Beren

So eff'ing late!

Tell Keegan I love him, Dave!

Now comes the Keegan motivational magic.

20 odd minutes, no real Chelsea chances of note.

http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=52501.0

Harper to score a bicycle kick from the halfway line.

Their squad is ridiculously stronger than ours! Don't think they've picked their best team, mind you. 11 at a time and all that. Hopefully we can punch above our weight here.

Throw-in down the line... straight out for a throw-in.

For the inevitable DVD Name Competition: #It can only get better... and it did. [/lesser entry]

4/1 really isn't a bad price at all. Hope the crowd turn up [...well, and the team, obviously]. SJP is becoming somewhat fortress-esque again [after a couple of cheeky home wins ].

Also, any result will be a 'Chelsea stutter at SJP' genre of title. Not a 'Brilliant Newcastle derail Chelsea title hopes'. A draw will see us 'bravely withstanding an onslaught of incisive, gungho football' irrespective of if we batter them for 90 minutes.

Even with 3/4 high calibre players, an Everton/Pompey will still be harder to beat/will pick up more points IMO. We shall see.

Mm, don't understand why Spurs are ranking so high. Depends on summer dealings IMO.

Actually... falling... asleep...

Unenviable task, compiling that. Decentish effort.

9 home win predictions and this:

Bennett officiating. Ugh.

That's fair enough. S'pose I am just being pedantic.

60% glory hunters? f*** off with that bullshit lol.. There are many, MANY more fake Manure fans in terms of sheer volume.. you and I both know more fake Manure fans than fake Chelsea ones. The Chelsea glory days are far too recent for people my age.. everyone who is my age and older and have hunted the glory from a young age support Liverpool or Manure... I despise this breed and they are far too prevalent in our society.... Globally, there are easily a dozen times more ManU glory hunters than there are people in Manchester. In fact, at 330 million, the amount of ManU glory hunters worldwide is about 5 times the population of England. Compared to Man United, Liverpool and Chelsea are nothing really in glory hunting terms. So everyone not from Manchester is a glory-hunter? That's a dangerous rationale IMO. I'd guess that the large majority were, but having percentages/stats for something like this seems too optimistic for me!

The post match interviews are going to be awesome.

Avram '#you don't know what you're doing' Grant taking Chelsea to the cusp of a Prem/CL double! Madness. Happy for Lampard. Still don't really like him/rate him immensely.

Positive: Chelsea's enormous star-studded squad will suffer marginally because of ET. SJP awaits biatches. [Perhaps Moscow, also].

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11678_3498803,00.html

True. Also thought Rio was fantastic. Vastly under-rated. Now don't get me wrong, I like to make fun of his 'linen' story as much the next guy, but what a player. Intimidates strikers that should be intimidating him. Also a cool head and decent technique. Re: Ronaldo v Messi. Messi is the better player, I would say, but Ronaldo is far more destructive against weaker opposition, which is why he'll be in the limelight. Ronaldo isn't exactly shite, but he clearly struggles against decent opposition. Messi isn't as immediately devastating, but the opposition are less likely to throw him off his game. Finally, ya gots to love Scholes' strike.

£92 better off.