£2billion – shock cost of Rom’s Chelsea reign

EYES THE LIMIT ... Abramovich is looking to the future after sacking yet another manager

By DAN KING Last Updated: 10th March 2012

IF Jesper Gronkjaer's beautiful curling shot had not found the corner of Liverpool's net on May 11, 2003, then Roman Abramovich might never have bought Chelsea.

The final-day winner changed Chelsea's destiny, earning them a place in the Champions League and convincing the Russian tycoon to sink his pot of roubles into SW6.

But nine seasons later the Blues are back where they were under Claudio Ranieri, scrambling desperately for the Premier League's top four.

And as the latest crisis drew towards the usual climax of a manager being sacked, the meter of spending ticked past £2billion.

Abramovich is said to have told his under-performing, bolshy players last week that they would follow latest scapegoat Andre Villas-Boas out the door if they did not improve their performances. And that astonishing figure is why.

All sorts of accusations can be thrown at the enigmatic Russian — but scrimping on wages and transfers is not one of them.

In his eight completed seasons in charge, Chelsea spent an incredible £642,584,000 on buying players — and then a mindboggling £1,170,591,000 on paying them. That makes an eye-watering total of £1,813,175,000.

Add a further £66m lavished on the likes of Juan Mata last year, a little more on Gary Cahill in January and wages so far this season and — hey presto — £2bn has gone on a club who could end up this term in a worse position than before the Chelski revolution began.

Of course, in between times, Chelsea have enjoyed the most successful period in their history.

Three Premier League titles, three FA Cups, two Carling Cups and that oh-so-near Champions League final in, of all places, Moscow have given the fans joy and excitement they could never have imagined possible.

But despite all that money, the current Chelsea side are becoming also-rans at home and abroad.

Why? Well, sacking your manager on a regular basis has never been a winning philosophy — but Chelsea just keep on doing it.

According to their own figures, Chelsea had paid more than £66m to hire and fire head coaches and their backroom staff during the Abramovich years BEFORE Villas-Boas copped a goodbye gift of between £9m and £11m.

Man City are catching up fast in the obscene spending stakes. Both they and Chelsea, with losses of £67.7m and £194.8m respectively last season, seem to have little chance of meeting UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations which will limit deficits to a total of 45m euros (£37.8m) over THREE seasons.

Although City sugar daddy Sheik Mansour could soon face the same accusations of mis-spending billions, the fact remains that Chelsea managers under Abramovich have had unprecedented power to attract the best players and pay them the highest wages.

But their wage bill of £189,539,000 — the highest in the Premier League — and the £112,179,000 spent on players was not enough to stop Chelsea losing their title and Carlo Ancelotti losing his job last season.

Our table of pounds per Premier League point between 2003-04 and 2010-11 shows that Chelsea paid way more in wages and transfers than some of their leading competitors. Manchester United are the yardstick by which every other wannabe successful English club has to be judged.

And United convert cash into silverware like no one else.

Say what you like about the Glazers, but they are good payers with the United wage bill now growing faster than their ever-increasing income.

And £152,915,000 of wages, 20 per cent less than Chelsea's bill, was enough last season to coax another title out of what was supposedly one of the weakest squads of Alex Ferguson's reign.

For a combined total of £1,196,032,000 in wages and transfers from 2003 to 2011, the Scot brought home four Premier League titles, an FA Cup, three League Cups and the trophy which Abramovich covets above all others, the Champions League.

As the brooding billionaire ponders the possibility of not even qualifying for that competition next season, he could maybe take some comfort from the plight of the side defeated all those years ago by Gronkjaer's goal.

Liverpool are heading for their third year of exile from the elite and are undeniably worse off on the pitch than they were in 2003.

The Anfield faithful — and the current owners — would cite the disastrous period under Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

But Abramovich can blame only himself, the sole survivor in a soap opera which has cost £2bn but is no better than it was nine years ago.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4184308/Sun-probe-Roman-Abramovich-spent-2billion-on-Chelsea.html#comment-rig

Chelsea players’ show of unity looks so false

By ROY KEANE Last Updated: 11th March 2012

FOR ME, there has always been a falseness about the Chelsea squad.

