BA strike: Passengers suggested to lay parsimonious as talks go forward in bid to equivocate transport disharmony

In a frantic effort to stave of strike action, BA is meeting with their cabin crew"s union today in a fresh attempt to avoid disruption for thousands of travellers.

Both BA and the Unite union have committed to further talks with the Trade Union Congress claiming that some progress has been made in recent days.

The union has 28 days before it has to announce when strikes will take place and has promised not to strike over the busy Easter holidays starting on April 2.

Damage limitation: BA says it has taken measures to keep as many planes in the air as possible if strikes go ahead

But passengers will be hoping that a strike will be avoided altogether particularly after promising comments from both sides of the dispute.

Unite"s assistant general secretary Len McCluskey, stressed he was committed to continuing with negotiations.

And BA has put a statment on its website claiming: "We believe some progress has been made in recent talks under the auspices of the TUC and we reiterate our wish to resolve the issues between us in the interests of our customers and all our staff."

Customers who have booked with BA have been urged to sit tight by ABTA The Travel Association.

Sean Tipton, spokesperson for ABTA said: "In our experience very few strikes go ahead and, as Unite said yesterday, they are still in discussions with the TUC to avoid industrial action.

"The original strikes planned for Christmas were called off at the last minute so it is best for passengers to wait and see if talks are successful. If definite dates for a strike are given we will of course issue specific advice for customers."

Unite will hold a mass meeting on Thursday, when it is expected to announce strike dates if talks have not been successful. In a bid to avoid the Easter holidays, it is thought action taken may go ahead in March.

Controversial: BA boss Willie Walsh made the decision to train up strike-breakers to act as cabin crew

Even if strike dates are confirmed, BA is hoping to keep as many planes in the air as possible.

The struggling airline took the controversial decision earlier this year to train up staff, including pilots, as cabin crew to act as strike-breakers.

Close to 1,000 have reportedly received cabin crew training over the past two months.

But if flights are cancelled due to the strike going ahead, worried passengers will find little comfort in BA"s legal obligation to refund tickets or offer an alternative route.

The BA website confirms that if a flight is cancelled passengers can rebook the same trip within twelve months of the original travel date, rebook onto another BA flight to the nearest alternative airport or cancel the booking altogether and get a refund.

However, travellers who booked their flights independently will be keen to confirm that the rest of their trip will be refunded if their flights are cancelled.

Anyone who booked a package holiday through BA is advised to check details with their travel agent, while independent travellers should confirm what their travel insurance policy covers. More...Lufthansa cancels 3200 flights as pilots begin four-day strikeMadeira floods: 42 dead but travellers advised NOT to cancel their holidaysMachu Picchu: Peru flights slashed to attract tourism to flood-hit region

Different insurers offer varying policies on industrial disputes so Malcom Tarling, from the Association of British Insurers, advisestravellers to contact their insurers to confirm the details of their policy.

For those yet to book flights and take out insurance, hesaid: "Insurers should in general cover up until the dates of theplanned strike are announced, once the dates are confirmed it isunlikely insurers will cover travellers during that time."

Passengers are urged not to book alternative flights as strike dates are yet to be confirmed and the action could still be called off leaving passengers with two tickets. In the event of a passenger being left with two tickets BA will not be obliged to give a refund and travel insurance is also unlikely to help.

Seouls Incheon Airport declared most appropriate in the universe for fifth year... but T5 is nowhere to be seen

Heathrow"s Terminal 5 was Britain"s woeful attempt at producing a world-class, 21st-century airport, and it seems the international community was as impressed with it as we were.

Despite its 4.3billion price tag, T5 is not even featured among the latest list of the world"s top airports, which was dominated by the chic Asian hubs.

The list, based on feedback from passengers to the Airports Council International, was topped for the fifth year in a row by Incheon Airport in Seoul, South Korea.

Smelling of roses: Seoul"s Incheon Airport, with its garden, spa and golf course, was named best in the world

Completed in 2001, the Korean offering sees over 25million passengers pass through its doors every year, with the majority of them apparently happy with their experience.

With its almost limitless supply of high-end shops, department stores and eateries as well as spa, garden, mini golf course and nearby casino, the airport certainly offers more than the average branch of WHSmith and a McDonalds we have come to expect at UK travel points.

For the first time, the top five spots in the list were entirely dominated by Asian airports.

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ACI Director General Angela Gittens, said: "I congratulate Incheon forits singular performance, having garnered the top spot for five yearsrunning. This record is no accident, nor for the others who year afteryear continue to receive top honours.

"All have learned to focus on keyperformance factors that their passengers most appreciate."

In the European list, Britain"s main airport Heathrow once again failed to make the top five, but Southampton Airport was recognised, taking fifth place behind Keflavik in Iceland, Zurich in Switzerland, Porto in Portugal and Malta.

