Magic Lamps

Woud kinda miss Wigan... there would be no point raiding them anyway. also walcott shall not score any more goals for Lampard to remain English topscorer

Since I have been a chelsea fan the biggest competitive rivalry has been with ManUtd for sure. In terms of hatred I feel from other Chelsea fans it is Tottenham, then Liverpool, then Arsenal. But one thing I enjoy is that we are historically rivals with every cunt club that is or has been a factor in the EPL: Milwall, Leeds, QPR and also WHam and Fulham The new rivalry will be Oil Firm vs City.

Lol@ people who believed that bullshit. Bayern usually buy wisely. it is not their style purchasing an unproven, flashy mega-hyped fashion product like Neymar out of nowhere

@anyone who already got the home kit, how's the fitting? they do not sell it here which is shit for people with my proportions. It looks rather wide on the waist on Alex but really tight on Hazard...My waist would do with an S or M but my shoulders and chest want a L or XL...this really sucks when you want to order clothing online.

Shaun maloney equalizes for Wigan with an amazing freekick.

Just an idea: Lamps scoring and Torres not scoring might have something to do with the fact that Lampard is thousand times better finisher than Torres.... btw. Lampard has once again been the Englishman with most league goals (15) and tied most goals in all competitions for club and country with Rooney (22). One gets to understand why England could not score more than one goal in Montenegro without him...

True, still our job probably will it be to take the game to Benfica. When we achieve to dominate them we can benefit from their blown confidence. We also countered Basel and Kazan, but we scored only one goal on the counter, due to our wastefulness.

But we had Drogba...

It really had to be illusions rather depression , Rooney suffered from, cos in England's last encounter with Argentina, which was in 2005, no one was sent off. Rooney actually played really well and scored that day. Not sure which red card you mean, cos he gets plenty, but I guess that one vs Portugal for kicking an opponent into the genitals must have hurt the most - both. But i agree with what you want to say, he is mentally more fragile than most think, even though his dumb simplicity suggests otherwise.

which is not true. The top four teams of England have stagnated, whilst both, Dortmund and BAyern have their best teams ever. If you regard the whole league the gap between the EPL and the other leagues has never been wieder. This year's bundesliga , apart from the big two, has been the worst I have ever seen and La liga is not covering itself in glory, too.

The former part one can argue about. I am pretty sure Mata won't improve much. With 25 you are won't develop too much as a player anymore, you only can try to get the best out of what you already got in terms of quality. Technically there is not much room for improvement anyway and physically it only gets worse once you pass that 25 years mark. Mata already is a relatively pathetic athlete. Secondly, Rambo Mikel should be in their prime, even when this means they are incomplete. Ramires relies so much on his physical attributes he surely will not get any better. This is not a problem of form but a problem of quality, then.

IMO also for a CM he is really fast and skilled He is our 2nd most skilful, 2nd fastest and 2nd best passer and 2nd best tackler in CM, so has the best all-round pakage to play there. I also think he should remain CB, but for tomorrow we need him in midfield when Mikel is out.

1.Mata, Ramires, Luiz, Cahill, Mikel are in the perfect age for a footballer, which is 25-28 imo. Ivanovic, Cech are still pretty close to it. I do not think this is a problem, actually many clubs have this age structure e.g. Barca when they won the CL and Dortmund now. 2. We certainly do have a style. It is not that brillant but we play medium-paced posession style domestically and counter-attacking style in Europe, we just lack the pace to do it effectively. I think we often do decent pressing and I like the the short-pass, long-pass balance. 3. yup. but Benfica lack most of it, too.

btw we should not expect any truth from these reports in the press about our inuries. Rafa is clever enough to keep this secret.

This sucks. Benfica are actually not the kind of opposition against which I feel too comfortable having a pivot of Lamps+Ramires. they play this free-flowing attack and both Lampard and Ramires like to go forward, whilst Lampard is likely to get overrun at times. Provided Mikel is out, I'd go with ----------Cech---- Azpi-Cahill-Iva-Cole -----Luiz----Rami---- Oscar-Lamps-Mata ---------Torres------- Maybe, it's half the team played out of position but it is far more solid than a pivot of Lamps+Rami. Guys, say welcome back to the bus

of course, but they do their player's development no favour by not letting them play to theri technical potential. you can do this with pros, but with juniors? You have to learn to play before you have to learn to win. In Germany we probably got the best youth work in there is and our youth coaches do not give a shit about trophies. First priority is always to play cultivated, technical football.

The youth is even more wasteful than the A-team

Norwich will win this final, but what are they thinking they achieve with this football? Unless you got drogba and karma on your side you can't be successful with this on senior level. The point about this competition is more developing young players technically than playing agricultural football

Is there away goal rule?

boga should work on his left foot

oh fuck feruz, he reall yhas to score here

we can't win this, norwich got Cuck Norris

lol Ake asked about Ola John of Benfica. He will miss the final because of injury.

fuck it, real uphill struggle now

This Kelvin guy has 5 star skills on Fifa... maybe we should buy him