They seem at pains to show how together they are, but it all looks so staged.

You do that in games, not before or after.

Go back 4½ years, in the first match following Jose Mourinho's sacking, they were high five-ing and hugging before kick-off in an apparent display of unity. They lost 2-0 to Manchester United.

In their first outing after Andre Villas-Boas was fired, their FA Cup replay against Birmingham City, they were flicking each other's ears in the warm-up.

They won 2-0 — but you'd expect them to beat a Championship side.

Let's see if they're flicking each other's ears after the second leg of the Champions League tie against Napoli on Wednesday.

If they want to show team spirit do it by turning around a 3-1 deficit.

How many times have you heard players say there's a fantastic team spirit and a great bunch of lads at a club?

I'd love someone to come out and say the team spirit is rubbish. It would be refreshing wouldn't it?

I've no doubt AVB made mistakes in his time at Chelsea. We all heard about the run-ins with Alex and Nicolas Anelka who were moved on, and he seemed to have had issues with the likes of Frank Lampard, John Terry and Didier Drogba.

As a manager, you have to keep your senior players onside because there will be weak individuals who will fall in with what they think.

If you look at when Alex Ferguson took over at Manchester United, he wanted to move on the likes of Paul McGrath and Norman Whiteside which was fine but he didn't alienate them while they were there.

By all means leave them out, but if you do then you need to show them respect with one-on-one chats and I'm not sure if AVB did that.

He also suffered from the fact he worked at Chelsea before as a scout. If that's how a player sees you, it can be hard to change.

But the players have to carry the can as well. They're 20 points behind Manchester City which is awful for a club like Chelsea.

And what bugs me is that players seemed to be annoyed not because they were being left out but because their mate wasn't being picked!

The Lampard issue became huge. You'd expect him be unhappy if he's not starting, even if the other midfielders were doing OK.

But there's no reason for anyone else to get upset on his behalf.

There's still a chance they could win something this season as they're a home tie against Leicester City away from the FA Cup semi-finals.

Roman Abramovich is copping flak for AVB's sacking and eight managers in as many years doesn't look great.

Certainly, the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti a year after he won the double doesn't look too clever now. This was a man who had experience at AC Milan, a far bigger club than Chelsea.

In Abramovich's defence, at least he pays up what people are owed straight away which is more than most clubs.

SunSport also reported yesterday that he had spent an amazing 2.38billion on player transfers and wages since he took over in 2003. And I don't buy into the theory that AVB had a project and had to be given time. Football doesn't work like that.

People talk about Ferguson getting four years at United before he won a trophy. He wouldn't get that now.

Even if you're rebuilding and not strong enough to challenge for the title, you've still got to try to win matches and silverware.

Look at Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool. They've had their difficulties but they managed to win the Carling Cup.

People will say how fourth place in the Premier League is more important than either of the two cup competitions because you qualify for the Champions League.

But ask an Arsenal fan if they would trade one of their Champions League campaigns in the last seven years for a trophy. I think I know what the answer would be.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4185393/Roy-Keane-column-Chelsea-players-show-of-unity-looks-so-false.html

The trauma of tragic Torres

The Chelsea striker who thinks too much and scores too few may need an analyst's help – and a return to Atletico Madrid where it all began – to find the net


A moment which laid bare the tragedy of Fernando Torres almost went undetected amid the chaos of this week, which has shattered Chelsea and once again left the club to start over. In the tight, whitewashed back corridors of St Andrew's on Tuesday night, Juan Mata struggled for the most delicate way of explaining that Torres, his friend, had been offered a penalty kick to end the 24-game penury in which he had failed to score a goal and yet had, in anyone's language, bottled it. "I asked him if he wanted to take it because he provoked the penalty," Mata explained. "He said: 'I'm not first on the list...' "

If this testimony were not proof enough of how far Torres – now too traumatised to take aim from 12 yards – has fallen, then consider where he stood on the corresponding week of the football season three years ago. Liverpool fans certainly haven't forgotten because it was as good as it has got in recent years: the week in which Torres destroyed Real Madrid's Fabio Cannavaro and Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic in the space of 100 hours, as Rafael Benitez's side threatened to conquer England and Europe.

