FA Cup Final - Chelsea 1 - 0 Pompey

Have you ever seen the Blues win a double - I have !!!!

A great day at Wembley if a somewhat bizzar game of football - The Blues should have been 5 up by half time yet 2 missed penalties made it a nail biting affair.

In the opening 45mins, Lamps hit the post, Kalou hit the bar (from 5 yards out - possibly the worse miss ever at Wembley), JT headed against the post and the Drog hit the bar with a rocket that James just got his hand to. Add to that another Drogba effort that scraped the outside of the post and you can understand why at half time we were starting to worry. All this and Cech still had to make a fine save from Piquionne on 22mins but the half amazingly ended all square.

The second half started in a more balanced vein and within 10mins we could and should have been behind. Belletti brought down Dindane in the box but thankfully Boetang decided to pass the ball tamely at Cechs feet for an easy save. Within 5mins we were ahead as the Drog buried a a trademark dipping free-kick beautifully past the despairing James. It should have been all over in the 88th min when Lamps was bundled over in the box but amazingly he scuffed his penanlty chance. It mattered not a jot as 5 nervy minutes later the singing and dancing began.

BTW, in case you missed it, mines a double !!!!

COME ON U BLUES

Chelsea 8 - 0 Wigan

It had to be done in style and it was !!!

Only one tweet possible today ....

"Championez, championez, ole ole ole !! 103 goals scored, four wins of 7 goals or more & the golden boot to Drogba - championez !!!"

..... now off to wembley with thoughs of a double

Come on U Blues !!!!

Liverpool 0 - 2 Chelsea

A trip to Anfield is never easy and this one was made that much harder by the thought that victory today would put us one step closer a momentous premier league title and keep us on course for a historic double. Carlo tinkered only as needed with JT returning to the heart of the defence and Bran moving to his more familiar right back role.

The nail biting in game teweets went like this

• The TV's on Sky, the volume is up and the bum is squeaking. Come on U Blues !!

• Its a bright opening 15mins but Drogba spends too much of it off getting treatment. Kalou is doing his usual tripping & tumbling routine

• The Blues look very tense. Best chance goes to Aquilani as Maxi sets him free in the box on 28mins but he bottles it and Bran covers

• Disaster for Liverpool as Gerrard back passes to the Drog who rounds Reina to make it 0-1on 33mins completely against the run of play

• Lamps runs in unchallenged on 36mins but drives just wide & then does the same 2mins later to release Nic but his effort is blocked.

• Babel replaces Maxi & there are cards for Malouda & Ballack. Wiley ignores a big pen shout on 45mins as Lucas brings down Kalou. Still 0-1

• No changes at 1/2 time. Kalou skips into the box on 50mins out foxing Mascherano but his goal line cross misses out everyone

• Malouda flicks a ball out to Nic on 53mins and this time his cross is slid home by Lamps. Its 2-0 and the travelling Blues start to sing !!

• Alex puts in a great last ditch challenge on Babel on 59min. At 0-2 we still don't look comfortable. Both Nic & Malouda test Reina on 66mins

• JT gives away a handball on 73mins but it comes to nowt. Into the last 10mins & a laboured counter attack sees Reina save from Nic & Kalou

• 5mins to go & its ole passing that precedes Zhirkov replacing Kalou. Cech makes his 1st save in stoppage time (says it all) & it ends 0-2. Over to u Fergie

Thoughts turn now to the Stadium of light for the visit of Man U to Sunderland. The need a win as a draw would leave only mathematics of overhauling a 10 goal difference

Come on U Blues !!!

Beyond Oblivion - beyond the download ?

I sadly missed a tweet (or trick yesterday) on another interesting twist in the whole music download saga. Indeed, if you were preocupied with the Spotify announcement which was big news in itself, this may well have passed you by.

So, if you also missed it, News Corp has made an interesting, if surprising, investment in a digital music start-up company whose stated aim is " shifting the burden for paying for music to device manufacturers and broadband providers, giving consumers free, legal access to an unlimited number of tracks."

