all this “I was forced to play Essien / Paulo at CB” crap from Jose is rubbish.

no one forced him, he is just a crappy coach who thought that playing Essien at CB would be smarter than playing a 17 year who is trained for the position.

personally i think he bites of his own nose to spite his face.

ie - he wont play the kids cause he has beef with Frank Arsenen.

childish, as disrespectful to Chelsea.

Trading Standard Officers have ordered the urgent recall of a defective product found to be faulty and dangerous.

Over the Christmas and New Year period, tests proved the components in the product called “Chelsea FC” would fall apart when placed under the smallest amount of pressure. Consumers first experienced problems last year, when it was noted the product failed to work properly in Europe.
Complaints were made about it malfunctioning and then emitting a continuous whining noise - usually in Portuguese. At the time the complaints were ignored. But when the product started falling apart in Britain over Christmas, the Trading Standards Authority took action.

A spokesman warned: “We particularly want to stress to parents that, with Chelsea FC, there is a genuine risk of choking that may end in tears come May.

Despite assurances from the company behind the product that action was taken to correct the faulty parts, including abandoning the use of the highly unpredictable and sub-standard component “Robert Huth”, malfunctions have continued. Consumers have been urged to check the small print carefully for the words “this product may contain traces of Shevchenko”. If that is the case buyers of the product are urged to put it back in its box and return immediately. “Shevchenko” has been known to cause a severe allergic reaction in many consumers, causing them to shout involuntarily “You useless Ukrainian tw[@ t and “for f*cks sake bring back Carlton Cole”.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

And I might be biased here (obviously) but what the hell does Thierry Henry have to do to be crowned the best player in the world? I take you if Ronaldinho a scored the goals against Liverpool, Blackburn (and even the United one) people would be raving about it! Considering most of Henry’s goals are fantastic finishes and he has so many more goals that Ronaldinho it is so amazing people rate him better than our captain.

I swear if Henry had done what he has done for Arsenal in a Barcelona, Real Madrid or AC Milan shirt we would be three-time World Player of the Year by now. No Question.

Henry makes all the difference to us. the overall play has not altered that much all season but having a firing TH gives us a cutting edge. the goal at blackburn could not have been scored by any other striker I know. at least other strikers would take a pot shot and hope for the best whereas Henry placed that. thats why he is the best in the world keeping Cesc and Henry fit will be the key for our future. I am talking about this and next season and probably beyond that as well. we are currently playing like champions albeit 12 points behind with probably too much ground to make up. But it bodes well for next year.
what happens when TH retires? thats another post I think.