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nice passage of play by Sweepy to mikel, to kalou (great little chip over the last defender) and kalou cuts back to sheva who fires just wide! The commentator on here can't say enough good things about Essien. A refreshing welcome I have to say

looks like it is back to you and I in here Val. Honestly if someone comes in to read this thread it will basically be a chat about time zones, american colleges, working on sundays, and a bit of footy in for good measure

kalou on for drogs...playing sheva upfront on his own! Interesting. we have been giving forrest too much time on the ball as of late. i hope drogba's substitution doesn't take away our physical presence and allow them even further back into the game

Because Beckham is from essex, and he IS man utd!

I have to admit, watching it on Star Sports seems to be quite refreshing. No Bias in the commentary, and the lads at halftime were talking about Chelsea's dominance, and that it was a case of "damage limitation for forrets." Also said that Chelsea could and shoud try and go for 5 goals!

i was just WAITING for someone to say that!

ESPN, a channel mainly focused on American Football, Nascar, Baseball etc at the end of each day of sports has their "daily top 10." Rooney even made it to#2 or #3 on there yesterday!!! Even the commentators calling him a super sub etc. I love that he has been on a drought, and then scores one and they call it amazing. Sheva doesn't score fro a while, the knives are out, comes back and scores 2.....anything?

would be good for the confidence for some of the boys to get on the scoresheet bigtime today!

good news!

what school you at mate? I am pretty sure the D1 schools will hvae somethings going on today, mainly basketball (roll on march and the mighty Syracuse!!!) reason I ask, is when i initially came to the states, I played for a D3 school, so if your college has a golf team I may have played against them at nationals!

Good on Mikel!!!

sweet deal if ou can get it mate, so well done. Currently I work for Nordstrom, but when moving up in the company I will eventually have the weekends off! Fingers crossed

did think about teh college sports thing, but would have only been as a golf coach and that means travelling at weekends too!

that JUST happened with me, so not bad!

unchristian, I guess I work for heathens then!!! Out of interest, what time are you on in the game, just so I know how far behind I am.....as I post this it is in the 35th minute

Essien is just awesome!!!1 Defending brilliantly one minute, then up pressuring their defence leading to our corner. The commentator said that Jose described Essien as "the signing of 11 players, such is his versatility!" Certainly showing that today

okay Val no need to rub it in. I still have to work today!

spot on. so it will be 3.30pm with you, right?

not much of a prize val, just a coffee, albeit a good one, from the espresso bar at work. WIll need it after getting up so early tow atch these games. Drogba clutches his side a lot! So don't worry too much about it. For such a big guy, he seemingly picks up lots of little injuries throughout the game

just found a chennel with English commentary, so I may be a second or two behind in my postings seeins as it took time for the new chennel to buffer when I switched Great news for me, is that the one other Brit I work with out here is a Notts Forrest supporter, so we have a friendly wager on the side. NOt counting ym chickens, but we look pretty comfortable here

DROGBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that ball wasn't even close to going out!!! And, may I just say, another great performance so far by Diarra

I guess they are all glued to their sets watching the BBC!!!

anyone watching this via a stream with english commentary?

yeah they just announced it as an OG!! Shame, because I don't think the keeper was getting to sheva's shot