BlueLion.

I think he did, going from the replays. Hard to say unless you were there and next to the dugout, but it appeared as if he was gesticulating for the midfield to press more.

I think there's more to it than that, but he has looked shite in every UCL game he's played for us apart from Sporting away, and even then he should have scored about 12 goals. Can't be a coincidence.

No we've not.

Apart from the defence and arguably Hazard, the whole team was shite, as you say. Gutless.

Spot on. Classless of him to celebrate like that. He talked trash before the game and thus got what he deserved in terms of his reaction. Celebrating in front of the Shed was disrespectful. I apologise to every club that had to put up with his constant bitching, thuggish behaviour and disgusting, "impudent" attitude. Classless.

Mourinho out, Avram Grant in, etc. etc. Got it wrong tonight but even he isn't perfect. That being said the team completely ignored his instructions to press and play less deep. Mourinho wasn't out there on the pitch. Blame the likes of Costa, Willian, Ramires and Cesc for their spineless performances instead.

He's a teeny tiny bit at fault for me. Started to come and then backtracked. Off balance and retreating constantly meant he was never going to make the save. A great header but a bit of inexperience from him, a shame as it came seconds after a miraculous save. But he is still learning and is continuing to make good performances in big matches. Feel a bit sorry for him, but in truth, without him, PSG should have done us about 7-3 on agg.

Absolute dirge and not for the first time in recent weeks, IMO. Whether he needs time on the bench (he looks nowhere near fit) I'm not sure, but he is short on confidence and couldn't hit a barn door with a bazooka at the minute.

