Scally the Wag

Not just one Andy, there's a lot of them moving the same way...

I would ask you to take notice next time you enjoy Riise's goal to watch the gentlemen in blue behind the goal (especially on Riise's left side)... They appear to be jumping in delight as the ball hits the net. Nice to see quality being recognised impartially...

Just not good enough: six days away from the Prem and they've got most of their top players huffing and puffing. No excuses. If it were us, we'd be livid. From where I saw the game, Ballack was blowing like the proverbial fat boy before he got his hip injury. I was actually drawing attention to it as it was ridiculously early in the game and then he pulled up... He may have felt something but to me it looked like he was after an excuse to hide. He's nowhere near fit enough to make it for the weekend.

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And as we're looking at his post match comments... How many sly/bitter digs did you notice? Calling the Shield a 'minor trophy' was a nice one on the sly side, but the best bitter one was when he stated, baldly, that Chelsea had had much more possession in the first half. Looked happy didn't he...

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Doesn't wash with me: they play Premier League footy again in a week's time. Whose responsibility is it to get them fit for that? Besides, Mourinho could have started players like Bridge - he didn't exactly have a demanding WC did he? Even more relevant for SWP... He could have saved Robben for the second half etc...

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Yep Softy, you might have a point there. Lucky we didn't have that ref in Istanbul. I'll bet he does a pretty strict line on moving keepers too...

Apart from the first one, I can't work out why the rest were cancelled... Or why the players reacted so tamely... I'd have been going nuts after the third one.