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It's certainly nice to see a manager that celebrates and responds to goals, missed chances, refereeing decisions and all that for a change after going through the statue-esque expressions to all that of a certain 'Interim One'...

Seen many have included Terry into their starting XI prediction here. Not sure I would want to play him here at all against the counter attacking pace of Benteke, Weimann and Agbonlahor as he's arguably the slowest defender we've got in the team right now and not to mention, Terry turns at the speed of a tank..

Really? So we are now just praising him for making some nice passes and linking up the play when mainly, he was nowhere to be seen in the final third where he should be to score... Funny. When Ba does that in matches and he immediately gets bashed from all directions.

Ha. Diego Lopez starts in goal for Madrid vs Real Betis. Casillas on the bench. Ancelotti is gonna get the sack...

I don't think we went gung-ho in those matches when we battered teams 7/8-0 under Ancelotti. It's just that we played at a good tempo consistently from start to finish, just probably not as intense like today, and more importantly, we were efficient in converting the chances. Not the case now and anyway, when we did mess up matches after thrashing a team, it's more gotta do with the attitude and mentality if anything rather than tiredness.

Chelsea vs Aston Villa PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT English Premier League 21st August, Wednesday, 2013 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Chelsea 2-1 Aston Villa POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS English Premier League 21st August, Wednesday, 2013 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time) [Match Stats]

A bit disappointed with the second half performance after the way we totally battered Hull in the first. The movement, the passing, the intensity, tempo were all extremely brilliant! That being said, it's perhaps understandable why we eased off in the second half given the players just played international friendlies few days ago and with Villa coming up on Wednesday, it was probably wise to conserve the energy for then. It's just that not being clinical enough and getting that 3rd goal to totally kill Hull off played in the mind and nerves after what happened last season against the lesser sides. We had like around 23-24 shots all game but only 6-7 were on the target. A reflection of the problem from last season. Hope it improves as the season progresses. All in all, can't ask for more in the first game I guess. A win. 2-0. A clean sheet. And seeing the players performing brilliantly to cap it off as well. A joy to watch.

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How Mourinho plans to win back the title with Chelsea José Mourinho stresses need for patience with Chelsea youngsters

Oh dear. Not sure I can bear watching that. All the burden of scoring is on the guys behind him then (again). No pressure...

Jose Mourinho tells Chelsea: I'll quit if we don't win trophies, you won't have to sack me

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho ready for emotional return to Stamford Bridge for visit of Hull City

This is quality.

Spot the faces on MOTD...

Watching United having a top quality striker in Van Persie banging in goals like that is just...well depressing.

The missing http part seems to be the problem I guess. When I edited your video post and included the link with that, it worked as it's supposed to. That is unless Choulo's tweaking have messed things up a little. (see the Feedback/Bugs thread).

It might be informative on first two times but after that it's just annoying. That's the point.

Erm, people liking a post doesn't always mean it's meaningful. You have people liking lots of posts in the Pub every single day but are they all meaningful at all? No. Most are just funny and silly stuff that people likes. It's a similar thing with yours. As I said earlier, there was nothing wrong what you said but it just gets repetitive and then annoying. Well, I was just curious to see what it's all about and making sure nothing went completely out of hand. And yes, I did notice the argument had stopped but I only posted my opinion about it and didn't even look to start the whole thing again. If anything, it's those that replied to it that did.

Not all arguments chase people off but it's these petty and trivial ones with repetitive bickering hatred that may. And the rest above is just ...

Even though Moses arguably came good by the end of the pre-season tour, it feels somewhat overexaggerating to say he was our best player then when his performances weren't that great during the Asia tour as compared to the US one. Anyway, according to the squad sheets for this game on the Guardian website, Moses is doubtful for this one due to jetlag. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/16/chelsea-hull-city-squad-sheets He, and Azpi, just returned to training today.

Let's not overexaggerate things here. Those members that got banned were banned for good reasons. In fact, we even tried to give some leeway at times and pretend nothing happen. We gave them chances to still be around but if they still can't control themselves and go over the line, then that's too bad for them. Nothing wrong with having arguments and there's definitely no escaping that sometimes we'll get trivial or nonsensical arguments going about. And please, don't make it sound like the staffs here are all dictators and get picky very easily. We allow that sometimes but if it gets out of hand, then no doubt we'll do what is necessary depending on the situation. In THAT 'argument' earlier, there was nothing offensive or insulting about this, just the silly repetition of the same things being said for 7 pages(!) and it had probably chased 2 members off. Also, if you actually noticed, when I commented on that 'argument' earlier, it had already stopped for some time before I supposedly came in to ruin it...

Good argument? Tell me you're just trolling Kojo..

He's causing mischief again! Mourinho turns up the heat on United over Rooney move Definitely agree with what he said here!

He's a cross between Lampard and Gerrard and Dutchman Van Ginkel is looking to make a flying start at Chelsea Mourinho also spoke about van Ginkel in the article and judging by his comments, sounds like he's going to play him a lot this season.