Chelsea Thread

[abigsmurf]

Frustrating not to get the 3 points but a draw was a fair reflection on the game. At least we widened the gap at top slightly.

We've had pretty awful form but thankfully, so have Man U

[abigsmurf]

Aaaand News of the World are doing a hit piece on Terry.

Apparently an undercover reporter was offered a tour by Terry if he paid £8000 to a charity and paid £2000 in admin costs. Clearly this was incredibly shocking behaviour. Those corrupt thieving charities!

[Adrock]

In fairness £2000 is a lot for admin costs.

But yes, I did laugh when the headline total of £10,000 turned out to be mostly covered by charity contributions.

[Malavon]

The article I read said that Terry himself was paid 10k on top of the 8k to charity and 2k in admin costs. The thing is, when you're earning 100k+ a week (I don't know his exact salary but it must be that) would you really risk a backlash for "just" 10k?

[abigsmurf]

nope was £10000 total (the NotW reporter had £10K on him). I'm really struggling to find anything wrong with what he did. It's Chelsea's ground, Terry didn't benefit from it, a charity would have been £8k better off.

News of the World should be banned from attending any England press conferences for this kind of reporting. Newspapers should report the news, not make the news.

Anyone with half a brain would know that £10,000 for someone on £170K a week isn't something you'd take a huge risk on.

[Adrock]

In fairness investigative journalism, of which is this the gutter kind I admit, did bring about some of the most memorable stories in history.

Recent one being the expenses of MP's. The most famous being Watergate.

If Terry pocketed any money out of the £10,000 then he is stupid. But in reality he doesn't need to and the fact £8000 went to charity pretty much makes up for any other stupidity.

[abigsmurf]

The MP expenses was actually pretty immoral reporting. The expenses were going to be released under the FIOA.

Instead, the telegraph pre-empted it and gradually leaked out expense details up until the expenses were officially released. They crippled parliament for months purely for newspaper sales.

[Adrock]

They certainly did, but when the expenses were finally released the most important issue of flipping houses and the like would not have been detectable on the original publication. Due to addresses and the like being blacked out.

Either way thats not for this thread. Basically Terry organising trips round the Chelsea training ground is pretty much a non story for the moment.

[abigsmurf]

poor first half but that's to be expected with the team we're fielding. Need to get a win so we can ride out this awful form.

[Kongster]

0-0 it finished with Malouda sent off. Unlucky.

[abigsmurf]

There was a spell of about 15 minutes in the second half where we weren't hopeless and Birmingham were playing for the 0-0 but our performance overall wasn't good enough. Too many underperforming players and a weak attacking line up.

Belletti, Sturridge and Joe Cole are all players who didn't deserve to play today but we're seemingly forced to. Gotta ask Ancelotti just what he thought Ballack would do in 5 minutes of play.

Horrible form and we're failing to grind out results. Not what you expect from a team that wants to be champions. I had the piss taken out of me when I said a few weeks ago we'd lost the title challenge but that was the game that really started our awful form.

Ancelotti needs to find an ACON team that works quickly and there are a few players that need a kick up the arse. Joe Cole is one of the most underperforming players at the moment and we need him on top form.

[Kongster]

Taking Lampard off was a bit bemusing.

[abigsmurf]

Yeah, stupid move. He isn't in the best of form but he's still a player that can pull a goal out of nothing and we needed to maintain the momentum we'd built up. He needs to be careful, another Scolari will make the fans despair.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Chucho Benitez wasn't offside. He was denied a legitimate goal.

Chelsea got away with it. You look surprisingly vunerable at present.

[nakamura]

I thought Lampard looked a bit jaded today. Maybe just me but he looked tired of the poor effort of most of his team mates.