If he gets any kind of an opportunity against Stoke City this afternoon – probably from the bench – Torres will find himself nine minutes away from going 24 hours of football without a goal. He is not entirely alien to the notion of a waste of money. His parents, José and Flori, once told him of his habit, as a toddler, of throwing the little toy lorry in which he kept his pocket money out of the window of the family home in the Parque Granada barrio in Fuenlabrada, near Madrid. But a catastrophic crash like this after Roman Abramovich lavished £50m on his services? The sight of him shanking a left-foot shot three yards wide of a Birmingham City post on Tuesday raised the genuine notion that he may never find a Premier League net again.

Michael Robinson, the one-time Liverpool striker, felt his own world was about to explode when Liverpool bought him from Brighton for £250,000 in 1983 and he journeyed through eight games without a goal. "You've been bought by a big club for a big fee. Your job is to score goals. One game passes, two, three, four and you haven't scored," Robinson related recently. "Five, six: still nothing. The goalposts seem to get narrower every game. You're at an away stadium and the rivals fans sing 'What a waste of money'."

Robinson and Torres became well acquainted as the former developed his broadcasting career in Spain, and if one factor unites them it is a tendency to analyse their surroundings on the football field. At Liverpool, Torres would squat down on the turf before a game, hermetically sealed from all the sound and fury around, and survey the scene.

"I like to see the other players with the keeper and I like to see the other end and the people in the stand behind the goal," he explained. "I try to see the goal and try to think where the ball is going." But his introspection runs deeper than for most players – which tells us something about where he finds himself today. He has always been a deep thinker – he spent six months at university studying business and management before his career took off at his beloved Atletico Madrid – and has never been the kind of individual capable of brushing away expectations. The first signs of the tortured soul we now see came in the 2001-02 season when, despite Atletico's promotion back to La Liga, he added only six goals to the giddy heights of his debut campaign, the previous year.

"I'd had a very bad year after all the expectation everybody had about me," he said. And though he was elevated to the captaincy of Atleti at the age of 20, the responsibility did not sit well again. The club's position in the shadow of Real Madrid bred a victim mentality at that time. The world owed them a favour and Torres was not able to break out of that culture.

"It was all the things that you had to do as a captain off the pitch which made it harder for me," was how he assessed it when he arrived at Anfield. "I had to help all of the new signings settle in by helping them find a new house, new car, then go for meetings. I didn't have as much time to think about myself and my own game."

The Torres Robinson knew from those days – part prodigy, part folk-hero – was one punished by his club's own mid-table mediocrity. "When Fernando played for Atletico Madrid, they probably only created three shots at goal per game. Because Fernando played on his own, if he missed he received all of the blame. It was so unfair to place such a ridiculous amount of pressure on one so young." But the Torres he encountered at Liverpool was one released from that expectation.

L4 hardly brought the anonymity of Fuenlabrada – the Madrid suburb famous only for putting skirts on the green stick-man illuminated at pedestrian crossings in the interests of gender equality – but others operated on his level and in one particular soul-mate, Steven Gerrard, he had someone to read his footballing mind.

There were some halcyon days from August 2007, though the deteriorating physiological picture – knee, groin and hamstring problems began tearing at him – was arguably less significant than the psychological one. Gerrard's own extended absences through injury, allied to the struggles which Benitez began to encounter at a warring Anfield, left Torres burdened again. His goals would save Liverpool but his all-round game rarely dragged the club into the light.

Antonio Sanz, Torres' agent, told the Financial Times last month that the striker was "an intelligent, cerebral man who is neither corrupted by success nor destroyed by failure. His family is his refuge and he is not the kind of person who likes to show himself off."

That raised the question of whether this player might actually think too much. Lionel Messi's thought processes create no such danger, though he is a home-bird, too. The paper put the question to a number of sports psychologists, who seemed to agree that there was a way back from this paralysing period of self-doubt for Torres. "That level of athletic talent is hard to suppress. My prediction is that he's not done yet," said one recognised cognitive behavioural therapist. Santiago Solari, the former Argentina and Atletico midfielder, was less optimistic. "When a player has been at the peak of his form in a career and then goes downhill – well, I've never seen a player return to his best in those circumstances," he said. Sanz did not dismiss out of hand the notion of Torres seeking psychological help.

Though Abramovich wants Torres in starting line-ups, being afforded a fresh chance, it is hard to avoid the impression that his future lies outside of west London now. His decision to join Chelsea was a fundamentally bad one. In the chaos of the club's January spending spree of last year, he might have seen that this might be a rocky ride, though he had an itch about a lack of trophies – born of his barren career at Atletico – to scratch. The road back to Liverpool seems closed off now – though that club's fans would welcome him back tomorrow – with Gerrard's own capacity to reach the heights of three years ago open to some question and Benitez long gone.

The road home to Fuenlabrada may actually be the one he takes, if Atletico are so flush with cash should they sell Radamel Falcao this summer that Diego Simeone can bring Torres back.

For some who observe Liverpool closest, the memory of Torres which burns most intensely dates from that frenzied deadline day in January last year when he and his advisers sat on the couches in the foyer of the club's Melwood training ground, preparing to take their leave. They could have reached out and touched the replica European Cup which has pride of place there, as they finally stood up and left.

Such were the riches that Torres left for and has not found. Silverware would still be nice but, judging the way things look today, he would settle for any kind of silver lining.

Decline and fall: Torres' goal rate

0.1 goals per game for Chelsea

0.57 goals per game for Liverpool

0.37 goals per game for Atletico Madrid

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/the-trauma-of-tragic-torres-7547352.html

Decline and fall: Torres' goal rate

0.1 goals per game for Chelsea

0.57 goals per game for Liverpool

0.37 goals per game for Atletico Madrid

I seriously think he will be/should be left out of Spains Euro squad. Villa, Llorente, Soldado, Negredo, Muniain... I can see them all getting picked in front of him

Blue is still the colour for Drogba

BLUE IS THE COLOUR ... Didier Drogba wants to stay put

Published: Today at 09:52 DIDIER DROGBA insists he wants to stay at Chelsea for as long as possible.

Drogba, 34, is out of contract at the end of the season and has been linked with a lucrative move to China.

But the Ivory Coast hitman, who opened the scoring as the Blues dumped Napoli out of the Champions League last night, has stressed his desire to stick around.

He said: "I am not master of my fate, but I will stay as long as possible.

"I am happy here, to experience moments like these against Napoli. I hope there will be many others."

Chelsea became only the fourth team in 45 attempts to overturn a first-leg deficit of two or more goals last night.

And Drogba was delighted to help the Blues silence their critics with a thrilling 5-4 aggregate victory.

He added: "Many have said that it was my last game in the Champions League, but the adventure continues.

"It has been a long time since I have seen a Chelsea like this."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4196678/Didier-Drogba-wants-to-stay-at-Chelsea-for-as-long-as-possible.html

It was part of AVB’s remit to move out older players. Somewhere in the middle he lost sight of the present

IT was a soap opera never out of the headlines.

The turbulent relations between Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas and his players had football fans gripped.

More significantly, the apparent divide involving the club's veteran midfield goal machine Frank Lampard and the manager seemed to epitomise the troubles.

Villas-Boas was embarking on a revolution and elbowing out the England star. But Lamps was not going to go without a fight.

Now, in his first major interview since Villas-Boas was sacked, Lampard has opened up on the incredible, behind-the-scenes drama at Stamford Bridge. He reveals:

How the young boss lost sight of the present while he was planning for the future.

The truth about his battles with AVB.

The anger of owner Roman Abramovich towards the players after he dismissed Villas-Boas.

Why John Terry was right to bark orders from the touchline during the dramatic Champions League win over Napoli.

How the supposed player-power in the dressing room has nothing to do with egos but is about a will to win.

How interim-boss Roberto Di Matteo has sparked a new belief in the team.

As Lampard basked in the glory of Chelsea's astonishing comeback against Napoli, which has earned them a winnable quarter-final against Benfica, he analysed where it all went wrong under AVB.

Lampard said: "The boss was an intelligent fella and very across everything. In his short time at Chelsea, he attempted to do everything right. He was there from seven in the morning until seven at night and maybe through the night.

"He was looking to the future and his plan was long-term. But somewhere in the middle of that, the present didn't go so well — and that's where the problems came.

