Chelsea

[Fosterbloke]

Brazil midfielder Oscar, 25, is keen to stay at Chelsea and fight for his place, rather than move to China. (Sky Sports)

And miss the chance to win the Chinese Super League?

[gratziani]

Their ****ing absurd run has made us not realise how great we have been so far

[Gingawaria]

Their ****ing absurd run has made us not realise how great we have been so far

By and large, we've been excellent this season.

[Vermilion]

Dependant on who they buy in Jan, i think an injury to Costa could seriously dent their form, so there's still plenty of hope and plenty of season left for things to change.

[Fosterbloke]

It sounds desperate but only Costa and Hazard feature in the BBC top scorers list. We have four players and Milner should be too as he has five goals.

An injury to either will hurt them badly.

[red g]

they are both quite prone to knocks as well....obviously this season they will play 45 games each without injury !!

[gratziani]

Dependant on who they buy in Jan, i think an injury to Costa could seriously dent their form, so there's still plenty of hope and plenty of season left for things to change.

A Costa injured hamstring would be nice for Xmas this year

[Vermilion]

A Costa injured hamstring would be nice for Xmas this year

Tbh i wouldn't wish injury on any pla....Oh **** it yes, yes it would.

[redmike65]

Didn't they spend 30m on a striker?

[gratziani]

Tbh i wouldn't wish injury on any pla....Oh **** it yes, yes it would.

Evil thoughts for Hazard as well

[G]

From the beeb. All these things end eventually (hopefully).

Chelsea have won the Premier League title on each of the four previous occasions they’ve been top of the league at Christmas.

Not just them, most years the team top at Christmas wins it. The only one recently to buck that trend was of course us. We did it in 08/09 too, useless ****s.

[red g]

Not just them, most years the team top at Christmas wins it. The only one recently to buck that trend was of course us. We did it in 08/09 too, useless ****s.

its 50% innit? 12 out of 24 teams top at Christmas have gone on to win the league

[Fredo]

We'll buck the trend.

[G]

its 50% innit? 12 out of 24 teams top at Christmas have gone on to win the league

I haven't looked back too far but I was speaking about recently. Since 2010 every team top at Christmas has won it bar us. In the years from 2000-2010 it was 50%. Can't be arsed looking at the rest!

[Irishnev]

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