Chelsea thread

Hello

So...... you haven't won a league game against a London side this year. Cant go on like that forever and you do still have Fulham at home and Arsenal away to solve that.

You cant win the league but you can pick up injuries and you have some great games coming up and this game isn't really important. Rest your talent.
 
Drogba is the best player in the league but you shouldn't expect him to be on fire all the time.

Huddink is a great manager and you should do everything you can to keep him.

Zola and Clarke have given you some great times over the years. Return the favour.
 
Lampard needs motivation. Let the Upton Park crowd provide that to him by leaving him on the bench for 90 minutes.

Let Joe Cole lead you out before he is wheeled back to the sideline to a standing ovation.

John Terry left the West Ham academy at 14. It would not be right for you to put him in a position that makes him question that decision.

West Ham in Europe will give better development to players you will steal in future years.

Enough said.

anyone keen for 11 minutes of Frank Lampard fighting with a radio dj?

I actually felt sorry for Chelsea when that goal went in, but that evaporated the moment Ballack sprinted alongside the referee (and even man-handled him) appealing rabidly for a non-existent penalty.  The ironic thing was that he recieved a yellow card which would have ruled him out of the final if Chelsea somehow had scored a late goal.

BBC Sport's Phil McNulty at Stamford Bridge: "Didier Drogba - whose lack of self-discipline saw him sent off in last season's Champions League final against Manchester United - marched on to the field in flip-flops to launch a senseless and pointless verbal assault on referee Tom Henning Ovrebo after the final whistle. He was still being restrained after receiving a yellow card and was held back as the Norwegian official made his way down the tunnel.

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I'm not going to defend him.  He's a fantastic player on his day but a loathsome individual at times.  I suspect it was the previous blatant handball in the box that had Chelsea fired up and the second appeal was simply the spark.  But then their guy should never have been sent off so it all evens out.  Chelsea could and should have killed the game off and didn't.  End of. 

Taking a van over to the French hypermarkets to buy cheap lager is the closest your lot ever get to Europe. 

Taking a van over to the French hypermarkets to buy cheap lager is the closest your lot ever get to Europe. 

Damn I wish I had stuck around and watched Droga disgrace himself in his jandals lol.

Taking a van over to the French hypermarkets to buy cheap lager is the closest your lot ever get to Europe. 

I'm not going to defend him.  He's a fantastic player on his day but a loathsome individual at times.  I suspect it was the previous blatant handball in the box that had Chelsea fired up and the second appeal was simply the spark.  But then their guy should never have been sent off so it all evens out.  Chelsea could and should have killed the game off and didn't.  End of. 

We shut them down, over two legs. We played better football.

I've tried to resist responding but I can't help it.

The definition of handball according to the laws of the game is when a player:
"handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)"

I saw 2 instances where ball hit hand and in the second the defender had his head turned away from the ball. Sorry no penalty there, the ref got it right.

Just how is ten men behind the ball better football ?