Champions League: Chelsea 1 - 1 Rosenborg
Match reports
The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: “Chelsea must feel further away than ever from a first European Cup. Their owner, Roman Abramovich, may have his heart set on triumphing in this competition twice in the next six years but there was humiliation to endure here. Rosenborg, seasoned campaigners at this level but too often just to make up the numbers in the group stage, achieved arguably their greatest ever Champions League result last night. Those in blue shirts departed with red faces.”
Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter: “If you don’t make an omelette right, you end up with egg on your face. Chelsea keep talking about wanting to become the No 1 club in the world, but they need to sell out their stadium and see off modest European visitors like Rosenborg.”
The Times, Matt Hughes: “Only 24,973 turned up to for the start of European football’s most glamourous competition, which Chelsea hope to win, the club’s worst attendance since the second leg of a Champions League qualifying tie against MSK Zilina four years ago. Those who bothered to turn up were treated to an entertaining game that Chelsea did enough to win, although it also revealed many of their weaknesses.”
The Independent, Sam Wallace: “With Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Ricardo Carvalho still out – as well as the long-term injured Michael Ballack and Wayne Bridge – Mourinho will not be savouring Sunday’s trip to Old Trafford. The Chelsea manager may yet spring a surprise by bringing one of those players back into his squad, but he sounded downcast last night at the prospect of even one of them making a recovery.”
Official Chelsea FC Website: “The Blues struck the post twice in the search for a winner but having gone behind midway through the first-half, we laboured to turn overwhelmingly superior possession into penalty area pressure. The stuttering start to the season goes on.”
The highlights
The good
- Andriy Shevchenko’s 60th Champions League goal. Rescued us from utter humiliation. He’s just two goals shy of Gerd Mà¼ller’s record.
- Florent Malouda and Joe Cole. Two world class wingers at the top of their game. Malouda put in a fine cross for Shevchenko to score the equaliser. Substituting Cole in the second half was a mistake.
- Juliano Belletti and Alex. Occasionally Belletti was guilty of leaving a gaping hole at right-back, but going forward he was pretty good. Reminds me of a right-footed Wayne Bridge. Alex is getting better with each game.
- We dominated possession and had a huge number of shots at goal (the majority of which were off target, though we did hit the post twice), but that is to be expected against a team like Rosenborg. A dominating performance with no end product - story of our season so far.
The bad
- The result. Let’s face it - a draw at home to Rosenborg, one of the minnows of European football, is nothing short of embarrassing. There are no excuses. Blaming it on the absence of Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard just doesn’t wash.
- Jose Mourinho’s tactic of sending a defender to play centre forward. It just seems to encourage players to aimlessly hoof balls forward. We shouldn’t have to resort to such tactics against teams of Rosenborg’s ability.
- Did Rosenborg’s keeper actually make a save of note? We could have played 45 minutes added time and still not scored a second.
- John Terry wasn’t his usual masterful self in defence (he was slightly better in attack). Rosenborg hardly touched the ball in and around our 18 yard box, but when they did Terry was far from commanding. The frustration seems to be getting to him.
- For what it’s worth, the free kick from which Rosenborg scored shouldn’t have been awarded against us. If anything, Claude Makelele was being fouled before the Rosenborg player decided to throw himself to the ground.
Man of the Match
Florent Malouda.
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- Tags: Alex, Andriy Shevchenko, Champions League, Chelsea, Claude Makelele, Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Jose Mourinho, Juliano Belletti, Roman Abramovich, Rosenborg
Time for some optimism. Although this is obviously a highly unexpected result, and the team are developing a worrying trend of being practically unable to score for one reason or another, our season is nowhere near even being considered a lost cause.
Agreeing with all the positives Nick has listed, I’m just going to accentuate them. This was our most dominant performance of the season so far tonight and we were extremely unlucky to have those two shots bounce off the upright. On a better day, we could have won by a considerable margin. Credit to Rosenborg’s resolute defence though, especially in the first half. The one time they conceded was the one time they backed off. Our backline has looked sturdy since the coming of Belletti and Alex, even at Villa, and certainly will be tough for United to penetrate on Sunday.
