Where is our beloved Chelsea FC?

Every Chelsea fan at the beginning of the season, have high hopes and expectation from the Chelsea squad to give us something remarkable in the course of the season. At least since the 2003/2004 season when Roman Abramovic bought the club. We have sat to see Chelsea matches every season. We have seen the best Chelsea sides play under different managers and personalities.

Roman Abramovic and José Mourinho

Lampard would forever remain a club legend no doubt but he need not stain that reputation by his bad coaching skills. If a manager is moving in a right direction, we won't need a soothsayer to tell us to be patient with him. 

When Liverpool employed Jurgen Klopp mid-season 2015/2016, he guided the team to two cup finals (UEL and Carling Cup) which he lost. But the class was there for Jurgen Klopp, his coaching methods was top notch with the set of players he met at the club. He knew what he wanted and continued till he got it. He was in the right direction with the club, he gradually released the players he didn't want and got the ones he wanted. We all know the outcome and still counting.

Manchester City employed Pep Guardiola, he already was a world class coach with impressive CV. It would be useless of the board to sack him in his first season because they knew what he would give them on the long run. He got the players he needed and we can all see his results.

The way Chelsea sold Hazard was the way Bayern let their best players for the decade leave (Robben and Ribery). Therefore the onus fell on the manager to make the team work. But when it was realized that their former manager (Niko Kovac) couldn't do the needful, they sacked him and employed Flick mid-season, who has made them 💯 times better. Did he buy players? No! All the players who looked old (Muller, Alaba, Boateng...) were rejuvenated again under a new manager.

When our dear Super Frank was employed, he knew what he was going into before he signed the contract. He knew out best player (Hazard) left, which is should not be a big deal for a new coach (ask Klopp who sold Coutinho mid-season). He knew the club won't be signing players for a season (Thank God for CAS though). He's got good players who just won the UEL and 3rd place in the EPL; Jorginho, Giroud, Kovacic, Kante, Rudiger, Azpi, Willian, Kepa.

Frank Lampard

How come they are not now good enough? I believe additions of our academy players should have made the team stronger than it was, but opposite has been the case. 

There is always the effort and effect of a good manager on the team. Have you seen that in Chelsea? Name just one player whose game play has improved since our dear Lampard took over the reigns. And what of Kante? Rudiger? Willian? Alonso? Kepa? Jorginho? Their game has been on the downward since Lampard took over. I ask again where's the input and effect of the coach in the team? 

Remember it was a coach (Mourinho) that made Lampard a better player that he was. Only few of Liverpool team players were exceptional before they were bought (Maybe Allison and Salah) but Klopp has improved the players so much that they are now being nominated for UEFA teams; TAA, Robertson, Sadio Mane, Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Firmino, VVD, Gomez, Matip, James Milner...

In the opposite, Chelsea has now become a team who has no clue, tactics, pattern, passion, zeal, urgency and style. Chelsea has not won or drawn any game from losing position this season (except Arsenal and Leicester), our home ground which has always been a shield for us and a morale booster has now become a place of torture.

Some fans are backing up their claims with the fact that we are still 4th on the table; when did it really come to this? Where is the zeal that made us one of the best teams in the world then, that made us fearless, that instills fear into the best teams in the world when they want to play us? We all heard what Bayern coach and players said before the match that "Chelsea is not as good as it used to be" therefore, they will maximize that and defeat us. And they did!

Besides, if the teams behind us had also been consistent, would we still be 4th?

And to many fans who believe all the players are not good enough, imagine this current squad under coaches like Carlo Anceloti, Jurgen Klopp, Mauricio Pochetino, Julian Nagelsman, Nuno Espirito Santo; You know what they can do with them.

Let me leave with this, we love Lampard as a legend of the club, but he should leave ASAP before it's too late and before the fans turn against him.

'Tunde Oluwaniyi

IT Professional

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THINGS YOU SHOULD STOP DOING TO YOURSELF

Act on these and your life style will change for good...

• Stop spending time with the wrong people. It’s useless spending time with people who don’t know your worth.