Unite workers! Youre in Mr Browns slot (includes video)

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On the afternoon of Mar 28, 1979, dual Labour MPs squared up to each alternative in the tea room of the House of Commons. Eric Heffer thought that John Golding was scornful his wife. Take your coupler off and come outside, he boomed.

But Heffers enterprise for a quarrel was thwarted. His friends reminded him that this wasnt a great day for a fighting hitch with a comrade. The Callaghan Government was confronting a opinion of certainty in the dusk and indispensable each vote. If he put Golding in sanatorium the Prime Minister competence lose his slim majority. Heffer swore and slunk behind to his armchair. Callaghan was degraded anyway.

The story of how, thirty years ago, Labour initial lost energy and afterwards the marbles has infancy such moments of farce. Fisticuffs in in in in between MPs in hostile factions, ludicrous misunderstandings and waggish mistakes in in in between kinship leaders (it was pronounced of one big kinship player, Terry Duffy, that Mickey Mouse had been seen wearing a Terry Duffy watch), and insults hurled in in in in between factions (my prime was when a severe MP told a Labour right-winger that he would be shot come the series and perceived the reply: No, come the series they will fire you and send me to America to come to terms a loan).

There was an additional clarity in that those years in the early 1980s were a conspicuous duration in Labour history. They were the years, roughly alone in the complete century, that the unions incited to the left and afar from the celebration leadership. It is tough but really critical to recollect that these years were the difference rather than the rule. For if this is not understood, afterwards the significance of Unites impasse in the Labour Party wouldnt be accepted either. Well all have a total bucket of bitch about Unite, the co-ordination of the BA set upon and the appropriation of the Labour Party, but miss the point entirely.

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From the beginning moments of the Labour Party, from the birth, the unions were the barrier to the Left rather than the vehicle.

The celebration was a bloc in in in in between the leftists of the Independent Labour Party, the intellectuals of the Fabian Society and the traffic unions. The unions brought the income and the flesh and thus had infancy of the power. They used it to curb the ambitions of the socialists, to direct that bread and butter campaigns took priority over dreams of Jerusalem. The celebration remained Labour, never the Socialist celebration or even the Social Democrats. Even the benefaction of permitting a revolutionary proviso in the constitution the important Clause IV was postulated to the intellectuals usually if their breeze was rendered on purpose imprecise.

The important victories of the Right over the Left the manoeuvre conflicting the peacemaker Labour personality George Lansbury, the await that postulated Clement Attlee conflicting steady domestic assaults, the votes that authorised Hugh Gaitskell to fight, quarrel and quarrel again, the subsidy that authorised Neil Kinnock to action conflicting Militant all were won since the kinship barons longed for the battles won.

The reason that the unions took this on all sides is not since they were quite assuage or that they put the inhabitant seductiveness first. It was rather the opposite. They longed for energy to allege the sectional interests of their members even if that clashed with the Lefts thought of the usual good. They exercised this energy but infancy anxiety to their members, who had small thought of what was being pronounced on their behalf.

Labours story is dirty with tragi-comic misunderstanding. Again and again idealists similar to Michael Foot incited to the unions awaiting co-operation to serve the great society. Again and again, they were greeted with hard-nosed intransigence and a direct for a compensate rise.

So how does this story insist the attribute in in in in between Unite and the Labour Party? (Incidentally, prior to we go on, isnt Unite a fanciful name for a joined kinship that couldnt even get the dual leaders to attend the same launch since they hatred each alternative so much? This notwithstanding one of them being the ubiquitous cabinet member of a kinship called Amicus. Yesterday morning, a Labour MP pronounced to me in all earnest that the thing I had to assimilate is that Unite is divided.) Anyway, the story tells us dual things. The initial is that the income that Unite donates to Labour is usually piece of the story. Unite is not a donor to the party. It is the party. The immeasurable unions that used to browbeat Labour conferences have right away joined to settle this super union. From white neck cuff to blue neck cuff to dog collar, Unite represents a bewildering accumulation of workers. And the perfect size, some-more than dual million members, gives it a big contend in how Labour operates.

The approach Labours constitution has developed gives Unite energy in the process forum (there are some-more than 3 times the series of kinship member inaugurated to the forum than parliamentary reps), energy in the preference of candidates, and a large share of the infancy consequential of all preference creation bodies the electoral college that chooses Labour leaders.

And, as in the past, Unite does all this notwithstanding what the members competence think. A Populus check of Unite members last year showed the infancy preferring David Cameron to Gordon Brown and hostile Unite donations to Labour.

