Chelsea Thread

[abigsmurf]

boring 0-0. Weren't playing to win, would've easily won if we'd tried but didn't seem bothered, both through the tactics used and the way players performed. Good enough but it would've been nice to have a low pressure game at stamford bridge.

Also, Athram Grant got sent a packaged with white powder and a death threat in it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7254547.stm

[saif]

I remember when he joined some Chelsea "fans" threatened some stuff cos he was Jewish". Twats pervade life everywhere I guess.

[Jebus]

Why did Chelsea buy Anelka to put him wide left? That's exactly what Big Sam did with him in his first season for us, it didn't work. Once we played him down the middle we got success, goals and ended up losing him.

[abigsmurf]

gutted at the loss today. We weren't good enough and didn't have enough drive for most of the game.

[Leon Retro]

It's a shame that the linesman got the penalty wrong, and how ridiculous the last moments were( the ref was out of order ) .... but we didn't play well at all.

The formation was a mess, the players looked mostly clueless, and Tottenham had far more passion for trying to score.

Oh well... I hope the manager learns from it.

[abigsmurf]

We didn't deserve the win. You could tell after a minute chelsea were a mess. Seems possible that the poor champions league performance wasn't just playing for a draw. Grant seemed to be using the game to experiment with Anelka and Drogba. He should've just dropped one of them rather than mess around in such an important game.

Hope this isn't a sign of things to come, Grant has done well with limited choice due to ACON and injuries but he needs to make good team choices now.

[abigsmurf]

3-0. Nice message to send to the press so far.

Lampard has just been sent off in a really really pathetic decision

[abigsmurf]

back in the title race again. Man U and Arsenal both have to come to us. We win those...

[abigsmurf]

Good performance and a solid win there. Was genuinely worried about yesterday's game (an away girl could've been fatal). However the Sky commentary really pissed me off. They gave Chelsea very little credit and instead spent ages going on about how awful Olympiacos were and how they were embarassingly bad and so on.

If it had been Liverpool or Man U playing it would've been "how amazing and powerful they are". But then the press never give us credit. They're still continuing to ignore how good are chances are at the EPL (especially if we win both home games against man u and arsenal).

[hudson]

and I thought the only bitter blues were Evertonians I'm not sure if they're same good team they were when we beat them in 2005 CL. Away girl?

[Kongster]

Watch Chelsea draw Barcelona in the next round. Or Liverpool lol

[hudson]

Or Liverpool lol

That would be great.

(To the tune of the okey cokey)

Did the ball go in?
Did the ball stay out?
In out, In out
The Kop had no doubt
We all went to Istanbul
And Chelsea went out
And that's what it's all about!

We're
The European Champions
The European Champions
The European Champions
And that's what it's all about!

[Kongster]

So history can repeat itself, eh?

[hudson]

What, we make them cry again? Too right.

[Kongster]

LOL, I mean eliminating 'em in dramatic or controversial circumstances