• Stop running from your problems. Face them head on.

• Stop lying to yourself.

• Stop putting your own needs on the back burner. Yes, help others; but help yourself too.

• Stop trying to be someone you’re not. Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

• Stop trying to hold onto the past. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

• Stop being scared to make a mistake. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success.

• Stop berating yourself for old mistakes. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

• Stop trying to buy happiness. The things that really satisfy us are totally free – love, laughter and working on our passions.

• 10 Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness. – If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either.

• Stop being idle. Evaluate situations and take decisive action.

• Stop thinking you’re not ready. Nobody ever feels 100% ready when an opportunity arises.

• Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.

• Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didn’t work. Some will test you, some will use you and some will teach you.

• Stop trying to compete against everyone else. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only.

• Stop being jealous of others. There’s something you have that everyone wants!

• Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. Smile! Let everyone know that today you are a lot stronger than you were yesterday, and you will be.

• Stop holding grudges. Forgiveness is not just for other people, it’s for you too.

• Stop letting others bring you down to their level. Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.

• Stop wasting time explaining yourself to others. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it anyway. Just do what you know in your heart is right.

• Stop doing the same things over and over without taking a break. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

• Stop overlooking the beauty of small moments. Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things.

• Stop trying to make things perfect. – The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists; it rewards people who get things done.

• Stop following the path of least resistance. Don’t take the easy way out. Do something extraordinary.

• Stop acting like everything is fine if it isn’t. It’s okay to fall apart for a little while. Cry if you need to – it’s healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again.

• Stop blaming others for your troubles. The extent to which you can achieve your dreams depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for your life.

• Stop trying to be everything to everyone. Doing so is impossible, and trying will only burn you out.

• Stop worrying so much. Worry will not strip tomorrow of its burdens, it will strip today of its joy.

• Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen. Focus on what you do want to happen. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story.

• Stop being ungrateful. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. 

(Source: Marc & Angel Hack Life)

Meet Eva Carneiro

The Chelsea Medic (and Real Madrid fan) who is the busiest Doctor in football

Eva Carneiro (Chelsea first-team doctor) is a Gibraltarian sports medicine specialist of a Spanish father and English mother. She had previously worked at the British Olympic Medical Institute and with England women's national football team and UK Athletics.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Carneiro was born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. She studied medicine at Nottingham University before training and working in A&E and surgery in Scotland and Australia. She then continued her studies at Queen Mary University in London, completing an M.Sc in Sport and Exercise Medicine. Her M.Sc thesis was carried out at West Ham United.

Following the completion of her masters she worked in the Public Health department at Islington PCT in north London, and was also involved in weekly Sports & Orthopaedic Clinics at Whittington Hospital and the Olympic Medical Institute. She was then appointed to the UK Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist training programme, working with UK athletes in the build up to the 2008 Summer Olympics and also with the women's football team.

Chelsea F.C. Career

Carneiro joined Chelsea in 2009, initially working with the Reserve team squad. She was promoted to work with the first team at the start of the 2011/12 season under the management of Andre Villas-Boas. Carneiro fell in love with the game while travelling in Mexico. She watched a match between Mexico and Brazil during the 1998 France World Cup and was hooked. Growing up she loved sport but struggled with injuries. 

‘It made me think there had to be more than rest to treatment of injuries and this sparked my evolving fascination with sports medicine,’ she said in 2009.

Does she support a team?

Real Madrid. Which could get awkward if they and Chelsea both make it to the Champions League final.

Anything else we need to know?

As a teenager Carneiro enjoyed ballet and riding, she loves to travel — handy, given her line of work — plus salsa and samba. She also likes to surf, something she learnt in Australia. 

‘Those moments on the surf in the early mornings and evenings I can honestly count among the happiest in my life,’ she said.

Culled from DailyMail and Chelseasite

MICROSOFT SETS WINDOWS 9 REVEAL FOR SEPT. 30

Windows 9

Microsoft issued invitations on Monday for a Sept. 30 event where it will unveil the next version of Windows, according to multiple online reports.

The date was leaked last month.

