S-Clarke

FT in the Montpelier game, they won 2-1 in the end....both goals from Utaka! They're the french league champions for the first ever time, pipping mega-spending PSG to the title. A great achievement and pretty remarkable given the budgets of the other teams in that league. What an incredible football season all over the world.

Please stop.

Maybe he's more ****ed off at not winning the league (in the last 2 years) than we realise? He probably thinks that the investment he's put into the club should equal a league win, even more so when we sat top of the league for 28 of the weeks. I know that's not really a reason to be fed up or sack anyone, as we still got promoted, but Cortese is quite a funny character.

Errr, the champions league winners medal? a championship winners medal? Not saying I want it to happen, but to s\ay he's achieved nothing is stupid.

That interview at the end of the season was still odd though.

There is no smoke without fire, it's 'building' like the Pardew rumours built.

I quite like Jay Rodriguez, simply because he seems to have a bit more to his game. I haven't seen a great deal in Hooper, so I may be talking tosh, but he seems to be a ''6 yard box'' finisher and comes alive in there....and we have Sharp in that mold.

Because they're an English team. and of course they showed grit. They showed plenty of determination and drive. Not just tonight, but also against Barcelona. They probably didn't deserve to get there in terms of domination in football terms, but you can't deny that they have defended for their lives in both games. The played as a team and defended as a unit, they were clinical when they got their chances and took them. Their opposition weren't.

lol @ Mikel nicking the mic and interviewing Kalou

The England contingent were immense. Cole at LB, Lampard in the middle and Cahill at the back - although he was helped by Gomez freezing on the night.

Fantastic season. Chelsea had no right to win this today, but the god were looking down on them....and their grit and drive to win that was immense. Gomez totally froze tonight. After this truly crazy season, how about England to win the euros?!?!?

I'd imagine it's Barnard who'd move on... We'd then have Sharp, Lee, Lambert and Hooper. I don't think Adkins has ever seen Guly as an 'out and out' forward.

Indeed, that would be overpaying..... I'd imagine if it is true, it's ''up to 14m'' and it's based on all sorts of random clauses.

rumour on twitter than the bid is £14m, but that post has since vanished. Prob tosh.

ok now that tweet has vanished....

Agent_ITK ‏@Agent_ITK Southampton bid for Hooper is in the region of £14m. #Football #celtic

That was very much a case of a lesson in ruthlessness. Blackpool played the better stuff, got into the better positions and had the clearer openings - but they only mustered one goal. No arguments really. WHU will be strong next year that's for sure, don't expect them to be involved in bottom 4/5 battle.

What did you expect? Bart was out of contract, Forecast wasn't. We need a new GK, so Bart goes and we sign another keeper. Job done and don't get hysterical about it.

He's scored more goals than Lallana this year, and his primary role isn't goal scoring. He does well to get into those positions with his skill and pace.

One WHU got to grips with it, that was that and probably will be that. They'll turn this into a non-event of a 2nd half with their tactics, that's for sure.

Yep, on both versions on SS1. Shows the full 90 of every single match on the red button, really good idea. I think the first season it came into action was the year we were relegated, so we've never really benefited.!

We have to be on 10 times, but that quota will be split between Sky and ESPN, which is an additional sub.

And isn't that depressing.

Stoke are a team who have been treading water for the last 18 months, that's very dangerous as teams that do that eventually get sucked in....Thats what I predict will happen to Stoke this year. Norwich could struggle if they lose their manager and striker, as those 2 guys are the key reason in why they're where they are. Take those 2 out and they will struggle big style. Wigan will again struggle, even more so if they lose Martinez. It's a much weaker league than it was when we were last in it, I'm pretty confident of that. I don't expect big things next year but a nice comfortable end of the season being in mid-table would be terrific.

oh ok, fair enough. Not sure where i got my figure from them! probably confused it with another player..