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May I suggest that anyone who doesn't vote for Cech was watching a different game?

Want me to do the Man of the Match topic?

Count me in. That was laughably bad. Absolutely dire performance all around (With a certain Mr Cech nonwithstanding).

Why was Ballack booked there exactly? :S

http://atdhe.net/live-tv-1668.html

The Setanta lot (minus Graham "competent" Poll) agreed that it was a very harsh decision and said that the ball not being on the ground should be taken into it, as well as Osman's dramatics afterwards. Did anyone else see him grinning on the floor waiting for the red card to come? Cheating prat. Then Poll came out and went on about how he was victimised for sending off John Terry two years previously. Stupid sh*t-talking prat. Drogba and Ivanovic warming up on the field. Hopefully we'll see Joe Cole/Ballack removed...

Crap decision for the red. It was an awful tackle, but Phil "stupid fat c**t" Dowd seemed to miss Tony Hibbert doing the EXACT same thing to Deco ten seconds previously... Lampard booked for a completely reasonable objection to that fat idiot's decision in favour of that diving moron Cahill, and then Cashley booked for no apparent reason. From what I could see, he was just standing in the wall. Absolutely woeful going forward as usual, our best two attackers were Deco and Cashley... Bosingwa making runs to nowhere, Anelka has been marked out of the game, Joe Cole's been wasteful and Lampard's been poor as well. WTF is going on?

I think you're right. I don't know why they're so intent on telling everyone we're not going to buy anybody though... unless they're going to unleash an unexpected bid for the entire Argentina team in January.

Have you seen Everton's home form? They've won one game all season and they don't have any fit strikers... whereas we have a 100% record away. Surely, SURELY we can't mess this up?

The trouble is that Scolari himself is quoted in that article...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...sea/7793600.stm Looks like the transfer rumours may all be cack after all...

I agree. Look at how bad Man Utd and Liverpool have been up until now, and it's credit to how bad we've been that they're still within touching distance of us... Man Utd should stroll to the title as soon as they hit form. :(

He bought Claude Makelele and Petr Cech, that's what.

Probably didn't get this in on time... but: Blackburn v Stoke 20/12/2008 15:00 GMT - Home Bolton v Portsmouth 20/12/2008 15:00 GMT - Home Fulham v Middlesbrough 20/12/2008 15:00 GMT - Home Hull v Sunderland 20/12/2008 15:00 GMT - Draw West Ham v Aston Villa 20/12/2008 17:30 GMT - Draw West Bromwich v Manchester City 21/12/2008 13:30 GMT - Draw Newcastle v Tottenham 21/12/2008 15:00 GMT - Home Arsenal v Liverpool 21/12/2008 16:00 GMT - Home Everton v Chelsea 22/12/2008 20:00 GMT - Away

I've heard them both described as the best African player of all time... but who do you think is better? Weah was a tank for us that season he came to us on loan... And we all know what Drogba's capable of.

How do you nominate quotes for that little quote bar at the bottom of the page again?

I remember your avatar?

Does anyone have a replay of the penalty claim? When I first saw it I didn't think it should have been given ¬___¬

Bloody hell, dismal performance this week from yours truly ¬___¬ I even drew with Lawro...

Drogba for me. Transformed our attack as soon as he came on. We went from one shot on target in 45 minutes before he came on... ...to a goal five minutes after he came on. If he'd played from the start... we might well have bagged all three points.

After seeing the eighth cross in ten minutes sail into Robert Green's arms... I'm inclined to change my mind...

He didn't dare carry on too long with Alex though... ;) Half man half tank, I tells ya...

Whoa... calm down guys. It hasn't been that bad. Deco really hasn't been as bad as we've been making out. I'd far sooner see Ballack go off for Belletti than Deco. Deco's made some sweet passes, and we've nearly scored from a few of them. It's only been a series of frankly spectacular saves from Robert Green that have kept them in it in the last ten minutes, and we show all the signs that we're going to score. Even if we don't... a draw isn't the end of the world. West Ham had to come good sometime... Worst case scenario is that in fifteen minutes time, we're a point behind the leaders with our best defender, our best midfielder and our best striker having missed near enough the entire season so far.

Awesome ball in there from Deco for Kalou's shot ;)

Kalou on ...for Joe Cole ¬____¬