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There will NEVER be a better captain than John Terry. No player is ever bigger than his club, but John Terry personifies Chelsea football club more than any player that has ever put on the blue shirt, certainly in my lifetime. This was normally inevitable, but it still feels painful as hell. We can't thank you enough for all the trophies you lifted, memories you created, heart you gave, and above all, all the times you put the club and the fans before yourself. John Terry, eternally our Captain, Leader and Legend!

Zouma at RB.....lol

Nah, that ref is too much.

I'd even put Willian on for Costa and play Hazard as the striker.

Now Moses on the left. If only we had a a left-footed player who can play there.....

They've gone with a back 3.

Also, what the fuck was the point of bringing Ake back if he's not going to come in for Alonso?!

Now THAT is a blow! FFS...

It's an inconvenience, but hardly a "massive blow".

But that's the thing, it maybe funny to you to say someone is the missing link if you don't know the historical background of it, but it's certainly not funny to a lot of people of African heritage for reasons like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga which was pretty common in the late 19th and early 20th century. That's lees than a hundred years ago. It's not political correctness, it's common decency.

I actually saw the article before it was taken down. Everyone is quite rightly upset about the gorilla comparison, but there was a lot of awful shit in the 'article' besides that. The subtitle of the image of Barkley next to a gorilla was something like "Could Barkley be the missing link between man and ape?". That 'missing link' line has a terrible racist history. It's very hard not to interpret it as racist. It also had a bit full of bigotry about those ghastly poor Liverpool citizens who can only make money by selling drugs. But let's assume that Barkley was not biracial and that the article was not racist for a second. How is it okay to publish something like that? Is this journalism? What is even the point?

Post-Brexit Britain for you...

I've got time for Joey Barton, tbh. Sure, he's obnoxious and quite often a twat, but I don't think he's stupid. I think he often says the right things about subjects that famous people, especially athletes, are usually discouraged to talk about. Be it political or social. I like that he challenges that norm, and I think that a lot of the hatred he gets in the papers are due to that; without denying that also some of the hatred he gets is completely justified. On a side note, can someone help me understand why that Kelvin McKenzie seems like a 'celebrity journalist'. Nothing about him indicates that he should be famous and he certainly hasn't done anything to show that he should be considered a journalist either! But I've even seen him on a couple TV and panel shows. Why in the world is that?

I love Kante. He's been brilliaint and played a critical part in winning his team the EPL title for two years running. But the POTY has to be Eden. In terms of changing games and influence on the team, no one comes close in the league. Lukaku for YPOTY.

How the fuck is the Sun still a newspaper in 2017? And they have the audacity to say that calling a mixed-race player a "gorilla at a zoo" is good because it is meant to "provoke debate"! http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39601728?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_match_of_the_day&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport

Also, how in the world was the Dortmund match played less than 24 hours after the explosion? UEFA didn't even ask Dortmund if they wanted to play. Absolutely disgraceful...

Twats...

I really like Pogba, but Juve have not missed one bit this season. When I said last season when we were linked to him that he is a good promising prospect but that he wasn't a finished product or even crucial for Juve some people here attacked me.

I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, but the link between atrocious refereeing and Barcelona matches is just too consistent.

The refereeing was beyond awful. Really embarrassing for this level. Great result for Juve, but Barcelona have become rather easy to beat away. Can't see Juve pulling a PSG this time, though.

Can't see them scoring unless we make some major errors in defense, but at the same time I think we'll likely struggle to score as well with Costa's current form. Basically, it'll probably be down to Eden to win us the points again.

Was he...drunk today?! He misjudged, misplaced and mishit so many balls today he looked like he was dazed for most of the match.

Completely irrelevant, but this Lebanese news paper should get an award for this headline:

We really need to take advantage of the dangerous positions we are getting into or this could turn into another Palace. EDIT: Costa REALLY should have scored there!

The sun is killing us...