Season getting closer. Will Oscar be in the staring lineup?

Who's he going to be staring at?

Edited July 16, 201511 yr by Beerqueen

Reggie Blinker can't play.......I'll get my coat

Who's he going to be staring at?

Ramsay I guess. If he starts

14 sleeps until we stick a few past Cech

And I'll be there to see it!   Ticket bought today!

Got my ticket on Wednesday. Looking forward to giving the Gooners a good hiding.

We always seem to lose in the Shield, so I'm not going to be over confident.

Yeah but jose never loses to wenger

We always seem to lose in the Shield, so I'm not going to be over confident.

 

Yeah but jose never loses to wenger

First time for everything. It could be a disaster in terms of bragging rights if the players fail to show up. I hate losing to Arsenal more than anything. 

First time for everything. It could be a disaster in terms of bragging rights if the players fail to show up. I hate losing to Arsenal more than anything. 

 

More than Liverpool?, i must admit it is a hard choice between the two..

Looking forward to this one, taking my son for his first Chelsea game. Seeing Cech in an arsenal shirt will be difficult to digest though.

You got the date wrong, it's August 2nd.

Twat them out of the park and bring their deluded fans down to earth with a massive f**king crash.

It will be a strange one. I think the Gooners will be up for it. However I think Jose will want to continue his record vs Wenger, especially after the whole Cech saga.

I just want us to win it because salty Gooner tears is a healthy start to any balanced and successful Chelsea season.

Let's bring them back down to earth.

Lets win and put a marker down for the season.

Think they are going to turn us over to be honest, and that's fine. It's only a friendly - it's just those f**king awful fans bleating about it that will annoy me.

Can't help but feel we have made a bit of a pigs ear of the pre season. We seem a little behind everyone else after starting later than everyone else and are seemingly cramming games in. Some players, particulary the younger ones don't seem to have had a run out at all.

I certainly can't remember a game at SB 3 days before the season kicks off before either.

Think they are going to turn us over to be honest, and that's fine. It's only a friendly - it's just those f**king awful fans bleating about it that will annoy me.

Can't help but feel we have made a bit of a pigs ear of the pre season. We seem a little behind everyone else after starting later than everyone else and are seemingly cramming games in. Some players, particulary the younger ones don't seem to have had a run out at all.

I certainly can't remember a game at SB 3 days before the season kicks off before either.

Lol

We're miles ahead of arsenal, there's nothing to suggest otherwise

Hope you're right but let's see. Either way it's just a friendly despite what the Gooners will tell you. It's a week on Sat that counts.

Why do you insist on calling it a friendly? It's not. It's a cup game and it's against Arsenal, reasons enough to consider it important.

I've watched enough and been to enough of these matches to know its a glorified friendly. Anyone who reads anything into it is being a little naive.

The fact it's Arsenal makes it more interesting of course but it's a friendly and the club will be treating it as such. Means very little, though the Gooners will of course crown themselves champions if they win it.

Edited July 29, 201510 yr by bjd

This is really a game we could do without. Win and it really doesn't count for a lot except some bragging rights over Gooner mates. But don't want to lose as it's them and it would mean an end to the Mourinho v Wenger record. It will have to end at some point so guess this would be a better game than any for it.

 

Hope we win and win well but it won't be the end of the world if we don't but regardless of the outcome, I do see Arsenal as our biggest threat this season and won't be changing my mind after one game.

It's not just a friendly to me, our defending pre season does have me worried for this one. One thing I don't need in my life right now is a defeat to these scum bags.