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Chelsea 5 - 0 Ipswich

DS! (He scored 5 in the reserves game against spurs recently)

4 -0

Anelka.

Leicester don score oo at the very first attack. . .first minute (Sol Bamba who just signed for the club last week)

waaa, Vassel is still playing? BRAVO!!!

Rest In Peace Uche Okafor.

Everton away? hmmm. . .

They should just wrap up the game now.

Kalou and DS.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Van Aanholt, Ramires, McEachran, Lampard, Kalou, Anelka, Sturridge.
Subs: Hilario, Essien, Drogba, Malouda, Ferreira, Bruma, Kakuta.

Anyways this is good. Hopefully Kakuta and Bruma will get a run as well.

A largely forgettable first half. well aside the ref of course.
The dullest in this round of FA cups this weekend.
Let me go take a nap. 

Fabio did same on Meir but no card.

Howard Webb.

'You have to face reality; the reality is that there is a long period that we didn't have a good result. I don't know how many managers were able to manage this club with these results; this means the owner supports my job. I feel this because I speak with him.
'Roman [Abramovich] never asked me to win. He asked me that his team play exciting football, this is our aim. I know we have the ability, the skill to win, like we did last year.
'To move on we must stay focused on the pitch. We have to close our minds, work on the pitch and try. If we are not able to find the right solution, try again. I will follow this way for the future.' - Uncle Carlo.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2261272,00.html

Reading this again, well, I'm speechless. . .

Howard Webb. ol boy.

Deportivo!

Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle.

e be like say make I cry. What a second half performance.

Leeds!

@A-40, abeg name one team that does not actually need reenforcement? even Citeh still dey buy.
What you said is NOT new. kapish?

Saw that this morning. walahi, Uncle Carlo is a LUCKY MAN! Good for him (Lotti).

nateevs:
Move with me dude. You'll learn more. . 

Sorry but your info na fake. 
Move to my side of town and you will learn the truth. 

Make I go watch Leeds discipline L'ars.

@nateevs, where do you get your info from? Chelsea Vital football? 

@A-40, na by force make you post? Why are you acting like Windows Me? So mo pe we share the same bai-date? ma disgrace me jare. 

@ALL, Lotti simply needs to develop balls and stop acting like a yes-man. He should go ALL GUNS BLASTING!!! e mi ni mo so be.

Allow them to be talking fufu there.

My LORD is GOOD!

Well Newcastle fired CH and AP won his first game in charge only to get thunked in the next one.
Blackburn did same to SA and the new guy is not doing badly too.

The way I see it is this, either this will fire up the Tractor Boys or well, you know what may happen.

In any case I strongly believe that Chelsea will beat the zang zang out of Ipswich.
o ba ni, ko ti baje to yen.

@starboard, I'm pretty sure that I'm NOT one of those asking for the manager to go. I'm emphatically holding the WHOLE TEAM (manager + players) responsible. This I've maintained all along and I've never said otherwise.

The only qualms I had with some folks was calling Lotti a SUPER manager. He is a good one but super? DANG NO?

Ok he won the double last season - For this we are grateful. Now I wonder how many goals he scored in that same season. No be him players score am?

RESERVES HAMMER SPURS

The reserves came out on top in a thrilling friendly encounter against Spurs at Cobham on Thursday afternoon, with Daniel Sturridge scoring five times in a 7-3 win.
The forward hit a hat-trick inside the opening 10 minutes as the youngsters in blue tore their opponents apart before Spurs' counter-attacking play brought them back into the game, the scores 4-3 at half-time.
Chelsea rallied once more in the second half though, and could have had even more with the excellent Gael Kakuta passing up more than one opportunity to add to his strike, with Chelsea's other goal coming through Gokhan Tore, who completed the front three.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2259895,00.html

blank:
U guys should free my Enyimba. We're just going thru a dip in form ask Chelsea.

No mind them. It is temporary.

Chelsea will beat Ipswich come Sunday oh ha! haba it's not THAT bad. In any case the boys should do all they can to avoid a replay. That's the last thing we need right now.