A dismal Chelsea performance allowed ten-man Paris St-Germain to deservedly reach the Champions League quarter-finals on away goals. The visitors were reduced to ten men when Zlatan Ibrahimovic was harshly shown a straight red card for a coming together with Oscar, but were fortunate that referee Björn Kuipers waved away appeals for a blatant spot-kick when Diego Costa was upended. Edinson Cavani hit the inside of the post after rounding Thibaut Courtois as the visitors, spurred on by what they deemed to be the injustice of the Ibrahimovic dismissal, looked by far the more threatening of the two teams. But after 81 minutes of relative dirge, Gary Cahill lit the blue touch paper when he smashed home a loose ball in front of the Matthew Harding End to give Chelsea the lead on the evening. That advantage, however, was wiped out when former Blues player David Luiz headed home five minutes from time, to earn the Parisiens the opportunity to take their hosts to extra time. When Thiago Silva handled in the penalty area under pressure from Kurt Zouma, Eden Hazard - an anonymous figure for much of the game - stepped up and slotted confidently past Salvatore Sirigu, but the Brazilian international made immediate amends as he sent a looping header over Courtois to send the Ligue Un outfit into the last eight. It was Demba Ba who last year sent José Mourinho's side through late on in similar circumstances, but that evening saw a performance of great determination and the will to win was evident in every single Chelsea player. That same grit was missing today, as PSG, regardless of their alleged impediment in terms of being a man down, showed the same sort of spirit and resolve that saw Chelsea past their opponents last term - and more famously when Roberto di Matteo led the Londoners to European success in 2012. The opening play saw Hazard, Diego Costa and Ramires press high up the pitch, but besides that initial burst the entire Chelsea team assumed a complacent and lackadaisical approach which, ultimately, has led to their deserved elimination from the tournament. With the meagre advantage of Branislav Ivanovic's header in the first leg three weeks ago in the Parc des Princes, a cautious approach from Mourinho was more than warranted given the embarrassment of attacking riches available to Laurent Blanc. But after Ibrahimovic's harsh dismissal, where the Swedish international admittedly caught Oscar but by no means in an overly forceful manner, it was PSG, not Chelsea, who seized the initiative and looked by far the more urgent of the two sides. That came as no surprise considering the perilous position they found themselves in, but their commitment to the attack stunned Chelsea, who seemed keen on reaching half-time to regroup. However, any promise of a galvanised Chelsea showing after the interval was short-lived. Even the introduction of Willian did little to spur the team on, and whilst Chelsea should have already had the chance to open the scoring in the first half when Costa was unceremoniously hacked down inside the box by Cavani, there was to be little chance of a repeat incident considering the Blues' placid performance. Chelsea looked visibly jaded; surprising considering they were not in action at the weekend due to the resumption of the FA Cup. Instead, PSG, who have gained ground on Lyon in the Ligue Un title race and coming into the game on the back of a fourteen match unbeaten run, again looked the more dangerous of the two sides. Cavani, who has been on the losing side on two occasions against Chelsea already in his career, looked set to be adding another miserable moment to his collection when he could only hit the woodwork from a tight angle after rounding Courtois. That looked like the big chance PSG would have needed to have scored from, but still Chelsea failed to heed the warning. Even when Cahill lashed home an 81st minute opener, fears of a reprisal were well founded when Luiz rose highest to brilliantly head home via the underside of the crossbar to force extra time. His celebrations in front of the Chelsea fans certainly soured the mood even further inside a stunned-into-silence Stamford Bridge. Hazard then set the ball rolling six minutes into the extra period when he sent Sirigu the wrong way from twelve yards, but instead of pressing the initiative and killing PSG off with what would have been a soul-destroying third goal, Chelsea continued to sit too deep and invited countless waves of pressure from their visitors. Courtois looked like he had pulled off a match-winning save when he somehow diverted a Silva header out for a corner with an almost elastic spring to maintain the lead. But the following corner saw the young Belgian turn hero to villain, as, taking a few steps off his line, he was always retreating and off balance as Silva looped a stunning header into the back of the net from thirteen yards to inflict more knockout heartache on Chelsea and Mourinho. That goal - the sixth in the tie and the fifth overall scored by a defender - meant the Blues surrendered an aggregate lead on three separate occasions en route to being eliminated; an all too familiar feeling for Chelsea supporters this season, who have seen their side concede sloppy goals in big matches even in spite of the continued miraculous interventions of Courtois and Petr Cech on occasions this season. An inquest will surely commence to see how and why the Blues shipped two goals from set pieces, but blatant penalty claims aside, Mourinho has nobody to blame but himself and his side for a haphazard and half-hearted performance, that is matched only by a 4-1 humiliation at the hands of Atletico Madrid in 2012 in terms of the Blues' direst European showings in recent seasons. With Manchester City, barring a miracle, set to join the Blues in being dumped out at the first knockout stage as they trail Barcelona 2-1 heading into the second leg at the Camp Nou, this defeat may offer Mourinho and his side a welcome reprieve in terms of reducing the number of games they will have to play between now and the end of the season. Chelsea may well now be able to focus on the title race, but the bitter taste of disappointment after what can only be described as a gutless bottlejob performance will last at least until the end of the season - a taste that will only be enhanced if the Blues fail to convert their present Premier League lead into a fifth league title success in the club's history.

Ivanovic would have scored that volley, just saying

That's classy from United.

I do what I want

Erm, what the fuck? Great constructive criticism for the first post by a new member of the article-writing team, whose first language is not English. Cheers for that Ron. Not to mention he's reporting on widespread quotes in the press about Luiz hitting back at Chelsea. Maybe you should revise your assertion that he has "never criticised the club", because he's certainly slagged off Mourinho, who, for my money, is Chelsea.

