Magic Lamps

Add Germany 2006 to that. England had Lampard, Gerrard in their prime Michael Owne when he still was good, Rooney, Bekcham, JT, Ferdinand, Ashley Cole most in or around their prime. Next to France 1998, Italy 2006, Brazil 2002 and Spain 2010 the individually greatest international squad I have seen in my lifetime. The thing about England is they always underachieve in proportion. They needed the golden generation to narrowly exit in the quarters, so it is no surprise that the current side full of average footballers, most too young or too old won't make it out of the group stage.

Thak you for your support. I do not have as much faith as you in our current national side though But that is not even my point. First and foremost I am a Chelsea fan. I experienced that I am more happy about a routine win for Chelsea than I am about a tournament win for Germany. It is probably becaue I chose Chelsea whilst I did not chose to be German. Even in the dullest of campaigns, qualifiers of whatever magnitiude are a distraction. Also i am against supporting the corrupted Fifa and Uefa even more by watching matches or buying tickets. IMO to make International football again we would need a major overhaul in organizing those qualifiers and of course in the organizations themselves.

Actually I am European and still think International football is a redundant, boring, corrupted pile of shit. Can't wait for the fuckin International break to be over ASAP FFS.

If you take away Lampard's goals he would still have a crazy amount of assists, more than Xavi's and Iniesta combined btw and not any worse in quality. OUtside of the boot, defence splitters, 60 yarders, those intricate short range passers that lay it on a plate perfectly for the striker, lobs, backheel assists. He once even did an interception and a wonder assist for anelka with a single touch. Also his dribbling ability is criminally underrated. Despite lacking pace he used to go on a mazy run once in a while to create space for teammates, like famously nutmegging balotelli, XAbi Alonso e.g. Also his crossing was excellent. When he stil had a bit of pace he also had pretty awesome tackling. His reading of the game stands for itself, too. Also he was an incredible big match player who could impose himself on big game even if that did not suit him. More than because of his goals Lampard was special because he was one of the most all-round world class players ever. Oscar will never be that good.

assist for Henry to score vs pool, assist for suarez to kick england out of the wc, assist for Utd last summer etc the list goes on... More a parasite, a plague than a player, no wonder English media have chosen him as their darling. Regarding Liverpool FC, Steven Gerrard, English media and English national team one word springs to my mind: failure.

Mourinho admitting he owes Remy more playing time is finally a word. With Costa having his annual end-of-season hamstring problem, I am confident we can just as good clinch the title having Remy as our striker.

http://www.laola1.tv/de-at/live/fc-barcelona-real-madrid-cf/296117.html if you don'tmind german commentary.

They have worked on their setpieces. Used to be pretty useless at that aspect before enrique came in.

classic Gerrard. Ruins a big match for his team. Wonder why no one calls him Judas. Fitting that they excuse him. He is an excuse of a footballer.

Given that i spent an hour cursing our players for their half-assed performances, I can't say how relieved I am that we somehow got it over the line. what a scramble. TBF Ivanovic was solid in the last 15mins and willian tried. Still those 2 and cahill don't belong anywhere near the first team. Most players not exactly had their best day once again. Esp Matic was abysmal. Luis, JT and Hazard were ok tho. Maybe one of our most frustrating performance but all the more important for the morale and mentality of the team. Hull were better than us but big teams win ugly and today was oneof the few occassions we actually showed. that. I confess that I did not believe in the team after the equalizer, but we somehow made it and that is all what counts.

that was fuckin close and lucky. continue like that and it will contiue to be an almighty struggle towards the finish line

when did we score?I just went out to get myself down and missed the goal. looking forward to conceding though.

when did we score?I just went out to get myself down and missed the goal. looking forward to conceding though.

this team is a bunch of chokers and bottlers who can not accelerate their play to save their lives. Even the days we were shit under Claudio, Rafa and the second season under Carlo we player who would stand up, fight and try something instead of passing the ball around like bellends and wonder that it does not find its way into the net on its own. we need guys who take some responsibility instead of hide in their shadows.

willian's set pieces are so fuckin crap. there are 7 players above 6ft height in the fuckin box and he brings them low towards the first post. wtf?

WE are so deep and slow in transition no wonder we don't score. every attack you can already see it will fail, just too slow and inaccurate every fuckin week the same old shit.

parked bus. we know how this will end.

Hull are heads and shoulders above us. week per week people keep saying our bad performances are only a one off, but we have not won for ages now. and that is exactly why because we have been second best every week.

there u have it. hull will park the darn bus now and it will end 2 all

we are all over the fuckin place. once again stopped playing football after a lead, once again got punished. will we ever learn? same old chelsea always choking.

just gift those other fucker the title tibo. cech would not have done that shit in a million years.

title collapse anyone?

bring azpi on.

so coming. ffs

excellent work from Rami and Willian covering up for Iva's and Matic's defensive ineffieciency so far.