And I will be hoping that Carlo will give Josh, Kakuta and Bruma a start.

Levante 0 - 0 RM

32 mins"

Is it a crime to spend money or to play a system that suits you most?

@nateevs, seriously you either work with CFC directly or you just blowing HOT air. How do you know what Lotti wanted? speculations, assumptions or fantasies? Lotti benched DD against Spurs, tell me abeg who scored in that particular match? Who drew us level against Villa? It was his brilliant form that won us the double last season.
If you say Lotti is a genius cos he won the double then DD is MAGIC for getting us that double or did Lotti advice Drogba how to find the back of the net? using your logic.
I've said it several times, if a player is NOT performing, heck DROP HIM.

@starboard, I'm happy you will agree with me that the results Lotti and his crew are producing now is not good enough. Even WestHam will NOT accept it. It's no rocket science. Besides, a lot of people mentioned that Lotti is a SUPER COACH. I can bring out the quotes if needed. He is a good one but exceptional (SUPER), sorry but I beg to differ.
So you ask me, where do I stand? I already said this several times that fingers should be pointed to the whole team. i.e Manager + players + club cos when they do well, we ALL praise them too.
Ramirez? Don't make me laugh please. The two notable times he played well (against Arsenal @SB and 30 mins of frantic football against Bolton - same goes to the whole team) I praised him. I admit you may not know this cos you don't follow my posts and yes you don't have to. Nevertheless, I call a spade a spade. If something is wrong, then it is wrong. No need to sugarcoat it.
Scolari didn't even get this sort of support from RA.

Even nateevs (now speaking with the two sides of his mouth) himself yesterday said if Wolves beat us then Lotti is gone. This he said not because it is just Chelsea but because that was a shameful outcome given the recent events. A loss against a team that shipped in 34 goals this season and lie 20th of the table?

Bottom line is this: There are problems (Carlo never denied this) and a major FIX is required. How they do it is up to the club, players and manager.

HNIC:
Cesc,Theo,RVP hit the post.

I thought he was offside when he hit the post, no?

@starboard
If you check my previous posts I have mentioned this and no one is denying it. Yes Lotti delivered the Club's first double just last season but he has also managed to deliver the club's worst run in a decade and the scary part is this. . .when will this end? The team is clearly NOT playing.

Make I ask you. How do you rate Ramirez? Do you think he is better than Cheik Tiote?

Even from your own analysis, you have shown that these same set of players that won a double last season are now playing like they don't care and you still think this is solely their fault? The manager has nothing to do with it? If a player is NOT performing, drop him. I think that's what SAF does, no?

Why excuse the leader (manager) of the team only because things ain't right but applaud him when its all sweet and bliss? Does he not select the players? Does he not monitor/watch the train sessions? He knows his players innit?
For me its ALL about the team and that includes both players and manager and for the record,  I have never called for Lotti's removal (not that I can  no be me dey pay him salary )but lets call a spade a spade. YOU CANNOT be a SUPER MANAGER if your team keep losing points like its a normal day occurrence. A win in 9 matches (remember we were way clear on the table some months ago? ) ? haba, you think Chris Hughton couldn't have done better?  

What I do not understand from your post though is how JM is overated? This is mystery to me.

A manager that know that the team needs a creative spark brought in Ramirez. LWTMB!
Or was he expecting Mikel to fill in that role?

either way something is wrong and according to Lotti himself -not just one reason for this.

Yeah right he is a super manager.
How good is a manager if he cannot get  the very best out of his players? Scolari comes to the mind and he is a WC winner.

Why blame only the players? Why not the whole team (manager + players + etc)? I wonder why most of you here were blaming Amodu then since he is not the one to score the chances (even if they were few) created.

If a player is NOT performing, drop him pronto. Find the right formation to make things work.
You have players willing to burn energy for the club but you are not playing them.

I don't even want to look at the table right now. A team that was 8 points clear is now. . .where?

Yeah, right, we have a super manager.