Rant Box: Stoke City v. Chelsea

The season is here, my friends. Mount up.

Villas-Boas rides into Trentham.
Join us for team news and a good rant starting at 8:30am EDT (1:30pm GMT).
Teams
Stoke (4-4-2)
Begovic; Huth, Shawcross, Woodgate, Wilson; Pennant, Delap, Whelan, Etherington; Jones, Walters. Subs: Sorensen, Collins, Pugh, Diao, Whitehead, Wilkinson, Shotton.
Chelsea (4-3-3)
Cech; Bosingwa, Alex, Terry, Cole; Ramires, Mikel, Lampard; Kalou, [...]

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