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Usual non journalism.... ''a Blues insider''. as the ''source'' That'll be Ivy the Tea Lady then.....

Bit of perspective needed I feel Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are a product of US foregn policy. The US corporations and government spend more on weapons than every country in the world combined. Since World War 2 the US has intervened in over 200 foreign countries supporting right wing death squads and despots, and been involved in 20 wars killing over 9 million people. This makes Bin Laden look like a choirboy. Just one example would be the sanctions on Iraq when it laid claim to Kuwait (which does belong to Iraq but the British drew a straight line in the sand in the 1920s to create this artificial country). Anyway, the sanctions on Iraq killed ovre 600 000 children and babies under 5 years old. Madeleine Albright, the US secretary of State at the time said ''It was a price worth paying.'' The US now own 80% of the oil wells in Kuwait and Iraq. It is no wonder that through the millions it has slaughtered that you get people like Osama Bin Laden fighting back.

Constant media loop , endless repeating of Obamas speech. The US used to love him, when he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan. Osamas initial beef was with the so called Muslim arab states such as the Saudis and Kuwaitis who are totally decadent and arent true Muslims, and he organised against them. There are millions with the same ideology. We and the Yanks sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Saudis every year , us via our Royal Family, therefore anything jeopardising that has to be anihilated He came from a very wealthy Saudi family himself. 10 years ago the day after 9/11 when all flights were grounded, all his family allowed to fly out of the US. Yes a figurehead has gone, but there will be more attacks now

Would replace Kalou with Anelka. 'Brains' is fucking rubbish if he starts, but a super sub. I would also play Alex over Luiz if fit. I think the ref will be likely to give the Mancs a penalty if Luiz fucks a challenge up.

The latest high profile one allegedly involves a player who should have been playing yesterday, but had ..er.. flu.according to forum gossip. ....'happily' married and ''squeaky clean'' but been playing away from home with a big titted Welsh big Brother contestant. :eyebrows: Hope I dont give it away by saying hes the same nationality, surname rhymes with pigs. PS Isnt Saving Private Ryan a good film ?

Nothing really close -but related your post Tomo 91, was swimming some lengths and as I got to the deep end there was a bloke not moving at the bottom of th e pool. Swam down and pulled him up -he'd had a seizure and the lifeguard was reading the paper ! Also similar to gary gordon, was driving in the country and there was a a powerful motorbike in the middle of the road -then i found the rider lying in a ditch making gurgling noises. Just kept him conscious by talking and asking him questions till the emergency services arrived. The cops, were useless, said ''Lets get your helmet off then, can you sit up ?'' Possibly the worst thing you can do in that situation. The third vehicle that turned up just happened to be an off duty doctor, then an ambulance. The bloke survived anyway.

