BlueLion.

He can come in now, he'd just be put as an 8th team in the third division.

Sturridge, Malouda, Kalou, and especially Bosingwa and Cole, need to watch that video to see what a cross is.

Fernando Torres in 2012 - 540 minutes, 0 goals. Didier Drogba in 2012 - 76 minutes, 1 goal.

The thing that annoys me about Kakuta is whenever he played, he felt like he had to do everything himself to attract the manager. You don't, just do the simple things like pass and move, like Josh does. That is what makes a great young player!!

Legend. Enough said.

Brilliant work mate. Really like that, so many people ask about whether its okay to put Twitter links in their sigs - now they don't need to

Haha, he's already taller than Cech, and still growing!

The players that original poster said don't care about winning also happen to be our best players. Therefore, if my calculations are correct, we're fucked.

I think they're both brilliant players and I am very proud to say I've watched both of them play both against and with each other.

Cheers mate - and I know, hard to believe I've been here six years myself

Think we're going to finish third to be honest. Look at Spurs - their season has imploded. Since Redknapp's been linked seriously with the England job they've lost to City and Arsenal, and drawn with Stevenage in the FA Cup. The players are so obviously - and quite rightly - distracted by the future of the manager, and looking at the run of fixtures they now have, I wouldn't be surprised if we overtook them. Put it this way, we've been so shockingly awful and they've been apparently brilliant - but by the time we come to play them we'll probably end up only a couple of points behind. When the time comes that we string wings together, Spurs will be stunned in the wake of a Chelsea surge to automatic UCL Football.

The reason why people ignore what you say is because you don't seem to know to be magnanimous about something, and then act all arrogant and sanctimonious in a sort of 'told you so' manner. Its quite entertaining though, carry on :Goober:

Cheers Ollie. I used to stick them in at the end of my match reports you might recall

WBA 1-0 Chelsea FC Post-match Analysis FA Premier League Saturday 3 March 2012 - The Hawthorns

WBA vs Chelsea FC Pre-match discussion and Live Chat FA Premier League Saturday 3 March 2012 - The Hawthorns - 3pm kick-off GMT

Haha cheers for the (somewhat mixed) comments folks Some people are just pissed their thoughts didn't make it on there

It's because I have more enthusiasm to be creative Best sentence or two I've written for a while.

This is something I've done a few times before. It is something I am going to start doing regularly as it is easier to do than a match report.

Exactly what it looks like... comment from the members

Goals from David Luiz, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard gave Chelsea a comfortable win over Bolton, and here's what the TalkChelsea.net members make of our performance this afternoon... Agreed. Luiz has been excellent for much of this season, but whether it is through ignorance or acceptance of mass media bullshit, he is very much underestimated as a defender by our own supporters. We are all aware of his footballing qualities and admittedly he is suspect to defensive lapses, but he is one of a small contingent who we can say hav e applied themselves well this season. This is the most important point of all. Many people are making a point that as we were only playing Bolton, this basically doesn't count as a win. You can only play the team in front of you, and on so many occasions this season we have been guilty of failing to beat teams when we have been by far the superior side. Today was an exception to this as we matched a good result with a decent performance. We must remain grounded, however, as it will take a chain of positive results to turn our season around. We have definitely given ourselves a platform - the first win is almost the most difficult. Agreed on both accounts there. The difference between this and recent matches is the movement, which was very intelligent today. He may have had a bad game defensively but Cole was a key attacking outlet, and having some genuine width certainly aided us. We were helped by Bolton sitting back and defending deep, but we matched some good first-time passing with the movement necessary to outplay teams. Agreed on all accounts, it was a comprehensive performance that saw goals matched with a clean sheet, and then paired with a good performance. The fact Newcastle slipped up is an added bonus - they have somewhat slipped under the radar since we beat them 3-0 back in the winter, but remain a team with good quality, particularly up front. They are guaranteed European football, and as many have predicted, they have indeed slipped away from the top four. Nevertheless they remain a threat, but we have put ground between ourselves and the other teams in contention for fourth, and Arsenal have a tough-looking game. Another important result is Sunderland's loss at West Brom - it would not be too radical to suggest O'Neill's men may challenge for Europe with their current form, and thankfully that loss will slow their momentum massively. It has been a very, very good weekend already for us. Drogba put in one of his Jekyll and Hyde performances today, but he was generally a lot better than against Napoli. His inconsistency makes him little better than Torres, but his team ethic is something that cannot be faulted. He also expressed his importance defensively today, and his goal was deserved. We could have ran up a hockey score today, largely thanks to his commanding presence up front. As for your other point, Bolton were poor and we cannot afford to take too much from this. Confidence is the key, but we must not allow it to be shattered again by sub-par performances. A lot of work is still to be done. Good point, we have some very tricky ties coming up. Thankfully if we beat Birmingham, our game against Man City will be postponed, so there is chance of us building up some momentum before we go to the Etihad. As for today, you're quite right that we just weren't able to supply the final piece of the jigsaw (ie that killer pass) until Luiz scored. It was a bolt from the blue and knocked the stuffing out of the Trotters, and from that point on they became ragged and disorganised from the shock of conceding so early. From there on, it was a case of how many. Correct again. Drogba is the best option we have up front at present because he puts himself about more than Torres. However AVB needs to learn to play the correct man in the correct fixture; as Torres would have been better suited to playing against the three defenders of Napoli on Tuesday. Torres' confidence is shot and his ability to score goals seems almost extinct at the moment. Nevertheless his application and work rate is still good, and though he is not scoring goals himself we have seen many times this season that he is capable of supplying assists and key passes at will. He needs to up his game in the department we require the most, however; scoring goals. Remember you can have your say on today's game by checking out the post-match thread - discuss the game, analyse the key moments and vote for your man of the match! You can do that by clicking --> HERE! <-- Click here to view the article

