LucaAltieri

Was I watching a different game to everyone else? Wasn't Perch "marking" Drogba on the header he scored and didn't Perch miss the challenge that let Chelsea through for the second? Worst player on the pitch. Also, Obertan has his weaknesses but for much of the game he was our only penetration going forward. He got the ball into dangerous positions a few times. Not spectacular but far from shite. Same for R.Taylor... when he stopped pushing up so high and concentrated on his defending he made some key challenges. Fucking hairy for the first 20 minutes, mind.

Incredibly unlucky. Colo's injury cost us the game. Chelsea were nowt special, Mata was the only one to give us any real trouble. Sturridge started bright but did bugger all from around 20mins in until the 90th minute (when he scored against a 3-man defence). The first goal was poor marking from Perch, and the second, again, a missed Perch challenge let Chelsea through. Had Colo not taken a knock we'd have contained them quite comfortably. We had the ball cleared off the line and hit the woodwork thrice. On another day we'd have got something from that. It was a little frustrating that when we finally brought on Sammy, a player who can get in behind the defence, we still continued to lump it forward or build up slowly. We should have been releasing him quickly on the break, stretching Chelsea, and giving Ba and Ameobi space in the middle. Instead our front two were marked out of the game quite easily. What a game from Krul, mind. Oh, and obviously a straight red, etc.

Haven't seen enough of MONs teams to really have much of an opinion. Since Leicester he hasn't been anything above average, has he? Decent with Celtic, decent with Villa, but neither performed above reasonable expectations. He's also a dour fuck. Not particularly bothered. We'll still batter them again in March.

Sunderland

2-1 Best Raylor

If we can avoid injuries and keep playing the way we have been then I wouldn't be too surprised if we managed 5-7 points from the next 4 games.

Wish I knew what you were on about.

Reminds me of a young Andy Cole.

Ladies don't

Off screen: Ba's cock swaying in the breeze, slapping against Jonas' thigh.

Cabaye wasn't, look at him off the ball, the closing down, its not just about going forward although i get your point. By his own standards he wasn't on form today. Not like he'd turned into Amdy Faye or anything.

Great performances from Colo, Jonas, R.Taylor, Guthrie and Ba. Cabaye was a little disappointing.

Jonas has been excellent defending tonight. Just a shame it's stopped him getting forward.

They're coming at us and we're flapping a bit. It's like watching 300 re-enacted by a down syndrome amateur dramatics group.

Forgot Best was on the pitch.

With Spurs winning today we could use three points to cement ourselves as top 4. Leap frogging Chelsea with a draw would be satisfying but really I'd like to see us playing for, and picking up, all three points.

Excellent result. I much prefer to lose 4-3 than win 1-0.

Worst substitution ever.

Mancini: "United are still one yard above us and we can only change this if we win the title. After that it might be different but until then United are better than us. I still have big respect for United and for their squad. There are still four or five teams who can win the title and the season is long." I think he means us.

Atleast we wont have to play qualifying rounds for the CL though, happy with 2nd or 3rd. I don't know, I quite fancy an excuse for a Ryanair flight to Latvia. Suppose we're too big for that nonsense now, though. Will leave that to the Liverpools and Arsenals.

Shame about the Man United result. We could have done with a draw between those two, it's made it much harder for us to catch City now.

Tiote man, fucking hell.