As you people know, I have been right behind AVB as our manager. I have said that it's a hard job trying to regenerate this team and build something new. We have heard the saying a team in transition alot this season but you need a base to build from and that base has to be a good team. As it proved today Chelsea are NOT a good team.

By Chris Wright

The following is copy-and-pasted verbatim from a Chelsea forum, in which former former youth Chelsea player Sam Tillen who now plays his football in Iceland writes candidly about his experiences as having John Terry as his club captain during his formative years.

Rio Ferdinand was booed throughout United's 3-3 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge yesterday. Whilst Rio has never been a popular player with Chelsea fans, given his West Ham and Leeds history, as well as the issues over the England captaincy, it was clear that Rio was singled out for special abuse yesterday thanks to John Terry's charge for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.

The artist formerly known as England's Brave John Terry. Again.

Innocent or guilty, right or wrong the time has come for the Chelsea captain to leave the Three Lions, and the circus surrounding them, behind. Permanently.

An era passed

It's difficult to argue however much I disagree with the Football Association's decision to relieve Terry of the England captaincy in wake of the racist abuse trial he faces in July.

People, please! Form an orderly queue for a glimpse of the hawt. Images: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Europe.

Dear Sir,

We don't blame you for handcuffing yourself to a goalpost during the first half of Everton's 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the EPL last night. Many have mocked you, but we often find it hard to resist the magnetic power of Joe Hart as well.

If Colombian media is to be believed, Faryd Mondragon is set to made a dramatic return to the country to end his career.

Golcarcol is reporting that Deportivo Cali has begun discussions to bring Mondragon back to the team. Deportivo is the team with which Mondragon began his career, which now spans over two decades, during the 1990-91 season.

Now don't get me wrong here, I am referring to his style of management. Let me elaborate for you. AVB has given an honest and frank interview to UEFA's The Technician and has opened up about some problems he is faced with here as Chelsea's manager and in his short career in Portugal.
In the interview, he explains some dilemma's he is faced with but also refers to HIS management style and reveals that because of his age and playing experience, he could never be a Manager classed as a Dictator.

According to QPR boss, Mark Hughes, the club is nearing the completion of a move for Brazilian sensation Ganso. Ganso has long been a target for some of Europe's biggest clubs however, in the recent few weeks, the EPL has looked like a very real destination for him.

With a host of top sides all after Ganso's signature, it is shocking that he would opt for QPR.

All eyes will be on the famed Giuseppe Meazza this weekend as Inter take on Milan in the Derby della Madonnina. While the atmosphere of derbies in the past have been heightened by the on field personalities, the latest edition of the Milan derby will certainly be white hot due to the psychological warfare that has been waged by both clubs.

This Saturday brings us the seasons first game of FA Cup up against Cheltenham Town. There's no denying that the balls have been kind to us and provide an opportunity to rest some of the more weary legs in the first team. The Cheltenham Town fans know this and are hopeful of an upset to our 2nd / 3rd stringers, assuming of course Gomes starts.

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We weren't sure whether we could love Timmy Howard any more. Just to recap, we know that he looks like this naked and is clearly an 'all-round top bloke' if our recent convo with him was anything to go by. But his response to scoring a wind-assisted wonder goal vs.

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During a particularly heavy planning session in the Kickette office last night, it came to our attention that one of our staffers has been hiding an odd kind of crush from the rest of the group.

For the general purposes of fun and mockery, we set about her like coyotes on a cadaver, until she fessed up.

Two goals by Craig Bellamy drove Liverpool towards success against Newcastle at Anfield and returning Captain Steven Gerrard scored a delightful chip on 77 minutes to seal a 3-1 victory over a dogged Newcastle following an unlucky own-goal by Daniel Agger under pressure on 25 mins.
The game was more about the victory than the performance and Liverpool dug it out in determined fashion.