History additionally tells us how this change is being exercised. Not in office of airy-fairy ideals. In office of hard-edged sectional seductiveness and of domestic dominance. Just as it regularly has been.

Unite is utilizing the personnel, the income and the internal flesh to win seats for the supporters and the officials in Parliament. And it will make use of those seats and that lean to assistance seaside up Gordon Brown until the impulse when the energy can be used to assistance Ed Balls turn personality of the Labour Party.

If you follow the campaigns in internal selections it mostly squeezes out untimely Blairites. But only as mostly it squeezes out leftists too. It favours the some-more normal kinship men it can rely on to toe the line when toeing the line is required. And it is you do this on seductiveness of the leadership, not as a fighting back conflicting it.

Unite has not taken Gordon Brown prisoner. It is some-more similar to the alternative approach round.

daniel.finkelstein@thetimes.co.uk

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Yanukovych sworn in as President and hits out at Orange revolution

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Viktor Yanukovych was sworn in as Ukraines new President yesterday and rught away lashed out at the bequest of the pro-Western Orange revolution.

He warned that Ukraine was in jeopardy by gigantic debts, poverty, a collapsing economy, crime as Yuliya Tymoshenko, his degraded opposition in the presidential election, left out his coronation and taunted his disaster to pouch her as Prime Minister.

The pro-Russian leaders Party of Regions is looking to set up a new infancy bloc in council to reject Mrs Tymoshenko, but weeks of negotiations with alternative parties have unsuccessful to furnish a breakthrough.

Deputy leader, Anna German, insisted that Mrs Tymoshenko would be discharged by spring, adding that it was non-professional for President Yanukovych to work with her as premier.

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But Mrs Tymoshenko appears dynamic to dig in her heels and quarrel for energy after refusing to recognize Mr Yanukovychs victory.

Wearing a burning red dress, she told a assembly of ministers on Wednesday: The Party of Regions does not have the votes to lift out this dismissal.

Mr Yanukovychs coronation caps a conspicuous quip for the man whose fake choosing as President was overturned by the 2004 Orange revolution, when mass open protests opposite list paraphernalia propelled Viktor Yushchenko and Mrs Tymoshenko, his former ally, to power.

Mr Yanukovych, 59, took the promise of bureau as Ukraines fourth boss given autonomy at a rite in council that was boycotted by Mrs Tymoshenko and majority of her party.

With his right palm on a 16th Century Ukrainian Bible and a duplicate of the Constitution, he declared: I vouch to urge by my actions the government and autonomy of Ukraine and the rights and freedoms of the citizens.

He has affianced to revive comfortable family with Russia, that all but collapsed underneath Mr Yushchenko, the effusive President, as he courted the West and sought to stick on Nato.

Mr Yanukovych used his coronation debate to embankment the idea of Nato membership, dogmatic Ukraine a non-aligned state.

But he additionally sought to encourage the United States and the European Union that Ukraine would not tumble behind in to Moscows orbit, observant that he longed for next to and jointly fitting family with Russia and the West.

Mr Yanukovych is due to revisit Brussels on Monday in his initial unfamiliar outing as President prior to drifting to Moscow.

In a rite that murderous Ukrainian nationalists, however, Mr Yanukovych perceived a good fortune prior to his coronation from the personality of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, at Kievs Pechersk Lavra monastery, one of the holiest sites of Orthodox Christianity.

Mr Yanukovych kick Mrs Tymoshenko by 3.5 commission points in the choosing on Feb 7, but is the initial boss of Ukraine to take bureau but winning at slightest 50 per cent of the vote.

She has indicted him of large-scale list rascal in a repeat of the allegations that triggered the Orange uprising.

Mrs Tymoshenko had in jeopardy a second Orange series if the list was injured by fraud. But general observers praised the control of the choosing and she withdrew a authorised plea at the week end whilst still refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the result.

The new presidents initial plea will be to pass a bill that wins the subsidy of the International Monetary Fund, that dangling the last $5 billion (3.2 billion) tranche of a $16.4 billion bail-out after the Government unsuccessful to encounter boundary on spending.

Ukraines economy shrank fifteen per cent in the tellurian monetary predicament as the industries slumped and millions were left jobless.

Raised in harsh misery by his parents mother after being orphaned at the age of two, Mr Yanukovych was locked up twice in his girl for attack and spoliation during the Soviet era.

The philosophy were after expunged but Mrs Tymoshenkos supporters regularly argued during the sour choosing debate that his rapist past done him non-professional to be president.

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Alister Walker takes English quintet in to Canary Wharf Classic last eight

By Rod Gilmour 215PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Grit Alister Walker (right) had difficult work out with fellow citizen Tom Richards Photo SQUASHSITE.CO.UK

The dreadlocked right-handers experience told as he kick his dirty immature fellow citizen 3-1 in 48 mins to set up a quarter-final with Peter Barker. The No 4 seed had an simpler time overcoming Adrian Waller 3-0 and the Londoner"s win ensured that five Englishman would take their place in the last eight.

