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This seems like a century away. I hate international breaks

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Just checked, both Squawka and ESPN have him on just 4. Can't imagine it's true if that is the case.

Yeah, he certainly has his epic moments and some admirable brave stances, but he's a bit too much of the religious self-righteous type for my liking. He spends a lot of time here in Lebanon. He even used to live here at one point in the 80s IIRC. He currently has a weekly TV show here called "Kalima Horra" or Free Word on Al Mayadeen TV.

Jealous.

True, Coleman is hard to bypass, but I was just trying to explain his reluctance to exploit spaces when they were available.

OMG Is this for real? Troll level 4539868324628462874!

The TV presenter on BeIN said this after the match, and I'm not entirely sure if it is true (would love if someone can verify that), but really incredible if true: Ivanovic has more shots on target so far in the EPL than any other player in the league!

"Suspicion of actual body harm", key word being suspicion. The man had to spend a day in the hospital!

George Galloway assaulted in London? http://news.sky.com/story/1327097/george-galloways-jaw-broken-in-street-attack http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28992601 I don't particularly like the guy, but that is beyond disgraceful. Just imagine for a second the outrage if it was a conservative right-wing MP who was assaulted by a Muslim lunatic and not a left-wing MP who was assaulted by a conservative lunatic.

Can you upload a screenshot, please? And have you tried clearing your caches?

I think that all the tracking back he had to affected his game going forward, which is only natural.

Not to be picky, but in the Mirallas save (wasn't it Baines?) he made up for his own mistake that led to that very chance. He gave it away with a bad pass.

Chelsea TV first said virus then corrected it when Jose said it was an ankle injury in the prematch interview. I corrected it in Twitter feed as well.

Haha Thanks! I wrote it with small letters and for some reason auto-correct turned it into "Stanford".

Haha I just know that won't go down too well with Mr. Thor!

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Match Report Here

You've got the metaphorical meaning wrong. You're thinking of "wank" which is sometimes used to describe something as very bad. "Wankfest" is used to describe a lot of people overrating and over-praising something. Example: "The media wankfest over Liverpool's title challenge is incredibly annoying!" I'm not even going to go into the literal meaning!

It was a quite ridiculous match! From the very first minute till the last. In a game that averaged a goal every 10 minutes, Chelsea eventually ran out 6-3 winner, but boy did we have to work for it! Chelsea came today to what has been the "bogey ground" for them in the past few year, with the knowledge that our direct rivals, Manchester City, had lost at home to Stoke City. And the motivation to capitalize on that result was obvious from the first whistle. It took Diego Costa just 36 seconds to take advantage of a Fabregas through ball to open the scoring. The third quickest EPL goal in Chelsea's history. If we needed an indication of how frantic this match is going to be, we surely had one. But the explosive start to the match did not end there. Two minutes later, Ivanovic found the net for the Blues again after a Ramires pass. Replay showed that Brainislav was marginally offside. Unfortunately, that was not the only mistake the linesman will make. Minutes later, Tim Howard caught the ball clearly outside the box, after Azpilicueta tried to put Hazard through on goal. Linesman again made the wrong call before mistakenly giving an offside on Costa and then Distin in the second half. But this was one match that could not be ruined by refereeing mistakes. After Ivanovic's goal, Everton responded quite brilliantly and put a lot of pressure on our back line while Chelsea looked very dangerous on the break. But it was not until the last seconds of the first 45 minutes that Mirallas managed to pull one back for the home team with a marvelous header, after Chelsea were caught out on the left hand side. Mirallas' header brought Everton right back into the game and put an end to a very exciting first half; a half that would look pretty ordinary and boring compared to the crazy second 45 minutes of the match. The second half started with Everton well on top and creating a few chances in the first ten minutes. Then it was Chelsea's turn to force the issue. Howard had to make 3 big save in the space of a couple of minutes, including a 1vs1 with Diego Costa. But it was not until the 67th minute that the flood gates opened. Eden Hazard, who had been pretty quite in attack, took advantage of lapse in concentration for Seamus Coleman. He dribble past him with great pace into the box, and fired in a cross that ricocheted off Coleman and into the back of the Everton net. But Chelsea's relief was only momentary. Straight from the kick off, Matic was caught napping, creating a gap in our defense. A gap which Naismith exploited, slotting in Everton's second of the match, and throwing the game wide open again. Five minutes later, Nemaja Matic received the ball on the edge of the box, took his time to sort his feet out, picked his spot and fired in a beautiful strike to the bottom corner to give Chelsea a 2-goal cushion again. But yet again, Everton would not go away. Less than two minutes afterwards, Eto'o brings the Toffees back into the game with a header from a FK. And if the fainthearted had not suffered enough already, Chelsea scored again, almost from the kick off, through Ramires, after a quick give and go with Matic at the edge of the box. Ramires' goal was Chelsea's 5th of the night but also the fifth goal in the match in a crazy spell of under ten minutes! Everton almost did it again through Baines, but this time Courtois made an excellent save onto the post to prevent more Chelsea hear-attacks. The final ten minutes were set up to be a thriller of their own. Everton attacked in numbers, but Jose Mourinho packed up the shop by bringing on Luis, Drogba and Mikel. And as if we needed anymore sure signs of the insanity of this game, it was Mikel who ran at great pace to intercept the ball in Everton's half before providing a brilliant back-heel assist. Costa who opened the scoring in the first minute, was there at the end of Mikel's pass in the last one to close it and finally kill off a truly insane match of football. It was one of those matches that reminded us why we all love football so much, why we all love Chelsea so much, and why the Premiere League is the most watched league in the world. And while it may have caused a few cardiac arrests around the world, this, now classic, match is the icing on the cake of what has certainly been a memorable weekend for the Stanford Bridge faithful. Click here to view the article

Yeah, when a team goes down by two goals, mentally they make more decision to go forward and they naturally push you back. And if they're as good on the ball as Everton, they pin you back. It's not a tactical decision to sit back and defend.

Even for the goal, I don't think he's to blame. The imbalance in midfield started with Matic being out of position.

I don't think we "let them attack", it's just that Everton have been excellent and we have been a bit sub par. Ramires' positioning has been a bit off at times and more disappointingly, so has Matic's. We're leaving the back 4 exposed too often.

What a run by Diouf! Been really impressed with him today.

That goal by Routledge was insane! Why in the world would you put money on United wining?