Present Perfect Tense Article

GILES SMITH’S MIDWEEK VIEW

Before he heads off to where the sun shines brightly and where the sea is blue, it is time for columnist Giles Smith's final take on the week just gone and, indeed, on the season as a whole…

So, somehow the season managed to end with a bang AND a whimper. Typically people warn you to expect one or the other. But we got both. That's the kind of season it's been, I suppose.

The whimper came in the form of the team's performance at Everton, which couldn't have said 'We're all going on a summer holiday' more clearly if it had featured Cliff Richard in the holding role, with a back four comprising Hank Marvin, Una Stubbs, Ron Moody and a double decker bus.

The bang was the firing of Carlo Ancelotti that almost immediately followed it. Something you didn't necessarily need to have been Mystic Meg to see coming, but which nevertheless delivered a stark jolt and a lasting pang of sadness when it happened.

That Ancelotti is a man of thorough decency and rare humanity it goes without saying. Show me someone who doesn't like Carlo Ancelotti, the person, and I'll show you someone I don't like. The club was ennobled and lent class by association with him, which hasn't always been the case.

Moreover, his autobiography is, by a streak, the best book ever written by a football manager. It's funny on every page. If you haven't read it, you should do so now, as a mark of respect.

He was brilliant enough to deliver the Double in his first season, inserting himself permanently into Chelsea's history. And if he had found a way to manage that absurd power-outage that afflicted the squad in the middle of this season - the 'moment' which lasted two months - we would still be champions and he would still be our manager.

It's been pointed out, of course, that we finished as runners-up, even so. By extension, people have dwelt on the supposed brutality of sacking a man for coming second in the Premier League - nominally the toughest league in Europe - and it's easy to see how, looked at from a distance, the move could seem a little impatient. Presumptuous, even.

But, of course, the truth is we all know what a peculiar and under-powered season this has been pretty much right across the board. The only sides who came out with anything like credit were Blackpool, who went down, and Wolves, who nearly joined them. Emblematically, for the first time, the football writers' player of the season (Scott Parker) came from a side who were eventually relegated (West Ham), and the players' player of the season (Gareth Bale) spent most of the season injured. Look no further than those details for evidence of how this year failed to spark.

It was a dull, sluggish term, characterised, in the main, by unexceptional performances by teams from whom one would have expected far better. Not quite as unexceptional, generally, as our performance at Everton, it's true - but not that far off.

Accordingly, you have to make adjustments and allowances. This year, under the terms of even the most generous analysis, first place was pretty much fourth place, by normal standards. (United's points total this season wouldn't even have got them into second place in our championship year of 2004/05, nor would it have been enough to achieve third place the year after, when we won it again.)

Second place felt, this time, like about seventh. There was, accordingly, less satisfaction to be found in it and less credit to be drawn from it than there might usually have been. Even Liverpool under Kenny Dalglish, for heaven's sake, somehow managed to finish sixth (roughly 18th, in real terms).

Meanwhile, failure in the Champions League was widely said to have 'sealed Ancelotti's fate', but I somehow doubt it. The Champions League is (eventually) a knock-out competition and nobody can categorically expect to win those. As those of us who travelled to Moscow know only too intimately, anything can happen in cup football and frequently does. And if the capriciousness of the draw hands you the misfortune to meet Manchester United in the quarter-finals, it can hardly be turned into a judgement against you if it goes narrowly wrong on the back of an un-given penalty in the first leg.

Failure to win the league, though, from a 15-point position of strength at one stage, with Chelsea's kind of resources to hand, and in this of all years, the puniest Premier League of all time, with all likely rivals going nearly nuts in the effort to shoot themselves in the foot, again and again… well, this probably can be accounted the kind of motivational shortfall on which a man, however patently and shiningly decent, can lose his job.

And so the club now turns its attention to the tough and critical task of finding Mr Ancelotti's replacement, a topic on which I have nothing particular to add to what everyone else is saying, besides letting you know that I have immediately appointed myself acting chairman and treasurer of the Anyone But Harry Association.

I'll publish any relevant minutes from this ad hoc society's meetings in this space at the beginning of next season, by which time, hopefully, the association will have long since been dissolved, all of us will be feeling entirely refreshed, a new regime will be in place, and the 'eager anticipation' meter will once again be pointing at the place on the dial marked 'almost unbearable'.

Present Perfect Tense

FORM

[has/have + past participle]

Examples:

• You have seen that movie many times.
• Have you seen that movie many times?
• You have not seen that movie many times

USE 1 Unspecified Time Before Now

We use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important. You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc. We CAN use the Present Perfect with unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far, already, yet, etc.

Examples:

• I have seen that movie twenty times.
• I think I have met him once before.
• There have been many earthquakes in California.
• People have traveled to the Moon.
• People have not traveled to Mars.
• Have you read the book yet?
• Nobody has ever climbed that mountain.
• A: Has there ever been a war in the United States?
  B: Yes, there has been a war in the United States.