March 10 represents an important date in the history of Chelsea Football Club - for on this day 110 years ago, over a quiet pint at The Rising Sun pub, the Club was founded. Chelsea represents something of an anomaly amongst football clubs. Rather than being founded and a stadium being specifically built for that club's purposes, after Gus Mears acquired the rights to Stamford Bridge athletics ground in 1904, all he now had to do was find a football club to play there. Chelsea's existence today is entirely dependent on Mears being rejected in his attempted takeover bid at Fulham Football Club. Instead, in March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub - now known as the Butcher's Hook and located opposite the present-day Britannia Gate entrance. Little did Mears know that the Club, which in its second season won promotion to the old First Division before yo-yoing between the top tiers through the inter-war years, would later go on to reach the heights of today. In 1920, a third-placed finish in the First Division represented the Club's best league performance, whilst five years earlier Chelsea had been defeated by Sheffield United in the 1915 FA Cup final at Old Trafford, in what was to be the last domestic football game in England prior to its suspension, due to Britain's involvement in the Great War. The arrival of Ted Drake, the former Arsenal striker, in 1952 brought about an instant change in success as the Club exchanged its Pensioners tag, and penchant for playing attractive football and bringing in large crowds despite not really challenging for major honours, for a partisan support and instant silverware - in the shape of the First Division title in 1954/55. Fast forward another sixty years and the Blues look set to add their fifth league title, barring an absolute catastrophe. 2015 has already been a trophy-winning year for Chelsea Football Club - but what a 110th birthday it would be if José Mourinho could inspire us to further honours! Despite what the critics may say, Chelsea has an illustrious history. The Club is the only English side, and one of just four teams in Europe, to have won all four of the UEFA competitions - the Champions League, the Europa League, the Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Super Cup - but it is only when you compare these successes to the dark days of the 1980s that the transformation can be truly appreciated. After Tommy Docherty built a new young team and came within a whisker of landing a domestic treble in 1965 (Docherty secured the League Cup after an aggregate win over Leicester City, but after winning just one of their last six matches they surrendered the First Division title to Liverpool, who also had knocked the Blues out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage), Dave Sexton ushered in an age of success and glorious football in the 1970s - but what followed almost led to the liquidation of the Club entirely. An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the Club were saved from bankruptcy by Ken Bates, who would later help to secure the future of the Bridge and oversaw extensive redevelopment of the ground, and the tutelage of John Neal, which empowered the Blues to escape relegation to the Third Division in 1983. Two decades later and the arrival of Roman Abramovich has made those dark days seem little more than bad memories - but Chelsea fans have never forgotten where we have come from. Happy birthday, Chelsea! Click here to view the article

What's wrong with offering a two year deal with the option of a third to a 28 year old? You can throw names around like Terry, Lampard and Drogba who all continued to play well after the age of 30, but who is to say the next player we offer a big deal to well into their thirties doesn't do a Shevchenko. The fact is there are cases on either side of the "went downhill/continued playing well" divide and we could argue until the sun rises in the west and sets in the east and the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. In my opinion you shouldn't play percentages. I believe offering incremental contracts on a 12-month basis means players have to battle for their contracts. Are there are guarantees John Terry would be playing as well as he is at this stage if he already had his £120,000-a-week salary guaranteed for the next 12 months? I'm not so sure. All I will say is this: does the one year policy damage us in any way? No, it doesn't. If a player doesn't like it they have two options: either do what Terry has done and prove their worth; or go elsewhere and milk another club for their millions.

Its all hypothetical - you can never say that if Costa didn't score a goal that no-one else would have been on hand to tuck the ball away, but if we take away the goals he's scored this season, our GD would be -17 less, and we'd have dropped points vs Swansea (h) and vs Liverpool (a). Furthermore we'd probably have dropped points in games such as Leicester (h), where we were god awful until he got a breakthrough out of nowhere. The fact he's been the opening goalscorer in six matches, and the winning/game-securing goalscorer in nine others (the second goal is arguably more important than the first in some instances, in terms of making the game safe) suggests he's doing just fine.

I no longer partake.

Torres

In all fairness its been one of the better games of 2015.

I think it's a brilliant policy in all truth. Players have to earn their new contracts. What's to say a player signs a 3/4 year deal and undergoes some kind of Gerrard-like decline?

Which is sometimes all a Club needs. I like Sherwood, he may be limited as a coach/tactician but he fires people up. He almost has a WUM approach to management.

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fuck off you cockwomble.

Cudicini was a wonderful goalkeeper and one of my idols, but there is no way on this good earth he is anywhere near either Cech or Courtois. If he was, he'd have been capped by Italy.

Was he dropped? Nope. Rotated for the tactically pertinent inclusion of Ramires, which ultimately led to us winning the game.