BlueLion.

Precisely. Was... Drogba Bertrand - Mata - Kalou ...good enough to win the CL? Yes it fucking was.

Let's see what they look like on the players, however.

Would make sense, doesn't the Samsung deal run until June 30th? Ebay!

Remember when We Hate Scouse made us all buy those Mata 10 away kits last season? Look what I did to mine...

Totally agreed. Perfection, even.

For years I've wanted a royal blue shirt with dark blue trim. It would look delicious. But yes, something plain, simple. Ignore the yellow and the stripes, but something like this: Obviously royal blue for the main body, the darker blue on the trim.

Burn the false prophet

Fucking hell.

I know a few northern Englishmen who'd qualify for that, so there's no guarantee a Scot would even have that in the bag

In your opinion. I've seen nothing this season to suggest we'll be better off with Courtois in goal, as opposed to Petr. In fact, in the short term, I think we might actually be worse off, but time will tell.

Exactly. No red card: Red card: In the aftermath of Barnes' tackle, Matic pushes the player who nearly broke his leg over and gets a red. Yesterday, Fletcher runs over to Fabregas, forcefully pushes him and squares up to him and gets a yellow. Absolute bullshit.

I agree. Plus Sunderland will need a result. They won't get anything at Arsenal so their only hope is to steal a point at the Bridge and hope for the best. This will be as tough or an even tougher game than the recent trip to Arsenal, for sure.

We'll have to agree to disagree. But as a goalkeeper coach, if one of my 8 year olds were beaten at the front post so easily I'd rip them a new one... let alone a Premier League goalkeeper. Very disappointing. Cech let in a poor shot at his near post vs PSG last season and got his criticism for it; Courtois deserves to be similarly reprimanded for two poor goals he ought to have stopped having gotten a hand to each.

He's not "obviously" better than Thibaut. I maintain the stance I adopted 18 months ago and got ridiculed for: Cech is very, very, very slightly the better of the two goalkeepers at the moment, but Courtois has ten years on him. By the time Thibaut is 33 he could have smashed every record Petr ever set. If Cech is a 9.5/10 goalkeeper then Courtois is a 9/10 goalkeeper - you have to give him the time and room to grow because he has the potential to be a certified 10/10.

Do you hear those racist Munich fans shouting "Drogba in der zoo" when he's walking up to take the penalty? I did for a short while, followed by their deafening silence. Your city, your stadium, OUR CUP.

I'm glad the bed wetters have stayed away, we've won a double ffs! :blue scalf:

If he'd have hit a Chelsea player, would he have been sent off? Of course he fucking wouldn't. Appeal it and hopefully common sense will prevail. There's no point the FA accepting the ban considering there's nothing they can do to stop us winning the league.

^ this 100%. He should have stopped the penalty. It wasn't hit with that much power, at a nice height, quite close to him, and he got one of those size 13 gloves on it. He should be able to parry that wide of the post for me. Getting a big hand on a penalty and conceding is worse than diving the complete opposite way, IMO, it's a huge disappointment for a goalkeeper.

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Same, they'll be needing a result. As long as it's a draw (don't want to lose our unbeaten home record), I don't really mind tbh.

SHOTS FIRED

The only thing I'm disappointed about tonight if Tibo for the third goal. Pretty shite to be honest, no excuse to say his vision was impaired, you cannot be beaten from there at that angle on your near post, venemous strike or not. That being said the defence wasn't that smart from that corner. He should have stopped the penalty, too, IMO. But meh, champions.

Legend.

If Torres had have tried to hit someone from there he'd have probably f*cking scored.

£90 million, plus Chris Smalling just for the bants.