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duduspace: I'd like to apologize to everyone for staying away for so long without a thought that I'd get people worried about my welfare, one does get to forget that we're a mini family here. For all those who've asked after me, this is just to let everyone know that I'm very fine. My 'story' is that I've been taking some time out to prepare for the London marathon (don't ask me yet why I wanted to run but ended up not running) . I am very fine and will soon return to the thread.

Welcome back bro!

Why you want go run London marathon?

If you lose any more weight, it might be fatal!

eyoniggar: Ibime already accepting defeat? Turkish ref might be a secret Barca fan? All of a sudden any team can beat Barca @ their home turf provided refs/uefa dont aid them in winning? Oh my!! This is like preempting a loss when the match is yet to kick off. SMH!

Where is this guy now?

Eyoniggar, COME AND MARK REGISTER ABEG!!!

I fainted when Torres scored. Honest to God. My knees went weak, my vision went black and I fell to the ground. My wife had to catch me to stop me hitting me head on the floor!

I no fit shout!!!!!!

Who is drinking with me tonight!!!!!


Chelsea just gained 10 million new fans today!

Against all odds!!!


God dey our side!!!!!!

I no fit. . . ..




[size=60pt]SHOOOOOUUUUUUUUT!!!!![/size]

Revenge is a dish best served. . . .


[size=64pt]COLD!!![/size]



Eyoniggar, HOW MAAAAARKEEET!!!!


Una go forever respect Chelsea!!!!

Torres is doing his best to give this game away

Take off Mikel (yellow card), bring on Bertrand. . .


Go like this. . .


DD

Mata Ramires

Lamps Meireles

Cole Ivanovic Bosingwa Bertrand



Lampas and Meireles sitting really deep, Mata and Ramires sit deep with them. . . but one of Mata and Ramires to support DD when a break is on.


Its improbable. . . .but anything is possible.


BTW, Terry should be fined two weeks wages.

diggz: I hear any id-oi-tic bout Remires again on dis thread,I send boko haram to pinish u up! Wat a finish from Remires. Meanwhile,we nid kalou to come in for mata cos e don disappear. Cole my best player so far. Alexis dey jump like tad pole since.. Hup we piss on dis Useless UEFA team. CFC 4eva wat eva d outcome turns out to b

A great goal from the wing (the only place he should ever play) but once again, Lampard shows that he is the only boss in the Chelsea midfield, not Ramires who belongs on the wing.

lalaboi: I knw right. . I would like to meet Cockblockers. . . Ninja beat me twice in H2h. i would like some revenge

You got your wish.

1st vs 8th would be Ritchboi against Lalaboiy. . . .
2nd vs 7th would be TBoogie vs Kokomaster
3rd vs 6th would be Galacticos vs Ipukulu Marines
4th vs 5th would be Feasy11 vs Chamokazzy

Im not happy with UEFA picking a Turkish referee for the Barca match.

Why pick a referee from a weak league with recent history of scandalous match-fixing throughout the league?

Why pick a referee with no pedigree?

How do we know that this ref is not a secret Barca fan, like many Turksih are thanks to Recber Rustu.

This game would be decided by the referee. The Nou Camp crowd would be screaming for everything, and when you have the kind of possession Barca get, they could go down every 5 minutes if the wanted. If Barca cant break you down, all they have to do is pass the ball into the box and dive and the referee would give em a pen.

I hope this ref wont penalise DD everytime he goes for an aerial challenge etc.

Could be in for a long night.

Dont worry, I've wrapped up qualification on my own merit by trouncing Pharoah's Army.

Besides, Chamokazzy and Jet Bombers are on their way to losing plus couple guys above me who I would pass on goal difference.

I should be 5th or 6th by end of gameweek.

Meanwhile it looks like you would be facing TBoogie or Cockblockers. Prepare ya team well o! Them ninjas are dealing with wildcards!

^^Arsenal would finish third.

Newcastle still have City and Chelsea to play.

Totoyam may sneak 4th spot from Chelsea cos they have easy peasy fixtures till season end

Looks like Ipukulu Marines have pulled their irons out the fire once again. . .despite starting -8 points behind.

Looking good in H2H, extending lead in Main League. . . . boys are not smiling!

If only Tottenham had sold this Modric guy, they would not be struggling to create a single chance against QPR. . . no creativity at all. . . Spuds need to sell Modric and buy Lampard to replace him!!!

Studge has no place on the wing. He is not a team player. Like Kalou, he will be better served upfront where his poor teamwork affects the team less.

Fernandud shows again that you build your attack around him at your own peril. . .

I wonder how poor Lukaku must be in training for him not to get a look in with duds like Torres playing 90 minutes.

