Carling Cup Semi Finals (8th, 9th, 22nd & 23rd January)

Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Chelsea v Everton, Semi-Final, L1, 19:45

Wednesday, 09 January 2008
Arsenal v Tottenham, Semi-Final, L1, 19:45

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Tottenham v Arsenal, Semi-Final, L2, 20:00

Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Everton v Chelsea, Semi-Final, L2, 20:00

are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

i know zokora will be off, unless we try to work something out after hudd's red

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

Why? surely he aint playing?

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

i know zokora will be off, unless we try to work something out after hudd's red

5 different Ivory Coast players who have been called up would be playing matches in mid week if they were allowed so I doubt you will be able too.

arsenal 7 - 3 spurs?
chelsea 1- 0 everton.

L r d wrote:

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

Why? surely he aint playing?

Dunno. Even if he ain't playing, I'm still glad Togo didn't qualify.

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

nothing to do with luck with him in the side

PaoloTramezzani wrote:

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

nothing to do with luck with him in the side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKzxC8cxfU

PaoloTramezzani wrote:

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

nothing to do with luck with him in the side

What do you mean by that?

Trying to think of players who are available to play. Carvalho is back from suspension, so Alex will probably be given a rest.

Cech - Injured
Cudicini - Injured
Hilario

Ferreira
Belletti
A Cole
Bridge

Terry - Injured
Alex
Carvalho
Ben Haim

SWP
J Cole
Malouda - Injured
Kalou - ACN

Lampard - Injured
Makélélé - Injured
Essien - ACN
Obi Mikel - ACN
Ballack
Sidwell

Drogba - ACN
Shevchenko - Injured
Pizarro
Sinclair

Probable:

---------------Hilario

Belletti--Carvalho--Ben Haim--Bridge

SWP----Sidwell----Ballack----J Cole

----------Pizarro--Sinclair

oh my god. how fucked are we?
still i reckon all these problems now could leave chelsea to 'fuckus' (as rafa says) on the CL when that starts again as is a good chance we will be out of league by then. if we arn't then it will be a minor miracle of which we should issue thanks to the jan transfer window for.

LordAnger wrote:oh my god. how fucked are we?
still i reckon all these problems now could leave chelsea to 'fuckus' (as rafa says) on the CL when that starts again as is a good chance we will be out of league by then. if we arn't then it will be a minor miracle of which we should issue thanks to the jan transfer window for.

Should see off Everton at home with that team. Sheva might be back, so might Cech so suddenly things start looking a lot better. All the absentees (players off to the ACN and injured players) should all be back around the same time, so if we can get through this bad period still picking up the points we still have a good chance of a top-2 finish and a decent run in the CL again.

I'm more worried about the current crop staying fit for now.

Black Magic wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:

De Guzman wrote:

PaoloTramezzani wrote:are l'arse's african players jetting off before wednesday's match?

yep the ones whose countries have qualified. Luckily Ade's Togo didn't qualify.

nothing to do with luck with him in the side

What do you mean by that?

it was a snide remark with no substance

2 days until the NLD...

Chelsea 3-0 Everton
Everton 1-0 Chelsea

Arsenal 1-1 Spurs
Spurs 0-2 Arsenal

Can see Spurs winning both legs

could I have the mobile number of your dopedealer, please...

Well we have definetly see this as our most realistic oportunity for any silverware this season and will perhaps be more hungry to win this than Arsenal...

Last year was very close, hopefully we will go 1 step further and beat them this time...

After that disgraceful loss couple weeks back, we will not need anymore motivation...

Haven't got a clue, what team we'll be playing, but you certainly will have a chance to finally beat us in either of the matches.

What kind of Spurs line-up do you expect?

-----------------Robbo ------------------------

Chimbonda----King----Dawson---Lee-young------

Lennon--------Boetang-----O Hara-----Malbranque------

------------------Keane----Berbatov-------------------


I think O Hara will be given a chance, definetly after his impressive display against Arsenal last time out. Expect the same strike force. Perhaps Jenas might start in midfield for Boetang....

But definetly full strength line-out minus the obvious casualties, what I have notice, he doesn't really rotates much, especially the strike-force.....

Arsenal is perhaps tricky, due to you lot resting players last weekend. I feel he will start with Fabregas and co?

Zack Thfc wrote:-----------------Robbo ------------------------

Chimbonda----King----Dawson---Lee-young------

Lennon--------Boetang-----O Hara-----Malbranque------

------------------Keane----Berbatov-------------------


I think O Hara will be given a chance, definetly after his impressive display against Arsenal last time out. Expect the same strike force. Perhaps Jenas might start in midfield for Boetang....

But definetly full strength line-out minus the obvious casualties, what I have notice, he doesn't really rotates much, especially the strike-force.....

Arsenal is perhaps tricky, due to you lot resting players last weekend. I feel he will start with Fabregas and co?

Not to sure about Fabregas starting. I would, but Wenger?

my guess is something like:

fabianski
hoyte djourou senderos traore
walcott denilson diarra diaby
eduardo bendtner

maybe gilberto, rosicky, or less likely flamini or hleb

i dont see how anyone can think that spurs will beat arsenal. they could be 5-0 up with 2 minutes left and still find a way to stuff it up again and again and again.
personally i think spuds v frogs will be a right good game with arsenal winning 4-2 in both legs or something stupid.

hopefully chelsea will sneek a close win against the biggest team in scouse land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aGewljSxc

De Guzman wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aGewljSxc

. Glad it was good natured.

come on the spurs.
i have 5 pound resting on them beating the arsenal kids over 2 legs

Could well be a good bet, if you got very good odds, what were they like?

De Guzman wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aGewljSxc

Wow, billy big potatoes- against the might of ONE Spurs fan!

No doubt their wives and girlfriends will have been so proud of their masculinity

Respect to the Spurs Brother in that video

I have a horrible feeling spurs are going to do us this time. They've come close several times the past 2-3 years but bottled it in the end, they may just fluke it this time around.

Don Fabio wrote:

De Guzman wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6aGewljSxc

Wow, billy big potatoes- against the might of ONE Spurs fan!

No doubt their wives and girlfriends will have been so proud of their masculinity

Respect to the Spurs Brother in that video

See the angry little asian bloke in the brown coat. I love it how they say "niw" instead of "nil" aswell. They're crackers.