The Official Thread of Chelsea FC

[ross4life]

Some blow for us Essien being out for six weeks. I just hope we can replace him.

Us & we i was sure you were a liverpool fan or have you suddenly changed your colours?

I was born in Abu Dhabi.

what? sure you don't mean Ghana? (

[Minder]

Some blow for us Essien being out for six weeks. I just hope we can replace him.

Us & we i was sure you were a liverpool fan or have you suddenly changed your colours?

I was born in Abu Dhabi.

what? sure you don't mean Ghana? (

Think about it.

[ross4life]

Some blow for us Essien being out for six weeks. I just hope we can replace him.

Us & we i was sure you were a liverpool fan or have you suddenly changed your colours?

I was born in Abu Dhabi.

what? sure you don't mean Ghana? (

Think about it.

thought i told you to cut out the jokes?

[Dakota]

Ross4life just because you are unable to catch on to his jokes doesn't mean there not funny
A.B.U Dhabi....,.. Get it now

[Minder]

Ivory Coast out. Good news for Chelsea.

[Norf Tyrone]

Welcome home Sala and Didier. 

[ross4life]

Welcome home Sala and Didier. 

last i checked Ivory Coast was there home so will they be straight in V Birmingham midweek? or getting a few extra day's rest

[Norf Tyrone]

At the start of the season you look at games, and clock up 3 points in your head. Tonight was one of them.
However Birmingham's 15 unbeaten trek suggests all but a walk in the park tonight, with Dann and Johnson probably the league's best centre back team at present.

Thankfully it looks like Ancellotti is going with the diamonte tonight. The worry for me would be Deco in the middle with Bowyer, Ferguson etc for company.

I am tentivelly (I know that's spelt wrong) going for Chelsea to win 2-0, Anelka, and a late clincher from Lampard.

[ross4life]

Very good win for the Chelsea boys tonight but to be honest the Birmingham good form was going to end sooner than later, they were really punching above their weight, i expect them to spiral downwards from here

[stew]

Very good win for the Chelsea boys tonight but to be honest the Birmingham good form was going to end sooner than later, they were really punching above their weight, i expect them to spiral downwards from here

I dunno ross, 15 games is no fluke at this level, they ahve just been beaten by the best team, or one of the best teams in club football in the world and they didnt disgrace themselves.

I think they will be fine, they are tough to break down and play hard and fast.

[Norf Tyrone]

Chelsea made that look easy last night. So in control.
Good to see Lampard starting to whack them in again. The rules are simple. Play 4-3-3 and Chelsea and Lampard are far more potent.

[Norf Tyrone]

I know I've talked about this young fella before, but watching Chelsea youth in the FA Cup last night, the young Dub Conor Clifford is a very exciting prospect.

The lad is now a regular in the reserve midfield, and captain of the youth side. An all action midfielder who has a knack of scoring good goals.

Scored the winner last night (Again), and it would be no surprise to see him get a pro contract, and be in the first team squad next season.

Liverpool fans might see him up close soon, as Chelsea face Watford or Lpool in the last 8.

[Minder]

John Terry has been a bold boy again I hear. Throwing one into Wayne Bridges missus (allegedly).

[Doogie Browser]

Another reason to hate Cashley today too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8486666.stm

[GalwayBayBoy]

John Terry has been a bold boy again I hear. Throwing one into Wayne Bridges missus (allegedly).

What a guy.

Another controversial superinjunction was overturned today as the England captain John Terry emerged as the footballer who obtained a gagging order preventing the publication of allegations about his private life.

It follows the Trafigura affair in October, when an oil trading company tried to use a pre-existing superinjunction – which prevents even the existence of an injunction from being known – to stop the Guardian reporting a parliamentary question until the subsequent outcry forced Trafigura and their lawyers to back down.

Lawyers for Terry succeeded in applying for a high court injunction on Friday last week, having learnt that a Sunday newspaper – believed to be the News of the World – planned to write about his private life.

Under the terms of a superinjunction agreed by a high court judge on privacy grounds, newspaper groups were unable to reveal who had applied to stop the story coming out. But today the judge, Mr Justice Tugendhat, lifted the injunction altogether.

"I do not consider that an interim injunction is necessary or proportionate having regard to the level of gravity of the interference with the private life of the applicant that would occur in the event that there is a publication of the fact of the relationship, or that [the applicant] can rely in this case on the interference with the private life of anyone else," he said.

Although the judge did not name Terry in his order, the Guardian can reveal that he was the player who made the application.

And while the injunction did not cite a specific paper, the judge said that the evidence named News Group Newspapers (NGN), the publisher of the News of the World.

Although the terms of the injunction held until 2pm today, details about it had started to leak, first in yesterday's Daily Telegraph, which referred to an unnamed Premier League footballer, and then on Twitter.

The judge criticised Terry's lawyers, Schillings, for not giving newspapers notice of the action they were taking.

"Notice has not been given to any newspaper when it should have been and, as a result, I have not had the benefit of arguments in opposition to the application, which might have assisted me to be satisfied of the matters of which I am not satisfied," he said.

He rejected their argument that they had not notified anyone of the application because their client did not know of any media organisation with a "specific interest in the story".

"The evidence shows that NGN were intending to publish a story about [the applicant] on the Sunday ... In my judgment the interest that NGN did show in publishing a story meant that they should have been given notice."

He also mentioned a letter sent by the Guardian that "illustrates the importance of open justice in a case such as the present one".

The use of the superinjunction is likely to reignite the debate about the use of human rights legislation by public figures to prevent stories being placed into the public domain.

Critics say a number of rulings based on the 1998 Human Rights Act have effectively created a privacy law in the UK, which has always shied away from passing legislation to protect the rich and powerful.

In a landmark case in 2008, high court judge Mr Justice Eady ruled that the News of the World had breached the privacy of Formula One boss Max Mosley. The paper had to pay Mosley damages.