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And that would be the bus towing Titus Bramble.

If Spuds lose at Portsmouth tomorrow, they'll have half the points Derby had at that point last season.

I still have this lingering hope that he's just playing a trick on us with that interview... I mean, that could be Saturday night banter down at the boozer at closing hour. And it's not as if he wasn't one with a sense of humour...

Zing!

To be fair, it's far less likely that England are going to win the World Cup than Chelsea are going to win the Prem/Champions League. Although the WC is only over a month or so, so if they get a good run of form, then they could nick it (see "Greece"). But Chelsea > England in terms of :(

Aw :( Good old Ballack.

I know, I love the guy and he's a great left-back, but when he dived against Hargreaves today, and then acted like he'd been cheated out of a marriage, I wasn't best pleased...

Well it's not as if it would be real. :P It would be like acting. And for £4-5 million a year... I'd be able to buy a Blues season ticket once the contract was over! :(

Let's just hope it doesn't come back on us and we lose 16-0 :(

Seeing as we'd been completely hounded by injuries, as well as the media telling all and sundry that we were the dirtiest, diving-est, Drogba-est team in the Premiership, whereas Man Utd (with Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand hacking at the helm) were portrayed as these angels who played beautiful football, as well as that old Scottish drunk talking out of his arse as usual, I was pretty tense about this game, considering even despite all of this, we'd only just been pipped to the title. This was the ultimate chance for us to get back at that red scum and tell everyone who the true champions were. This was our time to shine, the final revenge for the year of bull we'd had to put up with, whereas Man Ure had had a stroll in the park without ever being the best team in the country (first it was Arsenal, whose squad was decimated by injuries, and then us, who had had our squad previous decimated by injuries), and were being heralded by the media as these footballing heroes. Every time Vidic body-checked Drogba, every time Paul Scholes took out Makelele with a two-footed challenge, every time Rio "Respect for Referees" Ferdinand bellowed at the ref each time a decision didn't go Man Ure's way, every time Ronaldo performed a superfluous stepover and went down without being touched, my hatred for those Manc scumbags rose even more, culminating in Vidic attempting to punch Drogba in the face, restrained only by John Terry, followed by the ridiculous red card Drogba received for a light slap. At this point I began to bellow at the screen pretty much constantly, until the penalties came. I expected a complete farce, considering we lost pretty much every shootout I can remember since I've been alive. But with every penalty we scored, I thought that maybe, -maybe- it was our night. And then that little scumbag Ronaldo stepped up. How much I wanted Petr Cech to outwit the little a*****e I can never describe. And when Ronaldo tried one of his 'clever' tricks and failed... Cech emerging victorious... I was the happiest man alive. This was it. The ULTIMATE JUSTICE. Man Utd fall on penalties... and at the heart of the blame, the one who let them down was their golden boy, the diving ****, Cristiano Ronaldo. And eventually JT stepped up. This was it. The moment of glory. Mr Reliable, the England captain, Chelsea's lion, was going to seal it... but he fluffed it. I sank to my knees and by this point had long since run out of fingernails so was chewing on my fingers. That was it. Total despair. Man Ure rode their luck again. I knew what was going to happen after this... every glimmer of hope was gone. Ashley Cole came and went... I believed in him, but when the uninterested joke of a striker Anelka stepped up, I knew it was all over. After it had happened, they zoomed in on the focus of my hatred celebrating on their lucky, despicable victory. The media would lap it up, of course. I turned the TV off, and just collapsed on the floor. Melodramatic, I know... but I must have been down for about twenty minutes. It was the worst feeling in the world. My beautiful Blues had been robbed in the worst way possible. I didn't cry, but I was pretty much devoid of emotion, literally feeling dead inside. You always think after something like this "It's only football...", but that never helps. There was really nothing which could make up for it... nothing else existed in my life which I was so passionate about.

I'm thinking an unconvincing 1-0 to us. They're almost certainly going to "park the bus"

Agreed. Belletti was one of the best defenders in the world when he was at Barca, and as I was never particularly confident in Paolo Ferreira, I was incredibly happy when I heard we'd signed him... of course things might not quite work out that way... ¬__¬

I was actually thinking exactly this! Ooorr... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/22032008/4/f...ef-respect.html

Well... someone pass me my hat... I have some munching to do.

I thought Brighton might have nicked it when they went 2-1 up... but penalties will do me fine :D

4-0! :D

2-0!

SFL! :D Any luck on the streams, anyone?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/l...cup/7633798.stm It's tragic... but it looks like this is our best bet for tonight ¬__¬

This site is only showing some Barca highlights and Newcastle - Spuds for me ¬___¬

I found a stream for Grays Athletic vs Stevenage... but no Portsmouth - Chelsea ¬___¬

I wouldn't play Drogba. We don't want our injury-prone, only good striker taken out by a team who are probably going to scrap it out. We should see if Anelka / Di Santo can bring their confidence up by getting a few.

Maybe if Anelka gets too bad we should bring Malouda towards the middle a bit as a second striker. He's proven time and again that he can't cross for s**t, so he's pretty wasted out on the wing. He's quick, and can even finish on his day, so we could give him a go?

Yeah, look at Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney every time a decision went against Man Ure... they were in the ref's face like anything. Terry gets bizarrely sent off and he looks bemused, owns the City fans and respectfully walks off.