termninja 5,290 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Was brilliant tonight!His heart was definitely in it.PS: Only two pages on the ashley cole thread?We lost some pages due to forum updates CHOULO19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Arguably Cole's best performance this season. Saved us again with yet another goal-line clearance, made some vital last minute challenges & did well when going forward too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Term-X 7,891 Posted April 20, 2012 Popular Post! Share Posted April 20, 2012 Jase, sLOVEnian Blue, CHOULO19 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Xavi? HA! Who's he? Duppy Conqueror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Xavi looks like he appreciated that Duppy Conqueror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Drog 1,110 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Cole entered a masterclass against Barcelona, just as he had entered a superb display against Spurs a few days earlier. Despite the OTT criticisms he got on here a few months ago, he remains the finest full back in the business. Duppy Conqueror 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! LDN Blue 7,903 Posted April 22, 2012 Popular Post! Share Posted April 22, 2012 Cole's sheer brilliance shows he's more than just a love ratIf Ashley Cole did not exist, then the red-top tabloids would have invented him. He is a 31-year-old adolescent, a hero of the paparazzi, a 'serial lovecheat' who has cut a dazzling swath through some of the most distinguished lap dancers, topless models and reality television stars of his generation.When disdainful civilians attempt to imagine the stereotypical Premier League footballer, then Cole is a prominent candidate.His default expression is a petulant sneer, he holds match officials in arrogant contempt, and who was the prankster who shot and injured a work-placement student with a .22 air rifle at the Chelsea training ground? Need you ask?Moreover, he will never truly live down the story he told six years ago in his 'autobiography' of how he almost crashed his car in affronted anger when Arsenal insulted him with a salary offer of £55,000 per week. Yet there is another side to our Ashley. As well as being a 'love rat', he is also a left-back and an extremely accomplished one.There was a moment the other evening, during Chelsea's improbable Champions League first-leg victory over Barcelona, when he revealed his instinctive class.Trapped on the touchline and surrounded by a posse of predators, he twitched a shoulder, fluttered a foot and flicked the ball into half a yard of space with the side of his heel before conjuring the pass. It was a manoeuvre stolen straight from the Catalan playbook. Indeed, of the entire Chelsea side, only Cole's talents truly equip him for a place in the Barcelona team.But that flick merely hints at his contribution. He battled ceaselessly with the overlapping incursions of Dani Alves, winning his duels with the confidence of one who has consistently coped with the best the world game can offer.And he denied Barcelona their critical away goal with a goalline clearance which demanded both athleticism and anticipation; the same qualities he had revealed in the last-16 away leg in Naples when another of his salvage operations proved the difference between mere defeat and certain elimination.It may be that Cole's most impressive performance was delivered in the course of Chelsea's most abject display. On the third day of last month, on a chill afternoon at The Hawthorns, Chelsea surrendered to West Bromwich Albion.It was a curious exhibition, vaguely shameful in its listless ineptitude. As the players slouched off, an old pro glared down from the Press box.'That was disgraceful,' he said. 'They never tried an inch. They looked like they were trying to get the manager the sack.'If that was the case, then they succeeded.Andre Villas-Boas departed next day. But in the immediate aftermath of the feeble defeat, as the manager searched for words to capture the humiliation - 'very poor, in all senses of the word … not good enough … this is just too bad' - he made a point of exempting the man who fought to turn the tide, flatly refusing to allow his own standards to drop. 'The only player who performed up to any level was Ashley Cole,' he said.It is on such desperate occasions that a player reveals his true worth and Cole came flying through his test. But perhaps we should not have been surprised.After a dozen years in the Premier League, with three League titles, six FA Cup winners' medals and 93 England caps to his name, his excellence is beyond argument.Along with Wayne Rooney, he is probably the only authentic worldclass talent that England possess.Whoever takes the national job - and despite the erudite intervention of the Bolton chairman Phil Gartside, that race is not yet run - will see Cole as a central pillar of his plans, his Barcelona masterclass simply confirming his towering ability. None of which should suggest that he is preparing dramatic lifestyle changes.The lap dancers, 'glamour' models and reality airheads should not abandon hope. The air stewardesses, Playboy playmates, blonde secretaries and fitness trainers should carry on checking their phone texts.And certainly the paparazzi should continue to send wives to Armani and sons to Winchester, in the comfortable certainty that illicit snaps of the serial love cheat will settle the bills.No matter. When Ashley Cole sets aside his amorous distractions and lays down his rifle, his talent tells a powerful tale.And if Chelsea are to achieve a still more improbable result in the Nou Camp this week, then they will look to their eternal adolescent. For whatever his faults and foibles, the boy can play. Quite brilliantly.http://www.dailymail...CK-COLLINS.html Duppy Conqueror, Sheva., CHOULO19 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 http://www.dailymail...CK-COLLINS.htmlThe mail publishing decent articles? What has this world come to! Sheva. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I've said this so many times before and I'll say it again, Cole is one of the best fullbacks ever. Only few could match the level of his contribution both in offense and defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I've said this so many times before and I'll say it again, Cole is one of the best fullbacks ever. Only few could match the level of his contribution both in offense and defence.England & Chelsea's most consistent player in the last 4-5years. It was worth Mourinho & Chelsea getting in trouble over for tapping up, because everyone recognised his quality & potential. Could have a case for being one of our best purchases alongside Lampard, Ricky, Drogba & Cech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 England & Chelsea's most consistent player in the last 4-5years. It was worth Mourinho & Chelsea getting in trouble over for tapping up, because everyone recognised his quality & potential. Could have a case for being one of our best purchases alongside Lampard, Ricky, Drogba & Cech.Definitely. And we got him for what, 5 mil + Gallas? Without a doubt one of the best deals made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin_3d 1,140 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 I still would sell him this summer now that we got Ryan! Jype 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,591 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Definitely. And we got him for what, 5 mil + Gallas? Without a doubt one of the best deals made.Still remember how they went on and on and on and on and on how they got the best deal..and then Gallas just fucked around and threw random stropsBut yeah postive article?!?! No doubt they'll make up for that later onBut he's been pretty damn solid of late...and had we had him against Fulham I dont think that goal would've gone in because he seems to be always there on the posts whereas when he aint..no one else seems to cover it...and some great clearances against Arsenal and Barca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsealovefc 1 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Cole was the best fullback in the league for a few years running. I've felt a decline in his form tho. Not giving as much offensively, and still makes the occasional bad mistake an attacking fullback makes. Somebody like Enrique at LIverpool seems a good fit because he really doesn't make many defensive mistakes, but can still get up and help the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Ashley's been SO good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo 1,729 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Amazing how he still holds up considering the amount of minutes he logs for us every year. Say what you will about him off the pitch but he is a true professional. BlueLion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hysteria 159 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 ASHLEY YOU WERE HUGEE! :blue scalf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Take back every bit of criticism I've aimed at him. Humble pie for lunch it looks like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Drog 1,110 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 imo, he is undoubtedly the finest full back in the world. He might not have the blistering pace he had before and that does limit his marauding runs forward but he has been able to make up for that and adapt his game, defensively he is rock solid, still a big threat going forward and remarkably composed on the ball and a real leader to boot.Even with 4 players missing, it's because we still have players like Cole available to us that give us a chance of winning the Champions League this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 PFA team of the year ,,,,full backs Walker and Baines ,,,who said players were intelligent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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