How Do You Actually Use the Present Perfect?

The concept of "unspecified time" can be very confusing to English learners. It is best to associate Present Perfect with the following topics:

TOPIC 1 Experience

You can use the Present Perfect to describe your experience. It is like saying, "I have the experience of..." You can also use this tense to say that you have never had a certain experience. The Present Perfect is NOT used to describe a specific event.

Examples:

• I have been to France.
  This sentence means that you have had the experience of being in France. Maybe you have been there once, or several times.
• I have been to France three times.
  You can add the number of times at the end of the sentence.
• I have never been to France.
  This sentence means that you have not had the experience of going to France.
• I think I have seen that movie before.
• He has never traveled by train.
• Joan has studied two foreign languages.
• A: Have you ever met him?
  B: No, I have not met him.

TOPIC 2 Change Over Time

We often use the Present Perfect to talk about change that has happened over a period of time.

Examples:

• You have grown since the last time I saw you.
• The government has become more interested in arts education.
• Japanese has become one of the most popular courses at the university since the Asian studies program was established.
• My English has really improved since I moved to Australia.

TOPIC 3 Accomplishments

We often use the Present Perfect to list the accomplishments of individuals and humanity. You cannot mention a specific time.

Examples:

• Man has walked on the Moon.
• Our son has learned how to read.
• Doctors have cured many deadly diseases.
• Scientists have split the atom.

TOPIC 4 An Uncompleted Action You Are Expecting

We often use the Present Perfect to say that an action which we expected has not happened. Using the Present Perfect suggests that we are still waiting for the action to happen.

Examples:

• James has not finished his homework yet.
• Susan hasn't mastered Japanese, but she can communicate.
• Bill has still not arrived.
• The rain hasn't stopped.

TOPIC 5 Multiple Actions at Different Times

We also use the Present Perfect to talk about several different actions which have occurred in the past at different times. Present Perfect suggests the process is not complete and more actions are possible.

Examples:

• The army has attacked that city five times.
• I have had four quizzes and five tests so far this semester.
• We have had many major problems while working on this project.
• She has talked to several specialists about her problem, but nobody knows why she is sick.

Time Expressions with Present Perfect

When we use the Present Perfect it means that something has happened at some point in our lives before now. Remember, the exact time the action happened is not important.

Sometimes, we want to limit the time we are looking in for an experience. We can do this with expressions such as: in the last week, in the last year, this week, this month, so far, up to now, etc.

Examples:

• Have you been to Mexico in the last year?
• I have seen that movie six times in the last month.
• They have had three tests in the last week.
• She graduated from university less than three years ago. She has worked for three different companies so far.
• My car has broken down three times this week.

NOTICE

"Last year" and "in the last year" are very different in meaning. "Last year" means the year before now, and it is considered a specific time which requires Simple Past. "In the last year" means from 365 days ago until now. It is not considered a specific time, so it requires Present Perfect.

Examples:

• I went to Mexico last year.
  I went to Mexico in the calendar year before this one.
• I have been to Mexico in the last year.
  I have been to Mexico at least once at some point between 365 days ago and now.

USE 2 Duration From the Past Until Now (Non-Continuous Verbs)

With Non-Continuous Verbs and non-continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, we use the Present Perfect to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now. "For five minutes," "for two weeks," and "since Tuesday" are all durations which can be used with the Present Perfect.

Examples:

• I have had a cold for two weeks.
• She has been in England for six months.
• Mary has loved chocolate since she was a little girl.

Although the above use of Present Perfect is normally limited to Non-Continuous Verbs and non-continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, the words "live," "work," "teach," and "study" are sometimes used in this way even though they are NOT Non-Continuous Verbs.

ADVERB PLACEMENT

The examples below show the placement for grammar adverbs such as: always, only, never, ever, still, just, etc.

Examples:

• You have only seen that movie one time.
• Have you only seen that movie one time?

ACTIVE / PASSIVE

Examples:

• Many tourists have visited that castle. Active
• That castle has been visited by many tourists. Passive

All I know About Adam Johnson

Adam joined City from his only other club, Middlesbrough, on February 1 2010, and was an instant hit with an acclaimed full debut against Bolton and a stunning late equaliser at Sunderland that earned him the club's Goal of the Year Award. His overall performances as a left-footed winger on the right flank brought a place in England's initial 30-man World Cup squad.

Born in Sunderland, the left winger made his senior debut at 17 on May 17 2005 in an UEFA Cup tie at Sporting Lisbon. His Premier League debut came six months later in a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at The Riverside.

His first goal followed on May 3 2006 against Bolton, and in all he played 96 matches for Middlesbrough, scoring 13 goals.

His development was helped by successful loan spells in October 2006 with Leeds and September 2007 with Watford, where he spent three months and scored five goals in 12 games before being recalled early.

