Gary Reid

Paul Elliott om the chanel 4 news not happy with the result

You're right about the local team thing. I've supported the team that were at the bottom of yhe street where I grew up for near thirty years now, even played for them when I was a younger man for a season. I still make the trip to the other side of Belfast for every home game. My wee lad supports them too but I expect to loose him to His local club in a few years, Linfield. If you're intersted in the two extremes a supporter can go to look up Wilgar Park, Belfast or Dundela FC to see the gulf between watching three or four games a season at the Bridge and every other Saturday at Wilgar. It's a special memory for kids going to the match with thier da, it's good for the relationship between a parent and the child supporting the same team

I'm the first Chelsea fan in our family, I liked the 91 kit better than the other teams in Division One so I bought it with my birthday money and started supporting them. My brothrer was a man U fan buy switched allegiances shortly after the 94 cup final, he says it's because I locked him in a cupbard and wouldn't let him out until he supported Chelsea, I don't remember that event. Both my kids are Chelsea from birth 2000 and 2002, neither one has even considered supporting another club, why would they?

14 England appearances at youth level so far. Of course that tells us next to nothing about him. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10280~58216,00.html

my daughter doesn't sing nursery rhymes, Chelsea chants only for her and the odd little diddy by Justing the Beaver, whoever the hell that is. And she delights in singing them into the faces Liverpool fans. PROBLEM: The singer of the band who are playing at my wedding is a Loserpool supporter and she knows that, there is every possibilty that she'll kick off at him.......especially because my wife to be has requested The Liquidator which I don't think they know will set my daughter off on a chant-a-thon. The problem is, I never pull her up on things like this partly because I think it's funny, but, it is a wedding..........

To be fair to the lad last season wasn't the best season to be trying to impress, alot of the squad played their worst football of their Chelsea careers last season. Fingers crossed we'll get out of the blacks running in pre-season and the early league games and see the team playing with more fluidity and confidence. That'll make it easier for the likes of Lukaku to impress and force thier way into the first team.

I'm mixed race myself. My father was a sprinter and my mother was a cross-country runner. Has anybody wondered why Anton Ferdinand? When you consider all the players Terry's played against in all the massive games, why Anton Ferdinand?

Aye, it doesn't stack up for Chelsea fans but if you're a Brighton fan.........£30 to see your team humped? I wonder what they're saying on the Brighton forums?

I suppose if you're Brighton you've got to cash in on these things a little. But even so, £30 is steep.

I agree with the poster who mentioned seeing Josh and Romeu given another chance, more so with Romeu. He impressed me in the games I seen him play. I rate him.

fixed that for ya

fixed that for ya

I thought he was one of the better French players in the second half, his first half was abismal though. I'd love to see the Malouda of 2009-2010 make a miraculous reappearance, sadly that'll not be the case. He had one of the better songs from the Mathew Harding though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_team_squads there's two of them.

There's not much that s more brilliant than climbing trees. These days I have to wait for my kids to get stuck up in trees so I can go up and get them.

Spokey dokeys in your Monster Munch Reflectors for you BMX wheels in your Corn Flakes The best toy there ever was, Jazz from the original Transformers The A Team on tv on a Saturday afternoon The awesome computing power of the Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2 Silly strings on my football shirt that would slap the bake off ye when you were playing football unless you didn't mind tying them in a bow like Colonel Sanders of the KFC bucket.

Neville ejaculating during his commentary of Torres goal against Barca was one of the most memorable pieces of tv coverage this season for me

I have to agree with the previous posters about his work rate and effort, he does put a hell of a shift in. I'd also have to agree with the criticism of alot of his passing and what appears to be a lack of concentration. I don't want to love the guy but somehow I do. It's probably because none of us has ever shouted at him to shoot from a decent position outside of the box, we already know he will, same with Essien. Do you know what I mean? If you can imagine a scenario when Torres or Kalou cut the ball back onto thier other foot in a good shooting position and the chance goes begging and you say "he should have squeezed of a shot there"......we've never had the opportunity to say it about Meireles. Usually because the ball is sailing 10 feet over the bar by the time we've thought of the whole sentence, but still he never thinks twice about taking a shooting opportunity on.

I'm not attacking anyone's commitment or support to and of Chelsea, But if statements like the following are made then people will voice thier disagreement. People know that I support the scapegoats and do not similarly support the entitled members of our squad, respectively. What scapegoats? Who on Earth made any of the Chelsea players scapegoats? Scapegoats for what? I will always rate the scapegoats above the entitled, because the entitled can swan around doing what they like and the majority of us still think the sun shines out their boots while the scapegoats get one little thing wrong and they're figures of immense hatred. What you're doing is the opposite. Judging John Terry on the hate figure status that has been created around him is the opposite of the statement you just made. Jose Bosingwa is not a hate figure.....he's just wasn't one of our better players. John Terry is better than Bosingwa at kicking a ball around a patch of grass . Bosingwa is better at every other aspect of life; take out the fact that Terry is an excellent footballer and plays for Chelsea and you're looking at a man with no plus points whatsoever. There is no way on this Earth that you can make a statement like that without have a firm PERSONAL knoledge of the two men, it's utter bumpf. Even without a personal knowledge of the men an informed oponion would at least cite the vast amount of charity work, and I'm not using vast out of turn there it is vast, that John Terry does as registering as some kind of plus point. So I happen to not believe that our legends are the source of everything that is good and pure in the world, and that our less talented players are responsible for AIDS, cancer, terrorism, and global warming; that might make me different to a lot of posters on this forum but so what? What the hell is this about? Try and find a happy middle ground between these two extremes. I've trailed through this thread and nobody has said that Jose Bosingwa has been responsible for AIDS, cancer, terrorism or global warming........he does surrender possesion of the ball frequently but I'm very sure that nobody ever died because of it. I'm not permitted to think that Terry is inferior to Bosingwa? Of course you are my friend. But alot of people think you're wrong and they're entitled to illustrate the reasons why. Am I to formulate my opinion on the value of a man purely based on how good he is at football? Yes. What else are you going to judge a footballer on? His cooking? The simple reason being that none of us know either of the men and don't have the knowledge about them needed to make an informed opinion about their 'value' as people. Peace and love Chap

I can't get on hi back about that. The whole way up to collect the trophy he was like a child going to see Santa. He couldn't keep his excitement inside him and I like that in a person.

He was near climbing over Di Matteo on the walk up

I think you'd have more joy arguing this point on a Spurs forum Cap

but they were and nobody is upset about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpkKSmGlSM

Plus he has to deal with Mario Balotelli