One-time U.S. youth international Preston Zimmerman doesn't have a single cap for the senior U.S. national team, and while it wasn't likely that he'd be receiving his first call-up sometime soon anyway based on his current level of play and club standing, he didn't do himself any favors by using social media to voice his opinion about the current U.

Why we should all feel sorry for Steve Kean

Say what you like about Steve Kean, but the man has got big balls. I wrote in this column a couple of weeks ago that I thought he should go and, with only seven wins from 37 games in charge, my feelings haven't changed even though I am told he is held in high regard in the dressing room.

As AC Milan supporters, we have had opposed feelings since Adriano Galliani told that Carlos Tevez could sign in order to strengthen the squad. In my personal opinion, Tevez is a top-player, such a loved way of marking those players who can make the difference. The question is: who actually is Carlitos Tevez?

Liverpool FC. A team often associated with great past glories, one of the best match day atmospheres and some of the finest players to have ever graced the British game. However, their actions in response to the suspension handed to Luis Suarez have in my opinion been nothing short of extraordinary.

Ahead of kick-off on Wednesday I was nervous but I was still entirely confident we would progress to the Champions League Round of 16. I would have preferred not to endure a nervy draw and fancied us to get a win, but it was neither here nor there. Whilst there was some talk of the game falling on the 6th anniversary of the last time we had failed to get out of the group, it didn't feel within the realms of reality that history could repeat itself.

Patrice Evra has expressed the feelings of many of the fans, claiming that it is embarrassing that Manchester United will now have to play in the Europa League. After failing to make it out of the group stages, United will now join the final 32 in the secondary European competetion.

Whilst Evra has always been a great speaker, his form over the last eighteen months has been poor, and he is certainly one of the players who needs to take a look at his contribution, or lack of, to United's recent performances.

NOTE: I know several of you have stated that you really don't care when I write about that other sport I referee. If that's the case for you, you can safely skip this series of entries. This blog still has the same purpose as always (self-evaluation and venting when necessary), but it won't be focused on footy for a while, as for me this is the soccer off-season.

A Michigan State cheerleader took a scary fall tonight during a basketball game. As you can see in the video below, the cheerleader landed awkwardly on the back of her head. The good news is that she's currently in stable condition and has feelings in all of her extremities.

In the Michigan State cheerleader video, you see that the cheerleading routine went wrong.

Will Newcastle 'do another Carroll' and cash in on Tiote, Coloccini or Simpson in January?

"You can never think you're OK. The Andy Carroll thing brought that home more vividly than most." That's Alan Pardew summing up his feelings on the January transfer window last week.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has conceded that his side must return to winning ways quickly as their title hopes are quickly vanishing with each unsuccessful outing.

The Blues have lost four of their last seven matches in all competitions and according to reports, Villas-Boas was forced to call an extended dressing room meeting to urge for unity in these difficult times.

Anyone seen my team? They were with me when I got off the bus. The JimmyG2 Column I assume that there must be better feelings the day after Spurs gave Villa the run-around to slip past Chelsea and Newcastle to go third.

United Rant previews tonight's game against Benfica.

Surreal Football shows a graph of feelings between United fans and Wayne Rooney.

MUFC Info has stats ahead of our game against Benfica.

The Express talks about Danny Welbeck's new contract.

The Daily Mail has pictures of Phil Jones' new Aston Martin.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes that his side's slow start to the season has minimized the likelihood of slipping up in the present, as well the future stages of the season.

The Gunners suffered a home defeat to Liverpool while also losing away to Manchester United, Blackburn, and Tottenham amidst a disastrous spell to open the season.

I find these words from our esteemed manager very interesting in the context of the Youth V Experience argument that has raged like a wildfire throughout goonerland over the past 5 years.

Wenger gave us this quote today, speaking to Arsenal Player, when asked about the difference the 5 new players signed in the dying days of the last transfer window had made to the team.

