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Zashko would win that, he's from Mars!

Going to argue the toss here; a - a decent goalkeeper would have saved that effort by Sturridge; and b. - Go to 00.49.

Looks like Jim's taken it down now, but we sold shirts and hoodies amongst other things...

Haha don't worry, I'm sure I can somehow rig the polls

An idiot would probably not use capital letters, so...

Dalglish's signings were a lot worse in my honest opinion, he allowed himself to be conned into signing average British talent for double their actual worth. In fact, he signed Downing for £20 million, right? I'd say his actual variation is probably £6 million, considering Gary Cahill cost a little over that and has established himself as a top-notch UCL-quality defender.

Well, we wanted changes and we've got them. You're all mad if you think we had even half a chance anyway

Paulo Ferreira first goalscorer at 66/1

LMAO at the Liverpool fans wanting Mourinho, Guardiola, Bielsa, etc. They're a big club, yes, but with small successes recently, and that will attract neither big-name players or the successful managers. Their list of candidates is actually a fair reflection of the state of their club. A manager like Martinez, could, over a period of three-four years, actually help rebuild the squad and have them back in top four contention. Right now they are a car crash and are in as much need of an overhaul as us. Their fans are a deluded lot at times. They want Rafa back like he is some sort of prodigal son, yet they booed him before he left. Furthermore their opinion of him is entirely clouded over by Istanbul.

It looks like my last-gasp gambit may have paid off! It just so happens that the best article I've ever written coincides with voting, what a strange quirk of fate...

Its a nice idea but I don't think it would have the activity to substantiate a single forum. However feel free to sell your Chelsea memorabilia in the General Chat forum. As for the t-shirts idea, we do actually have a shop! No, it isn't minor at all, my friend! It will require Jim to do that, though, it may be worth sending him a PM because he is often too busy to read every topic in this forum. The reason why it isn't on there is because the standard IP Boards flag pack only contains a small number, and we've had to manually add a lot.

I've been stuck on the same number of votes since Tuesday!

Haha, I plan on writing another one tomorrow anyway, but I am pretty proud of my opus magnum haha!

Quality stuff guys. Shane your accent is fucking amazing

Going by post-count that would be me. Whilst I would welcome the award I can assure you sir that I am no idiot, regardless of the popular consensus! I agree in principle that these awards are very subjective to the prevalence of particular posters, but rather than criticising the system if you would be willing to enlighten us with a superior, more objective form of voting then I am all ears. If you were to suggest that we get rid of the awards then you would be suggesting for us to get rid of one of our oldest traditions here on TalkChelsea forums; something I have taken great pride in personally running for the past half-dozen seasons.

Just got such a weird, weird feeling about this game. I have full faith in the team, but I just keep imagining that same feeling I had after Moscow, as if it is some sort of premonition. I don't ever want to experience that again.

Ugh, just imagine how ugly our shirt would be with some scummy, two-bit betting company on the front of it.

I want us to win the CL, then di Matteo turn down an offer from the club after they realise the miracles he has worked.

Believe.

We took it down as it slows down the speed of the site.

Great article, Strike. I don't want to post it yet as I would like this on the main page as the headline article on the day of the match.

Haha bastard!

Probably because his defending is so half-hearted that most of his lazy swipes for the ball don't even constitute a 'tackle'.

Plus they would have great interchangeability! Ashley is the more natural attacker and as LBs they would naturally double-up on Robbery.

You don't sign the best players in world football without taking risks.