MALAYSIA TOUR TICKETS ON SALE

Chelsea are delighted to announce the first sale dates for the Malaysia leg of our pre-season tour on July 21.

Chelsea meet a Malaysia XI at the 87,000 Bukit Jalil Stadium, and supporters will be able to buy tickets at selected adidas stores in the country from this Friday, May 20.

Supporters who purchase tickets from these outlets will also receive an exclusive free Training Pass, which will allow you entry into one of the team's open training sessions at the stadium. But hurry - there are only a limited number!

Tickets will also go on sale online from Monday, May 30.
Supporters should click on to Ticketpro (www.ticketpro.com.my), visit a Ticketpro outlet (http://www.ticketpro.com.my/jnp/ticket-outlets/index.html) or call the Ticketpro Hotline (+603 7880 7999).
Tickets will be priced in four bands, at RM388, RM108, RM68 and RM58.
It is not the first time Chelsea have played in the Bukit Jalil Stadium. Chelsea visited as part of the Premier League Asia Trophy in 2003, just after Roman Abramovich had bought the club, and lifted the trophy after defeating Birmingham City and Newcastle United (on penalties).

Meanwhile Chelsea also played in the nearby Shah Alam Stadium just three years ago, when Luiz Felipe Scolari's side beat a Malaysia XI 2-0 with goals from Nicolas Anelka and Ashley Cole.

Ticket details for our matches in Bangkok on July 24, and Hong Kong on July 27 and 30, will be announced shortly. Click back to www.chelseafc.com/ontour to stay up to date.

Unachievement Arsenal: Wenger should be sacked by now.

With an adequate and decent big squad, the Gunner should achieve something for the last 5-6 years. The names like Fabregas, van Persie, Arshavin, Nasri or even Walcott, Arsenal should be a major contender for the BPL and Champions League title but still the Gunner silverware drought continues....

Who should be blame for this?

The idea to introduce young Guns was something tremendous. But, if the idea cannot be transform into a success, there was something wrong.

Six reasons why Chelsea are no longer the team that thrashed Wigan 6-0 in August

1. Didier Drogba's malaria

The towering Ivorian has been one of the Premier League's finest imports, bullying defenders into submission and producing moments of genuine quality since he joined back in 2004, but this season has seen an alarming dip. In November, the 33-year-old complained of feeling unwell before Chelsea's trip to Liverpool and sat out the first half before coming on as a substitute in the 2-0 defeat. 

Tests later revealed that the forward had malaria, an energy sapping and potentially fatal disease. Remarkably, and either a testament to the man's strength or the stupidity of the club's medical staff, the player did not miss a game, yet clearly was operating at nowhere near full power. The striker has scored just five goals in the 24 games he has been involved in since the diagnosis.

There is of course the possibility that the illness is masking a natural decline towards the final seasons of his career, but last year Drogba, a fine athlete, was immense, showing very little sign that such a dramatic drop was to come. Malaria has at the very least brought forward the expiry date on the striker's top-flight performance levels, and at the worst has left him not even half the player he was just 12 months before.

2. Injuries

Last year Chelsea were relatively lucky with their injury woes en route to a domestic double, and had the added security of veteran stalwarts like Deco, Ricardo Carvalho, Juliano Belletti and Michael Ballack to call upon to ease the load in the event of a spate of knocks wiping out starters. This season has been different.

Since pasting Wigan at the DW in August, Yossi Benayoun has been hit by a serious injury which had kept him out until only the past two weeks; John Terry missed a chunk of November, coinciding with the beginning of the rot in form; the dependable Alex has been absent since December with a knee complaint; and even Frank Lampard, who has an appearance tally that usually only goalkeepers can reach, has been afflicted with problems, missing September through November.

Undoubtedly such key losses have harmed Chelsea's hopes this season, particularly the two more senior absentees. The England men have been the Blues' rocks of Roman Abramovich's success and their calmness and influence were sorely missed through the disastrous winter run, effectively leaving the side playing catch up for the rest of the season.


3. Fernando Torres changing the balance of the side and misfiring

By December, most fans and pundits were in agreement that serious investment needed to be made in January to avert the highly likely disaster scenario of the club not even qualifying for next season's Champions League. A quality forward was the most obvious area of improvement, and when the Stamford Bridge outfit beamed their Striker-SOS-Signal in the direction of Merseyside, Fernando Torres looked up to the skies and knew he had to answer it.

But, despite signing for a mammoth £50 million fee, he still hasn't answered the distress call and has spent his nine games for the club wandering around forlornly, scarcely showing a flicker of the quality that is hidden beneath the depressed exterior. 

The Spaniard's cause has not been helped by being forced to play in unusual systems and unfamiliar positions, lending credence to the theory that this was, like Andriy Shevchenko before, the owner's signing foisted onto a manager who had made no plans for an extra striker. The 27-year-old's presence should add variety and danger to Chelsea's forward play, but the clear confusion has muddied the team's passing moves as he has been unable to forge a partnership with Lampard, Drogba or Anelka, leaving the Blues blunter and more bundling than ever on the attack.