Leeds-based Walker, 27, has already climbed 6 places to universe squish No twelve in the last year. Born and lifted in Botswana, Walker picked up a pole elderly eleven and changed to the UK 4 years after where he was offering a grant to Wycliffe School in Gloucestershire.

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Richards, though, won the second diversion with a little apt dump shots and harsh retrieval fool around but Walker sealed the compare out 11-4 with typically assertive cadence play.

World ranked 33 and still usually 23-years-old, Richards is solemnly apropos a unchanging on the universe tour. He has sufficient ammunition to exam the most appropriate and one decent run should give him certainty to climb up the rankings this year.

Meanwhile Nick Matthew, Englands No 1, will have to overcome Thierry Lincou, Frances former universe champion, if he is to go on his bid of winning a initial London title.

Lincou, 33, is the universe tours elder politician and Matthew pronounced "He"s someone I have regularly looked up to via my career."

1st turn (lower half of draw)

[7] Alister Walker (ENG) bt Tom Richards (ENG) 11-3, 6-11, 12-10, 11-4 (47m)[4] Peter Barker (ENG) bt Adrian Waller (ENG) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7 (37m)[5] David Palmer (AUS) bt [Q] Davide Bianchetti (ITA) 11-2, 7-11, 12-10, 11-5 (61m)[2] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) bt [Q] Nicolas Mueller (SUI) 11-7, 11-3, 11-2 (30m)

Portsmouth seeking towards the prolonged tenure with administration department Portsmouth

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Portsmouth will move a step nearer to relegation currently when they turn the initial Premier League bar to come in administration.

Balram Chainrai, the ultimate owner, outlayed yesterday in London in talks with member of 4 groups meddlesome in shopping the club. But, when nothing could encounter a 3.30pm deadline to indicate explanation of funds, Andrew Andronikou, from UHY Hacker Young, the accountants, pronounced administration department department department department department could not be put off.

This will trigger a nine-point penalty. Seven points adrift at the feet of the table, Portsmouth will be left on 7 points, and Avram Grant, the manager, pronounced that he felt incompetent to do his pursuit properly, nonetheless he did not indicate that he would travel away. I feel really sad, really angry, but I wish to assimilate some-more [about] the incident prior to I discuss it my opinion, Grant said. We did a football pursuit here. [But] each step, we couldnt do the job.

Andronikou, who will action as the administrator, will issue a matter currently surveying how the bar will be restructured and done tasteful for a intensity buyer. Entering administration department department department department department will forestall Portsmouth going in to murder as they faced a winding-up apply to in the High Court on Monday.

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Phil Hall, Chainrais spokesman, said: There is right away usually a short window of event for buyers to come in with a convincing offer. We have to be picturesque and carrying the bar wound up is not an choice as far as we are concerned.

They [Chainrai and his Portpin company] are the victims of circumstance, carrying injected supports in a short-term loan to the Al Faraj Group, who subsequently invested the income in the club. They have put �17 million of their own income in to the bar and have a shortcoming to safeguard Portsmouth Football Club survives.

Administration would meant the bar re-emerging as a full of health monetary entity. The bar would afterwards turn an tasteful tender for a intensity buyer, who could deposit new supports in rebuilding the clubs future. We would similar to to ask the fans, the staff and government of Portsmouth Football Club for their await and calm should this step be taken, as they hold it is the usually track left open to them.

The portion of this notice equates to the winding-up sequence is automatically suspended. It equates to the bar can do the fixtures and, as far as is possible, it is commercial operation as usual. Mr Chainrai hopes the supporters will get entirely at the back of the group as common for their Premier League compare at Burnley on Saturday and the following weekends FA Cup quarter-final at home to Birmingham.

He has concluded to go on appropriation the bar going brazen until the long-term destiny is decided. He will additionally compensate for the administration department department department department department process.

Internazionale v Chelsea - as it happened Paul Doyle Football

Wesley Sneijder and Diego Milito extol the opening goal. Photograph: Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters

Preamble: Welcome. Throughout tonight"s hijinks at the San Siro we could outlay the time assessing Jose Mourinho"s pouts, gaits and gesticulations and wondering usually how they competence affect this high-stakes tie. Will Chelsea players misuse signs of separate loyalties at confronting their former mentor, concerns about continuous desertification or symptoms of the transport illness that has resulted in them branch in a small decidedly suggestive performances around the continent in new times?

