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Woops. Even better record then!

That's an if really. Will be tough to just play him in the odd game here and there. Likely to be an emergency sort of player if anything.

That is just extremely unfortunate and feel very sorry for the lad. Maybe he should really think of retiring permanently. Would probably be better for him personally, as some have mentioned here previously.

Lewandowski today scored his 12th goal in 12th consecutive league matches. And he has now scored 30 goals in 41 appearances for Dortmund in all competitions (31 in 42 if you include the German Super Cup) this season.

Everton losing at Sunderland means it's curtains for their Champions League hopes. As for Sunderland, it's now 6 points gained from 3 games under Di Canio. Here's a stat regarding that game: Sunderland have beaten Everton for the first time in 17 Premier League matches. Their last win came back in 2001. Di Canio effect. And they are looking so much better now and as I have mentioned previously, it was a good thing we played them in his 1st game in charge.

Ideally, we would want to finish in 3rd to get into the CL group stages directly and above both Spurs and Arsenal but given how tight and difficult things are now in the table, finishing 4th is not a disaster despite the play-off game. And besides, coming above Arsenal and/or Spurs after all is only for bragging rights and nothing more. The important thing here is obviously finishing in the Top 4.

Here's an important bit; If Man City lose at Spurs tomorrow, Man United can (mathematically) win the Premier League on Monday by beating Aston Villa. As if Man United haven't been playing like they can't be bothered about the league anymore, given how far they are ahead of City, the above situation can't happen tomorrow. Otherwise, United will have totally nothing to play for when they face Arsenal at the Emirates next weekend!

Arsenal won...again. Back down to 4th, again. Best results tomorrow would be us getting the (big) 3 points and Spurs lose against City. Doubt it will happen though.

Think everyone can see and hope we have some sort of stability and continuity....that is unless you're Gourlay, Buck, Emenalo etc.

Sarcasm..

Promotion/Advertising for the kit with CL badges on to be used later on. They are just doing everything in advanced first so that they don't have to do the photoshoot again.

Well mathematically, it is still possible. Liverpool are only 10 points behind Arsenal in 4th after all. It's doable.....

Erm, Chelsea TV revealed those kits before Adidas do? Bet those fellas would be pissed!!

Yeah suspect he will be a sub too but he can always come off the bench to do so. For us to have a good chance of winning here, we definitely need to score first!

Demba Ba interview: 'Chelsea is the start of my career' An interview Ba did with the Independent.

Slightly off topic, Bale and Defoe will be back for Spurs tomorrow against City while Lennon misses out. How fit are they is a big question though and I hope City play better here than they did against Wigan! As for this game, having a feeling that Sturridge will bang in a goal past us.

IIRC, think we were linked with him a couple of years ago before purchasing Cahill but this has no chance of happening now. As many have said, he's already 30 y/o and definitely doesn't fit into the age group of players that we're trying to have.

That is one horrible defending by us! Terry lost Senderos for the header and Lampard wasn't even marking Petric at the far post!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2311829/Andre-Schurrle-Chelsea-set-seal-20m-talks-Leverkusen-chief-Rudi-Voller.html Sounds like De Bruyne may be heading to Leverkusen on loan and reducing the price in the process for Schurrle by £2m.

The finishing has absolutely criminal tonight. It should have ended 4/5/6-1 at the very least tonight. Anyway, we're into yet another FA Youth Cup final, the third one in last 4 years!

As much as Torres has improved, let's not suddenly start thinking about keeping him again. If you look at the games he has played since the improvement, it's been against Rubin Kazan(x2), Fulham, Sunderland and Man City. 4 of them were average oppositions. It's only that 1 City game where he was maybe decent. Otherwise, his good performances have been against poor teams, which has been the same whenever we play such teams since he joined us and it's nothing big to shout about either as it goes along with his goalscoring record of mostly scoring against rubbish oppositions.

He spoke about that during the HT chat with Neil Barnett earlier.

Aren't runs basically movements? Perhaps movement would have been a better description of it but understand what you mean. Sometimes they are too static that it's just mind boggling given they can do better!

For all we know, we might have spoken with Mourinho and he has agreed with the purchase of Schurrle.

Apparently the Liverpool fans were singing about Benitez when Ake scored that goal. That would have shut them up.