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Chelsea are without doubt the worst side ever to win the Champions League, even worse than Liverpool's flukey run in 05. 6th placed finish, lost both the spin-off games from the win, out before the last 16 this year. It's an ugly blemish on the history of the competition that they garbaged their way to the trophy.

Died BBC says 'out of danger'? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20747164

Be Ryan Shawcross.

:lol:

He's great. Love that he tries to play 1 touch football as an instinct. Can't wait for that lifetime of footballing education to be battered out of him in 12 months.

Perch, Anita, Tiote

Imagine a team actually made up of just Jonases and Tiotes

First time in a while it feels like an obligation going to the match rather than something that I'm actually excited about. Doesn't help that's its too early/I'm too lazy to have gone for drinks beforehand. Gonna be shit this.

So Toure and Kompany have both made it? And Ben Arfa is out?

So much this.

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Was he the one that did that hilarious 'joke'?

Canny funny tbf. Music makes it.

Nah he's not out there anymore

Some people have short memories

Copa del Rey being two legs sucks.

Just loves being cautioned

Gone downhill for him ever since he savagely attacked your mate for no reason Karma exists

Milan used to play Huntelaar on the wing.

Zambian FA trying to take Messi's record away http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/dec/12/lionel-messi-godfrey-chitalu-zambia

Ronaldo is a completely different player to was when he was younger. Much better and far more effective as you'd expect as he hits his peak, but completely different. Him still playing as a 'winger' is little more than than a relic leftover from his earlier career, he's very much a centre forward in every way. If you look at the average positions from last season he is consistently the player positioned furthest forward on the pitch, he is the final stop for much of Madrid's attacks and counterattacks. His pace, power, movement, finishing and positioning are all phenomenal and with the likes of Ozil, Di Maria and Benzema to play with he has world class service. It's far too much of an insult to call him exclusively a poacher or a goal-moocher as much as I'd like to do so, because he still does contribute in other ways and can always score spectacular goals (which a 'poacher' wouldn't even dream of) but the inference that he has focused his game towards goalscoring is an accurate one much as his fanboys would like to deny. I think he's actually been trying to go back the other way a bit more this season, though - there has been times where he's tried a pass when previously he wouldn't have even considered so. Whether this is a concious thing or something that Mourinho is trying tactically I don't know but it certainly has seemed that way to me.

VanBarduck, we only have 2 (3 if you include Perch) central defenders available and 2 of those are terrible/unsuited to the formation. A back 3 is simply out of the question, before you even touch on the difficulties we'd have applying it with the obviously limited coaching being done on the training ground.