Adam was capped at Under-19 level and went on to play 19 games for England Under-21s, scoring four goals, being part of the squad that contested the European Championship Finals in Sweden.

His eye-catching start to life at City saw him named in England's provisional squad for the 2010 World Cup Finals. His full international debut was an impressive, if brief, cameo against Mexico although he did not make the final cut for South Africa. The Wearsider could be very proud of his progress in 2009/10 and he picked up where left off the following season, becoming an influential figure for both club and country.

I wanna tell a story about my football life . Maybe it's not "my football life" cause i just like watch it . :)

I like football from 2006 when World Cup was held in Germany . Since I saw Germany crushed Saudi Arabia waith a big score . 11 - 0 to Germany . It was the greatest match that i ever watched . At least , that's what I thought that time .

So it has been 5 years I love football . Not playing it that i love but i love watching it . When a ball got in to the net , when there were a lot of fouls , everything in football , I LOVE IT !!

The first football player that I like is MICHAEL BALLACK . And I still love him till now .
I was searching for which club he played .
And I found it . It was CHELSEA . Of course till now I LOVE CHELSEA TOO .. :)

Since then , I became one of CHELSEA's FANS .

Although now , Ballack is not in Chelsea anymore but I still LOVE chelsea .

I LOVE CHELSEA WITH ALL OF MY HEART .

KTBBFH

Chelsea Captain's Profile

Name:	John Terry
Nationality:	English
Date of Birth:	07/12/1980
Height:	6' 2" (187cm)
Weight:	14st 3lbs (90.34kg)
Previous
Clubs:	Nottm Forest (loan)
Position:	Defender

ChelseaChelsea to the core and a true hero to the fans, John is the most successful captain in Chelsea history and in many eyes, he's the best central defender currently in action.

As brave as they come and a superb reader of the game, sound technique and distribution make him more than just a defenders' defender.

Born in east London, John has been with Chelsea since the age of 14 when he was initially a medium-build midfielder.

Filling in as youth team centre-back one day due to a lack of alternatives, he has never looked back, aided by a rapid growth in physical stature.

A short and successful loan spell at Nottingham Forest helped the maturing process and having taken on board lessons first hand from the likes of Marcel Desailly and Frank Leboeuf, he was voted Chelsea Player of the Year just two seasons after his debut.

He took the captain's armband, having understudied Desailly, in 2004 and led the club to the elusive title in his very first year with the armband.

With the Carling Cup also lifted, John became one of only four Chelsea captains to skipper the club to major honours and he more than played his part on the pitch in 2004/05 with a succession of world class displays and eight crucial goals.

He was voted PFA Player of the Year by his fellow professionals, the first Chelsea winner of the accolade.

John's incredible consistency continued in 2005/06 when injury in the final week robbed him of a full house of Premiership games as he lifted the trophy for a second time.

He scored seven times in all competitions and was voted Chelsea Player of the Year for a second time.

Although he already had well over 300 club appearances to his name, the 2006/07 season was interrupted by prolonged injury as a back problem and related difficulties took time to repair.

However he was back and fighting in plenty of time to become the first to lift the FA Cup at the new Wembley.

Injuries limited him to 37 appearances from a possible 62 in 2007/08. Knee, cheek, foot and elbow injuries all took their toll on the man Avram Grant described as 'bionic', but he was still there barking orders in Moscow in our first Champions League final.

Charged with converting our fifth spot kick in the Luzhniki Stadium to bring the trophy back to London, he slipped and saw his effort hit the post.

Held in the highest regard by all at the club, JT bounced back quickly in 2008/09 to lead in new eras under Luiz Felipe Scolari and then Guus Hiddink, his form rarely deviating from outstanding.

A number of defensive performances stood out as the captain maintained his best run of games for some time, despite red cards against Manchester City (rescinded) and Everton.

His greatest hour of the campaign was the near faultless display in the Camp Nou, earning a 0-0 draw against a Barcelona team that had scored freely all season.

Though we were never in the league race after the beginning of February, John still got his hands on silverware as he captained an FA Cup winning side for the second time.

In 2009/10 JT turned in another season of remarkable consistency in which he was rewarded by becoming the first Chelsea captain to lift the Double.

On the field, Terry did not miss a game through injury, and while others around him suffered with fitness - every other Chelsea defender had a prolonged absence at some point in the season - it was he who played out the entire campaign alongside either Ricardo Carvalho, Branislav Ivanovic or Alex.

Whoever he was paired with, the results were usually the same. Imperious against Liverpool at the Bridge in October, he blocked, tackled and cleared his way to another clean sheet.

After two set-piece goals brought our downfall at Aston Villa, we responded with seven shutouts in eight games, including one against Manchester United, where the captain rose highest to head the game's only goal, and another at the Emirates, where a left-footed Terry pass helped create Didier Drogba's first of the afternoon. His range of passing on either foot has become a valuable attacking weapon, as was shown with Ashley Cole's Goal of the Season against Sunderland in January.

