How JT didn't start or even feature I will never know. Thank **** for Norwich and Liverpool. Genuinely am losing interest by the week, won't go again until he's gone. The Swansea, Brentford and Reading results have now proved what I've said all along, the spirit is broken and it isn't the Chelsea fans costing the team, it's tactical ineptitude. The next time I see Bertrand and Cole in the line up against lower half opposition I won't even watch. Arsenal and Spurs are not technically as good but at least they try and win games, fed up of this negative bullshit. The board have totally destroyed this club.
never been a worst time in my opinion district and i have been through the relegations and all the ****e in the bad old days and what really hurts is that this is on the back of being European champions!! sad times
If we get top 4 this season it'll be a miracle. Even Everton are only 5 points behind. We've beaten all those teams at least once yet are basically no better off. That means they've done as well as us at least. I was proud when we lost under RDM, I'd much rather go for the win and lose, that's always been the Chelsea way. I have never wanted a season to end sooner than this, but being honest I don't think my love or affinity for this football club will ever be the same.
When Roberto Di Matteo left we were still Premier League title challengers, still in the League Cup and still in the Club World Cup. In fact we were still even in the Champions League and although we would most likely still have gone out as it was out of our hands, RDM deserved the full six matches. I truly believe that if we had kept RDM we would right now be Club World Cup Champions, in the League Cup final and level on points with City. We would never have lost at home to QPR, we would have put them in their place like we did last season. Oh well, at least it's not my money being wasted on all these managerial sackings and new appointments.
If there were any doubters left out there that our Club is an asylum being run by the Lunatics, tonights match should have made up your minds. Clueless, hopeless, rudderless, gutless. That's just the players. Don't get me started on the so called 'Manager". ****ed if I know how he "manages" to find his way home. As for our Board and owner, Jesus wept, surely not a Club on earth would want anything to do with any of them !! An egomaniacal madman, snivelling syncophantic ****ers as Directors, all the owners' mates on the payroll. A fool and his money are soon parted, and by Christ Roman has parted with shed loads of his. I am now switching off all Chelsea games until the useless fat clown is consigned to the garbage tip of football has beens.
You are still third in the table four points clear of Spurs who have drawn their last three league matches. Arsenal,Liverpool and Everton like Spurs are not exactly setting the league on fire are they? Everton had a scratchy 2-1 home win over a bad WBA so could easily lose away matches if they're going to stutter a bit at home,one goal being a penalty. It's very difficult to predict what Chelsea are going to do but being perfectly serious I cannot see you finishing outside top 4. It often only takes a win after a bad run to kick start a winning run and I've seen Chelsea do that before. Be hopeful.
Whilst Benitez has made some bizarre decisions, I don't think he should be held completely responsible for the poor run of results you guys have been on. You guys didn't like him from the start and made your feelings know from day 1, which has spread negativity to your team. Maybe you should take note of Southampton fans, they were not happy with the sacking of Adkins, but they weren't going to boo during games as they know its only going to affect there sides performances further. You don't like Rafa, and I don't blame you for that, but getting on his back is only going to damage your sides results further
Sorry I totally disagree. I'm no Benitez sympathiser, but the 11 men we had on the pitch at 86 mins were good enough to have seen the game out. We certainly pay them enough for them to have done so. The result has little to do with Benitez and a lot to do with a lack of character in the squad. The kind of character that has been missing for several seasons now, and can therefore not be attributed to Benitez for its absence. Since we last won the title, we have repeatedly broken our recent-history records for bad form, starting with Ancelotti. Yes, the very same man that won us the double in his first season, also presided over our worst run of form in the Abramovich era. He is followed by AVB, who then proceeded to 'guide' us through our worst run of form since the mid 90s. We had a brief interlude under RDM winning against all the odds, the Champions League, nevertheless finishing in our lowest league position for 10 years. And now, only now, Benitez. This kind of yo-yo form over the last two years, and indeed over the last few months, is just a long-term outcome of the nature of management at our club. We simply don't have a management structure (by that I mean board-level) that lends itself to stability. In the first instance, our football 'philosophy' if you can call it that, is predicated on the fantasy of Russian oligarch. In the second instance, the owner has surrounded himself by a group of executives, unwilling or unable to really advise him as to how his football fantasy can be realistically translated to a practical philosophy and results on the pitch. In the third instance, the interpretation and execution of this whimsical fantasy necessarily changes with each new manager that comes through the door. In the fourth instance, conflicting messages and methods from this succession of different managers, coupled with having fantasy signings forced upon these managers, causes the squad to lose the kind of togetherness, cohesion and IDENTITY required to challenge for and win titles. The kind of balls that is required to see games through or grind out results when the chips are down.
The biggest surprise to me over recent years was the dismissal of Ancelotti. He won you the double and because he won nothing the next season he was sacked. What he would have done in his third season nobody knows but at least he could have been given the chance to show you. Because you've been having these yo yo periods then no manager can be blamed seeing as they've all done it. But you're still third so I think you're all worrying too much.
whilst I semi-agree, you still have to hold Benitez responsible for team selection, Torres should never have started and playing two left backs against teams like Reading and Brentford just beggars belief and then to top it off he brings on a striker to hold a 1 goal lead after Reading had just got back into it when we had JT on the bench. for once we agree thor! I'm not too worried as such, I just don't like or want Rafa anywhere near Chelsea!
Drogs,after a while you didn't want AVB or Ancelotti. I can't remember the name of the coach who only lasted half a season when you shouted "You don't know what you're doing" but not wanting Benitez is just the same. Who's your next match?
AVB created his own downfall here, but I never wanted him sacked. Only managers I've ever genuinely wanted to be sacked under Roman are Scolari and Rafa. Ancelotti is a hero, never should've been sacked.
So i take it things are going pretty well for you? For our own chances at the top 4, here's hoping you keep Coco the clown.
Ancelotti was a ridiculous sacking. So gutted to see him go. Also sad that AVB failed here - he could have been long lasting but sadly it was too early. However, his sacking led to RDM...oh yeah, let's sack him as well.