A 1-1 draw up at Old Trafford is probably the best that we can hope for in my opinion with our current problems, though I’m not dismissing the possibility of an emphatic victory! Only if
our strikers are unable to pick themselves back up against Hull in the Carling Cup next week will I start getting worried this early. Patience is the key for now - these are only draws, not losses, and there’s a long way to go. :)
I think Joe Cole might possibly score in the end if he had stayed on. Anyway, a draw is still better than a defeat. I always trust Sheva will come good in Europe when it matters.
And the bloody press loves to dig out something negative to write about Chelsea. Haven’t they realized the low attendance was mainly due to a little known opponent, a chilly Tuesday night, and the live coverage on ITV?
I didn’t see the game, but I saw the Blackburn game, and this sounds the same, in fact the last three games seem to have the same script, lots of possession, but no incisiveness in the final third. It’s strange but I also have had the feeling that JD mentioned in his comments on the Blackburn game, that we are not as potent as a couple of years ago, and that the opposition senses this, giving them confidence, and eating away at our own. On paper the squad is just as good as the last two years but I think the main factors that are affecting the team are the transition to a more expansive style, new squad members bedding in, and injuries to key players, which all unsettle the flow and confidence. If each of the last three games had been wins by two or three goals that confidence would have been boosted. I also think that in a similar way to the Vialli/Zola era when there was some fluid play, a lot of the less gifted teams tended to get physical and intimidate as a response, now teams seem to know how to play us, and have a game plan. Confidence and belief, they believe they can withstand the Chelsea pressure, and the boys don’t seem to have the belief that they can score, it just needs a winning run to restore the belief and boost the confidence. Don’t panic, don’t buy into the negativity, I’m *confident* things will change soon.
Chris,
You’re right to look at the positives, but there’s nothing to be gained in this being our most dominant game this season. Other than a 3rd round game at home in the FA Cup, I doubt we’ll play weaker opposition. It should be a given to play them at home and win.
There were some good performances, but what really irks me is they had one set-piece and scored from it. We had dozens, and the delivery was as poor as ever. Quite how it’s got so bad that our centre forward has to take the free-kicks from 40 yards out is beyond me.
The finishing is a joke. Yeah, we hit the post twice, but other than that we rarely troubled them.
The desperation of shoving JT up front made no difference - one has to wonder exactly who plays up front for the reserve and youth teams - do we employ CB’s up front for them ???
Sheva was always going to score our goal. Kalou was not.
Makelele should have been taken off at half-time, Essien played in the holding role and SWP on the right, with Joe Cole behind the front two.
I’m just praying there’s traffic gridlock for the rest of the week so our trip to ManUSA gets postponed. With no Lamps, Drogba, Pizarro, Carvalho (what is wrong with him), we’ll be lucky to get a point.
OK guys, I’ve lurked long enougha s I gently re-introduce myself to the hurly burly of being a Blues fan. But I am worried. I’m with Fifty on the way it’s gone thus far. Kalou was described on 5 Live this morning as having “rubber legs” which is as perfect a description as I’ve heard for any of our players. He fell away last year in my view as a striker and as an effective attacking midfielder. Sheva does seem to be a spent force as well, but he could easily adopt the Shearer mentality of staying in the middle and still scoring 15 plus per season. JT (as JD states) has been nowhere near the form he showed before his own injury crisis last year. I am unhappy that we rely so heavily on Lamps and Drogs for goals and yet we allow Robben to saunter out the door to a potential CL rival. We persist with Maka who was penalised for the free kick that led to the goal (even if he wasn’t at fault - how many times will he clumsily tackle someone and compromise us? We do seem to have bought some good ones - Sidwell was impressive on Saturday, winning headers and strong in the tackle. Belletti has made me eat my critical “who-he?” words so far this season and Alex is a BOU (Big Old Unit) who looks very solid.But my jury is out on Malouda and Pizzaro as being quality enough for our aspirations and the failure to Get Villa and/or Alves disappointed me when you see the ambitions we have as a club.
So, I’ll be controversial here, but unless an improvement occurs very soon (can’t see us winning on Sunday) then I reckon RA will exercise his autocratic supreme power and the axe will fall on The Special One. I still think he can turn things to the better, but I don’t own the club and hold the purse strings. Something is not quite right as was the case last year and I fear/anticipate we have much more to come.
