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World Cup set to expand to 40 teams from 2026 as part of Fifa reform plan.

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More bribery, somethings never change

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Update on that post then: Real Madrid are disqualified from the Copa del rey

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Just back from OT, in spite of the score it wasn't really a bad game.

West Ham possibly had the one really clear chance but only threatened spasmodically.

To be fair to Van Gaal, United did adopt a more direct style, especially in the second half. Instead of the recent three passes to the side, three back, three more to the side routine it was better.

They had four or five, swift, incisive, one/two touch, three/four pass moves from front to back which was just like United of old. Great to watch right until they got to a couple of yards from the goal mouth, then it all went pear shaped.

Can't see them getting anything in midweek though.:(

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Well well Jose your time is up the way it is going down there at the bridge.

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I cannot see Jose, lasting up till Xmas. The Bournemouth result, will give Abramowich the chance to sack him.

It is unbelievable that Chelsea are 14th in the table at Xmas. And l am NOT Chelsea fan. But they are better team, than the position shows.

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The table doesn't lie, a few points here and there aside maybe you are exactly where you deserve to be and maybe it's because a couple of them aren't team players that they find themselves in that position, I'd say there's more chance of a player being sacked than Jose

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Great equaliser for Valencia. 😎

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Can you imagine Chelsea in the relegation dogfight.
Normally when clubs are down at the bottom its harder to stay up especially at Xmas

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On a different note: Anyone seen Thenry? Not like him to be away so long.

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No l have not seen head or tail of him but one hopes he is fine and well and hopefully he will come back soon enough as l always liked his output.

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At the moment it seems half the team ain't performing and personally l don't think Chelsea did enough to freshen up the side last summer to keep players on their toes.

What are you thoughts TD??.

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We're where we deserve to be this season. And I agree on your point about not freshening or strengthening what we had Den. I said before I can't see Jose getting the boot and I still feel the same. Two chances of getting into next seasons Champions League. Win that or the Europa this season :shocked: I thought the "False 9" at Spurs worked last week, but not playing an out and out striker from the start at home was awful. We're now going into plan P. Praying ;)

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To my untrained eye it looks like they've grown old together to long and they have one particularly nasty piece of work up front that isn't helping the team on the pitch and is really effecting the team of it. He's not defending from the front, the attacking midfielders are following his lead, so is Fabregas and it's leaving the old defense exposed added to that he is causing unrest in the dressing room to boot, I'd put money on the reason they only strengthened the attacking options up front with Falcao was so they didn't put his nose any further out of joint. Seems strange that Jose took his eye of the ball and let the situation escalate. I've not seen enough of their games but against the hammers their work rate was not what it was or should be.

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The question now is will they sack him if they don't reach the top 4 TD?.

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How do I know that? If I were in charge though I'd sack Costa and keep hold of his registration or do what they did to Mutu all those years back.