Wrote it as the match was underway

Chelsea 3 Bolton 0 Andre Villas-Boas saw his Chelsea side bounce back from the bitter disappointment of Tuesday night's horror-show in Naples to thump relegation-threatened Bolton at Stamford Bridge. In what has been a season with far more downs than ups thus far, this comfortable victory will offer great encouragement to Villas-Boas and the supporters alike, who were treated to a second half that boasted landmark goals for Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard, as well as another beauty to add to David Luiz' rapidly-expanding list of goals in front of the Matthew Harding End. It was a display featuring confident and composed play, and though a goalless first forty-five minutes may have discouraged some supporters, class eventually prevailed and it is the Blues' young Portuguese coach who will be smiling this evening - especially after news filtered through that Champions League-chasing Newcastle fell foul to a two-goal comeback from Wolves. QPR also lost. That's always welcome news. For Didier Drogba, it was his 151st Chelsea goal - and his 99th in the Premier League - that added to Luiz' 48th-minute opener, whilst Lampard took his career tally of goals against Bolton to an impressive twelve as he wrote himself into the history books with a composed side-footed volley from close range; a goal that sees him become the first player in Premier League history to net ten or more league goals in nine consecutive seasons. Those achievements are but two of the plaudits earned by the Chelsea team for this professional performance. It was a fully-deserved win against an admittedly poor Bolton Wanderers side, but history dictates that games between the Blues and the Trotters at Stamford Bridge are traditionally tight, with the last three fixtures having been won by just a single goal. One of those games saw Bolton come from 4-0 down to very nearly complete the most remarkable of come-backs when Gary Cahill missed a late chance to see the game finish 4-3, but the Sheffield-born defender is now plying his trade amongst more refined company, and it would be no disrespect to Bolton to say they offered incredibly little in what was a one-sided match dominated by the host's marauding midfield triumvirate of Lampard, Ramires, and the slowly-improving Michael Essien. But for Arsenal's on loan winger Ryo Miyaichi, who was a consistent thorn in the side of Branislav Ivanovic, the visitors cut a very sorry shadow of a team that ended last season in such impressive fashion. Bolton have been hit hard by the fall-out of injuries sustained by key players Stuart Holden and Chung Yong-Lee, while the sale of Johan Elmander and return to Stamford Bridge of Daniel Sturridge has left Owen Coyle short on both striking quality and substance in the midfield - and a weak display here will have done very little to quieten down fears of Bolton falling out of the top division after a decade-long tenure. Whilst troubles for Bolton and their young manager continue, a similar situation has developed at Chelsea Football Club. Expect the newspapers to focus on Fernando Torres' continued goal-drought (despite being on for a mere 13 minutes, in a period where the game was already convincingly wrapped-up), and how those three second-half strikes may well have saved Villas-Boas from the chop. The reality is, that whilst the propagandist ideals of the media desperately try in vain to stir the embers of a negativity fire extinguished by a fluid second half display, Chelsea were good value for a long-overdue victory. The papers (and some fans) will say it was 'only Bolton' - but any win against anyone is a welcome one at present. Chelsea began this game with purpose, clearly having received a rocket up the arse after three defensive clangers had resulted in an average Napoli side almost killing off the tie in the San Paolo on Tuesday evening. Whilst Didier Drogba and Daniel Sturridge tested Adam Bogdan's (pretty terrible) handling with tame efforts from distance, it was the application in the final third that was undoing a lot of good play from the home side. Incisive passing and fluid movement was a feature of this performance, but it was not being repaid in kind in the Bolton defensive area. Despite winning a multitude of ultimately fruitless corners, there was little else to show for the possessional