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Jose. So, an 18-year-old with no first team experience is ready to play but not a 21-year-old who has top flight football experience?! Mourinho's insistence of playing inverted fullbacks (or even 3 CBs in the back 4) is rather 'unhealthy' to say the very least.

Ended in the last game. Should start unless he's injured or something.

Why wouldn't he?

And Benitez has hit back at Big Sam... http://www.espnfc.com/real-madrid/story/2664301/rafa-benitez-how-many-trophies-has-sam-allardyce-won

Of course, this is the type of response I expected from you - negative to the core. Mourinho spoke mainly about the FA's inconsistency (which is clear for everyone to see) and other members pointed that out to you but here you are, ignoring them, perceiving them to be biased when they are not and filling the thread with your 23346435843753th criticism of Mourinho that's not even part of the subject at hand. Seriously, if you are not going to engage others in a proper debate and just going to dismiss their views because you are apparently right about everything Mourinho, then why bother joining a forum?

Mourinho was wrong to criticze the referee's decisions in the Southampton match but you can't say he's wrong here about the FA's inconsistency. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/15/jose-mourinho-chelsea-fa-fine-disgrace-electronic-tag The most baffling thing about the punishment is the stadium ban. Had the FA handed him a touchline ban, then I can understand. But a stadium ban because of some comments made about the referee?!

Don't need to create a new thread for that...

It's not worth the money at all. The book is so average - nothing special about the pictures (many of them can be found on Google) and descriptions (very short and no insight).

Gary Cahill plays down Roy Hodgson claims that bad back kept him out of England's final Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania

Maybe that's because other managers play him regularly...?

Regardless of whether Wenger's points were valid or not, managers are not allowed to talk about referees before and after the game. Pretty sure the FA stated that clearly when they introduced the rule. But of course, the FA being FA, they have approached it with double standard. Some managers have gotten away without any punishment while some have been punished and Wenger was mentioned in this case because he criticized Mike Dean after the game at Stamford Bridge but wasn't punished.

I didn't say you guessed, did I? Fair enough if you're still unsure about him but it's only 2 games. He can't get better without games. Besides, we can't be sure Zouma will do a solid job in a fullback position considering he's a center-back.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek - the man to save Jose Mourinho and rescue Chelsea's season?

People say they are unsure about Rahman from a defensive perspective but how is he going to improve himself, prove to doubters that he is good if he's not given the opportunities?

As silly as Mourinho was to talk about referees after the Southampton game, how does making post-match comments such as that warrant a stadium ban (albeit suspended for now)?!

Diego Costa fit for Chelsea return vs. Aston Villa after serving 3-game ban

Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois on course for December return

Willian's goal against Venezuela - https://vine.co/v/eEJMxB011Xq Had a helping hand from the goalkeeper though.

Sent off in Colombia's 3-0 World Cup qualifier defeat to Uruguay from swinging out an elbow at someone.

That would be in 2012, when they lost 2-1 to Manchester City in the Europa League. In terms of the Champions League, we were the last English team to win at the Dragao, winning 1-0 in the 2009/10 season. In fact, Porto have only lost 3 times at home to English sides in Europe - Man City, Chelsea and Man United.

No worries. Only 2 months left till Courtois returns...

I don't want to be negative here but it could be just a month or so. After Aston Villa, we have: Dynamo Kiev (A) West Ham (A) Stoke (A) - League Cup Liverpool (H) Dynamo Kiev (H) Stoke (A) Lose or fail to win 4-5 games there and Roman might just pull the trigger.

For goodness sake, if Mourinho is going to do that, then play Zouma at LB and put Azpi at RB. At least then we'll have one fullback in his natural position. Will be fucking retarded if we end up playing 2 FBs out of position!

I don't really buy into this excuse of Eva being a reason for our slump in form. The signs were already there in pre-season (some might even say since January) that we have major issues in the squad and even before the whole Eva debacle happened, we were distinctly average/poor against Swansea. How did we not lose that game is a mystery when you look back at it.