Don't think anyones' "cheated", don't think the refs have been too bad. Man U have been OK, which is what was expected, Man City has been poor, CFC has been piss poor, Liverpool has looked good, Spurs have done nothing wrong, Arsenal looks the best football team, and Ozil the best new player by about 80 million miles. All in all, we are the most disappointing and look the most disorganised. Time to look at something other than 1 up front, and subs that are not like for like. That's what Rafa does. We might just have bought too many players and are taking longer to wade through and give them all a run out. Surely we will get it right eventually, but looks like this season is a builder.
My only concern is the message from Jose, to balance off the negative results he is claiming the squad is young and being built to be very competitive in such a such a time, yet our striking options are nothing to behold for the future. Instead of signing a young hungry striker to develop into the squad we ended up signing a 30+ striker who is not the same player he was 3 years ago, a striker we tried hard to send out on loan on deadline day and a decent striker who despite his efforts is never going to reach the heights of his Merseyside days. We could have kept Lukaku, or at least signed a consistent goalscorer. Van Persie, Rooney, Aguero, Negredo, Dzeko, Giroud, Suarez, Sturridge, Soldado, all our five rivals have strikers to depend on to get them goals, can you say the same about us, not really?
At then end of the day, Everton away is always a tricky fixture. They got a goal against the run of play and worked hard to defend it. In the normal course of events we'd have scored first and probably gone on to win. Bad finishing happens sometimes but I'm sure we still have a good season ahead. I don't think we'll win the title this year but then I thought City would and they look worse than us ATM. If only we'd have had Ashley Young to win us a pen when we're struggling then it may have been a different story.
I guess all those refereeing decisions in the Chelsea's first two games were quickly forgotten about then.
Oh and this didn't happen SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh [video=youtube;7tvoZwbYAvo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tvoZwbYAvo[/video]
[video=youtube_share;LVtYWd5TRS4]http://youtu.be/LVtYWd5TRS4[/video] [video=youtube_share;LwbEi7G9Mko]http://youtu.be/LwbEi7G9Mko[/video] [video=youtube_share;UF3QJvHApTI]http://youtu.be/UF3QJvHApTI[/video] [video=youtube_share;VnX4Dbwj3qQ]http://youtu.be/VnX4Dbwj3qQ[/video] [video=youtube_share;kSqZOEZ2fU8]http://youtu.be/kSqZOEZ2fU8[/video] Same old cheating ****
Robby202 I would post up the Videos of Torres, Drogba ect diving, we can all do that but it might crash the site
Typical plastic reply, deflect the truth by pointing at others. Young was a hated **** at Villa and has now mastered the craft at the theatre of cheats. You'll get on famously
Simply unbelievable, worst diver in PL history? YES. Most teams have players that dive (occasionally) - but Young takes the biscuit, the funny thing is he's ****ing useless at it, nearly as bad as his playing ability.
For me diving is bad whoever it is but it's unforgiveable when it's an English player. They haven't grown up in a culture where diving is acceptable. Drogba wasn't a diver as such (and largely cleaned up his act following backlash...Barca aside!), he just went down easy under contact. Young is the sort of player to deliberate try and get touched so he can fall over. The one last year where he ran into someone's leg (Villa?) was frankly shameful.
Big difference between getting decisions go in your favour and actually cheating though. In fact you had both, someone cheating to win a penaly and then given a penalty that wasn't even in the area.
I'd give this one up Red Devil, there are divers and then there's Ashley Young, El Supremo. He really is a disgrace not only to you but every Club he has ever played for. He could easily partner Tom Daley at the next Olympics.
No man can flop around like Drogba, happy to admit that Young is a disgrace in the diving regard, but Drogs is the king. Could barely get of the floor against Barca.
Agree here CP, i think he is the only player to have been "spoken to" by two different managers in three seasons at the same club!
Sorry Style but i would have to say Drogba was the king of falling over and rolling around, he never did the full dive thing because he was scared of injuring himself n landing
LOL. He rarely did it in the area though. If he'd had Fergie as a manager he would have been told to dive in more important areas
I think Drogba did it more to waste time than to actually win a free kick/penalty. He was generally a powerhouse when Chelsea were losing/drawing but as soon as they were winning (in a difficult game) he'd turn into a little girl.
