwali is one universal festival celebrated across the whole country with people lighting up their houses with candles and divas, now a days some fancy LEDs as well. It's usually a 2 day celebration ending with bursting of crackers(which i don't really advocate when it gets too loud and smoky but it's traditional).