Phil Driver

Always nice to be right !! "Moments like that pass win league titles ,the experience to keep the ball alive and a wondrful left foot pass" Gary Neville" and it will be missed by some" who know nothing about the game ^^^^^^

God are you still spouting your rubbish !!

No Mikel will help whoever we put out ,good to see Essien back with Rammy we will not surrender ground in midfield with Mikel having been dropped again , Lamaprd can come on if we need a goal .

Dropped again . And rightly so awful recently and not because he needs a rest.

Mikel out and it will not be because he needs rest . Dropped again I am afraid .

Starts today.

Yes ,it was not obvious to you?

Jose the worlds best manager wrong on so many counts . Get choulou in

No pressure on him at West Ham it was a stroll ,how did he do at Basle and Spurs when the back four needed protecting? Jose is not stupid he needs to sell him and get rid of a drain on the wage bill. He can only hide in games where we are not put under pressure or we have the whole team defending and doing his job for him.

Good call, the Basle game came to soon for him after West Ham as it did others, but 4 days is plenty to recover for this one and this is important and you need your best players for the big games.

Put your number up and he might ring you up for some sensible advice . On the other hand dont wait for it to ring ...................

It is as simple as this ,if this plays today we could struggle ,did nothing at West Ham and at Basle where he should have protected the back four he was missing. The question still remains ,what the fook does he do?

So you missed the man of the match at West Ham? 9.6 on whoscored.com and not a sideways pass on show .

He was bought in to fill the holding role and even played in the team before our alleged sitter was reintroduced.

Any decent African player will be on the first boat to Europe ,we all know that .The standard is mickey mouse with some good players who play in Europe and some pub players .

So we have scouted him and we dont rate him or Emenalo is not presuasive enough to tempt an obvious target to the club he supports who play in the Champions league , hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. As i said Emenalo was more interested in giving Mikel a new 4 year deal and signing Wallace when his efforts should have taken him on a short drive down the M3 to Southampton,Emenalo must try harder !!! or it will be back to the girls team.

Must start ,the class player on the pitch at West Ham ,Basle came to soon and the legs were not there as with Oscar ,but that effort at West Ham should not be forgotten where he was class, The game for a rest should be Sunderland away in the League cup, where fodder like Mikel can have a run when the stakes are not so high.

Who? Big fish in small pond comes to mind.

Hope he plays today a midfield containing Essien,Lampard and Rammy will be a good blend that will work as a unit and take the game to Southampton . 4-3-3 will work for us .

We need the same energy and class we saw at West Ham ,we do not need to play a system where we have a player who we are told protects the back four and when the time comes for the back four to need protecting like at Basle and Spurs their is no protection on show ,we need to press and make their sitter look stupid as Basle did to ours where we were sretched with big gaps between our back four , sitter and the midfield and attack, let our class players take control like at West Ham . Our line up will be very important we can sit deep and let Southampton expose our lack of cover in front of the back four (this is how they play) or we can squeeze them up the pitch and get behind their lines and let our three AM's get to work with our midfield duo backing them and feeding them with quick early passes. A slow sideways game is not what we need and they will be all over us if we try that. As long as our game plan is designed to take the game to Southampton we will be fine sit and show our weakness and we will struggle for rhythm and lack purpose. Jose needs to go with his head on this and not get sucked into the myths that stiil surround the clubs formation,the days of getting ten behind the ball and defending are gone with the players we have been signing ,five number 10's in a squad are not suited to that. The team that imposes themselves on todays game will win and that will not be Chelsea if we allow them to press as our flair players are not best when being asked to help out at the back. This is a big reason why Mata is suffering at the moment.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3556150/title/mourinho-envy-of-europe

As soon as Shaw gave Azpilecueta the run around at Stamford Bridge last season when the waiter was manager ,our scouting team should have been on this ,BEFORE he signed a new contract at Southampton,it was very obvious,but I guess Emenalo was only interested in giving Mikel a new deal at that time and an English left back would not have even registered with him. He really needs to up his game the fact that Shaw is a Chelsea supporter makes it even worse.

Well the cv for Emenalo reads Notts County, Nigeria,girls team ,Avram Grant and and Chelsea his greatest achievement seems to be his ability to arse lick Roman ,if the squad seems unbalanced at the moment with too many similar players and gaps in other positions I place the blame on his work over the last few years not on the new manager . Ancellotti said he was not in control of the first team ,I want Jose in full control. I do not see what qualifications Emenalo has to be Director of Football at Chelsea and the jury is still out on him. Lets leave it to serial winner and Champion manager not a girls team manager who got a break.

Nigerian player of the year and well deserved, I watched some of those African games and he was Nigeria's stand out performer and it seems that has been recognised despite him playing for a scum club now,that was the right decision. To be honest some of the players are conference standard in these matches. The Ivory Coast goalkeeper was abysmal in the Nigeria v Ivory Coast game.

No problem gald to educate you foreigners about what is happening at the club,if you need a translation ,online is very easy access.