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Adkins took charge of saints when they were 22nd in League 1 and got them to 15th in the Premier League within 3 years. Madness!

How come Pienaar rarely performs with the NT? He's a very good player.

Most of the games are also very enjoyable: pacy and physical for the whole 90 mins. And the shooting is better than the Euros; always some 30-40 yards screamers in the AFCONs.

Rarely miss a game in it. To me it's almost as important as the Euros.

Adkins sacked?! I didn't see that one coming. And after a 5 game unbeaten streak? Crazy, really. It's like they shot themselves in the foot.

Can we get back on topic, please? Stop the discussion about Mikel or move it to his thread, this is Modric's top.

I heard Le Saux say this on TV, a couple of times actually. Once in an interview I can't remember where and another time a couple of months ago (before our match against Liverpool to be exact) when he was guest on Premiere League Today on PL TV and they were having a look at that game against Liverpool in 2003. Graeme even said that Gianfranco was dying to stay but was too much of a gentleman to show it and instead made it look like he wanted to leave. Anyway, that sounds incredibly uncharacteristic of Roman to go out of his way to the extent of offering to buy a club just to please one player of his.

BS. Graeme said on a few occasions that Roman refused to renew his and Zola's contract back in 2003.

Happy Birthday Paulo!

In 2003, Zola, Le Saux and a few others were promised new contracts if we managed to get the CL spot. But when Roman bought the club he refused to give them the contracts that were promised to them and they had to leave.

I couldn't bare to see Roman sack Zola (again). Chelsea legends should stay as far away from the club as possible with our current managerial policy.

Since when do we consider Goal.com reliable?

Possible fallout with the board behind the scenes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy3k8fkygA8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgxfHoSHtuU

I think they are mate. Eden has acceleration but not raw pace.

Agree, if we had him in midfield yesterday we probably would not have lost. We can't go till mid Feb without a proper defensive midfielder.

Do we go into Guinness or something for having the highest paid reserve player in history? Chelsea FC, breaking records since 1905!

Since I started following him on Instagram I realized that John is not even close to the tough guy he is on the pitch. Some of the things he post, like writing his kids' names in the snow, make me think he is still a little kid inside. Never thought I'd say this, but John Terry is so cute!

The record doesn't mean much to me either, but breaking it means obviously that he will score 9 more goals that could really help the team. But it also gives Frank a "high note" to leave on like DD and the CL. It will make his imminent departure more acceptable to the fans and, hopefully, cut the edge off the media attack on us for letting him go because everyone would be saying that it is the "right time" for him to leave.

Let's agree to disagree on Luiz. We've already had this discussion several times.

I know he wants to break that record, and we all want him to as well, but that is no excuse for being out of position for half of the game. Yes, Rami had a shocker, but he was not helped at all by Lampard's lack of presence in midfield.

We have two fit central midfielders in Frank and Rami. No need to play someone out of position.

Easy. Rafa just has to tell Ba to cross and then run faster than the ball and head in his own cross. Solved; it's all Rafa's fault really..

It was so nice to play shit in that first half but still score!

NOoo. We need to NOT put Luiz in midfield. We will get torn to shreds every time he tries to nick the ball and end letting the player past him. This is Arsenal, not Villa.