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That won't happen mate! One thing to their advantage is us and United have the CL quarter finals in two weeks time, but we all still play the same amount of league games and we seem to do better when there are a series of games in succession as opposed to one every ten days.

He's not a Xavi and he's not a Makelele - instead he's in the middle. He's a deep-lying, defensive playmaker, so to speak. If you watched a dozen Liverpool games, for example, you'd see in about ten of those he'd have more passes than anyone, cover more ground than anyone and probably have completed more passes. He plays the game in a very simple and uncomplicated way, and that's why he is appreciated at Anfield. He supports Gerrard very well.

We could do with United drawing with Arsenal at the Emirates and losing at West Ham In all seriousness, we're in the best position at the moment. Nine points with a game in hand means our chances are slim (people are assuming we've already beaten Birmingham, they will be fighting for their lives to avoid the drop), but all the pressure is on United. Arsenal have blown their chance and will not win the league. They should be the Carling Cup winners and be two points clear at the minute, but instead they've gone from quadruple 'contention' (we all knew that wasn't really the case, but you know what I mean) to the Arsenal we all loathe and hate. Fantastic! Also we have to appreciate games like West Brom away will be frightfully hard. They don't have bad home records, these sides down the bottom, and they need the points more than we do.

All the time. You learn a lot about football fans in the period immediately after the match. You can split the calm and collected veterans like zolayes from those like me who enjoy the odd knee-jerk reaction.

Yeah, Lucas took fully two seasons. I think he's a really good player, actually, very underrated.

Patch is no worse defensively than Cole was at his age.

Cole's not actually been that bad this year in fairness. You have to appreciate last season was his ultimate peak and he will only sporadically reach those heights again. He's still been a consistent 7/10 player for us, bar the odd poor game.

We've hit form at the right time. 8 wins out of our nine remaining matches will win us the title.

Its now a two-horse race between United and us. Arsenal might as well pack their bags and cut their losses now. Their season has utterly imploded. Yay!

Cech Bosingwa - Luiz - Terry - Cole Ramires - Essien - Lampard - Kalou Torres - Drogba

Re-hiring Mourinho is taking about a dozen steps in the wrong direction. People need to realise that, like Zola or Osgood, Mourinho is now just part of our history.

Hell yes bitches!

Stoke City vs Chelsea FC MATCH CHAT HERE

FUCKING LOL, SO THEY HAVE MANUEL ALUMINIUM, JENS LEMON, CHESNEY AND FLAPPYHANDSKI LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Bravo!

PENALTY KING... Petr has saved four of the last six penalties he has faced.

Yes, I know it's a little early. But these sort of discussions kill the time between matches, don't they? If Cech doesn't win the actual award come May, I'll be VERY surprised. I estimate we'd be approximately 10 points worse off without him, at least.

Player of the season for us so far behind Cech and Terry.

2nd place and Champions League semi finalists. Which won't be bad at all considering the doom and gloom bollocks we all sifted through two months ago.

Agreed, but we can't solely blame Ancelotti for that.

Yes mate, West Upper

Torres will score his first goal at Stoke, come into this game in confident mood and score 11 goals and record 4 assists in a stunning 15-0 win.

If we sack Ancelotti I'll be furious. A bit of continuity is what we need. Now, if we were still fifth and out of Europe I'd probably be baying for blood as well, but there's nothing wrong with being 3rd and in the last eight of the Champions League! Man City would kill for that!

I told you Kalou should start more often In all seriousness, he actually surprised me with his movement and his understanding with Torres already looks excellent. I think we should start with Kalou wide left, and Torres up top with Drogba and see how it works.