4. Ray Wilkins' departure

Carlo Ancelotti's right-hand man left in acrimonious and unclear circumstances, with his exit immediately being followed by a stretch of mediocre and downright dreadful performances.

The former AC Milan and Manchester United player is a renowned coach whose technical knowhow and tactical understanding may not necessarily come through as a co-commentator but would surely have resonated through Chelsea's Cobham training ground and on match days.

Players would have looked up to a man capped 84 times by his country and been instrumental in the double-winning side of last season. His shock dismissal would have raised eyebrows and disheartened spirits throughout coaching and playing staff.


5. Players not performing

At times last year Chelsea produced breathtaking performances with a full starring cast, but too many players have coasted through this campaign, and they can have no-one but themselves to blame.

Michael Essien, Florent Malouda and Ashley Cole were all at the top of their game last season. This season has been dramatically different. 

Essien's wild tackles, which have always been a part of his game but have been mostly overshadowed by formidable all-round play, have often been his only noticeable aspect of his presence. 

Malouda is only four goals short of his haul of 15 last season but his overall game has been nowhere near the high levels set last season, with the winger even being replaced by Yuri Zhirkov in the starting line-up against Manchester United on Wednesday – an unfathomable fall for a player who was heinously underrated last season. 

And Cole, perhaps like Drogba and Lampard, appears to be slipping into his retirement slippers a bit too early, with some timid attacking displays, not least in this week's Champions League quarter-final, that are wildly uncharacteristic.

6. Growing uncertainty around Carlo Ancelotti's future

It may seem ridiculous that a man who won the double in his first year in a foreign league, bringing the title back for the first time in four years, should be facing questions about his job security, but the Italian has this season.

As soon as the cracks began to emerge in Chelsea's season in November, the 'Ancelotti out' rumours cranked up. At the time they seemed malicious and not rooted in reality, but his seeming acquiescence to Abramovich by playing the out-of-form Torres at the expense of the team's balance, combined with his failure to keep his players in check or performing to their best, and a gutlessness in the big games has raised serious doubts about the former AC Milan manager's suitability in the long term.

Rumours of a return to Serie A with newly cash rich Roma have been whipped up even by the man himself, who seems to have one eye on a summer exit with his reputation still intact. The Italian has said that it would be a "dream" to manage the team that he made nearly 200 appearances as a player for, and with a certain Portuguese boss in Spain making noises of a return to the Premier League, some Blues fans might not be too fussed about saying arrivederci to Ancelotti.

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Totti hits 200 goal marks and be among the all time Italian goal scorer.

Roma legend Francesco Totti this week make another headline when he hits 200 goal marks in Italian football and become among the all time goal scorer.

The moment came when he helps his one and only club, AS Roma holds Fiorentina 2-2 in Florence. It's been almost 2 decades for him since he made a debut for Roma on March 28, 1993 at the age of 18. It was his 37th career brace which saw him break the boundaries and took him beyond the 200-plus goal barrier, four behind the legendary Roberto Baggio on 205.

His record breaking achievement will soothe the pain of a turbulent season, but, more importantly, it bears testament to Totti's leadership, determination and capacity to overthrow adversity in the toughest of circumstances, and perhaps in one of the Lupi's hardest seasons.

Totti has taken it all in his stride; labelled as finished with the constant threat of injury, caught up in the middle of the Claudio Ranieri - Vincenzo Montella battle for the bench, blamed for his side's Champions League exit... it's been tough at Trigoria.

TOP 10 SERIE A ALL TIME SCORERS

Player	Goals	Club	Nationality
Silvio Piola	274	Lazio, Torino, Juventus, Novara	Italy
Gunnar Nordahl	225	Milan, Roma	Sweden
Giuseppe Meazza	216	Inter, Milan, Juventus, Varese, Atalanta	Italy
Jose Altafini	216	Milan, Napoli, Juventus	Italy/Brazil
Roberto Baggio	205	Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juventus, Milan, Bologna, Inter, Brescia	Italy
Francesco Totti	201	Roma	Italy
Kurt Hamrin	190	Juventus, Padova, Fiorentina, Milan, Napoli	Sweden
Giuseppe Signori	188	Foggia, Lazio, Sampdoria, Bologna	Italy
Gabriel Batistuta	184	Fiorentina, Roma, Inter	Argentina
Alessandro Del Piero	180	Juventus	Italy

But tough times call for tough measures, and there's no one better - has there ever been? - to take a leading role at Roma than 'Er Pupone'. And he responded in the way he knows best against the Viola, a typical Totti penalty first, and classic strike second to rescue his side, the result.

A fine man, and a player who has always been in love with the ball - his best friend, just like Baggio before him. The former Juventus ace took 19 years to score his 205, but he did it with different clubs. Not Totti. A one club man, or one man club if you like - a claim he is entitled to

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