Chelsea have never been one of my favourites clubs. In fact they are probably my second least favourite club albeit a fair distance from the first. last week they were associated with 2 notable events: 1. I think the way they (manager and club) reacted to the Paris train incident was unexpected but totally admirable. There were no excuses, no buts. Straight apology and condemnation of the idiots. Mourinho in particular gave the right message. "We don't want idiots like you to be linked to our club" Lesson to other clubs here which might have sided with their "fans" or found some reason not to apologise or condemn such despicable behaviour. 2. They suffered the worst refereeing performance I've ever seen. Even worse than the Barcelona one at SB a few years ago. Mourinho was right on this too. If these were not cast iron penalties then I cannot think of any that would be. And Atkinson has no excuses he was within yards with a clear sight of all the incidents. And Atkinson the ****** gave a paranoid manager even more reasons to believe that there is a conspiracy against him and his club. They would/should have won that match easily. Robbed of 2 points. Bad week for Chelsea but I've got the feeling they've won points of a different type
Thanks. I am happy with the way the club has reacted to the Paris incident, not really much a club CAN do, except condemn the morons, and ban them from attending games which we have done. The referee performance was shocking too. I am not too angry at him for sending Matic off, because he reacted and lay hands on another player, but both those penalties were pretty damned easy and Barnes' tackle to not even get a yellow? you can see in the slow mo, Matic's leg bends awkwardly, and not in a way legs are supposed to bend, the fact that he came out more or less unscathed was VERY lucky. I am not saying Barnes intended to break his leg, but it was horribly judged, it was over the ball with studs showing, a very incompetent tackle, that was backed up by an incorrect decision by a ref who has been backed up by the FA.
Chelsea with the sympathy vote eh, well I never!! Some of Atkinson's decisions were seriously incompetent. These blokes are now professional, there's no excuse. Looking at Barnes' tackle you can see clearly why it's not deemed deliberate as, well, it clearly wasn't. It was foul though yes as he made contact with the leg and it could have been a career wrecker. Definite accident though and hard to spot in real time. Matic's reaction was understandable though given the circumstances, they should drop the red card for definite.
Exactly how I saw it! Apparantly though, on the Liverpool board, to some I should add, this is justice for the time Mourinho ordered Lampard to break Alonsos leg...... please log in to view this image
**** sake! Although this is common practice. If you were to, just as an example, say Suarez is not a nice bloke THEY say, yeah but Giggs shagged his brothers wife so it's ok. If Stevie G, for example, makes a nasty tackle they say, yeah but Roy Keane made a nasty tackle on Haaland so it's ok. Everything one of their players, or indeed their ****ing club, does is counterpointed by something someone else did at some point in the past. Always.
Aside from the fact that the notion of this being justice for a player who doesn't play for us any more, breaking the leg of a player who doesn't play for them any more is odd as ****. The fact that some actually believe that Mourinho, or any PL manager EVER, has sent a player on going "right, here is the tactic, go and break [insert player name]'s leg" is insane, also that they think Lampard, or any PL player EVER, would do that on a managers orders is ****ing insane. It was a minority that agreed mind, but still..........
Now who would claim such a thing, I mean, Maureen has told Ivanovic to kick the ****e out of certain players alright, but you are over dramatising here. Can't think of anyone on our board that would think Lamps of all people was sent on to break Alsonso's of all people, leg. Cept maybe Astro But,, if you are saying managers don't tell players to kick certain opponents about, you are wrong Leonidas, you are wrong
"They"? More generalising ****e from you. You say Suarez is "the worst bloke" and "we" point out that in fact you have worse in at your own club. There is a differene between that and the ****e you are now leaking out yer backside
Yes it was Astro. But there is a big difference between a manager telling a player to stick to a guy, or get in his face, and flat out telling him "Break that guys leg" which Astro was claiming.
Yeah, ok. Sure we do. You keep telling yourself that. We only now need Donga and Astro to join in and prove my point completely, which you have really anyway.
I think you'll find that RHC is having banter with Ruff rather than fishing for a fight. But Ruff is an ABL and there's real meaning in his post.
Don't agree there tbh - that creates a big precedent for players to take the law into their own hands and then use video evidence to prove they were justified. Matic overreacted like a stupid twat (not the first Chelsea player to do so) and deserved his red and two game ban. What they need to do is get rid of the ridiculous selective rule on retroactive bans. If the ref doesn't seem something then it can be punished, but if the see it and **** it up then sorry they get away with it. It makes no sense at all. The justification is that the FA have to support the ref's decision, but all that happens is the ref then gets dropped for the next game and publicly shamed by anyone with a Twitter account, so how does that support the ref? It's no wonder no-one with any professional competence wants to be a ref any more...
