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Better a draw than a 1-0 loss from a counter-goal.

Next time someone parks the bus we should just hold out for a 0-0. Try scoring from a fluke long shot or something.

Banter

Fuck attractive football. Loan out all these technical players and replace them with 190 cm tall muscle men. Playing ugly wins things. We should play a 9-0-1 all season.

He has an awesome name. And we're short of West Africans, every club needs at least 4

For someone to feature in my avatar, they must have boatloads of panache (behaving with reckless courage and flair). Wiggins has none. This is panache: Vinokourov is by far the bravest and most attacking cyclist of his generation. By far! Also here's what my Kalou avatar folder looks like:

I was being serious Thanks for the avatars! . But for the time being Vino will be my avatar!

Can we do that to protest against Gourlay?

I think he could have been a good 'fox-in-the-box' type player. He has Inzaghi-like instincts of being in the right place at the right time, and he has a knack for doing just enough to beat the keeper. Aside from that FA Cup Final, I can't remember the last time he missed a good chance.

What are you on about? Fabregas was wank, yet another awful purchase by Guardiola, after that Ukrainian guy and Ibrahimovic. His presence forced them to change to some 2-3-5 pre 1900 shit to accommodate him into the team, which resulted in them winning fuck all, by their standards, last season. The Atletico fan is correct, he had great start which vastly inflated his final stats, but then went to shit very quickly.

He would, wouldn't he? Being a predator and all. When Hoeness says someone isn't good enough for Bayern (which is what those veiled comments mean), it means the player is absolutely awful. Terrible, dreadful, horrible, frightfully shit, dire. You name a negative adjective, and he's it.

0 goals against the top 6. 1 fluky, off the shins, knockout stage CL goal against a decent opponent. 13 of 25 came against the bottom 6. He's the most overrated player in the history of the universe.

Gomez is catastrophically shit. How on earth he scored that many goals is a mystery. Even Shola's better.

Memories of happier times. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gi2b_chelsea-3-3-tottenham-kalou-goal_sport

Lol we can sell him. Market him as 'world class African centre midfielder, 2 time PL winner and one time CL winner. And we promise your club will be the most supported in Ghana'. That'll pull out an offer from Anzhi or PSG.

Why, manpe?

It would look rather overstated if he had "Founder and Owner", "Administrator" and "Member of the Month" all under his avatar. Also guests/noobs may suspect that he rigged the contest somehow

How will Jim fit a gold member title in? Administrator with a gold rather than a blue background?

Yeah, I fixed that.

Just because my hero is a winger doesn't mean I am. Actually, wait, it does. Keep me there, and I promise I'll attack so hard that the space-time continuum will be destroyed, and we will win the 2011 Champions League at Wembley.

Number 10 on that compilation is magnificent. I wish we could counter like that.

On an unrelated note, I was spying on Salomon through twitter and our own ChelseaChick (I think) invited him over for tea: Where's my invite?

Yeah, they have to qualify They haven't been confirmed as a seeded team yet, either.

The propaganda machine is working B) Are Lille in the CL this season?! I can't bear the thought of not watching him, I'm not going to sit through foreign commentary to watch Ligue 1

I wonder if Drogba is struggling in China