'You should have stayed at a big club'

[Guest San Don]

Owen now tweets his top five chocolate bars. What a life he leads these days.

 

 

Sorry, who!?

[Russ Atmosphere]

Owen now tweets his top five chocolate bars. What a life he leads these days.

 

?

 

 

Thought he'd like his TV-AM&M's rather than choccie bars.

[navbasi]

......... the most expensive footballer in British football history, has now played more than 1,100 minutes of football without scoring.

 

But if it is possible for a centre-forward on a 19-game barren run to be optimistic about anything, Torres ought to relish this afternoon’s game against Manchester United.

 

The Spaniard has scored four times against United since moving to England in 2007; no player has a better record against them during the same period.

 

Andre Villas-Boas, the Chelsea manager, says Torres’s current problems are not psychological, but physical - specifically his “movement” within the more expansive style Villas-Boas is trying to implement.

 

He said: “We speak about it. No one knows more than him the responsibility he has. He is trying to improve his movement. Off the field, his mentality is that he is ready and knows what he has to do.

 

"On the field and on the training ground we try and work on his movement. That’s the only thing we can do and we have been doing it for quite some time. I think eventually a goal will trigger it all, but we have to wait and see.”

 

Villas-Boas said there was no prospect of Chelsea adapting their style to suit Torres.

 

“We don’t play to suit anybody’s game,” he said. “I think there is an understanding of a new way of playing at Chelsea which is a dominant way, where you have more initiative on the ball and less space in behind [defences].

 

"This changes the nature of a player’s behaviour and movement, and you have to adapt, which is what we are trying to get."

 

Andre Villas-Boas: Fernando Torres must move better in order to score for Chelsea - Telegraph

 

Funny that they are working on his movement as that is the only aspect of his game is decent from the games I've seen him play. The problem isn't movement it's the way that Chelsea play. It does suit Torres' game and never will so I can't see it ever working out for him.

 

Robbie made the point yesterday that he's never been the same player because he doesn't have a Gerrard feeding him.

[Guest San Don]

el sulk must be fucking desparate, luiz just said a prayer on his head and he looked like he believed in it! Kinell, how far his self belief has fallen.

[navbasi]

Not the first time they've done that either...

[Anubis]

And he gets a yellow card.

 

EDIT : Torres, not Owen.

[Code]

And he gets a yellow card.

 

EDIT : Torres, not Owen.

 

Would any other ref than the cunt Webb have given a yellow for that?

[Guest davelfc]

He was fouled earlier, webb gave nothing. He made a challenge, free kick against, then webb ignores an identical challenge by a different player. Then webb books him because the manc fell over.

 

Webb doesn't like torres.

[fowler9]

why on earth didn't he take that shot on the fucking pussy?!

 

 

he'd have buried that just over a year ago

[Guest San Don]

So that's another 90 minutes where he hasnt scored. I thought dogbreath being away in africa was supposed to free him up to be the main striker?

 

Or should that be winger!? 50m, nice piece of business.

[usernameunknown]

He is soooo shit. Brilliant this.

[Guest davelfc]

Was that now 18 games in all competitions where he has failed to score. A personal best for him.

[Torvald Utne]

I thought he was Chelsea's best player today, should have pulled the trigger at the end though.

[BringbackBiscan]

I thought he was Chelsea's best player today, should have pulled the trigger at the end though.

 

 

Best player? He's a forward that never worked the keeper once. Yet another shit display in my book.

[fowler9]

he was slightly better than normal but still shit

[Magic Sponge]

He's fuckin gash.

[usernameunknown]

He was utterly dreadful bar a good cross. He hides.

[Melchett]

He's a poor mans Sean Dundee.

[TheBitch]

He's wank.

[RoboRiise]

From the Guardian's minute by minute report:

 

77 min: Torres should wrap it up. Torres has to score. Shoot, Torres. Shoot! You're seven yards out, shoot!

 

78 min: He didn't shoot. Instead he got tackled. Sign him up, Arsene. His confidence in front of goal is at an all-time low. You'd have to wonder what would happen if a Torres shot ended up on target with De Gea in goal. Probably a split in the time-space continuum, with Andy Carroll ending up as Prime Minister.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

He hides.

 

Absolutely spot on, and not a point many people have picked up on.

[kalasoma]

What with his grandmother being killed in a car accident, I'm sure playing today hasn't helped much. Not looking for excuses, mind you. Just wondering at his continued inability to score when presented with the perfect opportunity.

[WaltonRed]

He's shit so fuck him and the donkey he rode in on

 

He'll end up in the MLS or Qatar.

 

Reap what you sewed you little rat

[Heinze]

Has André Villas-Boas Been Sacked Yet? NO.

[J-V]

Has André Villas-Boas Been Sacked Yet? NO.

:D at the little Drogba picture