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Villa 1 - 0 Arsenal

I felt like making a thread for my favourite foreign league. The French Ligue Un receives a lot of unfair scrutiny, yet provides some of the most entertaining attacking football seen in European leagues across the continent. With tonight's round of matches coming up, my team Lyon have a home game against Strasbourg, who are enjoying a good run of results recently. And with PSG losing 2-1 at Nice last week, they will battle against relegation with Caen. A win for the Paris team will see them clear of the relegation zone. Discuss here

Blackburn 3-1 Newcastle FT Portsmouth 0-0 Everton FT Reading 1-1 Middlesbrough FT Sunderland 1-0 Derby FT Wigan 1-1 Man City FT The Man City results means Chelsea will remain second over the weekend, and will drop to third if United beat Fulham on Monday.

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Avram, give us a smile,Avram Avram, give us a smile

Welcome back

I can't welcome him back any faster, Mikel has been really suspect these past few games if you ask me, he gives away ridiculous free-kicks in ridiculous areas. He is a frustrating player - one game he can be magnificent, and shite the next. Ballack plays at a more consistent level, even though last season was far from his best, he did give a constant rate of return, but Chelsea fans got on his back because they expected 20 goals from him immediately.

I don't know if anyone else thinks the same, but I think Grant is really poor to react to matches with substitutes. He seems very keen to keep the players he selects in the starting XI on the field for as long as possible, and brings on substitutes too late on in the game if you ask me. I would have brought on SWP at half-time, but I guess he's a slightly more experienced manager than I

Not necessarilly, lower league opposition outnumber Premier League heavily at this stage, and there is an even chance of getting a tie at Stamford Bridge.

I always thought Miguel was a right-back. Whether he is or not (I think he plays RB for Portugal anyway) I don't think he is better than either Belletti or Alex.

You know a player that would have been great with Drogba? Hernan Crespo

You think he is good? I think he is entirely overrated.

I thought Terry was excellent, and for that superstar bloke, Emmanuel Petit, for him to question his duty as England captain is fucking ridiculous.

One might appear in a minute, I;ll keep an eye out.

Full-time, 1-0 to Chelsea. Howard Webb with a brilliant game as referee is you ask me.

Good idea, Cole off for Makelele who takes his place as a centre-midfielder.180 seconds of stoppage time to go.

Freekick to West Ham just outside of the area. Yellow card for Terry. Alex fucked up seriously.

7.5 minutes to go, 45 yards out. Taken short to Mikel, to Joe Cole, crossed and behind the goal. Boa Morte made a bad challenge to concede the freekick

I agree with you Linda, if we sit back it may come and haunt us. However, the referee seems to have taken a liking to Chelsea, giving us a fair amount of freekicks.

I've watched the replay and it certainly was onside. I guess we got the benefit of the doubt, but we deserved it.

Yes, but if we do the same as we did against Everton, they will eventually get a chance to score.

No he was onside, certainly

J COLE! 1-0Former Wet Spam Skipper scores against them. Howard Webb and his assistant with a brilliant decision, he was clearly onside.

The stats idicate WHU are getting a way back into this game. We need to bring on Sheva.

Kalou is having his worst game in a Chelsea shirt. Grant needs to buck up his ideas, because West Ham look like they are going to steal all three points. Terry misses a glorious chance!Ljunberg gets the typical response for en ex-Goon.