But let"s combine on the nitty-gritty: who kicks the ball, where and to whom; is Florent Malouda at left-back a tactical masterstroke or an call in to Maicon to have a clumsy dope of the Frenchman; is Wesley Sneijder is the sorceress Inter fans wish us to believe; how will John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho cope with high balls and an viewable some-more aged with Lucio; and at usually that point will Inter bottle this?

Teams:Inter Milan: Julio Cesar, Maicon, Samuel, Lucio, Zanetti, Stankovic, Cambiasso, Motta, Sneijder, Eto"o, Milito. Subs: Toldo, Cordoba, Quaresma, Muntari, Mariga, Pandev, Balotelli.

Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Terry, Malouda, Ballack, Mikel, Lampard, Anelka, Drogba, Kalou. Subs: Hilario, Joe Cole, Sturridge, Alex, Belletti, Bruma, Borini.

First chairman that Jose will censure in the eventuality of defeat: Manuel Enrique Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain)

It"s 7:19pm! A ideally pointless time to flog off this commentary. "I am off to the usually pub-like place in the Turkish locale of Tasucu to watch the game," boasts Joe Clarke. "My prophecy is they won"t be display it and I should be at the at the at the behind of of of with MBM by about mid-way by the primary half." I predict a furrowed brow and downturned corners on possibly side of Joe"s mouth.

7:21pm: "I"m confusing to watch this compare on Google Earth," warbles Roderick Stewart. I gamble all the players see similar to they have small faces on that.

7:24pm: Chelsea"s choice suggests to me that Ancelotti has motionless that conflict is the majority appropriate form of defence, that is correct in my book, not merely since an afar idea or dual would probably secure their thoroughfare to the quarter-finals but additionally since pulling Inter on to the at the at the at the behind of of of front creates the majority clarity when Malouda is nominally at left-back. Raymond Domenech attempted to make use of him as a sort of defensive left-sided midfielder and he was diabolical. He needs to go forward. Say, this diversion might essentially be exciting.

7:30pm: Let"s attend to Justin Kavanagh. "What a glorious party sovereignty the Russian has determined on the Kings Road, certainly right afar a opposition for Bayern Munich"s Hollywood F.C. as the majority interesting club in Europe?" chirps Justin. "In the last couple of weeks, Chelsea have since us A Bridge Too Far starring John Terry, Sleepless in Seattle with Ashley Cole, and right afar we have The Return of the King featuring the Special One Himself."

7:32pm: "It will be a service to get on with the compare among all the gossip in the press about the dual managers" ostensible homoerotic lust for each other," swoons Ian Copestake. It has been rather similar to a track diversion of kiss-chasing, hasn"t it?

7:35pm: "I think by observant that "an afar idea or dual would probably secure their thoroughfare to the quarter-finals" you are a bit over confident," admonishes Andy Butler. "Chelsea aren"t godlike nor unchanging of late!" Well yes, that"s true. It"s usually that I have a whinging guess that Inter are plod.

7:37pm: The camera pans to the track for the primary time and the din is incredible. It would be superb if the TV overlords let us attend to that all throughout, rather than the commentators.

7:40pm: Fabio Capello is in the crowd. He is wearing an superb cloak and complicated expression. I thought you should know.

7:42pm: Many of you are undetermined as to because Zhirkov is not personification at left-back, nor even in the squad. The elementary reason is that he is injured. Do try to keep up.

1 min: "The time has come for the articulate to stop," says Clive Tyldesley at the teams kick-off. Do you think there is any possibility that he essentially equates to that?

51 secs: Drogba is down in strong anguish following a plunge in to from Lucio. The replays don"t exhibit any poignant contact, and the ref awards usually a throw-in. Oh Didier ...

2 mins: Chelsea began energetically but Inter"s raging dire forces them backwards, and Carvalho winds up whacking the round at the at the at the behind of of of to Cech from the median line.

GOAL! Inter 1-0 Chelsea (Milito 3") That"s a smashing goal, greeted by an god similar to blast of sound in the San Siro. Eto"o set it up with a poetic fool and pass to Milito, who cut inside Terry unequivocally simply and, from eight yards, rocketed the round past Cech at the nearby post. No hop down the sideline from Jose, who stays coolly unresponsive among the euphoria.

5 mins: Chelsea are attempting to pattern a small sort of acrimonious reply to that setback, and Malouda is being authorised to lift the round contemptuous down the left as Inter shelter deep. The move breaks down when Kalou lets the round run afar from him with a messy primary hold and Lampard, in a bid to pick up it, lunges at Stankovic to concur a freekick.

7 mins: Zanetti waltzes past Ballack on the left - that is unequivocally utterly ban on the German - and exchanges passes with Sneijder ... but afterwards his carry out lets him down and Chelsea are equates to to leg clear. "Here are the mandate for all budding sideline managers," discloses beneficial Michael Benson. "(1) dim cloak or anorak (2) nipping resin (3)concerned see (4) corrugated front (5) messianic or maniancial appearance (6) timely outrage."

