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Ashley That's how you take a shot.

Perhaps because De Bruyne is not at the club.

It's a healthy attitude. I would rather a player laugh off criticism/playing poorly than be negatively affected by it, like Davide Santon.

If this keeps up, we're going to concede, and soon. They've been the better team for the last 15 or so minutes. Pinning us in our own half.

Normally anything that's even slightly positive towards Kalou I would agree with, but I can't agree with that. Mikel is useful. Perhaps not at the moment but when he's on form he's great.

What would you rather he do? Collapse in a heap and start crying?

Moses 11 looks so much like Drogba 11

That was a foul. Ref, I am disappoint.

But it makes him sound like he's a Pakistani cricketer!

Gotta say, this is great support from the Wigan fans. Very vocal.

Also stop calling him Azhar you wankers.

OH FUCK ME I MISSED THE START

But to be pedantic is to be a pedant. I've had enough of pedantry for one night.

Typical Queenslanders

Even from beyond the footballing grave, his influence reaches Not to be a pedant but its Pelé.

Come on now. That title will be given very little respect by teams around Europe. Everyone knows we fluked it.

What would that be? Cutting inside, refusing to pass, and blasting it into row Z? At least Bertrand will pass it.

And there you have it. Ryan Bertrand is a winger in the eyes of Di Matteo, the only eyes that really matter. We do have 7-8 wingers, therefore Hulk, Moses et al can take their wares elsewhere.

BERTRAND ON THE WING ROBBIE YOU'RE A FUCKING GENIUS . ANTI FOOTBALL FOREVER!

That would be the root of it, I still think the Ibrahimovic transfer by Barcelona was a direct response to Kaka, Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso etc. being signed by Madrid.

The Barclays Premier League, brought to you by Anti-FootballTM, suits me just fine. I would love it if we went through the whole season conceding about 10 goals and scoring about 50. There is nothing in football like a watertight defence. Its the stuff of dreams. The players should take the attitude that it is a sin to make the goalkeeper work.

When did you donate?

I don't think so. Faster than Nikola Zigic, perhaps.

Ah, yes. ENGLANDS BRAVE LION MR CHELSEA CAPTAIN LEADER LEGEND CAN DO NO WRONG, HE HAS 2, NO 52 IF HE WANTS, SEASONS LEFT IN HIM. The 'its JT he can do what he likes' argument makes as much sense as Tottenham fans' arguments last season when we requested to move the FA Cup tie. It consisted basically of "WE ARE TOTTENHAM SUPER TOTTENHAM FROM THE LANE FROM THE LANE WE ARE TOTTENHAM SUPER TOTTENHAM FROM THE LANE FROM THE LANE." He has declined massively, and he will quickly turn into a liability a la Carragher in a year or so. We missed a huge trick by not getting shot of him for 40 million in 2010, that is an enormous sum for anyone, let alone a defender. 40 million pounds for a 29 year old centre back, we should have taken it then and there and lol'd all the way to the bank. We could have gotten Modric for that money. Or 4 great young centre backs. Anything we wanted really. That was before PSG turned up and made it harder to compete.

We're not going to win the title either way. I don't care if Mikel-Lampard start all 38 games, they are just about good enough to sneak us into the top 4, which should be our goal. We're not Real Madrid, people need to seriously lower their expectations. Mikel is still a titan when we need to take a defensive approach. As someone said up thread, Mourinho bought the likes of Eto'o and used him as a defensive winger in the CL. I won't have people writing him off (again) when its obvious he will be vital in the CL where we cannot afford to wank about like we're Brazil 1970.