Lineups:
Chelsea: Cech, Mancienne (Quaresma 81), Alex, Terry, Ashley Cole, Ballack, Mikel, Lampard, Kalou (Belletti 75), Anelka, Drogba. Subs Not Used: Hilario, Ivanovic, Di Santo, Malouda, Ferreira.
Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Bramble, Boyce, Figueroa, Cattermole (Rodallega 69), Brown, Scharner, Kapo, Zaki (Sibierski 89), N'Zogbia. Subs Not Used: Kingson, Edman, Kupisz, Routledge, Holt.

Goals:
1-0 Terry (25), 1-1 Kapo (82), 2-1 Lampard (90)

Bookings:
Alex (10), Terry (19), N'Zogbia (24), Cattermole (2), Mancienne (77), all unsporting behaviour

Sennding-offs:
none

Kat's thoughts:( Read more... )

Kat's man of the match:
Chelsea's best man on the pitch definitely was Super Frankie Lampard, but even he was outshone by the outstanding defensive work done by on Titus Bramble.  In the past he's often been a consistent source of blunders, but there was not even so much as a hint on that treat as he bossed his back four and time and time again denied the hosts, seemingly reading their minds like open books and always, absolutely always being in the right spot at the right time.  Add the fact that he stayed fair and sporting all throughout, and his performance deserves nothing less but the perfect 10.

Kat's Chelsea ratings: ( Read more... )

( Other results from the teams I like/support from this weekend )

... do I really need to say more? :P

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Maybe because I am still not fully well (still struggling to recover from that bronchitis/cold thingy that knocked me out last weekend) I am still feeling somewhat melancholy, but I just felt like posting a Cudicini picspam.  I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

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( mio tesoro )

( First pictures of Spurs!Carlo )

Dear Carlo,

My heart is breaking to see you go, at the same time I am happy for you as I know your move will mean you'll be number one between the sticks again.

Still, Stamford Bridge just won't be the same without you any more.

You will be badly, badly missed and never, ever forgotten.

Much much love and success to you for your career at Three Point White Heart Lane and plenty of clean sheets - except against Chelsea, that is.

Sad,
me

I haven't seen the game yet but hopefully I can catch it tomorrow and then I'll give you some match!musings again.

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Sorry I've been so quiet lately.  This weekend I am having my brother here for a visit so sadly no other matches to be covered, but I hope you will be content with the Blues' pics.

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( Super Super Frank )

Sorry I'm not getting you any pictures of other matches, but with Christmas and all I don't really have time to raid the 'net for more than I am going to give you.

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( English Premier League, round 18: Arsenal vs Liverpool, the Emirates Stadium, 2008-12-21 )

( English Premier League, round 18: Everton vs Chelsea, Goodison Park, 2008-12-22 )

To all of you who celebrate it, I wish you Merry Christmas, I hope you get to spend a few relaxed and peaceful days with your families and loved ones.  To everyone else, I simply wish you all, Peace on Earth.

Final batch of last weekend.  Watching Hamburg vs Aston Villa at the moment, so maybe I'm going to give you the match!musings on that one at a later time.

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( Italian Serie A, round 16: Juventus Turin vs AC Milan, 2008-12-14 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Chelsea vs West Ham United, Stamford Bridge, 2008-12-14 )

You know the drill, don't you? ;P

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( Bundesliga, round 17: Hertha BSC vs Karlsruher SC, Olympic Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim vs FC Schalke 04, Carl Benz Stadium, 2008-12-14 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: VfL Bochum vs 1. FC Köln, rewirPOWER Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

more tomorrow.

Watching El Clasico with Spanish commentary is fun, even though all I understand is Messi, Eto'o, Gudjohnsen, IKER CASILLAAAAAAS, Thierry Henri and occasionally Dani Alves :p

Still some more matches to cover, but I need to leave for work soon *sighs*

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( La Liga: El Clasico , Barcelona FC vs Real Madrid, Camp Nou Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: VfB Stuttgart vs Bayern Munich, Mercedes Benz Arena, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: Werder Bremen vs VfL Wolfsburg, Weserstadion, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: Hamburger SV vs Eintracht Frankfurt, HSH Nordbank Arena, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: Bayer Leverkusen vs Energie Cottbus, BayArena, 2008-12-13 )

( Bundesliga, round 17: Hannover 96 vs Arminia Bielefeld, AWD Arena, 2008-12-13 )

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( Bundesliga, round 17: Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Signal Iduna Park, 2008-12-12 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Liverpool FC vs Hull City, Anfield Road, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Manchester City vs Everton FC, City of Manchester stadium, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester United, White Heart Lane, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Sunderland vs West Bromwich Albion, Stadium of Light , 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Aston Villa vs Bolton Wanderers, Villa Park, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Wigan Athletic vs Blackburn Rovers, JJB Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Middlesborough vs Arsenal, Riverside Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

( English Premier League, round 17: Stoke City vs Fulham, Britannia Stadium, 2008-12-13 )

More spams tomorrow and in the next days.  For now it's bedtime.  Good night.

I found those while raiding JAMD for Lamps pictures, and I thought you might like them, too.

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Pictures from three more games.  It seems the people at JAMD are either Inter Milan or Werder Bremen fans - because I really cannot explain myself any other way why else they had most pictures of this game.  And yes, kels450, there's some Jose for you in the mix, as well! Oh, and can I please add that while I always fancied Julio Cesar as quite handsome, I never really had any idea just HOW gorgeous that boy is? *swoons* yes, yes, it's the goalie perv talking!

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( Manchester United vs AAB Aalborg )

( Real Madrid vs Zenit St. Petersburg )

( Werder Bremen vs Internazionale )

Pictures from various matches, as well as a few of some Chelsea players on the town after the Cluj match... brownie points for everyone who can guess just why I nicked them off the net as well :P

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( Chelsea players on the town )

( Chelsea vs Cluj )

( PSV Eindhoven vs Liverpool )

( Olympic Lyonnais vs Bayern Munich )

( Porto vs Arsenal )

( Celtic vs. Villareal )

More spams to come; but as I said, it's pretty time consuming to raid JAMD so please be patient.

Yes, it seems that finally I have found a site to provide me with (relatively) untagged pictures again, and I have also found a trick to download pictures from said site and all of that free of charge (though I will resume raiding WireImage soon, promise!), so I guess it's safe to say, all hail the return of more regular picspamming here on KOF!  =D

It's a bloody time-consuming task to raid JAMD for images, but I am sure you will all agree with me when I say, it's well worth it!

Of course the return of more regular picspams also means the return of rules, which I all ask you to obey.

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( Chelsea training )

( Liverpool training )

In other news, who'd have thunk that my home team of FSV Zwickau would top the table before the Christmas break? O_O  Of course, the season is still long, but still, that's simply... akdjfasdrfuw flkajfasl fdaklsöfjaö!!! :D  Here's to hoping that at last the end of fifth-division football is near! *crosses fingers, legs, eyes and everything else crossable*