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Good word, figurehead. On the Good Ship Chelsea. Like those ships of old with a carved animal on the front, totally useless and wooden, just used to scare the opposition.Greedy Grant was after the cash, he'll be gone before the four years are up, but he'll get a massive pay off.

Was waiting for this,a four year contract at £2,800, 000 a year is around £11,200,000 !!Not bad money for a part time job, which you're not even qualified for.

Not going myself -one of the finest to ever wear Royal Blue thoughhttp://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3095257.jpg...55A1E4F32AD3138

I dont know why Abramovich doesnt just chuck the FA a couple of million each season and have done with it.SkumsportsChelsea have admitted to a Football Association charge of failing to control their players during the 2-0 win at Derby County. The charge relates to the behaviour of The Blues players towards referee Andre Marriner following the sending off of Michael Essien. The Ghanaian midfielder was dismissed after lashing out at Kenny Miller in stoppage time, and was handed a three-game ban for his actions. A number of players, including England captain John Terry, confronted Marriner in the wake of Essien's sending off. An FA statement read: "Chelsea FC have admitted a charge relating to the behaviour of their players towards referee Andre Marriner during a match against Derby County last month. "The club was charged with failing to ensure that its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion following the sending-off of Michael Essien for violent conduct during the match on Saturday 24th November. "Chelsea have requested a personal hearing which will be scheduled in due course."

Saturday 15th December sees a tribute evening taking place at Tones Bar (North Cheam, Surrey) for former Chelsea star Alan Hudson. Bar owner and one of the Chelsea supporters featured in the recently released DVD “Blue Revolution” Tony Millard is hosting the evening. As well as Alan appearing in a question and answer session, there will be other surprise guests.The tribute comes ten-years after Alan was nearly killed in a road traffic accident that should have taken the use of his legs. Now, although he is still somewhat handicapped by the injuries he sustained, Alan is, nevertheless, remarkably still energetic and full of life.He has gone on to write two books, namely “The Working Man’s Ballet” – his autobiography – and “The Tinker And The Talisman”, a look at the buy-out of Chelsea by Roman Abramovich and Claudio Ranieri’s reign under him as manager.Although injury kept him out of the 1970 FA Cup winning side, he was of course, a member of the team that went on to lift the European Cup Winners Cup the following season. However, despite being a prodigious talent, he fell out with the then manager Dave Sexton and joined Stoke City in 1974 for what was, for the Potteries side, a bargain price of £240,000.Although Alan returned to Chelsea in 1983, illness first and then injury prevented him from adding to his Blues appearances and he left the club a year later.A ticket to spend ‘An Evening With Alan Hudson’ costs £10 including a buffet. Further details can be obtained by calling Tones Bar on 0208 641 8224.

Our names on the cup this year. I hope we're not going to have a Drogba drought though. He's nine goals to his name already this season, but Lampard seems just as crucial as an attacking force. Not only does he provide more assists than Drogba from his midfield position, he’s also into double figures after scoring against Sunderland. That said we need a clinical finisher as an addition.

Steven Gerrard became the 6th Liverpool player in 18 months to be the victim of burglary. Gerrard's wife Alex Curran was at home in their Formby mansion when four masked men broke into the house and stole jewellery on Tuesday night. The Liverpool captain was in France playing against Marseille in the Champions League when savvy burglars targeted his house. Merseyside Police have described the incident as a "confrontational burglary". Dirk Kuyt was burgled three weeks ago when on international duty, while Jerzy Dudek, Pepe Reina, Daniel Agger and Peter Crouch have also been targeted by thieves. Football 365.'They rob their own' -not just hearsay, not just stereotyping them. Unbeleivable. Could have been Carragher.

Completely

Absolutely pointless.

Here , here , ridiculous people boosting their post count with pointless posts.

Definitely, and JT and Cech imperious as ever. Ben Haim is a liability at times, almost stitched up Cech on a couple of occasions. January sales job. I'm sure hes Grants lovechild, has that same miserable hangdog expression.Draw for the knockout stages could be interesting, bindippers ?

Kalou and Pizarro, the Keystone cops. Sounded like a good atmosphere for a non deciding game though.

Had 0-0 stamped on it after 20 minutes, -had we needed to qualify like the bindippers it could have been 3 or 4 easily. Pizzarro although with deft touches, showed why he has a low scoring record in his career. Would be quite happy for him and Ben Haim to permanently go missing in January , as long as replacements are found.ITV saying 'Chelseas impressive record under Grant'. Impressive despite Grant. Chelseas impressive record with a dour faced irrelevance taking dubious credit more like.Talking of the wallpushers, watched some of that and Marseille were simply awful. Must have been paid off by by the multi millionaire Gillet & Hicks.

It was a still off the Sky website, Phil in the studio commentating on the Marseille home leg.

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Definitely, or someone from round those parts, Sammy Lee or Phil 'Concord' Thompson.

We should have got Nistleroy for £12 million. Still, time for Shevchenko to come good.

Lol Bolo Zenden to get a brace. I think they need someone with pedigree, someone proven to get that elusive PL, someone like Allardyce .

Will definitely be flicking between our game and ITV 1 to see Marseille sink Liverpool

We've qualified for the knockout stages, so no real urgency. However, home record needs to be kept intact, and theres a chance for players such as Sidwell to show what they can do.

Like someone said, he must be insecure to keep bigging himself up with subtle putdowns. Interesting to see how much he has prised out of Abramovichs wallet, just hope we dont get an influx of 'promising' Israelis

It's the way forward -*arsenal* and Hansens (in)famous "You dont win anything with youngsters" comments on ManU's early 90's squad -who subsequently went on to win titles and the Treble. Or at least a combination of experience and hungry for success teens/early twenty somethings.

I dont know why the club doesn't bring in Stoch or Sinclair. At least give them a few run outs.

I thought Malouda was to be a replacement for the 'creatves' eg Duff and Robben, and to be fair he started off as such. Kalou, I've noticed is definitely in his element when on the left, and with SWP on the right Pizarro could come good when Drogbas out. I can see a forward/attacking midfielder arriving in January.The defence has looked solid but theres been a few times in the last few games when with a combination of luck and opposition fucking it up we've winged it. Like a knife through butter Aroop, you're right again Grants a twat though

One of the problems with Brazilians, and South Americans is the legthy bureacracy often with the work permits etc. I'm sure Roman can grease a few palms.