Twitter might be the demise of the modern athlete, if only by allowing them the medium to do and say stupid shit before their agent and/or PR team can get in the way of a speeding bullet. Adelaide United's Anthony Golec learned this little lesson after one of his tweets, originally designed to be a joking private message to his brother (he says) regarding less than ebullient feelings toward a referee, landed on the whole big wide internet for the public to see.

Most of the day's action is either wrapped up, currently underway, or about to get going, so we can gradually shift the focus back to Liverpool for the time being, as there's a few pieces of news worth mentioning ahead of the weekend. Unfortunately nothing about Steven Gerrard's groin, but at this point most of you can just rely on your imagination for your daily fix.

Well folks, season's done. I'm guessing you probably knew that, unless you blacked out sometime early last week and are just now waking up. If that's the case, sorry

Today's show deals mainly with our feelings on the season as a whole, the reality of being pleased with the year the team had and disappointed with the way it ended, where things go from here and some early thoughts about what the team may look like next season.

Well folks, season's done. I'm guessing you probably knew that, unless you blacked out sometime early last week and are just now waking up. If that's the case, sorry :(
Today's show deals mainly with our feelings on the season as a whole, the reality of being pleased with the year the team had and disappointed with the way it ended, where things go from here and some early thoughts about what the team may look like next season.

Cue up the Nellie McKay, I'm almost out of here.

I love doing interviews with Seattle writers. They're all so naive and when they think they're asking hard questions, they're lobbing softballs. So you know, it's all good in the land of My Little Pony Sing Along Blogs. Anyway, I talked to Joshua Mayers and a bunch of other jackals yesterday, hopefully for the last time in a while so I can forget about what transpired this year.

That's about the best way I think I can describe my feelings about last night. I'd even tried to prepare myself for it, telling myself it wouldn't happen. Still didn't make me feel any better when the final whistle blew. KC bowed out of the playoffs at home for the first time since 1997 last night to the Houston Dynamo 2-0.

The loss in Kazan last night has left Spurs needing to avoid defeat in their next two games against PAOK and Shamrock Rovers if they are to stand a chance of progressing to the next round of 32 and it raises an issue that has been burning since our Europa League qualification was assured.

The manager has never been shy in letting his feelings known about the validity of this competition and words such as annoyance and irritation are never far from his lips.

Following Chelsea's defeat to QPR, footage of John Terry allegedly calling Anton Ferdinand a "black cunt" was circulated on the internet. Chelsea fans immediately insisted that the word being used was "blind" and scolded rival fans for thinking they were lip-reading experts.

As much as anyone hates Terry, no one should wish for him to have said something racist because that's fairly sick.

We rightly get angry about foreign fans racially abusing black players, but are English fans really any better?

The next time the English national team are in action and players are subjected to racist chants, don't feel indignant yet superior. Don't be consumed by anger and attack the opposing country's fans as being backward.

Watching the last 20 minutes of the Heart v Sydney FC game last night one thing was clear, the Heart players are not enjoying their game.
They are stressed. Perhaps even broken hearted. A goal from a corner - that van't Schip rightly pointed out wasn't a corner - and its is a draw. A 1-0 win from a quality goal from their new Brazilian signing is relegated to 1-1 and a 10th match without a win.

"In the history of Manchester United, it is another day and we'll recover from this, there's no question about that"- Sir Alex

Few weeks ago it was us who laughed and flexed our muscle and I 8 myself for doing that, so as the old drunk man once said "what goes around, comes around" and yes it is true.

That was the word Alex used to describe his feelings after the worst home defeat for Manchester United since 1926. Alex Ferguson sounded really sad and admitting defeat: "shattered, I can't believe it," he said. "It's our worst-ever day."
Balotelli who put a funny message in his T-shirt "Why always me?

Can we help out Blackburn and Wigan? We all spat out our mouthfuls of tea when we saw that foreign owners were in favour of scrapping promotion and relegation, essentially making the Premier League a roster of twenty franchises. Their feelings are clear, in that owners of lower clubs would be guaranteed to make money [.