and territorial dominance that Chelsea were enjoying. Truly exerting the advantage and converting it into goals was proving a tough task, and the best the home side could conjure was a curling effort from Sturridge that Bogdan, to his credit, did very well to turn wide of both the post and the onrushing Juan Mata, who, by his exceptional standards, was enduring a difficult game against a stubborn Bolton side. Yet the resilience that the away team were showing prior to the interval seemed to instantly dissipate as the Blues got the second half underway, and it took only three minutes for Drogba to fashion an opening for Luiz to bend home another wonderful goal in front of the Matthew Harding End. Working the ball well down the left, Drogba fed Luiz, who skipped around his marker in a fashion his Ivorian team-mate would have been proud of, before caressing the ball beyond Bogdan and into the corner for his second goal in the league this season. Such composure should not come as a surprise, however - Luiz is Brazilian, afterall. It was a fantastic start to the second half, and just what Villas-Boas will have wanted, although a minute later Bolton were almost level when Reo-Coker fired wide from the edge of the penalty area. The chance had come out of nothing as the midfielder idled forward, benefited from a lucky ricochet and then fired about a foot wide of Cech's right-hand post. That was to be the closest Bolton would come as the life was sucked out of them with Didier Drogba's goal on the hour mark, as he rose unchallenged to nod home a belter of a Frank Lampard corner. Game, set and match, and suddenly things were looking considerably rosier in the Chelsea garden. Sandwiched in-between those two goals for the Blues were further chances; firstly for Luiz who saw a header instinctively flicked off the line. It was a brilliant effort by the Brazilian, who rose above a cluster of players to seemingly nod home but for a superb reflex block on the line by Miyaichi, who just made contact on the ball with his studs to deflect it wide via the post. Shortly after, Drogba saw his cultured effort kiss the crossbar as he looked to finish from the angle, but his grievance would only be temporary as he sealed the match within minutes. The time had come for Chelsea to express themselves, and after Ivanovic and Luiz had done enough to prevent each other from scoring a sure third, Lampard did eventually provide the goods as he volleyed home a sumptuous delivery from deep by Mata. It was a fitting way to finish off the Trotters by a man who has a goalscoring affinity with this particular fixture. It was a cracking finish from Lampard, who, despite his age, continues to defy critics and disgruntled fans alike with his golden touch - his 12th goal against Bolton was also his 12th of the season; no mean feat for a man who has contested both form and fitness problems this campaign. Villas-Boas allowed himself a brief smile on more than one occasion, and rightly so. Winning is the greatest relief to any on- or off-field problem at a football club, and for a team desperately short on victories this season, these three-point haul is a welcome one. An international break now materialises to steal away any sense of forward momentum, but this will offer the likes of the manager and his seasoned players the chance to regroup and redouble their efforts. Winnable fixtures against the likes of West Brom and Birmingham are next on the agenda, and sequencing together a series of wins together is now the natural progression on the road to securing Champions League football. Today, things worked. If Villas-Boas has found a winning formula it is long overdue, but now is the time for the fans to back this team, for we are needed now more than ever. Chelsea (4-3-3): Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Luiz, Cole; Ramires (Mikel 87), Essien, Lampard ©; Sturridge (Kalou 79), Drogba (Torres 75), Mata. Bolton (4-3-3): Bogdann; Wheater, Steinsson, Ricketts, Ream; Reo-Coker ©, Pratley, Muamba; Tuncay (Eagles 74), Ngog (Sordell 65), Miyachi. The TalkChelsea Man of the Match is Chelsea's number 4 - DAVID LUIZ

A mediocre win is better than losing. Go and spout your crap elsewhere.

:Goober: I thought you were a better member than this, you seem to enjoy the fact we're underachieving, whereas most of us are happy we've fucking won a game.