Defeat at Eastlands in early December would have hurt, as would the mistake that allowed Everton back in to draw at the Bridge a week later, but personal and collective form were recovered in January, when headlines about Terry's personal life began to appear.

His response was predictable, as the captain headed home the winner at Burnley to seize three points, and then his flick-on to Drogba set us on the way against Arsenal at home but low points would follow as Chelsea lost to Everton and Man City.

He returned to the scoresheet to see us into the FA Cup semi-finals before a red card at Tottenham, where he was unfairly criticised after having to cover out of position team-mates. It was the only blot on the rest of the campaign, with other excellent displays coming against United and Liverpool.

Having lifted his third Premier League trophy, he did the same with the FA Cup after overcoming a metatarsal scare, and almost netted after heading against the crossbar.

His second season under Carlo Ancelotti has brought disappointment and perplexity at the side's poor run of form that began in November and continued into the new year, though once more Terry's performances have been unaffected alongside either Alex or Ivanovic, while he also claimed a clean sheet in his first game alongside new partner David Luiz at Fulham on Valentine's Day.

A nerve injury kept him out in November as defensive frailty was highlighted against Sunderland, but with Chelsea still boasting the league's best defensive record heading into the final third of the season Terry has every reason to hold his head high.

International John was handed his England debut in June 2003 against Serbia and Montenegro, and was first choice for his country at Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, taking on the captaincy under Steve McClaren following that tournament.

Chelsea's first homegrown to be capped by England since Ray Wilkins in the mid 70s, Terry became our first England skipper of the professional age, although the armband was taken away by Fabio Capello in February 2010 following media stories about John's private life.

Having already lifted the FA Cup there for his club, John became the scorer of the first international goal at the new Wembley, heading home the opener in England's 1-1 draw with Brazil.

With injury having robbed him of the chance to repair England's faltering Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, he led his country to qualification for the South Africa World Cup in 2010, and played in all four of his country's games, supplying a rare memorable moment when he attempted a diving horizontal block, with his head, a mere foot off the ground against Slovenia.

In March 2011 he was reappointed England captain on a full-time basis by Capello. 

The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States. Within that triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean have occurred a number of unexplained disappearances of boats and planes. Additionally, readings on directional devices do not operate normally inside the triangle.

Unusual events in that area date back in recorded history to 1493 and the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) to the New World. In his log, Columbus noted that his compass readings were askew within the area now called the Bermuda Triangle, and he and his crew were confused by shallow areas of sea with no land nearby.

The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first used in an article written by Vincent H. Gaddis for Argosy magazine in 1964. Gaddis claimed that several ships and planes had disappeared without explanation in that area. The article was expanded and included in his book, Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea (1965), where he described nine mysterious incidents and provided extensive detail. Many newspapers carried a story in December of 1967 about strange incidents in the Bermuda Triangle after a National Geographic Society news release brought attention to Gaddis's book. The triangle was featured in a cover story in Argosy in 1968, in a book called Limbo of the Lost (1969) by John Wallace Spencer, and in a documentary film, The Devil's Triangle, in 1971. Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller The Bermuda Triangle marked the height of the disaster area legend, but some of its sensationalized claims were quickly proved inaccurate.

As early as 1952, George X. Sands had noted in a report in Fate magazine that an unusually large number of strange accidents had occurred in the region associated with the Bermuda Triangle. That many of the accidents in the area are intriguing, and that the area does have some natural conditions that sailors and pilots need to be aware of, has not been challenged. However, neither statistics nor documented evidence indicates that the number of accidents is unusually high or without explanation.

In March 1918, during World War I, the USS Cyclops vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. That ship may have been a casualty of war, but the December 1945 disappearance of Flight 19, a training squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, became the most notorious of disappearances associated with the Bermuda Triangle. The squadron left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with 14 crewmen and disappeared after radioing in several distress messages. A seaplane sent in search of the squadron also vanished. Those two airplane disappearances were frequently cited as the Bermuda Triangle legend grew during the 1960s and 1970s.

Few of those stories included telling details. All of the crewmen of Flight 19 were in training, for example, except for their patrol leader, who had tried to withdraw from his flight duty that day because he was feeling ill. After his compass malfunctioned soon into the flight, the flight leader decided to navigate by land-marks below on the islands of the Florida Keys, with which he was familiar. Visibility became a problem because of a sudden storm, and the leader became disoriented. Flight 19 was still in radio contact with the Fort Lauderdale air base, but after some mechanical difficulties they failed to switch to an emergency frequency. Radio recordings indicate that some of the crew believed they were heading out over the Atlantic Ocean, instead of the Gulf of Mexico as their leader reported.

A search plane took off and was claimed to have disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle with Flight 19. The plane actually blew up 23 seconds after takeoff. Wreckage from Flight 19 has never been recovered.

