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I believe Lamps has a contract with The Sun... Which means they get dibs on exclusive interviews etc. Wonderful news Franky boy - exactly what we needed to hear with the season's run in. Frank's a true blue

United Road - you say 'grow up' but call Lampard 'Fat Fw**k'? Thats just a tad hypocritical... Either set the standard or sit down. Oh, and I guess making that statement makes me bitter? I love the reasoning, I really do. Fans like UNITED, emm off you see, RedRobMol, Scousedownsouth etc - who can take it aswell as dish it out in a respectable manner are always welcome.

New game, new thread. According to the Beeb, Mikel will be available for this game... But I doubt we'd see him over Ballack. Also, there may be a chance of Essien being back, so he probably gets pushed back even further. According to reports, it sounded like SWP had his best game in a Chelsea shirt yesturday, so lets hope he can carry that confidence and performance into the game. Then again, I guess its a choice out of him and Robben if Jose chooses to go with the Drogs and Sheva upfront. But will Jose revert back to the midfield 4 of Lamps, Ballack, Essien and Maka?... If so then neither of them may start. Which is a shame, because Spuds will no doubt expose our lack of width. Come on the Chels!!

Long kick, lucky bounce, goalkeeper who thinks he's bigger and better than he is watching it go over him...

3-0 Ballack - the CSR lot should meet up more often...!

2-0! Kalouuuuu Jayhawk - get in the chat.

SHEVCHENKO!! 1-0

For the few of you who aren't at the big CSR meet up - get in the match chat, a lot easy to talk during games.

From the official site: Chelsea will line-up in a 4-3-3 formation as follows: 1Petr Cech 9 Khalid Boulahrouz 6 Ricardo Carvalho 26 John Terry © 3 Ashley Cole 24 Shaun Wright-Phillips 4 Claude Makelele 8 Frank Lampard 21Salomon Kalou 7 Andriy Shevchenko 16 Arjen Robben Subs: 23 Carlo Cudicini, 20 Paulo Ferreira, 22 Lassana Diarra, 13 Michael Ballack, 11 Didier Drogba. Don't worry, Drogba just rested. Do worry, Boula at RB. Ballack rested, not dropped

I bet they'll be laughing if they won this league on goal difference.

CSRers jinxing again? Well we can rule out Bolton helping us out.

and once he has finished doing that I hope he, and the rest of the team, take a bit of time out to practice simple passing. Ok another win, important 3 points, at this time of the season it is all about the result etc etc and yes we looked comfortable with City rarely threatening but we surely have to aspire to playing better football than that! True. But all those 'he doesn't defend like Stevie Me' types can shove it up their arse - clearly know sweet f**k all about football..

Hope Lamps remembers to take Barton out his back pocket...

Oh flippin' eck! 'the points are Chelsea's in reality aren't they?' 'yes they are' Trying to jinx us!

Ah thanks Loz, not a bad bet then...! Then again, whoever had 3-3 against Spuds must be able to retire now.

Citeh are going 3-5-2 Hopefully Robben will get some success against a back 3!

I don't have a great knowledge of betting/tips/odds etc... But what do you win if we win?

Geremi? Diarra rested I guess then. Essien took quite a bad knock against Spuds so its no real surprise not see him there. 2 flying wingers and the inform man upfront - I like!

Damn Virgin Media! I woulda watched that if I still had Sky One! Ahh well... I thought Sid's upbringing was quite common knowledge... He had no control, no family to calm him down or stable friends to keep him grounded. And you're right, his obsessive nature was quite worrying, I think he just longed to belong.

Dammit! I thought after Sunday's showing Bridgey would start against City.

Poor Billy... No trophy to motivate himself for. I guess that pay packet just isn't enough. Or the joy of playing football itself. HE told his team mate? Does Stevie Me have a contender for his crown? (probably not, no one is that self obsessed, not even Billy Boy...!)

All the talk before the first game of the season against Man City at the Bridge on SS1 was about how Barton would cause us trouble. He had absolutley no influence on the game whatsoever - Lamps and Essien showed why Barton isn't International standard and is an average player in an average team. Infact... I don't think Essien remembered to take him our his pocket. Com'n the Chels!

Oh my... how wonderful. Just seen this woman on the tele crying and hysterical well done sky sports for focusing in on it. Highlight of my day bloody City supporters, deserve it all

He didn't start him to be fair... so maybe only a 2 match ban.

Well, it is difficult to tell the difference between his arse and his face. I don't want to go al Keegan on people, but I would love it, absolutely love it if someone did the same to him and got away with it. I'd laugh. SO much, I'd be in hysterics. I know two wrongs and all that stuff, but this is the exception to the rule. He really makes no effort to get the ball, just to tear the other players' calf into threads.