9 mins: Thaigo Motta requisitioned for a high plunge in to on Ballack. And as Ballack receives treatment, the replay shows a small off-the-ball shenanigans involving Drogba and Samuel, who were barging and jostling with each alternative in the Inter box before, inevitably, Drogba went down. Looks similar to Jose has told his defenders not to concede themselves be bullied by the Ivorian. And all of that argy-bargy transient the attention, or the interest, of the officials.

11 mins: Kalou gets off Chelsea"s primary shot of the game, display discerning feet to emanate space for himself at the dilemma of the area but afterwards banishment loyal at the keeper.

13 mins: Milito finds space down the right and, with Ivanovic neglecting to close him down, he turns to get the round on to his right feet and afterwards spanks a cranky towards Eto"o, who had peeled off at the at the at the at the behind of of of post. He sends his bombardment wide, however.

15 mins: Stankovic catches Ballack with a flailing arm, giving Chelsea a freekick in a earnest position, ie about twenty-five yards out, a small to the left. And Drogba cracks it opposite the underside of the bar! It was an glorious bid and the keeper, at full stretch, didn"t get a touch. He was propitious to see it rebound clear.

17 mins: Maicon aims a pass at Milito, who had dashed in at the at the at the behind of of of Malouda. But it was over-hit, so Chelsea get afar with it.

19 mins: Chelsea are flourishing in to this game. Ballack has usually brought a intelligent save from Julio Cesar with a swirler from distance, and moments after Drogba chested down a cranky around the chastisement spot, swivelled, and dragged his shot wide. The diversion is vital up to the expectations, presumption you were confident sufficient to design a high-paced, full-blooded thriller with a satisfactory volume of peculiarity to element a frisson of of fallibility from both sides. "Inter is staying loyal to the name, seems similar to there are no good Italian players at Inter," whinges Rod Moya. "Not as if they are universe champions or anything."

22 mins: Milito twists and turns his approach in to the box afterwards hurls himself to the belligerent in the closeness of Ricardo Carvalho, who diplomatically restrains his laughter. The ref is not so lenient, and brandishes a richly deserved yellow card.

23 mins: Kalou follows Milito in to the book, and again there can be no encountering the ref"s decision. It was an mistimed slip by the Ivorian, all the approach in to Sneijder.

24 mins: A postponement in the label muster enables Drogba to encounter a Ballack cranky on the volley, that flies well far-reaching from the eighteen yards.

26 mins: Kalou pulls free at the at the at the at the behind of of of post and Ballack tries to pick up him out with a looped pass. The vigilant was laudable, the execution miserable.

27 mins: Kalou pushes over Lucio, gifting Inter the possibility to assuage the vigour that has been ascent over the last couple of minutes. He"s been full of attempt and ideas tonight, Kalou, but has as well often let himself and his side down with over-exuberant hurdles or trashy primary touches.

29 mins: For once the TV is GU Towers is not behaving up ... or is it? According to my screen, Mikel has usually romped contemptuous and banged off a decent shot at Julio Cesar. Come at the at the at the behind of of of here tomorrow sunrise to review the reports from the guys who are essentially at the diversion to find out either that improbable eventuality unequivocally did happen.

31 mins: Inter are construction sandbags around their box, happy to let Chelsea walk up that far and afterwards fire from prolonged range. Lampard obliges, and tonks one high over the bar.

33 mins: A singular outing in to Chelsea domain by Inter ... and it should have yielded a goal! Samuel non-stop up the counterclaim with an shrewd long, low pass to Sneijder and from the left-hand side of the box the Dutchman picked out Eto"o, who had darted in front of a dozing Terry right in front of goal. And then, to the service of England"s not prolonged ago defrocked captain, Eto"o swiped at uninformed air!

36 mins: Terry is all at sea here. Yet again a contemptuous got the burst on him - this time Milito, who stole in at the at the at the behind of of of the untimely Chelsea centreback to pick up a lofted pass from Maicon ... and afterwards miscontrolled it.

38 mins: Eto"o drags Terry out of position, formulating space for Maicon to run into. The Brazilian would have had a good goalscoring event if his unrestrained had not got the softened of him and led him to dedicate a extravagantly complicated primary touch. He clattered the round out of fool around rather than teeing up a shot.

40 mins: Terry is again approach out of position, and is propitious that Eto"o ventured offside in expectation of Maicon"s pass. There is no disbelief that the transformation of Inter"s dual strikers is confusing Chelsea"s centrebacks, generally Terry, but it is additionally loyal that that is being compounded by the need for Terry to all the time wandering to the left to cover for Malouda, who is continually removing held as well far forward.