Bertrand is unbelievable. AVB should be hanged for constantly overlooking the kid, even preferring Ferreira and Bosingwa when he decided that Ashley Cole didnt fit his "project" or when Ashley was injured.

Speaking of Ashley Cole, isnt it amazing the way he looks like a World Class left-back again the minute AVB left. To think AVB never had respect for his abilities.

Finally, I thunk RDM shoulda kept Kalou on today. He was giving Sagna problems all day. Torres or Studge shoulda been subbed instead.

On the other hand, I thunk Mata shoulda played the whole game and let Kalou rest, because I prefer Kalou to Mata at the Nou Camp.

Bertrand killing it

Essien one step behind play all the time (old age)

Kalou getting a lot of joy over Sagna

Torres and Studge need to step it up

jmaine: The Viki Confrat has always had a strong presence in Rivers State way before the Odili's. . .And it wont be surprising to have their "[size=14pt]NorseMen[/size]" running the show in Rivers State politics . . .Is that where you allegations is deeply rooted from . . .Most politicians patronize one cult or the other cos this boys are their Enforcers . . . . .

Viki connection is mere window dressing.

Serious allegation lies in the hard evidence of corpses produced by Odili regime which Amaechi cannot extricate himself from, anymore than Chris Moltisanti can extricate himself from the crimes of Tony Soprano.

In the bible, David had to chide Joab for killing Absalom on his behalf.

Lets just say that even Odili did not know when some of his political enemies were eliminated and had to chide his boys on at least one occasion for overzealousness in protecting oga's political interests.

Some guys forget that certain saints they proclaim today were their oga's eyes, ears, mouth and hand during the most murderous regime Rivers State (or any state in the Federation) has ever seen.

As for Epomas contention, it is not beer parlour gossip, although open to embellishment and people who add jara. Viki boys run Rivers State and Speaker of the "House of Vikings" is no saint.

Beaf: Is Amaechi a murderer?

If you didnt know, know it now.

mbulela: Ibime, no make me talk for public o!
If you know half of what at least 2 of these men were during their tenure you go weak.
If outsider like me could get concrete proof of their plundering tendencies, you can't tell me SLS was unaware.What did he do? Nothing.

Why you dey fear to talk for public?

Talk make we hear. . . . abi MTN go give Alabi your details?

Talk abegiii!!!

Just remember that SLS is not AIG of Police. He cannot arrest everybody, only those who bring their banks to liquidation, if not he would sack every single manager in banking industry.

Abi you think the other bank MD's were not chopping?

If you see as Aig-Imuokhode of Access bank dey shove assets for London, you sef go fear!

coogar: you keep confusing yourself.
villas boas wanted flair in his football. that particular style of play did not suit the chelsea veterans.
and we mentioned that back then that the chelsea veterans are not suited to that brand of football.

a new manager came in and he's playing the dull, boring, long ball to drogba tactics, and it suited the veterans.
how does this make villas-boas a wack manager? which of the chelsea players would suit tiki-taka that barcelona play?
and if they fail to adapt to that brand of football, should we then blame pep guardiola or blame lampard for his insipidity?

If you weren't an obdurate fool, you would know you were typing rubbish.

AVB wanted to play tiki-taka with Ramires as the main fulcrum of his midfield? Coogar, you need deliverance!

He would be better off playing tiki-taka with Reo-Coker as his signature midfielder!

Do you think Porto played tiki-taka or did they play swift transition footie? The only decent passer of a footballer they had in midfield was their DM Joao Moutinho (same thing we have in Mikel and Oriol Romeu). The other two midfielders (Alvaro Perreira and Guarin) are swift fast pressers of the ball like Ramires who are not noted for any tiki-taka.

You need deliverance!


If you werent an obdurate troglodyte, you would know that in Ancelotti's first season, Chelsea were tiki-taka Kings with these same players and scored 107 goals with it.

You would know that Chelsea dominate possession against almost every team, yet possession is not 9/10ths of the law. We have seen games with Scolari where Chelsea control 75% possession but teams just park the bus and hit on the counterattack like they do to Swansea. Thats what happens when you dominate possession but Shekpe keeper (for Torres, read Danny Graham) and your wingers (for Kalou and Malouda, read Sinclair and Dyer) do not convert possession into goals. Chelsea midfielders have never had any problem dominating possession.

A fool like you might have accused Fabregas of being unable to play possession footie just because Arsenal finish fourth very season after teams soak up their narrow play and hit em on the counter-attack.

Possession is not 9/10ths of the law. As of March, Chelsea were 3rd best team in possession yet flopping just like Arsenal.



Please shut up and tell us how Scholes and Anderson's "flair" would have taken Kalou and Malouda to titles.

Gannicus sword will see Spartacus to quick end.