Less than 25,000 in attendance. No defence. That is pathetic. Simon, are your fans that die hard that “a chilly Tuesday night” makes them stay away!! HAHAHAHA!!!
I agree with Tony about the axe on Jose, as I said after Blackburn that Jose is now fighting Jol for 1st place in the sack race.
If I was Roman I’d be asking “How come I’ve invested £500m in this team and we’re resorting to playing our centre half as centre forward in the last 2 games and we can’t beat lesser teams like Rosenborg, Blackburn and Villa?â€
In the 70s, when squads were small, David Webb played everywhere, including keeper (we won 2-0) and I seem to remember Mickey Droy going up front a few times, but with a 26 man squad of internationals I’m not interested in excuses.
To cap it all I don’t enjoy the way we play under Jose. Arsenal won nothing last year and Newcastle won nothing under Keegan but at least they were exciting. We might win nothing but we’re going to be as dull as dishwater along the way.
Some encouraging points, some not so. But overall in the CL, you need to win your home games at this stage - a point against the weakest side in the group is not good enough. If either Valencia or Schalke take a point at the Bridge, things start to get a little tricky in terms of the second place lottery.
Quite funny. Panic stations on here and other Chelsea boards, while the media are taking the line of ‘they played well, were very unlucky in front of goal and shouldn’t be too concerned.’ Things aren’t ideal, but really we could play that game again tonight and win 5-0. It was one of those nights.
The elephant in the room is Shevchenko - with the money we spent on him, we could have bought a couple of decent second-string strikers, paid Robben’s wages and bought Crespo a new wife.
Let’s get through Old Trafford relatively unscathed, regroup, and kick on till Christmas.
Very true about Sheva - even at Chelsea prices, when you consider that the likes of RVN, Martins, Berbatov and McCarthy were available at the time it does make you wonder.
Three games without a win, and one goal in those three games was exactly what United suffered at the start of the season with two draws and a loss. So far, they have scored just over half as many goals as us. Mourinho should not be any closer to the sack than Ferguson is.
After Hull, we have Fulham at home, then Valencia and Bolton away. We should be right to expect at least three wins and a draw from these games, considering we will be facing one Championship team, two lounging around the bottom of the table and the hardest match in our CL group. The Special One and the team have a point to prove now and I don’t believe that they will let us down.
If by the next international break we have not recovered from our current setbacks, then by all means, start bringing out the knives.
Or at least start sharpening them for Christmas.
quite frankly guys we looked desperate in front of goal. that can make someone miss sitters and that what we were doing all night. especially after the Ros scored. we were a bit panicky, and thgat JT rush foward thing shows we are becoming very desperate indeed. we need a new striker, all-out like Michael Owen, to partner Drogba. we need more creativity in the middle of the park. we need our wings to be more dangerous, and they were last night but we had no-one to meet the crosses. all these points if not addressed will haunt us this season. lets go 4-3-3.
JT needs to sort his defending out before he tries it as a centre-forward. How many have we condeded from set pieces this season?
Certainly seems crazy to start talking of new managers just at the moment; Jose needs to react to this, which, given his considerable abilities and achievements thus far, he should be able to do.
They most likely won’t be for us. Let’s just plod on and see where we find ourselves first like Peter says. If the media, the traditional harbingers of the apocalypse, aren’t doing so yet, then why are we?! Chins up.
Sam, some fans like me chose not to go and watch a small club playing Chelsea in a group match in mid-week. What so funny about? So shut your face! Under the circumstances as I stated, 25000 is still a good turn-out. Some clubs would love to have that many fans turned up in their stadiums at all.
The 4-3-3 at the moment would be less effective than the 4-4-2, considering we have no frontman in Drogba or Pizarro fit to hold the ball up in the centre. We could always use JT (!)
Speaking of whom, you’re right, Pete; JT has not looked near his best so far this season. Although I am confident that the early goal leak came to its climax at Villa Park, our defence of set-pieces has been the main cause of our conceding. Offensively, we haven’t been much better either.
Re: the attendance. Our good but not exceptional fanbase has been stretched to the limit in recent seasons - CL group fixtures need to either come as a mini-season ticket for all three, or be included in the season ticket, or be reduced HEAVILY (they still cost #40 last night). This has been obvious for the last three years when the fixture against the least attractive side has never sold out, despite us comfortably selling out unattractive FA Cup and League Cup fixtures.