"Join us to hear about what's next for Windows and the enterprise," the emailed invitation read. The Verge, ZDNetand others reported on the upcoming event.

The San Francisco press conference will introduce the next iteration of Microsoft's venerable Windows operating system. Most pundits and analysts expect the OS to be dubbed "Windows 9," with the company sticking with the numerical moniker of the 2012 predecessor. It has also been known by the code name "Threshold."

Presumably set for release in the first half of 2015, Windows 9, may be either the last major release of the operating system or the first in a string of smaller, less-ambitious updates as Microsoft accelerates its already too-fast-for-enterprise release schedule.

A revamped Start menu -- one that hews more closely to the one in Windows 7 -- a de-emphasis of the touch-first "Modern," née "Metro," mode and UI (user interface), and the ability to run Modern apps in Windows on the classic desktop have been bandied as Windows 9's most obvious changes.

The mention of "enterprise" in Microsoft's invitation bolsters the speculation that Windows 9 will be primarily aimed at business and corporate customers, who have spurned Windows 8 because of its split-UI personality. That, in turn, argues for a surfacing of new features and other changes that make the OS easier to operate and navigate with mouse and keyboard, still the primary input methods for business PCs.

It's important for Microsoft to make Windows 9 attractive to those customers, Gartner analysts have said, if Microsoft is to convince them to move beyond Windows 7 -- which has a lock on the corporate market -- in time to avoid a repeat of the Windows XP longevity problem.

Microsoft may offer a public preview of Windows 9 at the time of the Sept. 30 reveal, or shortly after.

It's unlikely that Microsoft will talk timing and pricing at the event. Historically, the company has withheld that information until the release date nears. But talk of Microsoft moving to a free-upgrade model, or if not that, then one that is less expensive, has made the rounds.

The move has some logic. While free upgrades could pinch PC makers, they would give a quick shot in the arm to the new OS, driving uptake to historic levels in the first seven months.

By Computerworld's calculations -- which were based on the performance of the free Windows 8.1 upgrade of 2013 -- nearly 18% of all machines running Windows would be upgraded to Windows 9 before the end of 2015 if Microsoft offers free upgrades.

It's likely that Microsoft will webcast the Sept. 30 event rather than restrict it to the reporters, bloggers and analysts in attendance. The last two major product-related press conferences that Microsoft has held -- one in March where CEO Satya Nadella introduced Office for iPad, another in May when the company unveiled the new Surface Pro 3 2-in-1, both which were invitation-only -- were broadcast to all comers.

Source: Computer World

How do I Shutdown or Restart on Windows 8 PC?

Windows 8 operating system has been give kudos and knocks by various users in various places and at different times. But here is one of the challenges of Windows 8; Shutting Down and (or) Restarting.

The issues is that both Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 use power efficiently, so you might not require to shut down your PC unless you intend retiring your PC for a while. However, you’ll occasionally have to restart your PC after you have installed a new app or to finish installing updates. Here's how to do it.

• First and foremost, make sure you save your work and close any apps you have open. 
• If there's a Power icon  on your Start screen, tap or click it, and then tap or click Restart. Otherwise, do the following;
• Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Settings. 
• (If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and then click Settings.) 
• Click Power and then click Shutdown or Restart.

MARRIED OR SINGLE? YOU SHOULD READ THIS...

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said "I’ve got something to tell you". She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. "I want a divorce". I raised the topic calmly. She didn’t seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, "why?"

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me," you are not a man!" That night, we didn’t talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn’t love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company. She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn’t have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions; she didn’t want anything from me, but needed a month’s notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple; our son had his exams in a month’s time and she didn’t want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

Showing Love

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that every day for the month’s duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife’s divorce conditions. She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. "No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce", she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn’t had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us "daddy is holding mommy in his arms". His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; "don’t tell our son about the divorce". I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn’t looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me. On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn’t tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed "all my dresses have grown bigger". I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.

Suddenly it hit me, she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously, I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said "Dad, it’s time to carry mom out". To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said "I hadn’t noticed that our life lacked intimacy". I drove to my office, jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind. I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her "Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore".