Other aircraft that have disappeared in the area include a DC-3 carrying 27 passengers in 1948 and a C-124 Globemaster with 53 passengers in 1951. Among the ships often listed among the mysteriously disappeared are the Mary Celeste (1872), the Marine tankership Sulphur Queen with 39 men aboard (1963), and the nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion with a crew of 99 (1968). The Mary Celeste entered the list of supposed Bermuda Triangle mysteries many decades after its odd tragedy. The ship set sail from New York to Genoa, Italy, but was found sailing unmanned some 400 miles off course, off the coast of Africa. Personal articles of the crew were found and food storage areas showed no sign of upheaval. A tattered sail and a missing lifeboat suggested the boat had encountered a storm, but the ship's log, in which information was recorded as late as nine days before the ship was found, made no mention of any kind of catastrophe.

There is no evidence, however, that the Mary Celeste ever entered the area of the Bermuda Triangle. Still, the eerie, unanswered questions concerning its fate are often cited by those who attribute a malevolent force as being responsible for odd and tragic events of the triangle.

Nevertheless, there are many documented disappearances that occurred within the triangle. They include a four-engine Tudor IV air-plane lost in 1948, with 31 aboard; an American freighter, the SS Sandra (1952), which sunk without a trace; a British York transport plane, disappeared in 1952, with 33 aboard; a U.S. Navy Lockheed Constellation airplane, vanished in 1954 with 42 aboard; a U.S. Navy seaplane, 1956, with a crew of 10; a French freighter in 1970; and a German freighter, Anita, lost in 1972 with a crew of 32.

Theories about why so many air and water ships disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle involve strange magnetic fields, time warps, the lost continent of Atlantis, and alien abduction. Other proposed explanations include physical forces unknown to science, a "hole in the sky," and an unusual chemical component in the region's seawater. Several books have suggested that an intelligent, technologically advanced race living in space or under the sea has been responsible for jamming equipment and leading ships and planes to disaster.

Many books and articles play up mystery angles concerning vanished ships by depicting the disappearances as having occurred in calm weather and daylight. Such particulars of Flight 19 as an inexperienced crew, a faulty compass, a squadron leader who failed to follow instructions, and conditions of deteriorating weather and visibility are often not mentioned. Larry Kusche, a librarian at Arizona State University, examined claims of mysterious disappearances and recorded evidence from each example. The results, published in The Bermuda Triangle—Mystery Solved, showed that many of the accidents happened during raging storms, or were later explained.

The area known as the Bermuda Triangle is one of the two places on Earth where a magnetic compass does point towards true north, a phenomenon called compass variation. Navigators must compensate the amount of variation or the craft they are on will go off course. A region commonly called the "Devil's Sea" in the Pacific Ocean is the other area of compass variation.

The Gulf Stream that runs through the Bermuda Triangle area is swift and turbulent, and can quickly erase evidence of a disaster. The unpredictable Caribbean-Atlantic weather can suddenly change into thunderstorms or create waterspouts. Many short and intense storms build up quickly and dissipate quickly, undetected by satellite surveillance. The ocean floor has shoals around islands as well as some of the deepest marine trenches in the world. The interaction of the strong currents over reefs promotes a constant flux and the development of new, uncharted navigational hazards.

These factors can confuse even experienced sailors. A large number of pleasure boats travel the waters between Florida's coast and the Bahamas. The U.S. Coast Guard receives more than 8,000 distress calls per year, averaging more than 20 per day from that area, often from sailors who have run out of gas.

The Bermuda Triangle claimed more than 1,000 lives during the twentieth century. That averages to about 10 per year, a figure similar to other areas of high water traffic or volatile natural conditions. Scientific evaluations of the Bermuda Triangle have concluded that the number of disappearances in the region is not abnormal and that most of the disappearances have logical explanations. Paranormal associations with the Bermuda Triangle persist, however, in the popular imagination.

2009/2010 League Title

2009/10 LEAGUE TITLE

Chelsea read the script, learnt it and performed it perfectly.

There simply cannot be any better way to seal a league title than with a club's record top-flight win and in doing so,Carlo Ancelotti's magnificent side not only secured the club's fourth championship but did so with a Premier League record number of goals scored - smashing the century to move onto 103 league goals for the season - a new club record in any division.

Any tension in this game soon evaporated when Nicolas Anelka fired in with just five minutes gone. Three more goals, a Frank Lampard penalty and strikes from Salomon Kalou and another from Anelka, were netted before Didier Drogba even found the net.

He ended the day with a second-half hat-trick to take the Premier League Golden Boot with 29 league goals and 36 in all competitions.

By that stage Wigan had long played with 10 men, Gary Caldwell having been dismissed half-an-hour in conceding the penalty that led to the second goal.

Ashley Cole completed the scoring and if there was a disappointment, it was that Petr Cech only shares the Golden Gloves! Liverpool's 0-0 draw at Hull means both he and Pepe Reina end the season on 17 league clean sheets.

As promised, Ancelotti named an unchanged side. The opening minutes of Chelsea's play were a little edgy but then Kalou took the initiative and embarked on a 50-yard run straight down the middle of the pitch. He was nudged in the back 10 yards from the Wigan area and we had our first chance to test Mike Pollitt in goal. Heavily-criticised Serb international keeper Vladimir Stojkovic had been dropped.

Drogba claimed the right to take the first dangerous free-kick of the game and it was struck cleanly but hit the very top of the wall. Bouncing back up field, it was Lampard who headed back into the danger area where he struck gold - Malouda, on the shoulder of the last defender, able to chest down for Anelka's cleanly struck half-volley inside the near-post and into the Shed End net. There were only five minutes gone.

It was the start everyone who cares about the Blues had been dreaming about for the last seven days. Stamford Bridge, already ringing with song before kick-off, upped the decibel level considerably.

Another free-kick 15 minutes in nearly led to a second clear chance when Terry's muscular aerial challenge prevented Gohouri clearing properly. The ball dropped just out of reach of the Chelsea skipper's shooting boots.

Wigan, who adopted a three-man defence with Melchiot and Figueroa as wing-backs, were actually enjoying their fair share of possession, Chelsea more or less playing on the counter-attack like an away side. There briefly looked danger when a ball forward split the Chelsea defence but its recipient, N'Zogba, had run offside.

Anelka, as lively as anyone on the pitch, drilled a low ball across the six-yard box from the right on 27 minutes that was just inches too far behind Ashley Cole. TV pictures showed Roman Abramovich in his box in the West Stand almost attempting to turn the ball in himself.

Three minutes later came the penalty that eased any remaining nerves, won and scored by Lampard. He had taken Drogba's return pass and surged into the area where he was stopped by Caldwell who grabbed a handful of the front of his shirt. The officials didn't miss the foul, dismissed the defender and so with his 10^th league penalty of the season, Lamps scored his 27th goal in all competitions - striking the ball low into the bottom left-hand corner of the net.

Alex Ferguson has said in the build-up to this weekend that his team would give it their all, at least until Chelsea were 2-0 up. News that Manchester United had now matched our score in their game at Old Trafford felt totally irrelevant down at Stamford Bridge which was busy with the biggest and best 'bouncy' yet, all four sides of the ground joining in.

Chelsea were out early for the second half and had time for a prolonged group huddle.

Within 90 seconds we hit woodwork when a stretching Lampard toed a Drogba cross on target. Pollitt tipped it onto the crossbar but the flag was up anyway, although replays suggested it was the nearby Anelka rather than Lampard who had strayed offside.

The news came through that Man United had made it 3-0 just as Chelsea matched that score thanks to Salomon Kalou.

Running into the area on the right, he and Lampard zig-zagged passes and controlling with his right, the Ivorian finished his left for his 12^th of the season. He was booked for a shirt-off celebration and was soon subbed for Joe Cole, Belletti also given a piece of the action in place of Ivanovic.

We only had to wait another three minutes for goal number four and the quality of the strikes kept going up and up - Anelka from out wide volleying Ivanovic's crossfield ball with perfect precision across the goaline and in.

The big question now was whether Chelsea could make it 100 league goals for the season. Anelka's 56^th minute goal was the 99^th.

Drogba desperate for one to take him ahead of Wayne Rooney in the race for the Golden Boot, hadn't looked too pleased to miss out on taking the earlier penalty but now his time had come.

He'd just seen a ferocious shot well saved when his overhead kick from an Ashley Cole shot was saved again. Lampard, at the second attempt, returned the rebound and the Chelsea top scorer powered in a close-range header for his 27^th league goal.

Goal number six on 67 minutes was another penalty, Ashley Cole tripped by Melchiot. This time Lampard did stand down in favour of Drogba who went two ahead of Rooney by converting via the inside of the post.

Nemanja Matic played the final 20 minutes in place of Ballack and Drogba's eventful few minutes continued with a booking for persistent fouling.

His hat-trick and Chelsea's seventh was his easiest finish of them all, stabbing in from five yards after Pollitt had only managed to push Joe Cole's angled drive across the goal. Rooney had now gone off injured at Old Trafford. To think Drogba was earlier worried he might not finish as the league's top scorer!

Five minutes from the end Cech was asked to give up his spectator status briefly to maintain his 17^th league clean sheet of the season. He tipped over Moses's long-range stinger. It was a very good save.

All the game needed was Ashley Cole to score one of the best goals of his career, sweetly catching a half-volley after Joe Cole had battled away on the bye-line and chipped the ball over.

Real Vampire Dug Up In Italy

In March of 2009, the Associated Press reported that a woman’s remains were dug up in Venice, Italy. This woman was believed to be a vampire.

What made archaeologists question the origins of these 16th century remains was that there was a brick wedged in between her jaws. Probably not what one may have expected to find on a vampire, but 16th century people had good reason for this. The belief in vampires came when epidemics hit, and graves were reopened to bury the corpses of people who had just died.

 Vampire Skull With Brick In Mouth

When people reopened these graves, what they saw shocked them. They would come across older bodies that had been buried and the bodies were swollen and had blood seeping from the sides of the mouth. The shroud, or winding sheet that was used to wrap the dead body, also had a hole in it, causing the vampires or “shroud-eaters” to appear as if they were alive and feasting.

People were disturbed by these visions and insisted that the only reason for why these dead bodies looked nourished was because they were vampires. In addition, people believed that vampires also fed on their shrouds and would cast spells in order to cause widespread plague, giving them more blood to feast on. The only way to stop the vampire from sucking blood was to stick a brick in its mouth so that it wouldn’t be able to feast and would instead starve to death.

So while people believed in vampires long ago, they weren’t the same image of bloodsucking, white fanged vampires that we in today’s society. Instead, these beliefs were based on the lack of knowledge people had of what happened to the body after death. We now know that when a person dies, the body fills up with gases, causing it to look bloated. The organs will decay over time, causing fluid to be excreted from the body, which was the blood the 16th century gravediggers saw. Furthermore, the bacteria from the decomposing body would eat away at the shrouds.

People also feared the widespread plagues that would kill millions of men, women and children. In order to explain these events during the Middle Ages, people would attribute them to superstitious beliefs, such as those of vampires that brought on sickness and death to add to their bloodsucking pleasure.

So what about the woman who was found buried? Archaeologists believed that she died around the age of 60 during one of the many plagues. When her grave was stumbled upon one day, a brick was shoved in her mouth because she was believed to be a vampire. Most commonly, gravediggers or priests were the ones to carry out these actions and once completed, more bodies could be laid to rest in the same spot.

Quileute Legend

The story takes place in La Push, a town roughly 20 miles out of the town of Forks, Washington and is located on the Pacific coast near the Quileute Indian Reservation.  Legends of the tribe date back before records were officially kept.  The stories were passed down from generation to the next, the Quileute Legends were told and retold and have remained a vital part of the Quileute’s heritage.   Let me share one of these tales with you.

Long ago, the harbor was settled by the Quileute tribe. Although Spirit warriors before Kaheleha existed, he was the first noted as the first great Quileute Chief Spirit warrior. When chased from the harbor, the tribe would retreat to ships in the harbor and leave behind their bodies, using wind and animals to chase enemy tribes from their lands. They would then return to the ships and their wives victorious.

After many generations passed, Chief Taha Aki has assumed the role and was known for his wisdom and peace, but the tribe was betrayed by a warrior, Utlapa who was then ordered to leave and never return to Quileute lands. He hid in the forest to seek his revenge. One day, Taha Aki left his body to sweep through the lands, even in times of peace to watch over his tribe. He was then betrayed by Utlapa and instead of just killing the Chief, he stole the chiefs body and slit his own bodies throat leaving Chief Taha Aki with no body and no way to return to the human world. Taha Aki watched as Utlapa ordered no warrior enter the spirit world and as he assumed many unheard of changes to the tribe.

Taha Aki wandered aimlessly in the forest until one day a wolf followed him and he requested the wolf share his body with him, the wolf accepted and made room for Taha. Man and wolf returned to the harbor, but quickly retreated. An older warrior named Yut decided to disobey the false Chief’s order and cross into the spirit world. But, the false Chief found his body before Yut could return and claim his body and warn the tribe, he died as the false Chief Utlapa slit his throat. As Taha Aki joined the wolf, his love of his tribe and his people rocked the wolf and turned the wolf into a man. He had a new form, not the same as his old, but reflecting the spirit of Taha Aki.

Taha Aki assumed his role as the Chief of the tribe and was regarded as Taha Aki the Great Wolf leading the tribe for many, many years and fathering many son’s who could also turn into wolves. After many years Taha gave up his spirit wolf once finding his true love, but a threat loomed. Several young women of the Makahs (a neighboring tribe) went missing and blamed the wolves. Taha tried to assure the neighboring tribe that the wolves had no wrong doing, but out of fear this did not calm the Makahs. Chief Taha Aki did not want a war, so he appointed his oldest wolf son, Taha Wi to find the true culprits of the several missing tribe’s women.

What Taha Wi and the five other wolves found would shape the way the Quileute tribe regarded the “cold ones.” After finding a strange sweet scent accompanied by a human scent and blood on the trail, Taha Wi sent half the pack back to the harbor, as Taha Wi and his two brothers did not return.

A year later two Makahs tribes women went missing in the same night, the wolves were sent out, but only one returned the eldest son of Taha Aki’s third wife, Yaha Uta. Yaha described the speed of the creature they found and that the Makahs women had been kidnapped to satisfy the “cold ones” thirst. Yaha Uta had not returned empty handed, he came with chunks of the creatures flesh and the horrified elders set the remains on fire.

Little did the Quileute’s know, the creature had a mate. The cold woman entered the village with the sun shimmering off her skin, she was beautiful, but deadly. Yaha transferred to his spirit wolf and alerted the elders of the approaching danger and went to find the creature. Yaha was alone in fighting the creature slaying members of the village and his battle was quickly lost. Taha Aki screamed in defiance and shifted to the spirit wolf form, the wolf was old, but he gave a hard right.

Aki fought the cold woman, the third wife did something shocking and plunged the knife into her heart, frenzied by fresh blood she distracted the cold one long enough for Taha Aki to bite into her neck and kill her.

Jacob Black is one of the main characters in the movie “Twilight” and lives among the  Quileute Indian Tribe in La Push, Washington. The Quileute legends shaped the way that even Jacob Black’s grandfather’s generation regarded cold ones or vampires. Although, at the time of the meeting between Ephraim Black’s and this coven of vampires with the yellow eyes was different. They agreed to a treaty and the yellow eyes agreed to not hunt humans on Quileute lands.

The treaty lasts throughout the book and as seen throughout the series, preconceived notions about the yellow eyes changes as Bella pulls both yellow eyed vampires and the werewolves together, although not intentional. In the beginning of the Twilight series, the wolves and the vampires remain true to the treaty, but after complications throughout the wolves and vampires find common ground by protecting Bella and people in Forks, Washington and La Push, Washington.

The wolves and vampires are drawn together in many situations throughout the book and progress to find ways to work together, and throughout these conflicts begin to trust one another in small doses. Eventually by the time Breaking Dawn is released they find that they share a common bond and the Quileute tribe is then connected to the Cullen’s, but this does not change the way that the tribe feels towards other vampires, the Cullen’s are the exception at the time.

Profile No 9

 

Name:	Fernando Torres
Nationality:	Spanish
Date of Birth:	20/03/1984
Height:	6' 0" (183cm)
Weight:	11st 0lbs (70.0kg)
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Clubs:	Liverpool, Atl Madrid
Position:	Striker

Fernando Torres arrived at Chelsea on transfer deadline day, January 31, 2011 after three-and-a-half seasons with Liverpool.

Torres's scoring pedigree in English football is without doubt. The 26-year-old netted 65 goals in 102 league appearances for the Reds and 81 in 142 games in all competitions.

He moved to the Premier League aged 23 having spent the previous 12 years at Atletico Madrid, a club based a few miles from the town of his birth on the outskirts of the capital city.

In his time at Atletico, 'El Nino' (The Kid - his nickname in Spain) was the club's youngest player and youngest captain. His debut came aged 17 and he took the armband two years later.

His first full season was a quiet start with just six goals from 36 league appearances but that became 13 from 29 games the next year and the 20-goal mark was reached in 2003/04, Torres's most prolific season in Spain and the year of his debut for the national side.

The player's subsequent emergence on the international stage and 75 goals in 174 Spanish top-flight games meant many clubs across Europe were after his signature but he chose to work under compatriot Rafael Benitez at Liverpool.

The transfer in July 2007 was valued at approximately £20 million, Luis Garcia going the other way, and Torres's first goal for the Merseysiders was against Chelsea at Anfield, opening the scoring in a 1-1 draw after getting the better of Tal Ben-Haim. It was the first of seven goals in seven games against Chelsea. It is his best return against any English club.

He scored three hat-tricks on the way to 33 goals in his first season in England, becoming the first Liverpool player since a previous wearer of the number 9 shirt, Robbie Fowler, to break the 30-goal mark in one season.

His second season returned 17 goals (injury reducing his number of appearances) as his side finished second, three points and one place above Chelsea in the league table. Last season, despite Liverpool dropping down the table to seventh, Torres accumulated a very healthy 22 goals in 32 games.

He headed to the World Cup in South Africa already a winner of the European Championships at senior international level.

In his teenage years, Torres had achieved top-scorer status for his country in both the Under 16 and Under 19 European Championships and he scored his first goal for the senior side against Italy aged 20, seven months after his first cap.

In the 2006 World Cup in Germany he scored three times in the group stage but Spain were beaten by France in the first knockout round. However there was no stopping his nation two years later at Euro 2008, Torres scoring once on the way to the final and the only goal in that match in Vienna as Germany were defeated. It was Spain's first major piece of silverware since 1964.

Last summer in South Africa, Torres struggled for full fitness and form during the World Cup having undergone surgery in April. As a result, Barcelona's Pedro took his place for a semi-final triumph over Germany.

Coach Vicente Del Bosque also left Torres out of the starting line-up for the final. Instead he came on in extra-time in the 1-0 win over Holland although he tore a muscle before the end.

Back in England this season and before joining the Blues, Torres made 26 appearances for Liverpool, scoring 11 times including both goals in Chelsea's November defeat at Anfield.

Torres becomes the first striker to inhabit the number 9 jersey since Hernan Crespo in the 2005/06 season, and follows in a long line of Chelsea greats.