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Clive - Chelsea are joint top of the league. If the season finished today there would be a one game playoff to decide it. There is no chance of Stevie Me coming to City via the US, he's finished whereas Super Frank is still excellent.

Well done Spurs (gips), I suspect there may be a big bid from a club with ambition for that Harry Kane fella.

Ronnie, that is how it may be at the end of the season but at this point we have 18 games to decide it and so we are top by dint of alphabetical order.

Not for much longer, we are in the process of rebranding to !Manchester City FC.

Remaining away games:

Chelsea go to

6th Arsenal
7th WHU
9th Swansea
12th Villa
15th Hull
16th QPR
17th WBA
20th Leicester

Man City go to:

1st Chelsea
3rd Man United
5th Tottenham
8th Liverpool
9th Swansea
11th Stoke
13th Everton
18th Palace
19th Burnley

Ha!

A post from RAWK: -

There will never be another like him again. Ever. The day Steven George Gerrard puts up his boots, I will forever watch football with an underlying sense of sorrow. I am sure older men who had their own conquering heroes will sympathise. And yet I still think there will never be another like him again. Ever. My kids will grow up worshipping the leather kickers of their day; but I will have to sit them down with disappointment and let them know that those heroes are false idols and that they didn’t have the fortune to be alive when a man turned the odds on its head, again and again, playing with destiny like the Gods.

This sounds silly, it’s exaggerated surely, but it was incredible to watch Gerrard battle and take everyone on the ride with him. Liverpool fans have given Fowler the nickname of ‘God’ but they got that one wrong in my opinion. Only one player in Liverpool’s history deserves to be compared to a deity. And if you were to compare Gerrard to a deity; you’d compare him with Atlas. For he held the sky up, the world on his back; so that Liverpool could see more of the glory days. For 15 years, other stars shone in our constellation; but they faded or were pulled away by the stronger gravity of other celestial bodies. All but one star, for 15 years, he fought the forces; he didn’t succumb; and if need be he would light the sky himself. He became the Alpha and the Omega, whenever we seemed to need it.

But cruelly, he couldn’t control the fates all the time. He is then, just a man. A special kind of man, a leader of men. A Captain. A symbol for others. He followed the path that’s hard to tread. It’s more than football; it’s about life. Find a person that is willing to forgo the easy, the immediate, the instantly gratifying and do it tough. It’s not common, it’s special. This is a long-winded piece to simply say, Steven George Gerrard was special; he was a beacon. If you hadn’t witnessed some of his feats and somebody was telling you his stories; you’d think they were talking about a movie. He made us dream beyond what was reasonably possible. This is what real leaders do and the inspiration they sow into our hearts is why we follow them.

Stevie will soon have to put down his sword and the load he has been carrying. He kept the darkness at bay, but the war rages on…A Captain, a Captain; my Kingdom for a Captain!

Man City's away record is better than Chelsea's but then Man City have had an easier run up to now.

Man City's home record is inferior to Chelsea's. Chelsea have won every home game so far.

Interesting to note that in the past 5 years, John Terry, a defender, has scored only one non penalty goal fewer than the god-like midfielder that is Stevie Me.

He has also scored 60 (SIXTY) fewer Premiership goals than Frank Lampard, despite being Liverpool's penalty taker for most of his career.

It's a very poor return really. He's only just ahead of Emile Heskey.

Is that satire? I really hope so.

Nervous month to come now.

Need to hang on to Vlaar, Delph and Benteke to keep us safely in mid-table. There'll be plenty of sniffing around for them.

To be fair, he has won a good number of those penalties thanks to his thespian skills.

I have a friend who supports Spurs, he took this yesterday when they were 5-2 up. What's worse, a plastic or someone who reads during a football match? Especially one as great as that.

Baffling.

@cliveo , where are books in the Chelsea Style Guide? How do they rank alongside half & half scarves and red trousers? (And England Rugby hats for that matter).

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Young players can learn a lot from Steven Gerrard: -

If you're any good, go to a big club when you get the chance, and you'll win more medals

That's quite a stat.

Can't wait for that whining twat to piss off to the states. Good riddance.

Apparently he could have joined either of Chelsea and Bayern Munich but he preferred to stay with LFC. Big fish in a small pond.

Rather than playing as part of the team he wants to be the team. Alonso, Mascherano, Arbeloa and ,god only knows how, Torres have all left LFC and gone to achieve bigger things yet slippy G preferred to stay and cash in to the tune of >£200k a week for his mediocre contribution.

The adulation of fans and the media hasn't stopped to baffle me for one day during his entire career.

I saw him at Highbury when he first broke into the Liverpool team and wondered what the fuss was all about. That view never really changed.

This time Liverpool gangland is threatening his family to make sure he definitely leaves

Wearing a rugby hat is fairly low down as is passing away at the back of the stand.

I watched that Pantani film recently. Though he was obviously doped to the gills, it was impossible to watch his riding without seeing the aesthetic beauty of it all. I've no idea what his 'numbers' were...
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jan/02/art-goalscoring-football-statistics-aguero-bony

What's our opinion on Stevie's contract saga? Money talks? Bullshit walks?

Bit of a mcnanaman / Owen trick?

I've always wondered where the vitriol towards Gerard comes from and if he'd played for another team apart from Liverpool whether he would be viewed in a better light.

It seems a bit rich in the current times to berate a player for staying at the team that raised him and which he supports and who he won things with, that he should have upped sticks and gone somewhere "bigger" to win more... Don't we all prize loyalty and playing for your home town team, and want that from our players or is it now that we believe every player is just a monetary mercenary who will leap from club to club to find "success" as their pay packet rises...

I kind of admire him for staying with Liverpool even while he was hurting their efforts to build a stronger team.

Anyway enough of the Liverpool talk, love how @cliveo moved seamlessly onto his new printed missive by way of stat talk and no mention of the thrashing his beloved blues took at the hands of a local rival...

Still smiling...

He was an Everton fan...

...as Pisti liked to remind us at every given opportunity.

Usually by posting this pic...