Leif

Pray for Schalke.

Half-time and he's the worst player on the pitch vs. Deportivo.

Madrid being outplayed by and losing to Valladolid (0-1). Come home you handsome bastard.

A lot of us seem to somehow be under the impression we'll be getting a right-winger (or at least someone who's used to playing on the right) in the Summer. Out of realistic options, who would be the best for us? Hulk, Sanchez, Di Maria all come to mind as plausible transfers - the latter not interesting me much personally. Hulk obviously has the long-shots, strength, pace, cool name etc; Sanchez, if he were to recapture his Udinese form, has the dribbling, pace, crossing, work-rate, flair, passing ability; While Di Maria has the dribbling, penalty-winning 'abilities' pace and flair. Sanchez is the only right-footed one out of those I believe, so he'd probably be the best crosser, but I really don't know. Have we been linked with any other right-sided players for the '3' part of our formation?

He's basically Vidic but slightly less scary imo.

Does he still exist?

Stingray.

You were specifically making a point and are now attributing it as sarcasm to save-face to imply something my tiny, uneducated brain cannot comprehend. (Notice which part in that sentence was sarcasm.) Unless of course it was a joke, but jokes and sarcasm are not the same.

I've actually been to a few doctors, brought this up personally as a possibility a few times, and been rebuffed each time as I'm closer to self-loathing than vanity if anything & have never had particular prestige and do not seek it. I hope you're sending that as a suggestion and not a self-diagnosis otherwise it's possibly the most insulting thing I've ever seen on a forum.

I feel he's been mismanaged by Mourinho so I wouldn't feel confident having him here if Mou does return. I'd feel confident in him if we had AVB as manager as he likes deploying poachers and has always done that to great effect, but I believe we need someone more mobile under Mourinho. It's no coincidence that most of his success has been when he's had a powerful striker like Drogba or lung-busting player like Eto'o. Enter Lukaku...?

"These individuals are lively, dramatic, vivacious, enthusiastic, and flirtatious." I'm like a sloth, not at all dramatic but everyone has their moments so I hope if you think I am indeed dramatic it's not based off of just one day of me posting, indeed full of spirit, lack enthusiasm as I have days which differ greatly so it's become a rarity and couldn't be flirtatious to save my life. So - your point?

Who decided to deploy Mikel as a defensive midfielder? Was it Mourinho? I can't remember. Hopefully he'll have the lock to him if he returns. I wonder how Sir Alex Ferguson would have used him, I really do.

Not quite. "I'll probably refrain from posting on here for a day or 2 then come back and give you a proper reply!" Neither of them happened; neither of them were committed to. Following that you told me to "not stress" which may mean something different where you're from, but over here that's taken as a "Don't worry about it" or "Alright, just do-so whenever". I'm still within the time period of 'whenever'. ​Just like you didn't interoperate my posts today how I'd like, I perhaps didn't interoperate your message how you would have liked.

You can't say 'stop it' during a conversation when you quote and reply to everything I'm saying in the discussion. It takes up valuable page-space! You should or could have Private Messaged that, which I encourage you to do if you'd like to converse further. I assume you'd rather not, but who knows. Life is full of surprises.

I LOVE MIKEL DEBATES!!!!!!!

I'm fine and still glad that I left school early, and perfectly happy for people to know about it. You're not an asshole for knowing information I happily put out there; You're an asshole for bringing someone's personal life into what was a football-related discussion as-if it's some sort of needed ammo as you fail to get your point across in a mature manor.

That's a nice offer but probably unneeded if you dissect, not that it needs much, this whole discussion. It's not uncommon for 17 year olds to show themselves to be naive at times surely, followed by admitted sarcastic boasting when having their level of maturity, knowledge, education, whatever - bashed. You should know though.

And you are a bit of an asshole to bring my education which you know very little about into question, are you not?

But it's clearly not a need if this is the first incident of me publicly questioning or criticizing Backstreet about something which is clearly influenced by amplified emotions.

I'm not bragging about going to the final; I'm returning a cheap shot, and almost sarcastically assuming he won't be there. There'd be nothing wrong about bragging going to a final though, considering it's such a big occasion which not all fans will get to enjoy. One would be forgiven for letting their excitement get out of control.

Tribes aren't bad things though. You get bad tribes, you get good tribes. You get African tribes which are simply huge communities which are like a family. That is how I view Chelsea. A tribe. A tribe which is represented by a badge. A badge which has unspoken and unofficial 'rules' which, although don't have to be followed, will eventually lead to someone being questioned or treated differently if they choose not to follow.

I do, but I didn't growing up. I grew up in Hammersmith and attended my first game when I was 2 I think, lived there for quite a few years, moved, moved back, moved up here, now moving back and a load of boring bollocks. Thank you for your concern

Maybe I can wave to you from my seat? :tophat:

I'm not being in a group or being a 'creature' when I'm stating that contempt exists in football under certain circumstances. It exists. I'm not glorifying it, I'm not saying it's a good thing - I'm saying some people are born into it, and whether anyone likes it or not, some will have their support for a club measured by that. I also don't hate anyone on here. I can't hate a forum member

What, like "You should have gone to school longer"? Anyway, see you at the EL final? We could continue this conversation there? :tophat: