The thing is, I am not even mad at Roman this time around. What could he do? The team is sliding into the relegation zone. The squad you paid hundreds of millions of pounds for is quite clearly not playing for your manager, for whatever reason. Do you hope that the team makes it through the season and stays in the league, then invest a quarter of a billion revamping the squad and moving out all the disgruntled knob jockeys like Fabregas, Hazard and Costa, or just sack one man, Jose, and hope the expensive players up their game? It really was a no brainer, which is why I said the other day, through very little fault of his own, that Jose was ****ed either way. It was always going to be him that acted as the lightning rod......its the trend we have seen in this league in the last 10 years. Even when its not the manager, its the manager that goes. Because, as BRB, pointed out, PL football squads are filled with spoilt little overpaid brats, who act grotesquely. I can certainly see what Mourinho was talking about when he said he was betrayed. Again, its not like the situation that United have with Van Gaal. Other than his reputation, the players have no reason to trust LvG or owe him anything. He has achieved nothing with Man United. But 6 months ago, Mourinho led these guys to the PL title, and for some reason or other, its all gone to ****.....I just don't get what has happened to completely destroy all their faith in him.
At the end of the day, that would be great. But right now we all just have to accept the fact that Jose is gone, and these ****tards are still here, so in the interest of whats best for CFC, we need to get behind them, but personally, I hope Costa and Fabregas contract Scurvy.
It's a crazy situation as rival fans are not generally a fan of Jose but in this instance the general thought is that yes he's a knob but who the **** do these players think they are not playing for him? It's your job to go out there and play. I'm torn between my hatred of the arrogant twat and the petulance of these overpaid ****ers. Jose keeps winning on my moral compass he deserves better considering the success he brought Chelsea, those players have thrown Jose under the bus (pun) and deserve to feel the wrath of the fans.
NOT jealous at all, just confident in the knowledge that you've vastly over achieved because of unbelievable luck.
And I am confident in the knowledge that you are talking out of your sphincter because you are a jockey
I made the prediction of the relegation battle Bod. Go onto the Spurs board and ask if they remember Dawn's prediction of your demise. NO need for rudeness.
I too predicted a disastrous season for us before a ball was kicked. Thats not the reason for my belligerence. WTF are you talking about with the luck BS? How have we highly over achieved through luck?
Don't talk absolute ****e and you may not be met with rudeness. Over a decade of almost unrivalled success all down to luck? Behave.
Rudeness doesn't bother me, mostly luck yes. Remember the penalty against WBA at home, 1-2 down in injury time and the "penalty"? Stacks of occasions like that.
Which is what makes sport attractive - do you want it to be predictable? We're not the only English team to have fought a desperate rearguard action in a European final; every team rides their luck in matches -it's how they use it to their advantage that matters.
Not to mention the other CL final that we lost. Plus the 4 league titles, (one of which we set a points record and least goals conceded in a season record and in another the most goals scored in a season record). Oh and the 4 FA Cups......totally fluked all of those. See how stupid you are starting to look? Yes we spent ALOT of cash, and Roman got some return on his investment, but to suggest we MASSIVELY over-achieved over a decade due to luck is moronic.
I don't think I was supposed to find this as funny as I did.............. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35129915
And what about all the ones where the luck went against us??? Pen shoot out losses, 'ghost' goal, that game v Barca where we had 4 decent pen appeals turned down and they scored in the last minute.... Or does luck only work one way you bitter wally?
I agree with everything you've put there, but I do think Abramovich DID have an alternative.. He could have gone into that dressing room and told the team that Mourinho is staying, he's on a long term contract, is the most successful manager the club has ever had, he's also my choice to lead us forwards and that's not going to change. So pull your collective fingers out of your arse and earn your heinous wages. If they didn't respond, he could have outed a couple of the most obvious tankers in Jan, sending a message to the rest, bring in a couple of new faces and ensure that the club stabilised. OK you'd have not made Europe, but the maths dictate that's now highly unlikely anyway. That squad was never going to go down. Next summer re-vamp the entire side if things hadn't markedly improved. All he's done again, is bow to player pressure, same as he's done on a few occasions in the past. Players at your club know, that tanking games gets them what they want in terms of managerial change. Mourinho has been the architect of his own downfall to a degree, but he's not become a bad manager overnight, it's the players who are responsible for the tanking of games.
The clearest sacking of a manager by the players (and only them) you could ever see. A man whose position was solid with the owners, the executive and the fans. I am not saying I approve or that it was right but it was awesome in its execution. The owners/management had almost no choice but execute the will of the players.
