Bank Holiday Weekend Footy Spoilers

Personally throwing your medal into the crowd is bloody ignorant. Its something you take and add to your collection no matter how many you have.

A very big headed thing to do.

Oh, come on the pool, we might catch Man U. :)
 
IceBus said:
Silvestre was diabolical
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An improvement on his form this season then!

There's a lot of talk about the challenges Chelsea will be facing next season with their rivals looking to strengthen in the summer, but the problem is that the best squad wins the league and even with 3 new players MU can't compete. They've got an aging winger and a defender in the centre of midfield, and are still relying on Silvestre from time to time. OK so Smith and Heinze will be back next season but the fact they need them just serves to illustrate my point - aside from maybe Terry and Lampard, Chelsea can easily soak up injuries and bring in other quality players from the squad to replace them. What's the betting they'll be even stronger next season with the purchase of Ballack and perhaps another striker?

The first choice lineups for Chelsea, Liverpool, MU and Arsenal are all capable of beating each other, but in terms of squad depth there's no contest. Here's two teams Chelsea can put out:

.................Cech
Ferreira...Terry...Gallas...Del Horno
...............Makelele
..........Essien.....Lampard
....Cole......Drogba.....Robben

.................Cudicini
Johnson...Huth...Carvalho...Bridge
SWP.....Geremi...Maniche.....Duff
...........Crespo...Gudjohnsen

OK so the second team isn't exactly world beating, but it's fine for domestic cup matches; in the league/CL they aren't going to have 11 first choice playerws missing. It's also considerably better than second XIs for anyone else.
 
Well done to Chelsea. Outplayed us today, and the consistency they have that we've struggled with payed off in the end. I look forward to a closer battle next season.

Just a shame we conceded the early goal I think, would have been a much more interesting contest, as we're capable of matching them, but it seemed to knock the wind out of us and give them confidence.
 
Gooner14 said:
I suppose there's Pennant, Forssell, Upson, Dunn, Heskey and Sutton.
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dunn is always injured
heskey is rubbish and prob the reason they went down cause he can't score.
sutton past his best.

i read pennant says he'll stick with brummy in loylatly as they supported him etc.
forssell is a really good player i think, he was just un supported i think.
 
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