Having made his debut against Liverpool in the Community Shield, Mikel impressed on his first start for Chelsea on 27 September 2006, in the UEFA Champions League against Levski Sofia. However, the Nigerian's early career was characterised by indiscipline both on and off the pitch. He was sent off in a match against Reading on 14 October 2006, and was fined on three separate occasions by Chelsea for turning up late to training. At the time, Chelsea manager José Mourinho was believed to have strong reservations about his lifestyle outside of Stamford Bridge and the club were reportedly considering offloading the player. Mikel was dropped for over a month. After improved punctuality and showings at training sessions, Mikel earned a recall for Chelsea's Champions League group away game against Werder Bremen on 22 November 2006, with Chelsea qualifying for the knock-out stage despite a defeat in Germany. Mikel scored his first goal for Chelsea in their 6-1 FA Cup victory over Macclesfield Town on 6 January 2007. He also scored against Nottingham Forest in the following round of the competition. During Chelsea's triumph in the League Cup Final in 2007 against Arsenal, Mikel was sent off in injury time (having come on as a substitute) after clashing with Kolo Touré, the incident was followed by a huge fracas, in which Touré and Emmanuel Adebayor of Arsenal were sent off, Cesc Fàbregas and Frank Lampard were booked, with managers José Mourinho and Arsené Wenger also involved. In subsequent games, Mourinho deployed Mikel as a starter in a holding role in key games where he impressed greatly, notably in the FA Cup Sixth Round replay against Tottenham Hotspur, the Champions League quarter-final games versus Valencia, the Champions League semi-final games versus Liverpool and also the victorious FA Cup Final against Manchester United. Mikel's height and great strength, allied to good ball control and an unusually wide range of passing, allows him not only to disrupt opposing attacks, but also to spread the play effectively. With Claude Makélélé coming towards the end of his career, Mikel was widely tipped to be his successor in defensive midfield. Mikel's development continued with 39 appearances in all competitions during the 2007-08 season, but was sent-off for the third time in his career in September 2007, when Mike Dean dismissed him for a tackle on Manchester United defender Patrice Evra. Chelsea appealed against the red card but the three-match suspension was upheld. He was also sent off in the Semi-Final of the League Cup against Everton, for a challenge on Phil Neville. Following the departure of Claude Makélélé in the summer of 2008, Mikel was presented with the opportunity to make the defensive midfield position his own during the 2008-09 season. His main rival for the role, Michael Essien, could play elsewhere, and was injured for much of the season. Mikel impressed during his extended run in the side, earning praise from manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, a free kick from which Salomon Kalou equalised against Manchester United an example of the Nigerian's contribution to the side beyond breaking up attacks and providing protection to the defence. [12] Mikel made 49 appearances in all competitions over the course of the season, and played every minute of the 2009 FA Cup Final. Mikel was nominated for the club player and young player of the season, and on 22 July 2009 he signed a new five-year contract with Chelsea. During another season in which Michael Essien was largely absent due to injury, Mikel continued to play an important role in defensive midfield during the 2009-10 season under new manager Carlo Ancelotti. He made 35 appearances in all competitions, helping Chelsea to the League and FA Cup Double, which included the first Premier League winners' medal of the young midfielder's career. The 2010-11 season was much less successful for the Blues; a promising start undermined by a mid-season collapse as Chelsea finished the season without a trophy. Mikel continued to appear regularly in the defensive midfield role, making 37 appearances to pass the 200-appearance mark by the end of his fifth season at the club. Click here to view the record

Nice account there. About time we had some luck as well -and who better to get it against than the yids. Yes, the yids. Saw a bird with Yiddo on the back of her shirt, and some were shouting ''Yid army''. A washed up nobody like Baddiel who was never a 'comedian' anyway, has tooo much time on his hands. I will call them the yids until they stop calling themselves the yids. Isnt it homophobic of them to call us rent boys ?? What about the cottagers ? Sheepshaggers ? Munichs? Baddiel is doing a bit of 'notice me', and is trying something else as attention seeking. He did more to ruin ''footy'' as he used to call it with that brummy cunt Skinner than any terrace chant.. Right just realised I'm ranting now -well done Alex young man !

THOUGHT REQUIRES SILENCE Therefore, players, do not talk to one another on the pitch, or or do anything to distract the train of each others' thought. If you must talk, do so to the foreign press, where no one will read it. The football pitch is not a place for shouting, bellowing, encouraging, communicating but for private rumination, meditation, cogitation, and yes, hesitation. FURTHER READING: Hesitato, Ergo Sum: My Theo-logy (Theo Walcott, Pluto Press, £17.99). DO NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE TRUE GOAL BY SCORING AN ACTUAL GOAL And so, if you are presented with the ball on the edge of the penalty box and have clear daylight between you and goal, do not give in to the ego and shoot directly into the net. This is mere self-gratification, which shrivels the vital footballing organs. Is that not Bendtner standing near the corner flag? Why, pass the ball to him, so that he might have the chance to curl it into the top hand corner. Such a goal might only occur once a century and therefore be the stuff of legend, whereas your own directly taken shot would merely be part of a spiritually unsatisfactory week-in-week out series of 3-0, 4-0 victories if you actually took it. FURTHER READING: To Be Or Not To Be? To Be, Actually. And To Be Pretty Much The Best, Basically (Crown Prince Bendtner of Denmark, Kronen Press, £19.99) DEFEAT IS OUR WISEST MASTER What use is victory? It teaches us nothing. In defeat, however, we learn hard and valuable lessons which will bear fruit in decades to come when players like Denilson reach maturity. So, you are 2-0 up against Spurs at home. Now is the time to consider the jellyfish. Achieve a physical and mental condition in which it is as if you have forgotten the existence of your own spine. In the first half, you have taught the opposition a footballing lesson. Now learn more from them than they have from you by letting them score more goals than you in the second half. This makes you the true winners – only an idiot would fail to see this. FURTHER READING: Whatever You Say, Your Reverence – The Insider's Guide To Assertive Assistant Management (Pat Rice, Ebury Books, £22.99) AVOID ALL THOUGHTS OF SELF-ELEVATION . . . especially as the ball is floating into your penalty box, from a free kick or Rory Delap throw in. Do not think to launch yourself upward and head it away. If the Creator had intended you to venture that high in the air, he would not have made you 5'7”. Paed ad terram – feet to the ground. Learn the hard lessons of modesty and self-effacement which can only be acquired from conceding goal after goal after goal after goal after goal after goal from set-pieces season in, season out until finally you achieve your true destiny – a transfer to the Spanish Second Division (£850,000). FURTHER READING: Pascal's Wager: How I Bet I'd Play More Than Ten Games For Arsenal – And Won (Pascal Cygan, Bloomsbury, £19.99) LEARN NOTHING FROM YOUR MISTAKES, LEST YOU LEAVE YOURSELF NOTHING LEFT TO LEARN This is the final Zen paradox at the heart of the Wenger philosophy. To those who say, “IT'S FUCKING OBVIOUS WHAT THE FUCKING PROBLEMS ARE WITH THIS FUCKING ARSENAL TEAM AND IT'S BEEN FUCKING OBVIOUS FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS – WHY DOESN'T ARSENE SORT IT THE FUCK OUT?” I say this. Consider the piece of fruit upon the table. Let us say that this is the Fruit of Learning. And suppose we should break the habit of a lifetime and reach the top of the table and eat this fruit. Then, alas, the table is bare. Better, rather, to leave the fruit untouched, year in, year out, so that eventually it stinks out the place. This is the stench to which we aspire, and will continue to aspire. FURTHER READING: I Am Not Interested In Silver: The Wenger Guide To Winning (Bantam Press, £39.99)