"It became the thing that Chelsea needed a revolution and to move out the older players. To be fair to AVB, that was part of the remit and I get that we need to move on and change.

"But you can't lose sight of the present, as a team like Chelsea, with the quality we have, can't be fifth in the league. We should be pushing higher and there's a lot of strength in our squad which you can hold up against any in the Premier League.

"You can't force change. It has to be a more careful process.

"If young players are coming through, who deserve to be in the team, I have no problem with that and would stand aside. But they have to earn their place and show they deserve to be in.

"I know I can't play every game. But I look at Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs and see no reason why I can't play on as long as them."

Lampard publicly admitted his relationship with AVB was 'not ideal' and there was a frank exchange of views when he was dropped for the first leg of the last 16 Champions League clash in Naples.

He added: "It wasn't just me left out but Ashley Cole as well. That is the sort of game where you want your experienced players in. The manager and I had a conversation, though I wasn't disrespectful. I just told him I thought I should be playing.

"I wouldn't be me and I wouldn't have got this far in football if I had said 'OK, no problem, I'll sit on the bench, have a jolly time and pick up my wages.

"I told him what I felt and he had no problem with me saying it. I did say our relationship wasn't ideal and it's true it wasn't fantastic.

"I've had closer relationships with other managers. But what I was also trying to get across is that's not important. What is important is the group.

"I wasn't making a stand. The fact we might not have seen eye to eye was irrelevant to me."

Despite their differences, Lampard revealed: "I didn't see the manager after he left but I sent him a message wishing him all the best and, yes, he did send me one back. He didn't blank me.

"He thanked me for being a top professional, which I appreciated. A lot of people think the players didn't play for him or respond. We did but it just didn't work out and the team didn't play well enough."

Since Di Matteo has taken over, Chelsea have won three out of three and will be expected to make it four with a home FA Cup quarter-final against Leicester today.

Lampard said: "I've heard the argument we shouldn't have been playing that badly. But there has to be a catalyst to a change in form and it has come with Robbie in charge.

"It happens a lot when a team changes the manager. You saw it at Liverpool when Roy Hodgson left and Kenny Dalglish came in.

"It might not be working for whatever reason and it might be no one's fault but as soon as a new man takes over, the crowd is lifted and results change."

Abramovich blamed the players for getting AVB the sack and Lampard accepts the Russian billionaire had the right to say what he felt. But the writing was on the wall for the young boss once Abramovich started making regular trips to the training ground.

Lamps admitted: "Anyone at any club will tell you that when the owner turns up you jump a bit.

"Roman hadn't been to the training ground in quite a while and the Press made a lot of it, which was understandable in the circumstances.

"He obviously wasn't happy with us and I agree with that.

"He's right to say 'I'm the owner and I expect a level of play higher than we're getting'. No one can argue with that, nor would they. You need that pressure at a top club."

But what about the accusation it is actually the players who run the show and that skipper John Terry confirmed it by barking orders from the dugout during extra time in the win over Napoli?

Lampard insisted: "It's really out of order the criticism John has had for shouting the team on.

"He couldn't stay on because of injury but wanted to keep involved.

"He was trying to do something in a really critical situation and I don't think it's undermining anyone. As a fan, I'd want to see that.

"Everybody is bringing up this thing about player power and how we think we are the managers. But if John sees something as a captain and a senior player, why shouldn't he say something?

"We do have a strong dressing room. Yet it's being made out we take liberties which we shouldn't — and that's not true.

"This is a group of players which wants to win and knows what it takes to win. We try to portray that on the training ground, on the pitch and in the dressing room "There are strong personalities. But I hate it when people go on about big egos. If you're a big player you should be a strong personality.

"When someone asks me, as a senior player at 33, what my opinion is I would be letting myself down if I didn't say what I think."

SunSport columnist Roy Keane claimed last Sunday there was a falseness in how Chelsea try to show they are all together when they are not.

Lamps hit back: "I've loads of respect for Roy but he's wrong. That spirit has always been one of the things which is special about Chelsea.

"When something gets on Roy's nerves, he has a rant about it. But I like that. It shows he's passionate about the game, just as he was when he was a player."

