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What the fuck?!?!

thank you for the update!

You know what? I'm not feeling as horrible as I thought id feel. The fact that they won it this way makes me laugh. What's also laughable is the way they're celebrating this. The best part is the reaction of all the non-liverpool supporters. The scum really live in their own deluded world.

Well done Cardiff for exposing Liverpool as the joke that they are.

Pens are probably the only chance Cardiff have! Hope the scum have an off day and sky a bunch of them

I think our next three games are VITAL: WBA away, Birmingham away in the cup, and Stoke at home. If we win these three, it will bring massive confidence to the lads and we can tackle City & Napoli immediately after that. If we don't get 6 points from those 2 prem games and lose in the replay, I can see us just collapsing. I hope to god that the Bolton game will prove to be a catalyst to a late resurgence.

Still a lot of time left, but get the fuck in! At least Cardiff have something to hold on to

The league cup final for Arsenal last season was the beginning of a horrific run of form. Hope the bindippers suffer the same fate. I hate Liverpool more than anything.

Yes! Well put. Agree with your post.

I still can't get over the things he said (and didn't say) when he joined Liverpool.

Seems like Joe has been desperately trying to mend bridges with Chelsea FC and the fans in the last couple of months. He's had plenty of positive things to say all of a sudden. Probably realized his "career" at the bindippers is over

Not this again! This comparison has died down for a while but in the Jose years it was EVERYWHERE when England couldn't make their mind up on what to do with the two of them. They're different types of players playing for different teams. Lampard is better at certain things and Gerrard is better at certain things. Can we leave it at that? Both have done special things in their careers individually speaking. In terms of club honours, they are pretty much equal (I don't count any of that Asia Cup nonsense)

Thanks for providing these updates!

Great report as always, Alex. And I hadn't realized that Cahill was the one who missed that chance in the 4-3 game!

don't think he was amazing IMO.... he lost out to ivanovic or cahill pretty much every single time he ran down that side. one or two good moments but seems like a headless chicken! but he's got good pace and I haven't seen him play regularly enough to form a decisive opinion

Welcome!

yep it's confirmed that he's starting. hope he does well

I've ranted too much about Lamps. Lets focus on the positives! Luiz - class today. Took the initiative many times to create something in the first half. A couple of sublime passes to Drogba. Didn't have much to do defensively but I just love this guy. I can't help it. He plays with such exuberance and passion for the game and desire to help us win. Absolutely fitting that he scored the opener. Cahill - another solid game. Dealt with mostly everything he had to deal with with ease. I'm very happy with this signing. Essien - good performance as well. I don't know how he'd fare against a better midfield though. But still an improvement on Meireles in that role. Drogba - was very good as well! very impressed by his energy and work-rate. Hope the injury isn't serious.

Has he played with the same duties that Lampard has? Because I always felt that Meireles had much more defensive duties. I don't claim to be a tactical mind so I won't even try to confirm my opinions with analysis but my point is this: The difference between Lampard and Meireles isn't that great. Meireles is horrible - when played at DM. When he's played further forward, he is better. Lampard scores goals, which has value. In terms of what he actually gives to the team, he provides nothing. In my opinion.

I thought drogba was rather good! His link-up play was intelligent and slick. A million times better than how he fared against Napoli - or any of his recent games come to think about it. He's clearly lost some muscle and a hell of a lot of pace but he gave a spirited performance today He's not going to drag us to 4th place by himself but it's better than our useless #9

That was earlier on in the season right? I don't think Raul was actually that bad up until 2 or 3 months ago.. He started off playing quite well! then he became average and finally he became atrocious.

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Lampard and Raul play in different roles though. Raul is played as a DM which he is horrible at. If he was played further forward then a better comparison could be made.

Like I said, not getting carried away at all. This Bolton side were unbelievably bad. Practically gifting the ball to us with a ribbon on top. We couldn't break them down until the Luiz goal. A few good moments which Luiz and Drogba were instrumental in - but it was kind of the same "Chelsea" display we've been seeing for a while now. I hope this win brings a lot of confidence to this side. Would love for us to go on a 3-4 winning streak and it IS possible. Our next fixtures: WBA away, Birmingham away in the cup and Stoke at home Then we've got Napoli and City!!! We need some confidence to go into those two games!

Like LDN_Blue said earlier I really don't mean to sound like a Lampard hater but how has he got 6 votes?! He was extremely average and had a couple of really bad moments where he gave the ball away or disrupted our momentum Scored a good goal with typical Frank Lampard timing but very very average performance and I think the hate that Meireles gets after a bad performance compared to this reverence that Frank gets is ridiculous. Lampard is a Chels legend and in certain games he's definitely more suited to our team than Meireles but I don't see the difference between them at all in terms of contributing to our attack apart from Lampard's runs into the box (which are valuable, I'm not saying they aren't) I feel like the media really influence some people and I hate it when that happens. Can't wait for the newspaper headlines tomorrow where they'll all be sucking up to him just to find something to criticize AVB over. Rant over.