This really isn’t difficult to rectify, but the club is so badly run at so many levels.
24,900 is a shocking turnout for a Champions League game.
The truth is your fans are lightweights - its in the DNA of your club. It was the same in the 80’s - 40,000 against Liverpool at the weekend - 13,000 against Middlesborough the following
Tuesday.
The truth is Chelsea are a small club punching above their weight because they have been morally raped by a Russian with blood money. However all the money in the world cannot change the fibre of Chelsea - big time charlies.
Peter, yeah! I hope Chelsea would consider to reduce the ticket prices for some of the CL group matches at least. Or give us a free flag! :-)
Mussy, you too, shut your face! Now go back to 606! Thank you!
Pessimists all around…someone handing out piss-mist pie?
Come on people true we have had a bad run…but we are playing entertaining stuff…Is that not what a number of you people were crying for???
We are Arsenal in disguise….
Ok we are lacking the scoring touch from Lamps and Drogs not disputed but when you see people hoofing the ball everywhere except into the net that is annoying…
The Terry upfront thing should not be attempted again…He lacks ball play and is not going to know what to do with the ball up field… I would have rather had Carlvalho infront…
We will shape up but we had better do so before we slip off.
Not sure how we can be both a ’small club’ and ‘big time charlies’ but Mussy clearly isn’t one of the world’s most original thinkers?
I wouldn’t argue with the latter description, though. It’s what makes supporting Chelsea so fun and so frustrating - I wouldn’t change em for the world, even if they’re going to send me to an early grave.
So much more fulfilling than a diet of success, success and slightly less success.
Despite Mussy’s terribly articulate, searingly accurate and highly original reasoning, the fact is a growing number of people are starting to reject the early stages of the CL because a) they really don’t care about the group games which are generally bloody dull and b)it costs far too much. Rosenborg are hardly a draw, game on TV etc. The fact that club couldn’t sell penicillin to a clap victim doesn’t help much either.
Arsenal include CL in their season ticket. If we did the same and dropped the price for everybody else, we’d have sold out. Simple.
Football is too expensive. Look at Newcastle’s attendences in the UEFA Cup last season. Spurs couldn’t sell out an FA Cup tie v Cardiff. Clubs that don’t have Arsenal-Liverpool-Man U level of support will struggle unless the club prices creatively.
Anyway, at this rate we won’t have to worry about the CL next season…
I’m quite surprised how optimistic most of you guys are on here. I mean i know it’s Chelsea and we love our club no matter what but so far this season has been woeful!!!
We scrapped past Birmingham who might i add scored two goals against us. We rolled the dice against reading and put all our forwards on and fortunately for us, our two best players scored wonder goals! We should have been rolled over by Liverpool the way we played, and got a lucky break with the pen. Villa, we were dog, Blackburn we were worse than dog! Rosenberg, disaster! I’m quite scared about how we’re going to get past Shalke and Valencia now as the home banker we threw away!
I’m suprisingly not worried about old trafford on Sunday as they seem to be stuttering too. Even though i think we are more than stuttering at the moment. Love Jose but i think he may be on borrowed time. I saw quie a few moments of saracastic laughter coming from Roman. (and might i add his new lady who is mighty hot! Well done Roman!)
Look, i’m not usually pesimistic, this is a rare rant by me but so far this season and i know it’s early but i haven’t had much to grin about and considering the fact i’m in an office full of scousers (in London might i add…speaks volumes of Liverpools allegiance) i’m not confident with what’s going on at the bridge. And please nobody tell us this is a transition period, Arsenal and Liverpool have had them before and it’s basically another way of saying to the fans, sorry we know we were sh*t, but we promise it will be better next year! Sod next year i want the prem and champs league this year!
Sorry Simon but I did not expect you to have a defence!! It was a dig that was absolutely called for!! You are not a big club and that proves it!!
Arsenal had 38,000 for a youth cup semi last year, 60,000+ against Dinamo last year and Prague this year despite the games being won!! We also had a full house against Rosenburg at Highbury.
Man Ure always fill their ground, always.
To put in into perspective, you will get more than 24,500 at more than 1 Championship game this weekend.
Big club my Arsenal!!