Let the cheering commence amongst all digital downloaders - but hang on, this must live in the land of 'too good to be true' right - whats the catch

Well, according to Beyond Oblivion's founder Adam Kidron, there isn't one. Content is essentially 'licensed' to devices and services from which unlimited access is provided thus making the actual cost "pretty much invisible to the customer". Beyond claim this approach will will stimulate the device sales and they will also tier their charges based on the device and market types (presumably a smartphone is cheaper than a PC and South America is cheaper than Europe). The Beyond system can also create protected versions of any file already on a customers device and in a surprising statement "essentially legalise pirated tracks wit the rights owners". “There is no illegal music in the Beyond world because we pay royalties no matter what its source,” Mr Kidron said.

Beyond will pay monthly royalties from its licence revenue based on the number of times tracks have been played with guaranteed minimums for the record companies and maximum caps to avoid unexpected usage spikes.

Beyond told the Financial Times they "expected to pay out well over $100m in royalties to music companies within five years, but believed it was ultimately possible, via its potential agreements with device manufacturers and the music industry, to add $10bn or more to last year’s global digital music revenues of $3.7bn."

So this is kinda like pay per use but not quite .... frankly it all sounds a bit confusing and I'm never entirely convinced by claims to make price "virtually invisible" but its clearly a market move to keep an eye on.

What d'ya think ?

Chelsea 7 - 0 Stoke

A crunch home game against Stoke, following a disappointing defeat to Spurs, would normally be a banana skin for the Chelsea of old but not today as the mighty Blues ran in 7 goals for the 3rd time this season to go emphatically back to the top of the league.

Having seen Man U turn over Spurs the previous day, the pressure was on but it didn't show as the Blues played with great tempo from the start and bludgeoned Stoke with a text book lesson in attacking football. No doubt some nit pickers will claim that Kalou's second goal was two footed and should not have stood but that would really be harsh. The questions were asked and the Blues answered them with a hat trick from Kalou, two goals from Lamps and one each for Malouda and Sturridge (his first premiership goal)

The 'in game' tweets went like this

• When was the last time a home game with Stoke prompted such nerves? Ash is back, Bran replaces JT, Ballack holds & Kalou joins the front 3
• Stoke start with 4 centre backs as their back 4 - this will be tough. Lamps drives on 11mins & the block falls to Ash whose shot is parried
• Bennett waves away a stong penalty shout & 2 blatant free kicks on the edge of the box. Drogba has a gr8 header saved by Sorensen on 20mins

• Its all Chelsea but some nervy finishing is the problem tho on 23mins the Drog controls with a back heel & crosses for Kalou to head home

• Anelka's crossfield pass finds Drogba on 30mins & he flicks 1st time 2 Lamps whose drive is parried by Sorensen but Kalou follows in for 2-0

• Ballacks having one of his better games in the holding role. Huth hauls Kalou down in the box on 43mins & Lamps slots home the pen for 3-0

• No change @ 1/2time. Kalou & Cole wriggle into the box on 55 & 57mins to no effect. Kalou whips in a cross on 62min but it misses Drog & Nic

• Kalou beats the offside from a Lamps thru ball on 68min & takes two attempts to get his hat trick - his reward to to be replaced by Joe Cole

• Joe Cole crosses on 72min but Malouda misses from 1yrd out, Ballack blasts over 4mins l8r and Malouda misses again from a sweeping counter

• Hutchinson & Sturridge replace Paulo & Nic on 80mins. Joe Cole finds Lamps with a great cross & he side foots home 4 his 20th of the season ..ed. It was actually Hutchinsons cross !!

• Sturridge is played in by Drogba on 87mins & he rounds the keeper for our 6th. Malouda makes it 7 from a beautiful first time Joe Cole cross 2mins later

Now comes the small matter of a trip to Anfield next week. A win is essential (unless ManU drop points at Sunderland please g-d) and you'd like to think that Rafa's boys would fancy taking things a bit easy to not give ManU the upper hand again. Well ..... you'd like to think that but back in the real world ........

