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He is perhaps my biggest man crush these days. Classy as fuck.

Giving Cabaye a yellow on his first foul was terrible, especially considering the challenges he had let off earlier. But, other than that he was fine.

Not subbing on Ben Arfa is baffling. It was clear the attack was lacking a cutting edge, we controlled play all game and hadn't scored. Clearly something wasn't right, and Ben Arfa coming on could've brought a new dimension on. Subbing Shola for best was doing nothing to change that.

Good performance. Should really be up. No complaints, yet.

Well, this is nice. I was slightly tentative about him as a player, but not this much.

Interesting. I wasn't aware that was always the case.

Uh, which way?

8. Hopefully it gets extended.

:frantic: I loved seeing him in the Prem. Can't wait. http://gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=1772373&t=o

It's true, but there's one thing breaking your leg in a League Game / CL Game... it's another breaking it in a Cup that few people care about. I definitely think the CWC rep is increasing, but it's still pretty minor in the grand scheme of things. Personally, if I was boss of Barca, I wouldn't have even brought my top 10 players, given the amount of sexual fringe players they have. We played most of our "second XI" today: Maxwell, Mascherano, Adriano, Thiago, Keita... I think Pep has managed well his resources, Villa's injury notwithstanding. We want to win this, and it's only one game where we need to go all out. I would love for a MLS team to qualify for it some time by the way, pity there isn't much of a chance given the CONCACAF CL calendar. RSL were in the final last CL season, were unfortunate not to win either. I think there's three MLS teams left going into the knockout stages, so there's a chance. That's one thing I've been looking forward to happening for a while, but only recently do I have feel one of them has a real chance.

Bielsa is one of the most loveable characters in the game. There was some talk of him taking a role with the USSF before Athletic hired him. Would've have been an absolute dream.

I can't believe so many people wrote him off so quickly.

Well, that's unfortunate. Good luck to him.

I think it was a dive, which highlights the point I made above about interpretation. Re: Meireles - I thought Yaya Toure and Kompany were both very lucky to stay on. Obviously the point remains that Clattenberg might have had a poor game, don't think he was any worse for either side though. That's pretty much what it comes down to. He was consistent with both teams, that's good enough for me. Especially considering how shit ref's have been all season.

If Silva doesn't leave his feet early it's probably a pen. Otherwise, no.

He never really looked it. Just doesn't really have the players for his system, fair play to him for adjusting.

Good result for the league. Not exactly the most enthralling game, but fair enough to Chelsea.

Well shit

This game has been dead since the second goal.

Clichy was horrible all game. Poor performance.

There ya go, Disco.

The Stokiest of Stoke performances,

He'll definitely get more chances, so obviously we hope we're wrong. But I don't see how he beats this mental block he has going.

Well then

I always forget about all this nonsense, must be awful to ref this.