P.S. Any Chelsea fan who is panicking is an idiot. Your money will allow you to stay at the top no matter what else happens. Ambramovich is the single most important thing in your club - if he goes you are on a par with Spuds again.
Some nice adverts for Arsenal v. Newcastle in the Carling Cup in the London press recently…
indeed there are johnathan. How can you tell they are not for the last 3,000 tickets or so? I am sure there will be in excess of 24,950!!! hahahahaha
Dont try to win that arguement its not worth it
Some may think that Jose is the new dead man walking, but I believe he will be here for the whole season. If we win nothing and don’t even get a CL spot, then I could see a change being made. I believe Roman trusts Jose and will give him time to create a team that fulfils his dream, to win the CL and to play stylish football. Is Roman panicking? I don’t think so. Kenyon’s comments about Roman may sound like marketing fluff but it’s clear what objectives have been agreed and consistency in those terms is judged over seasons and not a few weeks.
Sam,
Aren’t the CL included in your season ticket? If so, it’s an irrelevent comparison. But Arsenal are a bigger club than Chelsea. So what? That’s hardly breaking news. But I don’t support Chelsea because they are the biggest. If I did, I’d be the sort of smug, boring, gloryhunting twat who gets his kicks posting on other club’s websites about how AMAZING their HUGE club’s support is.
And wouldn’t that be pathetic?
“Sam, some fans like me chose not to go and watch a small club playing Chelsea in a group match in mid-week. What so funny about? So shut your face!”
SEE, THAT JUST SUMS UP, MOST CHELSEA FANS FOR ME!
PATHETIC, GLORY SEEKING MUPPETS, WHO ONLY WANNA GO TO THE BIG GAMES!
MY BOSS HAS BEEN A CHELSEA SEASON TICKET HOLDER, FOR 11 YEARS… N’ IF HE SAW YOU, SIMON T, I’M SURE HE’D GIVE YOU A CLUMP!
ANYWAY, YOU WANNA WATCH A PROPER TEAM, PLAY PROPER FOOTBALL… TUNE INTO ARSENAL V. SEVILLA TONIGHT SON! YOU MAY CREAM YOUR PANTS!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See what I mean?
Talking of TSO getting the road is rediculas.
Lets look at this rationaly. If you pay someone £50k (never mind £130k)a week to train and play football, score goals and defend then they should be able to overcome any ‘mental’ block. Reduce their wages to that of £30k a year and see how hungry they are for a pay rise then.
I understand ‘the professional mentality’ to win as many trophies as possible throughout their careers, but that isn’t working at the moment is it!!!
All that said this ‘could’ be a dip in form. I’d hate to admit that we are a two man team and can’t win games without Lamps or drogs! That can’t be the case, look how much we pay Shevers and co. they should all be match winning playings in their own right. Being dependant on two players is hugely risky, we need Essien to stay longer at training and practise his shooting, same as all our midfeild and forwards. Saying that, i think we should start practising the basics; taking corners, free kicks, defending set pieces.
We’re slightly lacking a togetherness on the pitch at the moment.
Sam - as much as i hate Arsenal, on current form your better placed to win the Prem with goal scorers all over the pitch. Now go away!
K/T/B/F/F/H
Not that I really care to get involved in the playground antics of ‘my team’s bigger than your team’ or ‘my Dad’s harder than your Dad’ rubbish, but purely for the fact that ‘Clock End Gooner’ had to shout his message to everyone, I hope ex-Hotspur Freddie Kanoute shows us what a ‘proper’ team is like.
And as pointless arguments go, saying Arsenal had 60,000 watching a game last season counts for bugger all if you compare it to a team who’s ground doesn’t currently hold that many.
When the Bridge is a sell out, what do you propose they do to let the rest of the fans in ??? Have people standing on each others shoulders ????
Ive probably opened the “that’s ‘cos you’re a small club” floodgates a bit further…..
Bloody Hell the nerve of these Arse fans, conspicuous by the their absence last year and now because they’re top of league….
Well I’d be more worried about a proven Russian gangster getting his hands on their slimy club, but I suppose in reality, it’s a match made in heaven
Chelsea were built for Stanford Bridge, so we’ve got to stay there. I don’t even like the thought of moving to say earls court and watching a game in the Samsung stadium! having a sponcered Stadium is crap!!!
