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Great post laura... But one point of contention is transition needs to be a constant state,there is no perfect team in this world....only teams like Liverpool make a big fuss about transition,great teams like Barcelona and Manchester United incorporate youngsters all the time without any kind of publicity at all...imagine Darren Fletcher and Johnny Evans starting their careers at Chelsea,they would never have cut it here and would probably have gone on to become jobbing footballers for mid table clubs...

According to this website, we have played 14 matches on 1st December in our history,Won 5, Drawn 7, Lost 2, Scored 21, Conceded 15...looks like another draw then,but hopefully a score draw,how I'll love to see a goal for us...

To be perfectly honest it's not like he's missing sitters every week is he?We are shit at creating chances and have been for a while...we have 3 insanely creative players behind him,yet offer hardly any offensive threats against teams like Fulham...we can't expect Premier League defenders to part like the red sea out of sheer reverence for Mazacar in every game...

One day Luiz is going to do that (while trying to find Torres with a long ball)....

Mark my words,this thread will be our refuge in the coming days with all the 0-0 games we have been party to of late...

We should have timed our transition such that it coincided with the expansion of the Champions League...that way we wouldn't have had to worry about finishing in the top 4...

From all the reports in the media it seems Huntelaar himself is developing an interest in a move to Arsenal,he knows he could become top-dog there...but then again Hazard could have moved to any club in the world,but he chose us over everyone else...

Just last week Barca fielded an entirely home-grown 11 against Levante...imagine Chelsea doing the same in a few years with all Brazilians..!!!

The NEW Oscar? Sort of insinuates that Oscar is old already... Besides how many oscars do we need? According to wikipedia Spencer Tracy,Fredric March,Gary Cooper,Marlon Brando,Dustin Hoffman,Tom Hanks,Jack Nicholson,Daniel Day-Lewis & Sean Penn all have 2 oscars each...guess we could do with one more..

Found a pretty decent sopcast stream on livetv.ru... I really can't see where a goal might come from,we don't have a single goalscorer on the pitch at the moment...brana could be our best chance...why does Luiz have to step up for every free-kick?Even Alex didn't do that....

Mata looked a little out of sorts in the first half against City...could have been fatigue or just an off day,nonetheless a little rest wouldn't harm him...

I think JT's handle is j26terry,I know that Mata is quite active on Instagram...you could try oninstagram.com to find more...

This weekend at Levante Barca cantered to a 4-0 victory using only home-grown players for a large part of the game. After Daniel Alves was replaced by Martin Montoya in the 14th minute the 11 Barcelona players on the pitch were Victor Valdes, Martin Montoya, Carles Puyol, Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba, Xavi, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Pedro, Lionel Messi and Cesc Fabregas,all products of Barcelona's La Masia academy.... I wish we could do that... :blue scalf:

I just watched the show (The Verdict on ESPN India)... Parker is usually quite diplomatic and said that Chelsea fans are different from all other sets of fans he has played for,they are somewhat unforgiving and tend not to forget things,as suggested by banner at the City game... Steve McMahon who was with him on the panel intervened to ask 'So basically you are saying that the Chelsea fans are the worst set of fans you have played for?",to which Parker remorselessly replied "Yes." God I hate these guys,provoking each other to elicit controversial comments and increase TRPs at the same time...

The five candidates for the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2012 award have been revealed. 1. Demba Ba 2. Younes Belhanda 3. Didier Drogba 4. Christopher Katongo 5. Yaya Toure Please head head to this page to cast your vote. :blue scalf:

Sometimes it's difficult to believe our players practise together everyday considering the alarming regularity with which they fail to find each other....Mata,Hazard and even Ramires at times tried to dribble out of tight situations when they could easily have taken the safer option of passing to a player in close proximity,and in the process cheaply turned over possession inside our own half...c'mon guys,we all know how talented you are and you don't have to prove it to us in every match....it;s a team game after all,some our players seem to have limited faith in their teammate's abilities and hence are looking to take on too much responsibility for the sake of the team...which is precisely the reason why individual brilliance has outshone our collective quality even when we have played well...I hope Rafa has a strong enough spine to instill that in the team....

Good effort sir,but a little more reference to the current context in the montage would have been nice... :blue scalf:

Maybe he was referring to the other Cole...but I can't remember him slagging Chelsea off as an Arsenal player or fan...if any of them thought ill of Chelsea and didn't express it we can't grudge them that....

Zenden,who was apparently stunned about the "madness" of his swift appointment said: 'I thought, 'I'd better start packing my stuff and try to sort out a flight', because it really happened so fast.' I hope he doesn't have to repeat those words anytime soon...

Opta have just announced they will shortly be publishing a special edition of this list called Weeks Per Goal to accommodate Torres...hold your breath...

Why is Fergie so openly jealous of Benitez for winning a trophy he won just 4 years ago?The CWC isn't the most coveted trophy among top managers is it? If he wanted to take a dig he could have just referred to his bronze statue unveiled yesterday....strange...

Can someone tell me what Roman is actually talking about in this video?Is it related to football at all? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufFa8Ad9iY&feature=player_detailpage

Physioroom.com can't put a return date on Lampard...anyone got any updates? It also says Kompany will undergo a late fitness test,we may just have a chance if we can eep our end tight,especially considering the way CIty conceded against Real Madrid in the CL,,,,

What are the chances of this happening under Benitez?