43 mins: Ridiculously, Sneijder tries to kick Cech with a freekick from 40 yards. It wafts well wide, and the throng applaud. There is no receptive reason for that.

45 mins: We"ll need a replay of that an no mistake! Kalou seemed to be chopped to the belligerent when staid to fire from 6 yards but the ref denied him a penalty.

Half-time: The replay reliable my primary suspicion: that should have been a penalty. Kalou farfetched his fall, to be sure, but there is no disbelief that Samuel caused him to go down. Will a clarity of misapplication expostulate Chelsea to an softened second-half performance? Will Ancelotti? "Kalou done the majority of it but a transparent penalty," agrees Peter Corway.

"If that situation happened at, say, thirty mins, the ref would some-more expected have since the penalty," hollers Tom Britten. "Just prior to half-time, he"s meditative "balls to that; can"t be arsed with the fallout". Might fool around on his mind second half, could see to even things out. Often happens."

Here"s a thought: If Terry is going to be this flat-footed and dozy opposite high-class opposition, and with Rio Ferdinand pang with a puzzling at the at the at the behind of of of affliction, shouldn"t all England be anticipating that Phil Jagielka gets at the at the at the behind of of of to full fitness soon? And isn"t it about time Capello gave Ryan Shawcross a call?

46 mins: The second half fast reverts to the first-half pattern, with Chelsea rumbling contemptuous and Inter recoiling to the dilemma of their own box, staid to opposite quickly. That ploy scarcely worked to soundness there, as Milito hared past Terry after a clipped round over the top, but Cech surged off his line to douse it. "Ancelotti was right!" gushes Dominic Wright. "No one in England wants Chelsea to win!"

47 mins: Wonky header from Drogba about eight yards out.

49 mins: Ivanovic swings in a cranky from the right and Julio Cesar meets it with an groundless punch. Luckily for him, a team-mate is on palm to foot the round clear. "Even the rarely romantic Italian writer on the TV over here pronounced it was a penalty," drones Ben Dunn in unfeeling fashion. "It took him 3 replays and he mumbled the law reluctantly, but chastisement all the same. A unequivocally good game, that surprises me. I am quite tender with the Drogba - Samuel scuffle, and the severe rotundness of Ancelotti"s face."

GOAL! Inter 1-1 Chelsea (Kalou 51") Ivanovic lurched contemptuous in that haphazard-yet-effective approach of his and then, after a complicated touch, slid to obstruct the round at the at the at the behind of of of to Kalou. From the dilemma of the area the Ivorian sends a low curler goalwards with his in-step, and Julio Cesar allows it to rebound over his out-stretched arms and in to the net! Justice, of a sort.

53 mins: Suddenly Ivanovic has spin a swashbuckler. He"s jsut slalomed by the Inter midfield and afterwards slipped a good round far-reaching to Anelka on the right. The Frenchman"s cranky was feeble.

GOAL! Inter 2-1 Chelsea (Cambiasso 55") Another superb goal! Inter ventured contemptuous for the primary time in the half, with Sneijder reaching the byline prior to crossing. Carvalho privileged to the dilemma of the box, where Cambiasso arrived to to pound a bombardment goalward. Terry shut off it well (or, perhaps, couldn"t get out of the way) but it rebounded to Cambiasso, who enflamed it in to the net. Cech hardly moved.

57 mins: Mikel plays Terry in to trouble, but the defender manages to hasten the round transparent underneath vigour form Eto"o.

58 mins: Inter change: Motta off, Balotelli on. And by his raging gesticulations on the sideline, it seems that Mourinho is hereby becoming different formation.

59 mins: It looks similar to Mourinho has left for a three-man attack, with Eto"o far-reaching on the left, Milito in the center and Balotelli on the right. Sneijder is tucked in usually at the at the at the behind of of of that trio. It seems Mourinho wants to kill Chelsea off tonight - it"s an glorious ambition, and might usually meant that this refreshing diversion is going to get even softened ... for netural spectators, if not Chelsea fans.

60 mins: The night has usually got worse for Chelsea. Cech rose to pick up a cranky underneath no pressure, did so... and afterwards fell down and rught afar signalled that he indispensable to come off. It looks similar to his knee buckled, which, obviously, is unequivocally serious. On comes Hilario.

62 mins: Inter are monopolising the round at the moment, and with Chelsea"s defenders visibly straining to enclose them, it seems usually a make a difference of time prior to Hilario is tested. But not with shots similar to the one Eto"o has usually unleashed. It was from an ludicrous point of view and in jeopardy usually a cameraman at the at the at the behind of of of the goal.