Where as Arsenal were quick to jump in to bed with Chelsea’s rejected sponcers to build (ok an amasing stadium) but in my eyes it’s selling out.
Lets not leave the bridge, knock down that bates hotel and put up a massive Shed end.
K/T/B/F/F/H
“Bloody Hell the nerve of these Arse fans, conspicuous by the their absence last year and now because they’re top of league….
Well I’d be more worried about a proven Russian gangster getting his hands on their slimy club, but I suppose in reality, it’s a match made in heaven”
SEASON TICKET HOLDER, FOR 11 YEARS… ARSENAL MY LOCAL CLUB… 6 ARSENAL TATTOO’S, BUT OF COURSE, LAST SEASON, I WAS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN! HUSH UP, CHILD!
SO, I SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT A RUSSIAN GANGSTER “TRYING†TO TAKE OVER MY CLUB, AS APPOSED TO A RUSSIAN GANGSTER, WHO’S ALREADY “TAKEN†OVER OUR CLUB…
LISTEN, YOU CHAV MUGS…
YOU CAN ALL BANG ON ABOUT HOW YOU ARE A BIG CLUB… AND YOU ARE GOING TO DOMINATE WORLD FOOTBALL IN 10 YEARS TIME, BUT THE SIMPLE FACT IS, ALL YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE ROMAN HAS TURNED UP, ARE BOUGHT!
EVERYONE IN HISTORY WILL LOOK BACK ON YOUR TROPHIES & KNOW, YOU DIDN’T WIN A SINGLE ONE OF THEM, BEING SELF-SUFFICIENT! THE ONLY WAY YOU BROKE INTO THE TOP 2, WAS WITH HALF A BILLION POUNDS! NOW, IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH THAT… THEN FAIR PLAY TO YOU! LAP IT UP, WHILE YOU CAN… BUT DON’T EXPECT EVERY OTHER FAN IN THE COUNTRY TO GIVE YOU ANY CREDIT OR RESPECT… BECAUSE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT, OR NOT… YOU DON’T FUCKING DESERVE IT!
Clock end gooner,
Why are you so angry? did daddy touch you when you were a boy?
Six tattoo’s says chav my friend, it doesn’t mean loyalty. It’s means poverty of the mind! Grow up!
As unethical as i find Roman’s money it’s not half as bad as your blubbery fat man gangster.
Do one.
P.s. Buy a keyboard that types in lower case as well you wolly!
K/T/B/F/F/H
I’m sorry to stoop down to their level, but what the hell does ‘6 ARSENAL TATTOO’S’ prove about being a loyal fan ???
Piss off numpty. I’ve more respect for Leyton Orient fans than I do for gloryhunting Gooners like you.
What’s the right way of doing things, by the way? Is it to move to a completely different part of London, change our name, con our way into the top division and then hope everybody has forgotten about it in 90 years?
And stop shouting, you make yourself look unhinged.
Nick, JD, can we keep these morons off our website please? If they’re going to be aggressive and stupid and have nothing interesting to contribute, what’s the point in putting up with their crap?
Clock End Gooner
It doesn’t surprise me how you buy into the theory of most “Sun” readers that we’ve bought our success, it just shows how little knowledge you have of football in general.
It’s pointless to try and correct your myopic views, so just head back to the 606 boards where you belong!
Or perhaps I should say in a language you will understand FUCK OFF YOU TW*T!
PS Good to see you back and posting Tony, I thought you might have had some sort of early demise ;)
Sam, I shan’t bother arguing - I’d imagine that winning an argument with you carries the sort of cachet similar to that of winning a Special Olympics event.
Arsenal v Sevilla - SOLD OUT UEFA Champions League. Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Kick-off: 7.45pm
Lots of Spurs fans keen to see their new manager then…
“Arsenal v Sevilla - SOLD OUT UEFA Champions League. Wednesday, September 19, 2007. Kick-off: 7.45pm”
Really pleased for you Mussy, it’s nice to see Arsenal fans have set their sights as high as winning the attendance levels! ;)
I shall ignore these silly Arse scumbags, or they won’t stop vandalizing this Chelsea blog.
All I want to say now… Alex I love you! Well done! :-)
Good bye, Jose!
and Thank YOU for the memories!!!