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I respect them, I want them to win the league this season. It's purely because of what happened in Moscow and what followed from their supporters. Any Chelsea fan who went through the pain (and still feels the pain) of moscow understands. Them winning it 'back to back', all because of a JT slip, would have been too much to take.

........... Yes.

Well, you've just excluded 3 teams out of a possible 4 that 'could' qualify, not really standing true to the general principle then. After Moscow... any Chelsea fan who supported United in that final is a fucking disgrace, quite frankly. You are no better than the guy that made the 'Mr Penalty' banner. Not to mention all the United fans who mocked us with those JT photoshopped pics, well and truly rubbing it in our faces.

"I’ve met him once, and the day he came to tell us Villas-Boas was not in charge anymore and that Di Matteo was the new coach, he was affected, you could see it in his face." ^ No mention of an outspoken Roman... clearly the Daily Mail had it wrong then, sources claimed he 'ripped them a new one', and read them the "riot act" etc, Smh.

The incredible thing about this, is that we played (more or less) full strength teams in both the FA Cup & CL semi-finals, and not a sign of fatigue for the most part. Considering all the talk before the two games was whether or not RDM would prioritise the CL or FA Cup, that is quite remarkable.

Coverage has started on ITV..

We all know this won't be a 'conventional' 433 anyways.

Barca's XI: Valdes; Alves, Mascherano, Puyol, Adriano; Xavi,Busquets, Iniesta; Alexis, Messi, Fabregas

If by some miracle we make it to the final, the last thing we need is Mourinho's mind games.

You implied that I had no life because of it, so after a comment like that, it's fair enough that I offered you an explanation. Posting blinding without giving any consideration to what may have been posted before is just pointless, quite frankly. It's the opposite of why forums exist.

I suppose not everyone has the same capabilities.. I can breeze through 10-20 pages in no time. If you do have difficulty reading quickly enough, you can take tests and have training.

Must have been quite a team talk from Mourinho...

It depends on how fast a reader you are, you can do 'speed reading tests' online. It should only take 5 minutes or so for an average person to get through 10 pages on TC. Otherwise what's the point of a forum? ..

Already posted on page 27, do you not read through threads?.. or do you just click on the last page skipping everything?

With an average age of 24 years old, I have the youngest team in the league.

Can we switch the threads back to 20 posts per page?.. It's 12 atm, and we will most likely have around 60% of members who don't click on the 'speech bubble', in order to view the newest post. Which means most members are just wasting their time by bothering to post.

Just like in 2009 (Messi V Ronaldo), UEFA have their 'ideal final', El Clasico. They may not even have to appoint a dodgy ref this time. No doubt the officials will want revenge on Chelsea FC, for the treatment of ‘one their own‘, as a European match official family. the abuse from fans, hurling flags at Ovrebo in the tunnel, The death threats Ovrebo received, the players reactions. Revenge time indeed…

A lot of people (myself included) were worried Mata may have regretted leaving Valencia, considering what followed. Having said that, if he had remained there for his entire career, competing in a Champions League semi-final would have been an uncertainty. So, all in all..

Parker nominated over Mata...

He's the type of player who would excel 'out of spite' at another club.. If we reportedly signed Lukaku for 18m, 'mostly' to prevent other clubs from signing him. Then surely we need to keep hold of Sturridge, and at the very least prevent him from joining a rival. Although after the Benayoun saga, that's not exactly something we can bank on.