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There's been a heavily upvoted post accusing Chelsea fans of making noise during the minute's silence.

The reality is, taken from a reporter for the Independent, the silence was observed impeccably by all fans in the ground and singing came from the concourse outside, something which apparently happened with Tottenham fans as well yesterday, yet we heard nothing of that.

Anyway, don't let the facts get in anyone's way, as for the second time in a few weeks a bunch of know-nothings throw insults at Chelsea fans.

It's especially funny to see Liverpool fans pour scorn on us given the utterly disgusting way so many of their fans have gloried in the Munich disaster for decades, far more tha

The following have big question marks over their futures, in bold are ones I feel are almost certainly leaving: Hilario, Schwarzer, Cole, Bertrand, Mikel, Lampard, Kakuta, McEachran, Romeu, Marin, Moses, Ba and Eto'o. I wouldn't be shocked to see Luiz go either, though only if someone comes in with a big offer. Another name, controversial to mention, is Lukaku. Quite a few rumblings that Jose doesn't want him, we shall see. It's a lot of players to get rid of, even if many don't play at all at the moment.

Numerous departures will free up wages and we should be able to make a decent amount from transfer fees. That money can help us towards getting the players that Jose n

I've taken immense pleasure in reading through the 'Moyes So Far' thread in RedCafe, and just found a rather good point about us in there:

I personally reckon that, for a combination of reasons, Chelsea are already the most desirable team in the league for players. They can compete with anyone financially, have a recent history of great individual players, have had recent success, are based in what is considered by many young and rich as the most desirable part of the country, and have a manager that most would want to play for.

They are the last club in the league I'd want to go head to head with for a player.

I've not really thought about it before but now I have this poster i

If you weren't walking to the station after the match you really missed out.

Had a big old party all the way back to Manchester Piccadilly, non stop singing with hundreds of Chelsea, and then continued in the station itself - even had a bouncy there. Got back almost nothing back from the City fans, though one or two got in trouble with the old bill.

Still singing till about 10 past 8, fucking incredible. Police got a bit worried, big presence and had one of them filming us. Best away day I've ever had even though we were totally fucking shite. Hopefully there'll be some videos on youtube shortly.

They've never won a title before but they're now part of a pack of three contenders who have pulled away. The other teams are recent champions Twente and reigning champions and traditional powerhouse Ajax. Long way to go and their inexperience counts against them, but there's a real chance they might win the title.

With today's match Piazon has now scored 10 and assisted 8 in 15 league matches. Not bad for a 19 year old. Van Aanholt, Atsu and Kakuta have all been getting minutes too, and the first of those particularly has a chance of making it at Chelsea imho. Great experience for all of them.

1st leg was 6-1 to Ghana, a real thrashing of the Egyptians on home turf. The Egyptians were victorious in the 2nd leg but their 2-1 victory was nowhere near enough to reel in the Black Stars.

Cameroon, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast have already qualified. Burkina Faso play Algeria at 18.15 GMT to decide the final qualifier, with the 1st leg score 3-2 to Burkina Faso. It would be Burkina Faso's first ever World Cup so I'm rooting for them.

As a Brit I find it hard to imagine sharing a nationality with someone you don't even share a common tongue. For most European countries it's the same, but not in Belgium. There's a roughly 60/40 split between Dutch and French speakers respectively, and not all from each group can speak the other's language. From a a 2006 Université Catholique de Louvain report (taken from wiki):

59% and 53% of the Flemings know French or English respectively, only 19% and 17% of the Walloons know Dutch or English.

So 4 out of 10 Dutch speakers speak no French and 8 out of 10 French speakers can't understand Dutch. This obviously means that rather a lot of Belgians can't communicate any more than I