This is brilliant work by GEJ Government.

As someone who criticised him for not going after the subsidy fraudsters before seeking to remove the subsidy, I must retract my criticism and say kudos and well done to GEJ and National Assembly for delivering this list to the people. I hope the full weight of the law would be brought to bear regarding the recovery of these monies, and I would hope that this matter is not swept under the carpet but brought to public attention. In reality, these guys should all be jailed, but for now we would accept this softly-softly approach on the understanding that any PDP President is too weak to provide strong disincentive for looting.

coogar: on paper, chelsea should be winning every league title at least till last season but that isn't the case.
chelsea have the players but they don't play to their potentials. united on the other hand have a lot of
average players but fergie seems to know how to get them to punch above their weights. the permutation
and your idiotic theory is senseless.


if fergie manages any of the top 4 teams in england, he would win the league.
the stability, his managerial nous and his absolute control of the dressing room would ensure that.
so try another lie.

So now its down to Fergie, not Scholes, Carrick, Fletcher and Anderson's genius? You are a tool!


Football mugu's like yourself and Nateevs have been blaming Lampard, Ballack and DD for Chelsea not winning league last few seasons but these players won league by WALKOVER when they had good wingers (Robben & Duff) in a convincing way that no Manure team has ever won the league even with Ronaldo.

Answer the simple question: which of those two teams would win league? I doubt Scholes and Anderson with all their "flair" would even take Kalou/ Malouda and Joe Cole into the UEFA Cup talkless of winning the league once and taking the league down to the final two games every season plus Champions League finals and semi-finals consistently.

Lemme show you how much a fool you are:

coogar: scoring 107 goals means squat my friend. you won the league by a single point.
drogba's offside goal @ old trafford won you the league not trying to keep possession rubbish.
last season, ancelotti played from the back and kept possession but lost home/away to united in the
champions league - i can see how ancelotti's tactics panned out well, you fool.

Last season, Ballack (Nateevs enemy) left the team.
DD had malaria

Still. . . the team was top of the league, then Lampard got injured for 4 months.

The team slipped from 1st to 4th/5th and were totally out of contention for anything.

Lampard returned to the team end of January and scored 13 goals in 4 months (only 2 pens). The team finished 2nd in the league and took Manure to final two games of the season before losing the league.

This shows you who CARRIES the team (Lampard, DD and Ballack).


This season, DD obviously playing very few games due to age.

Lampard in and out of the team, substituted regularly and sidelined by AVB who persecuted him.

Now with AVB out the team, the team is flying again (10 wins in 13 games) with Lampard and DD starting every crunch game.


After all this time, some eediots still believe that those who carry the team are responsible for the teams shortcomings.


I simply ask you, Nateevs or anyone out there to look at the two teams I posted and tell me which team would win every season, then come back and tell me - who has been CARRYING Chelsea all this while?

Lemme help you - Its definitely not Kalou, Malouda and Joe Cole!

You are an eediot comparing pass % success with % possession. If Wolves complete 20 passes out of 20, they would be top of your list.


I've had enough of eediots like Coogar and footie neophytes like Nateevs always putting the blame on the most productive players in our team (DD, Lamps and Ballack). I dont have time to go back and forth, so I simply ask people to vote on how many trophies each of the following teams would have won in the last 6 years.


Your answer should tell you who produces for which team. I doubt the Manure team would qualify for UEFA cup much less compete for the title like Chelsea have done every season until the rookie AVB. Dayo, what do you say?

coogar: and the slowpoke keeps brainfarting - apart from carrick who is basically a defensive midfielder, who else in the
united midfield lacks flair? giggs? cleverley? scholes? anderson? are you such a simpleton? lampard, essien and meireles
are not defensive midfielders, how come they lack any sort of flair? why do they play like robots?

You are a joker. Giggs is a winger so lets not count him.

Who are the central midfielders here? How many of them can unlock a defence in the absence of width?

Scholes can pass all day long (something Mikel does every game), he can never unlock a packed defence without wingers and movement, nor can he dribble anyone.

Anderson? You're a mad man comparing one-footed nonentities like Anderson to likes of Lampard who has achieved more in his sleep.

Who is Cleverly? His flair, like Scholes cannot do anything without width and movement.

Same goes for Fletcher or whoever.


Swap Ronaldo, Valencia, Nani and Park for Malouda, Kalou and Sturridge and lets see if this bunch of midfielders at Manure would have achieved anything. Eediot.

You are a big fool. Central midfield is the position CARRYING Chelsea over the last 6 years, whilst central midfield has been the weakest position at Man Utd in the last six years, no wonder you were begging for Sneijder last summer.

