BernardLambourde

How many did we lose to them? I can only recall the 3-0 reverse in 05/06. We beat them more-or-less every other time under Mourinho didn't we?

Oh, it closed down? RIP Basement. We were unfortunate in that we went during Ramadan so everywhere was a bit quieter.

Thank. I will remember that. I also went to a nightclub called 'Basement'. Do you know it? Before we went, we were in the centre of Sarajevo having a few drinks. In the bar, there was a television showing a basketball game. Normally we wouldnt have watched it but it was Bosnia Vs Great Britain so we kept an eye on it. Anyway, there was a huge, hairy guy playing for Bosnia (I don't know his name but we found out he had played in USA, Spain and Turkey). We were having a discussion of whether or not we (4 of us) combined could beat him up. We came to the conclusion that we could. Well when we were in Basement, at the end of the night, the same basketball player walked into the club. "Now is our chance to find out if we could beat him up".....in the end we spoke to him and he was alright but possibly the biggest man I have ever seen.

He's had 2 years of support despite being rubbish. If those fans who have actually gone to the game wanna criticise yet another crap performance then it's up to them.

Did anyone see 'Danny Dyer's Real Football Factories'? They're all on YouTube. He does actually go up North to interview some of their 'top boys'. The Everton one, Andy Nicholls, seems like a right knuckle head. He looks like a raw sausage in a shirt. But then the Man United ones just looked like a couple of wobbly old Wetherspoons regulars.

Welcome. I went to Sarajevo a couple of years ago. I love those kebabs you eat....I think they're called Cevapi.

To be fair to Reade, he is capable of writing the odd good piece. He just often lets his own bias and vendettas (eg "Beckham gave up on competetive football when he joined the Galactico Circus of Real Madrid") cloud his judgement. Not here though.

Look at this from Tony Parsons in today's Daily Mirror (not a football column.....he just pipes up about football every time there is a scandal when he knows nothing about it....so he can rattle off the same tired old cliches and platitudes): When I was a lad, every football team had a hard man. Tommy Smith at Liverpool. Norman Hunter at Leeds. Peter Storey at Arsenal. Ron Harris at Chelsea. Dave Mackay at Spurs. I thought about those long os hard men when I watched Chelsea's midfield moron Eden Hazard kicking a ball boy in the ribs. I can't imagine these old hard men raising their voice to a ball boy, let along their studs. But back then top-flight football was played by the salt of the earth. And today it's played by the scum of the earth. What a ludicrous, simplistic, ill judged pile of horse sh*t! He probably hasn't even seen the whole incident.....merely heard that Hazard 'assaulted a child' rather than tried to toe-poke the ball out from under his body. The hard men of yesteryear he talks about used to go out and purposely try and injure players (many of whom were as young as the Swansea ballboy). How is that 'salt of the earth'? Also, using Peter Storey as an example of 'salt of the earth'? He was arrested for running a brothel, car theft, counterfeiting gold coins, smuggling hardcore porn from Europe in the spare tyres of his Jeep and disorderly conduct. He did three years behind bars. To my knowledge, 'scum of the earth' Hazard has been guilty of none of this. No wonder Viz publish a parody of his crap articles titled Tony Parseholes.

Absolute joke but what I expected. No doubt he'll get a hefty fine as well. The FA are money grabbing vermin. They fined a Liverpool player for using the word 'gay' on a social network site. Who are they to do that? What's it got to do with them? Hazard was punished on the night (unfairly in my opinion) yet they want to hit him harder.

Just read that Mirror Link. What did Hulk Hogan say? I had wondered what his viewpoint on this was.

Don't shoot the messenger Rumpole! That was the word on the street!

Some sort of re-working of 'Mad About The (Ball) Boy' by Dinah Washington? Any more?

Ha ha. Sorry. Hopefully your sandwich doesn't contain mayonnaise.

I can imagine him after she has given him a hand job. Rolling round the bedroom floor, holding his c*ck in faux agony......before waving an imaginary red card.

I blame Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. Oh, and the Tweeny dressed like Jimmy Saville.

Well I haven't read every one but the worst I've seen are along the lines of "Hazard should have kicked him harder/in the head".

Eh? I haven't seen many vitriolic posts against the ball boy? Most of them are just saying that he behaved like a little twat, which is true.

Ah, muy bien. Yo, no tengo un equipo en tu pais (solo el Chelsea para mi).....pero estaba en Salamanca durante el verano pasado (estaba estudiando la idioma) y vi un partido de Salamanca contra Zamora. Un partido de mierda es verdad.....pero he visto otros equipos muchas veces en Londres (contra el Chelsea). Zaragoza, Betis, Atletico, Valencia, Barca, Mallorca. Cual es tu ciudad en España? Madrid?

I doubt there was any truth in it. Sounds like some urban myth that got exaggerated more and more.

Will there be a minute's silence for the ballboy at the weekend's matches? Wouldn't surprise me.

Hola. Cual es tu equipo en Espana? Por favor no digas Barca!

Who the hell is a ball boy at 17 and a half anyway? He probably still does a paper round and carries a yo-yo!

Not necessarily. They could be 'eternal lads' in their designer sports casual gear. Which one was that then? Jason 'know-warra-mean?' Marriner? Andy 'Nightmare' Frain? Chris 'Chubby Chubster' Henderson? Stevie 'Eats Yer Kids' Jenkinson? (I made that last one up)

One of the viewpoints that has made me chuckle is "he is a grown man attacking a child!" The 'ball boy' is 17, 18 in August right? And Hazard is how old? 21? 22? They're making out it is a 35-year-old old battering the sh*t out of an 8-year-old in an act of domestic violence. The people complaining about this are the sort of bell ends who write letters into Points of View. Disgusted of C*ntsville.

I heard that they'd drive round in a blue van (a Bedford Rascal or something like that).....and approach people in the street. Then they'd ask them a Chelsea related question and if they didn't know the answer, they'd bundle them into the back of the van. "Excuse me madam.......could you please answer the following question? What is John Bumstead's starsign?" "Erm...Virgo?" "No, sorry......he's a Sagittarius! In you go!" Then they'd stick a gold card in their cakehole before kicking them in the b0llocks/fanny so they screamed real hard and the card ripped the sides of their mouth open. It'd leave them grinning like Dwight Yorke at a gang bang....hence the name 'Chelsea Smilers'. I also heard that they'd then squeeze Jif lemon juice or pour Sarsons vinegar into the wounds. Bring it back I say.