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Osgood died in 2006, got a statue in 2010. Re-open this thread in 50 years time.

If the club was ending today, I would agree with you. If we plan to remain for another 100+ years then it's a no brainer why Drogba shouldn’t have a statue, the outside of the stadium will be littered with them ffs, we'll become a laughing stock. The Henry statue outside the emirates is vulgar, 50 years too soon.

^ Barack Obama, Cannavaro, Roberto Carlos & Maldini runnin shit..

Ridiculous.. This is just like the argument for retiring jersey numbers all over again, we will have a few dozen 'Drogba calibre' players in the next 100 years, who will contribute just as much. If we erected statues this easily, the outside of stamford bridge would start to look like an art exhibit.

^ Hit the nail on the head. Spend money, get the right manager/ethos and you can have seasons like that again. Fairy tale campaigns come around once in a lifetime, ‘the feeling’ of winning the holy grail of club football for the first time, and when we least expected it. The second time around won’t have the same novelty, nor circumstance.

^ Two of the best kits of the 2011/12 season imo.

Come january, we will hit the panic button and sign Cavani.

The pictures have been posted a few times on here, but this is an actual 'video' of the prime minister explaining that famous moment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1nZ0DFkrM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERBf9Jsa6Po

Only screenshots, but this was the moment I was referring to.. He went absolutely ape shit, I've never seen anything like it before, and then he flung himself to the ground.

The club would be mad not to, they had an entire seperate DVD for the 2009 FA Cup final FFS...

Indeed, Ashley Cole had the best 'initial' reaction out of every Chelsea player that night. The expression on his face when Drogba scored the winner was priceless.

I wonder if that black 3rd strip is going to be '3D' like the Lyon shirt, it gives off that impression from the graphics. Undecided on the away shirt, very Real Madrid-esque minus the stripe.

The 'iconic' factor was the USP, unfortunately anything else will be a disappointment now.

This must only be happening to you, as I've only seen the bar appear on your posts.. I've edited a few posts today, and no bar has appeared.

Scolari wanted to sell Drogba, and replace him with Adriano.

Raul is a bigger legend for Real than Drogba is for Chelsea, yet his 'famous' number 7 was given to someone else within seconds of him leaving. Real Madrid is the biggest and most prestigious club in world football history, take notes..

One of my players has reached legend status.. Anyone else got a 'Legend' yet?..

Ask any Ajax fan about this guy, the Bosingwa similarities are uncanny.

Best: The CL run, Benayoun surrendering the number 10 shirt to Mata, the Eva Carneiro effect, Mata's impact on the side in his debut season. Worst: City winning the title, with the FFP around the corner, it would have been a massive blow if they had lost out to United.

Congrats to Ollie. We should really re-introduce the Legend tags, my name looks better in gold.

Salford Kel is extremely biased & bitter, she has a distorted view point

Tumblr. It hasn't been officially announced, but it may as well have been. You don't sign one of the hottest prospects in world football for £30m+ and refuse to give him the only first team number available. His agent made the number 11 part of the deal, commercial reasons.

Confirmed.

This 'rivalry' (broad term anyway), has actually been underplayed by the football world, non-chelsea fans and Barca fans. Granted the media pre & post match build up has been justly hyped up for what it is, due to the previous encounters. Barca fans (from what I've seen) like to shrug it off though, they don't want to dwell on it, or entertain the idea.