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. "Do you have a fever?" She said. I moved her hand off my head. "Sorry Jane", I said "I won’t divorce". My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn’t value the details of our lives, not because we didn’t love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart. Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and busted into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away. At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, "I’ll carry you out every morning until death do us apart".

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I ran up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed. She was dead!!! My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce. At least, in the sight of our son - I’m a loving husband.

Moral

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves.

So find time to be your spouse’s friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. If you are not in a relationship now, remember this for the second (or third) time around. It's never too late.

Share this and you just might save a marriage. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up

Source www.socialmeems.com

What do women really want?

Young King Arthur was ambushed and imprisoned by the monarch of a neighbouring kingdom. The monarch could have killed him but was moved by Arthur’s youth and ideals. So, the monarch offered him his freedom, as long as he could answer a very difficult question.

Arthur would have a year to figure out the answer and, if after a year, he still had no answer, he would be put to death.

The question was: "What do women really want?"

Such a question would perplex even the most knowledgeable man. And to young Arthur, it seemed an impossible query. But, since it was better than death, he accepted the monarch’s proposition to have an answer by year’s end.

He returned to his kingdom and began to poll everyone: the princess, the priests, the wise men, and even the court jester. He spoke with everyone, but no one could give him a satisfactory answer.

Many people advised him to consult the old witch, for only she would have the answer. But the price would be high as the witch was famous throughout the kingdom for the exorbitant prices she charged.

The last day of the year arrived and Arthur had no choice but to talk to the witch. She agreed to answer the question, but first he would have to agree to her price.

The old witch wanted to marry Sir Lancelot, the most noble of the Knights of the Round Table, and Arthur’s closest friend!

Young Arthur was horrified. She was hunch-backed and hideous, had only one tooth, smelled like sewage, made obscene noises, etc. He had never encountered such a repugnant creature in all his life. He refused to force his friend to marry her and endure such a terrible burden.

But Lancelot, having learnt of the proposal, spoke with Arthur. He said nothing was too big of a sacrifice compared to Arthur’s life and the preservation of the Round Table.

Hence, a wedding was proclaimed and the witch answered Arthur’s question thus: “What a woman really wants?” She said;

“A woman wants to be in charge of her own life.”

Everyone in the kingdom instantly knew that the witch had uttered a great truth, and that Arthur’s life would be spared. And so it was.

The neighbouring monarch granted Arthur his freedom. And Lancelot and the witch had a wonderful wedding.

The honeymoon hour approached and, Lancelot, steeling himself for a horrific experience, entered the bedroom. But, what a sight awaited him. The most beautiful woman he had ever seen was sitting by the bed.

The astounded Lancelot asked what had happened. The beauty replied that since he had been so kind to her when she appeared as a witch, she would henceforth become her horrible and deformed self only half the time, and be the beautiful maiden the other half.

‘Which would you prefer?’ She asked him. ‘Beautiful during the day …. or at night?’

Lancelot pondered the predicament. During the day he could have a beautiful woman to show off to his friends, but at night, in the privacy of his castle, an old witch! Or, would he prefer having a hideous witch during the day  but by night a beautiful woman for him to enjoy wondrous moments with?

If you are a man reading this…What would YOUR choice be?

If you are a woman reading this…What would YOUR MAN’S choice be?

And Lancelot’s choice is given below…

BUT… please make YOUR choice first before you scroll down below.

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Knowing the answer the witch gave to Arthur for his question, Sir Lancelot said that he would allow HER to make the choice herself.

Upon hearing this, she announced that she would be beautiful all the time because he had respected her enough to let her be in charge of her own life.

Now… what is the moral to this story?

The moral is…

1. There is ‘witch’ in every woman, no matter how beautiful she is!
2. If you don’t let a woman have her own way, things are going to get ‘ugly’!
3. Remember also that Hell hath on fury......like a ...............

So, be careful how you treat a woman. Always remember: It is either ‘HER WAY’ or ‘HELL’S WAY