DCS1984

For once under Ranieri (before 2003), everything went right. Considering Manchester United were in their insufferable winning nearly every Premier League to beat that team 3-0 away was a fantastic feeling. Especially being the lone Chelsea fan! The greatest performance for me is the Barca game away. Don't think we'll ever see anything like it again for a long time!

To be honest I think we'll get about £20M for him, I can't see anyone paying £30 million for him. I do like Schurrle but as many have said here, Reus is the superior player.

Fantastic news. Was in Rome and they're everywhere, can't go a minute without hearing "selfie, you want selfie?" grrr

Still think it's a power play by Messi, however I've had my dreams crushed by forwards I've always admired coming here and flopping like the obvious Torres and more for myself Shevchenko to build up much hope. Would love to be proved wrong though. Would he be able to do it on a cold night in Stoke is the question though....

Eidur Gudjohnsen has returned to Bolton. Hope he does well there and gets them up the table http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30279298 One of the best partnerships I've seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7tQgVMpho

One of my favourite seasons growing up. Remember the controversy Wisey caused when he bit Marcelino! Shame, I thought Laudrup would have been a fantastic addition to our squad but with the benifit of hindsight, he was on the decline. Not sure Casiraghi would have scored enough goals but he would have been useful to go with Flo, Zola and to a lesser extent Vialli. As you say, it probably is one of the biggest "what if" seasons in our history.

That's a fantastic website as it has all of the results in one place and easy to find them all. Cheers!

I bet he would have loved some of our players from the Gullit/Vialli era. Di Matteo, Wise and Poyet :) Do people think he would have won the league in 1998/99 if he was in charge? It kind of mirrors our season last season where we didn't have enough goals from our strikers. One of the first players that he showed the door to was Gronkjaer, there would have been some exasperated looks in the dugout for sure.

Thanks you so much! That'll make life a lot easier for the older seasons. I'll update the 2011/12 book when I get time.

A few years too late... Imagine the mass shirt burnings, you'd be able to see Liverpool from space!

Many thanks for the thoughts you have given to my book. Hopefully I did justice to the last chapter. It was a difficult write up to get right. I'm not sure about taking away the scores as we already know the scores as fans, though perhaps we might try to forget some.... League table summary is something I will be adding to the next book which actually will be on the 2004/5 season and then perhaps I might do this season afterwards. It is difficult to find tables from the time periods though. This season would be good to do, have to see how it pans out and time, got other books in the pipeline on history and theology to finish still. If you can, a review on Amazon would be fantastic, so far there isn't one and they are almost worth as much as buys to me (and other authors). Many thanks for your kind words and i'll be implementing all the ideas that have been generated in our discussion.

Imagine what hypothetically what the "Torres of Liverpool" would be worth now and shudder... Matic has been fantastic, even from opposition fans mainly United and Liverpool, how much they'd love to have him in their side over Hazard and Costa. He's been one of the best signings we've had in a long time.

Fantastic 1st half. Hope they can keep it up when they make the changes. No one is going to want us in the knockouts!

One of Mikel's best games was against Bayern in the final in my opinion. He can be an influential player but its so rare, usually he just coasts. If Fabregas or Matic got injured then the replacements (Ramires, Mikel) would struggle to have the same effect.

That would be amusing in the extreme (if he were to return as a scout). You can find one of his reports here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/8591763/How-Andre-Villas-Boas-scouting-reports-helped-Chelsea-to-a-3-0-win-over-Newcastle-in-November-2005.html Wasn't Shevchenko going to be returning as striking coach at one point too?