Hes done it for a while to be fair. In Italy, and here he's gives out wads of tenners to Big Issue sellers. This particular one hes chatted to a few times. Fair play to him. Still a twat on the pitch though.

A case of 'teabagging' Gone too Far ???

To Norwich Fans ''We've got Abramovich, You've Got a Drunken Bitch''

We're going to win it. Slowly, Slowly catchee monkey......

Some of the gooner fans now have a banner saying ''In Wenger We Rust'' :yes: Fact. To their credit their fans sang a corker last night apparently ''We're going to rock right down to the Inland Revenue, with Harry Rednapp''

Sky, cunts that they are, headline news shouting this morning ''Torres still Fails to score''. The fact that we're second escaped their radar. Anyway the flipside of Torres arrival is the Drogster finding his form again :yes:

Never seen a better debut in Blue, and brings undoubted quality but the recklessness will have to be curtailed

Moments of genius last night. You ave to remember zat ee iz French. Ee as a , ow you say, verrry laid back attitude.....

Has a major rick every game. His barnet needs chopping and relaced with a mohawk, or JT needs a serious word in his shell like. Another Frank Sinclair we Do Not Need.

Can you hear the crowd Fernando ? I remember long ago another starry night like this You were scoring for the Dippers, we mocked because you looked like a girl Now your'e playing for the Chelsea boys We made lots of noise, but nothing We were singing out for you my friend The MHL and Shed end ABBA rule

I'm sure shes more than capable - but a nice poem would heave been good ''I wandered lonely as a Fernando the Wonderhorse, Score a Fucking goal mate'' Something like that.

A like, yank like, poet writing about like, saaccer, in, like Great Britain, ...I mean like, Hello ?? # I'm going to find a Yank 'Football' site and write a poem about their underperforming Quarterback

Do you mean deaf or deft LDN ? Maybe deaf is more appropriate Agree with you its been done to death by the media -with more than a liberal dash of schadenfreude. The media have selective criticism ie when it comes to the grannyshagger going 9 months without a goal in open play Also its Tribal football - usual made up bollox. A yank poet writing about like, saaccer, in, like Great Britain, ...I mean like, Hello ??

Exactly It was obvious at the start of the season, why mention it now? he said at the time he was happy with the squad and the youngsters. and there are no excuses for the CL. Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. And try keeping the same starting 11 tonight that started at WBA.

He should be ruing lack of mental depth..... Careful of 'Soccernet'' they tend to write vast quantities of shit.

Nice of him to step up. Senrab have a long tradition of launching players careers. (its Barnes backwards) Ray Wilkins also played there...