Keane questioned whether the Chelsea team would be mucking around and playfully flicking each other's ears after the Napoli match, because he expected them to go out.

Lampard noted: "We were doing a lot more than just flicking each other's ears after such an amazing night.

"When our backs were against the wall, we responded. I don't think there's anything false about that."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4201639/Frank-Lampard-talks-to-SunSport-about-his-relationship-with-Chelseas-ex-boss-Andre-Villas-Boas.html

Did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning since Fernando Torres scored twice this morning??

France boss Blanc in running for Chelsea job

by: Rory Smith From: The Australian March 24, 2012 12:00AM

FRANCE coach Laurent Blanc has emerged as the leading contender to manage Chelsea next season should Roman Abramovich's preferred targets -- Pep Guardiola, of Barcelona, and Jose Mourinho, of Real Madrid -- prove beyond reach.

The Chelsea owner has not given up hope of luring Guardiola to Stamford Bridge, but indications from the Nou Camp suggest that such a move is unlikely, while a number of Abramovich's coterie of advisers are thought to be lobbying vociferously for Mourinho to be afforded an emotional return to the club.

Several potential candidates have been discussed, including Luciano Spalletti of Zenit St Petersburg and Didier Deschamps, the Marseilles coach, but it is thought that the credentials of Blanc are considered the most compelling.

Since replacing Raymond Domenech as France coach after the 2010 World Cup finals, the 46-year-old has overseen a run of 18 games without defeat.

It is his availability, though, which makes him especially attractive to Chelsea. Blanc's contract with the French Football Federation expires after Euro 2012 and the prospect of him signing again seems remote owing to a poor relationship with FFF president Noel le Graet.

...Should that impasse remain, Blanc is resigned to leaving his post in July, opening the door for Chelsea to appoint him without adding to the millions spent hiring and firing managers in the past two years.

The departures of Carlo Ancelotti and Andre Villas-Boas are thought to have cost Abramovich more than pound stg. 30 million.

David Moyes, the Everton manager, Spalletti, Rafael Benitez, the former Liverpool manager, and Marcelo Bielsa, the Athletic Bilbao and former Argentina coach, are also believed to be under consideration.

The Times

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/france-boss-blanc-in-running-for-chelsea-job/story-fncjqghj-1226308654345

£40m net
Rom’s mega-bucks offer to Guardiola

BANKER MANAGER ... Guardiola is in line to be highest-paid boss in worldWorld ExclusiveBy ANDREW DILLON Published: Today at 00:03 ROMAN ABRAMOVICH is ready to hand super-coach Pep Guardiola a four-year deal worth £40million AFTER TAX to become Chelsea boss.

The club's billionaire Russian owner refuses to give up on his quest to lure Barcelona's all-conquering manager.

And that includes making Guardiola the highest-paid boss in the world with a money-no-object offer worth £10m a year in cash, according to one Blues insider.

Guardiola's Nou Camp deal is up at the end of the season and Abramovich will not call off the chase while the manager leaves his future up in the air.

He currently earns around £8m a year NET at Barca but Rom can eclipse that with his staggering offer.

Sacked Andre Villas-Boas was paid about £4.5m a year and Chelsea coughed up £13m compensation to his previous club Porto to release him last summer.

When you add AVB's £9m-plus pay-off, it means Abramovich has forked out in excess of £2BILLION since taking over at Stamford Bridge only nine years ago.

If he persuades Guardiola, 41, to become his EIGHTH boss, Abramovich will have spent almost £150m on managers alone in wages, compensations and pay-offs.

The other bosses who have cashed in along with AVB are Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luis Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti.

While Chelsea struggle off the pitch for a new manager, Gary Cahill is sounding a battle cry on it.

The England centre-back said: "We will roll our sleeves up and go again because we have huge games coming up in the next week or so


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4212587/Pep-Guardiola-to-be-offered-Chelsea-deal-of-40m-after-tax.html

Not wishing to brag but yes I do have tickets to Chelsea v Tottenham at Wembly

Ever watch Tony Adams? He did it for 90 minutes. One of the greatest defenders, Terry probably got it off him :lol:

Edited by busbybabe: 25/4/2012 07:53:45 AM