Spurs 2 - 1 Chelsea

This was the first of the more difficult games in our run in and inevitably it ended in a defeat that actually could have been much heavier. To say the Blues didn't turn up (which we didn't) would be harsh on a Spurs side who were at it from the off. They were hungrier, quicker and should have put the game out of sight at the start of the second half when leading 2-0, Defoe was clean through and missed - shades of a certain FA Cup quarter final.

Tweeting this shambles was difficult but here you go

• After ManU's injury time escape earlier today thoughts turn to WHL. Deco, Malouda and Cole all start. Ash makes the bench

• Spurs start brightly using plenty of width to stretch the play. Malouda draws a good save from Gomez on 6mins but Spurs are on top.

• Spurs have a pen shout waved away on 13mins but get one for a JT hand ball a minute later. Defoe makes it 1-0 and its a huge goal to concede

• Replays show the JTs handball as a bit suss but the Blues were too deep & got punished. Pav' draws a great save from Cech on 24mins.

• Bentley misses a sitter on 30mins. Mikel is struggling so Ballack's on & Deco holds. Malouda rolls Dawson to net on 38mins but its offside

• Too many Blue passes getting blocked thru the middle & we're caught by a quick counter on 43mins as Bale skins Ferreira to drive past Cech.

• Carlo makes a double sub at half time with Nic & Bran on for Ferreira and Cole. All subs used but Drogba is hurt in warm up - wot now !!

• Defoe breaks clean thru on 48mins 1on1 with Cech who makes a gr8 save. This is really ragged. JTs booked on 60min & then sent off 2mins l8r

• The title charge is unravelling. Bently trys a wonder chip on 74min but Cech tips over. Bran drives just over on 77min but its all Spurs

• Cech saves from Bale on 81mins & Dawson makes a gr8 block on Drogba a min l8r. Bale & Pav miss 2 more easy chances as we go into injury time

• 5mins of injury time & Lamps connects with a cross from Bran for 2-1. Alex misses a header, the Spurs fans panic but its too little too late

To equalise would have been a travesty. we were well beaten and now have to face an inevitably bruising encounter with Stoke at home without JT.

Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton

It was always going to be tough to play a Tuesday fixture following a hard fought FA cup semi final victory and anyone who thought Bolton were likely to just turn up and roll over were living in 'cloud fergie land'.

Carlo rang the changes starting with Anelka and Drogba at the expense of Malouda and Cole. Ballack (fast picking up the new mantle of Captain Slow) replaced Deco but these changes only served to break up the fluent and flowing Chelsea of late. Build up play was laboured and the lack of pace combined with a resilient and tough tackling Bolton side made for a nervy game that was settled by a solitary goal from Anelka. Only Zhirkov, playing his best game for the Blues, and with stitches in a head wound following a bad clash in the fist half, offered any real pace or gile. Indeed, it was only once Cole and Malouda had been introduced late in the second half that we looked like the Chelsea of recent games.

Still, in the end its all about the points at the business end of the season and the result leaves us 4 points clear with 4 games to go

The nervous 'in game tweets' went like this

• Home to Bolton and a chance to open a 4pt gap. Nic & the Drog up top, Cole and Deco are rested so in come Kalou and Mr Slow (Ballack)

• Early chances go to the Blues but JT picks up a knock on 10mins & is struggling. Another 10mins gone and Zhirkov is felled with a head wound

• A Drogba freekick is parried by Jaaskelainen but bounces wide off Kalou on 25mins. With 3mins to go he turns provider for Nic to heads home

• More tempo needed in the 2nd half & perhaps an 'appearance' from the invisible Ballack - we get neither as Kalou squanders 2 good chances

• With 15mins gone there's a bit more zip. Zhirkov (our best player by a mile) has a shot well saved on 64mins. Malouda replaces Nic on 66mins

• 15mins to go & Bolton are still in this so Cole in on for Kalou. Lamps hits the post 2mins later. Coyle throws on 2 strikers for the last 10

• There's 4mins of nervy fergie time as Zhirkov finds Cole but he cant convert. The Blues see it out to go 4points clear with 4 games to go.