64 mins: Great move by Chelsea, their majority appropriate of the match! Through swift, satirical interplay they fake space on the right for Anelka, who crossed fast to Lampard in the middle. Off-balance, he somewhat scuffs his shot from 10 yards, enabling Julio Cesar to obstruct it to safety.

66 mins: Chelsea"s healing staff have assumingly told ITV"s touchline contributor that Cech might have ruptured ligaments. Therefore they fright he might be out for the season. Meanwhile, Mourinho creates an additional change, withdrawing Eto"o for Pandev. It seems he"s revised his plan of relentless conflict or, rather, had Chelsea correct it for him. Because they"ve looked ominous in the last couple of minutes, the visitors.

69 mins: Balotelli tricks his approach amusingly past Lampard on the right and afterwards delivers a glorious low cross. Terry shut off Pandev"s shot, and afterwards the round rebounded in to the arms of Hilario, who to illustrate got his primary touch. "Might I be confidant sufficient to contend you are the Cambiasso of MBMers?" ventures Jesse Ferreira. "Not in the clarity of being bald and overrated, but in the clarity that your reason is "enflaming it in to the net". Tremendous MBMing!"

71 mins: Malouda ghosts past Balotelli down the left and sends a well-conceived cranky in to the six-yard box. An Inter defender nods it at the at the at the behind of of of for a corner. Lampard"s out-swinger is misdirected. So Inter clear.

74 mins: Splendid plunge in to by Lucio on Kalou at the corner of the Inter box, and the Brazilian afterwards finish forward. Only to lose it on halfway.

77 mins: After majority studious receive fool around by Inter, Maicon loses his broom and shoots from 40 yards. With waggish consequences.

78 mins: Chelsea change: Kalou off, Sturridge on. For what it"s worth, I would have kept Kalou on - he"s been sharp-witted if often messy - and instead transposed Anelka, who"s been ineffectual. And on that note, here"s somebody called James Dixon. "If Inter weren"t on the pitch, would Anelka still run around in those little, dwindling circles streamer in the wrong direction?" smoke James. "And nonetheless I"m flattering certain I don"t have the management to do this, would anybody similar to to buy him off us for a bag of oranges, and a fun distance Mars bar?"

80 mins: After good work down the right by Ivanovic, Chelsea switch fool around to the left. Lampard dinks the round to the at the at the at the behind of of of post, where Drogba lurks. But Zanetti reads it well and flicks it transparent with his head.

82 mins: Lucio, who has been glorious tonight, shows strength to banish Drogba on the dilemma of the Inter area ... and afterwards contemptuous ability to outwit him with a off-hand crack and turn. Cue an acclaim from the gay locals.

84 mins: Chelsea are finishing strongly, pulling Inter over and over backwards. In a bid to tinge out Lampard"s flourishing influence, Mourinho has introduced Muntari, assumingly to manmark him. "What a good game!" exults John Moran. "Attack from all corners of the pitch. Zanetti using around similar to Clark Gable. Ballack pulling the strings. As a Liverpool fan I have hated Chelsea for years, but satisfactory fool around for personification 3 strikers away. I can usually mental condition of Liverpool personification in a diversion similar to this."

86 mins: Anelka releases Ivanovic down the right. He plays it in to Mikel, who sizes up a shot from twenty-five yards ... and afterwards balloons the round in to the crowd. "Please discuss it James Dixon that FC Porto will take Anelka for a bag of oranges and a fun distance Milkyway," announces Jesse Ferreira. "The woman who sells tickets to the fans is on maternity leave, so this can usually be a proxy position."

87 mins: The finish of the half is approaching, that assumingly equates to it"s time for the ref to furnish an additional impolite decision: Lucio came by the at the at the at the behind of of of off Drogba at the dilemma of the box, an movement that majority officials would penalize - instead, to the befuddlement of Drogba, Senor Gonzalez awareds a free-kick to Inter.

90 mins: Balotelli instigates a renew with a raking round from right to left. Pandev collects and motions to lurch in to the box, but Carvalho nicks the round off him and clears.

90+1 mins: Lampard court order his majority appropriate smoothness of the night from a corner, and Ivanovic meets it at the nearby post. But not resolutely enough, and his glancing header drifts far-reaching on the far side.

Full-time: The track erupts, the camera lingers on Ancelotti – but not prolonged sufficient for us to see either he and Mourinho sell niceties or digs – and off run the players. They"ve served up glorious party tonight and the theatre is set for a useful second leg. Chelsea longed for Ashley Cole and Michael Essien, and might have lost Cech for the rest of the season, whilst Terry"s repute as a world-class defender was exceedingly dented. But their Champions League ambitions are intact. For now. Thanks for all your mails. Bye.