Adi

Team, what did you get for Christmas ? Thats right . A new daddy to play with. Just like every year.

I am not interested in what Rafa is, what he has done, or what he can. I am in MOURN mode. This is preposterous

I dont believe this, two pints down , still irritated , furious at the events, unwilling to defend the club, frustrated at this bullsh*t policy, sad for dimatteo, depressed with the new manager, impatient for the protest, afraid of watching more spanish bteamers in the club, missing carlo, cursing the gloryhunter bandwagon of chelsea, blaming roman, embarrased of the sacking, murderous towards fernancy blonde tutu torres, jealous of arsenal management, waiting , gulping , sipping, rampling, typing, its gonna be a f**king long night, hell hath no wrath like a fan drunk. Make me the manager, i know tactics, i know how to play, how to sack teh blonde, how to boss roman around, how to buy refs and beat united, park the bus and f**k barca, play the diamond while smokin a cigar, still geat points at brum away and save my job, shag eva and luiz in a threesome, make ramires go the gym, mikel to run, sturridge f**ker to pass, make chelsea like arsenal in management and united in luck and barca in style and pool in history, f**k all plastics and make me godamn manager

The goal had to come from our right. It did. I will just say it , Torres was sh*t yesterday. He has been stranded in many fixtures and showed sparks. But yesterday he had a good 4-5 chances. If the ball keeps on hitting the wrong spot on your shoe or the wrong curve on your head, you cannot keep on blaming the rest of the guys around. Its a big game. And you are supposed to convert the half chances. Not keep on fluffing the relatively easier ones. Drogba was one of our better players. Still many of us have maintained why a 4-4-2 with 2 strikers playing high and not dropping back is unlikely to work against quality sides. A blind bat can see that. Why not Carlo. Bosingwa being taken out was a good choice. But we should have maintained Essien upfront centrally. Once he drifted to the right flank he had only scarce touches on the ball, and was effectively rendered out of the game. Mikel as usual showed a few sparks. Was too late to make an impact. Same goes with Nico.

1. 07 MAR Blackpool (A) 0-4 Win 2. 20 MAR Man City (H) 0-0 Draw 3. 02 APR Stoke City (A) 0-1 Win 4. 09 APR Wigan (H) 3-0 Win 5. 16 APR W.B.A. (A) 0-3 Win 6. 20 APR Birmingham (H) 1-0 Win 7. 23 APR West Ham (H) 2-0 Win 8. 30 APR Tottenham (H) 1-1 Draw 9. 07 MAY Man Utd (A) 1-2 Loss 10. 14 MAY Newcastle (H) 4-0 Win 11. 22 MAY Everton (A) 0-2 Win

The whole idea behind an AFC 'should' be to form a Chelsea B, with cheaper access to games , Maintain the ambience that traditionally smaller clubs have, and that irreversibly evaporates with expansion or success. Should have popped up when something was really wrong with our crowd at at the Bridge. I am not in favour of this. At this juncture it is a knee-jerk in my opinion.

I am not sure if it has anything to with our recent form...

Start Torres, Nicolas ,And Didier together. The best shot we have at UCL, is when these three start delivering together upfront. The sooner the better.

Hhhahah. By the way , will you be changing your Display picture till June.

The one thing thats keeping me optimistic is Palacios and Modric in Central midfield. We should be able to dominate there. Its intriguing to see how Ashley is going to play this one. Probably Lennon would stick himself high up the pitch and keep him from marauding the left. If Hutton stays deep most of the time, it will be really difficult for us to dominate that side of the pitch. Thats where a Lampard will make hell of a difference if he plays in this game . A lot of space will open up in the centre of the pitch. Whoever plays the Left Central role will have tremendous oppurtunity bombing ahead. If Lampard does not start this one, we will have to do with Malouda/Ramires obviously. Both can be good in this role. Had Bosingwa started this one , the tactics would have tilted in our favour. But since its Ferreira starting, We will need to double up against him. Maybe Essien would be asked to that , and then all our midfield advantage goes annulled. if I were Carlo, I would play Kalou and ask him to stick his butt deep with Gareth Bale, whenever out of possession. Paulo-Mikel-Ashley to stay as guards against Counters when we are attacking corner kicks. Some way, this one is not going down to the personnel on the pitch itself. A bit of Italian innovation, and we can nick it. Please do not disappoint Carlo. Dont just field your regular system , and pray for a Lampard/Drogba miracle. We are past it.

Cech Ferreira Terry Alex Ashley , Mikel , Zhirkov , Ramires/Josh , Kalou , Drogba, Sturridge. A decent lineup to kick some Russian balls. Tuck Essien and Nico away in their beds. Let them sleep off the night.

>Start with Alex and Jt. They should get a decent outing to be back in their best sync together. >Rest Essien from the midfield. There will be plenty on his shoulders vs Liverpool. Especially the task of putting Gerrard out of the equation is by no means easy, and by all means, critical. >Give Malouda , Anelka a break upfront. Kalou and the Drog are adequate replacements. Sturridge can play the third. Its our home. And the lads need to be shown some faith. More importantly, the ones that have been proving themselves. If Sturridge/Kalou cannot be assured of starting under these circumstances, wonder how their faith towards the team and the coach will last. Liverpool at Anfield is not going to be a cakewalk. In my view it looks 50-50. We have been less than convincing in the past few games. And Pool have been a bit slow, but gradual upside. They do not have any new injury concerns apart from Joe Cole, which actually is a blessing in disguise. A big game like this can add the spice for a team to show their true bum.

Rather take a call here than in the PL. We have plenty of games here , a loss will make sh*t of a difference. But the league, should not be risked, with city on our trail. And I still feel we are up for a treble. Its just a minor hiccup.

Sometimes you need to take a tough call. A trip to Russia is not exactly what we want right now. With chilling temparatures, the effect on your body for every tackle, every fall has gets compounded. Its good that Essien is being rested. Would definitely not mind Terry,Anelka,out of this either. Start with Yuri and the lads.

Add to it we have Malouda/Ashley taking on Luke Young. Albrighton has been notorious for sticking his bum in one half of the pitch. We will own them. Ferriera will pretty much contain Downing....