Without Ronaldo from 2006 - 2008, and without Nani and Valencia since, the likes of Scholes, Anderson, Fletcher and such would be counting shekels not silver

coogar: this was how cesc described your pathetic team....
“What happened with Villas-Boas was they played more from the back, trying to keep possession and take the initiative in the game.
But they’ve gone back to the type of Chelsea that was more successful a few years ago — playing on the counter, trying to hit the targetman, long balls, sitting back and using that No 9 as a reference point"

So this is what you base your nonsense on?

Under Ancelotti, Chelsea played more from the back, trying to keep possession and take the initiative in the game and scored 107 goals, winning games 8-0.

Just face the fact that AVB was crap.

AVB was trying to play from the back and keep possession and take initiative with Ramires in his midfield? Why not Nigel Reo-Coker?

Keeping possession has never been a problem for Chelsea.

AVB had no clue what he was doing, thats why he failed, not because the midfield cant pass the ball.

Chelsea possession stats is second best in the Premier League behind Man City, above Swansea and Arsenal, yet you are claiming they cant keep possession and dominate the game. The simple difference is that you can keep the ball forever but without good wingers, and with strikers like Shekpe keeper, other teams would park the bus and your possession would fizzle out.

You my friend are a fool.


Chelsea is winning, everyone is happy. You and Nateevs should go and find another pre-occupation and stop looking like fools with your endless useless arguments in the face of good results. . . no one cares about the nonsense you type on here. . .

mbulela: This is one blot on SLS image that has continued to be glossed over. However it is one that makes me uncomfortable to hail the man a messiah despite what his fans say. He chased the likes of Ibru and Akingbloa and replaced them with alleged crooks who stole with reckless abandon. At least the likes of Ibru stole with ease, these CBN appointed CEOs stole as if they had deadlines.

Count the amount of people with a CV good enough to take over any of the banks and tell me if any can be trusted 100%.

Lai Alabi has been used as an interim CEO by Soludo before at WEMA bank remember?

Sanusi's prerogative is to make sure that wayward CEO's will be punished to set standards. I dont think even you (Mbulela) could appoint a bank MD whom you could stake your life on, so how can Sanusi do so? If Lai Alabi Bleep up, he will be punished same as others until there is enough disincentive for everyone in the industry to refrain from dodgy dealings.


@ topic,

The investigation should be moved beyond fraud, and see if Lai Alabi can be charged with murder.

Why is anyone arguing with this mad man Coogar?

According to him Ramires has flair. What flair is that? Is he confusing pace for flair?

An eediot is ranting about flair this and that.

Instead of the eediot to say that Chelsea lack wingers, he is blaming Mikel, Lamps and Meireles for "lacking flair".

Do they not fulfil the same role that the likes of Carrick perform for Manure? The eediot is busy talking about Nani and Valencia. Is that Meireles, Lampard and Mikel's role?

Instead of hailing these boys for performing in the absence of proper wingers, the deranged eediot is busy blaming them for not being wingers.

Are they supposed to jump on the wing and start dribbling players?

Leave this bitter fool abeg.

He's pissed off that after claiming that Lamps was AVB's problem, AVB has been sacked, Lamps is now a signature player, and the team is playing with more flair than AVB ever managed, racking up 4 goals or more aginst the likes of Napoli and Spurs.


So because we decided to go all defensive against Barca, he is trying to paint our team as Stoke. The only time Manure beat Barca in 2008 was by parking the bus and playing eact same way we did yesterday. No one ever compared Manure to Stoke because of that. The eediot along with Nateevs is trying to paint yesterdays performance as "reverting to what works".

These same players - led by DD, Lamps - hold record for the most ever goals scored in Premier League history - 107 goals.

Instead of admitting that AVB was w@nk, these guys are saying they could not play AVB "flair game", yet I guess they were playing defensive game when they broke all attacking records with Ancelotti!!!

Reverting to what works means hitting Spurs for 5, hitting Napoli and Villa for 4 etc, not drawing 0-0 and losing 1-0 like AVB did with all his flair.

Are we still having AVB vs RDM debate?


AVB woulda lost that game 4-0

What is Nateevs talking about highlights fans.

Lampard is the anti-thesis of highlights player. The sheer amount of work he gets through in a game, the quick passes to release players on the left (which we saw today) is far from highlight stuff. I remember when Nateevs was telling me that highlight king Steven Gerrard (a player who throws away hollywood passes all game) was better than Lamps. Nateevs is the highlights man if you ask me.

As for MOTM, everybody was Man-of-the-Match except Mata, who does not have the physicality or stamina for this kind of defensive game.

Special mention to Cole, Cahill and Drogba, but every single man gave it his all except possibly Mata.

Meireles is really shackling Messi in this game. . .


Lets not get carried away. . . 45 more minutes of finger-nail biting left. . .