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Playing away to a side near the bottom who have just sacked their manager is always ominous... This kind of result is par for the course this season with an inexperienced team and manager. We didn't play well. They got an early goal to defend and we spent the next 85 minutes trying to break them down. They also benefited from an inept ref (and still hopeless VAR), who missed the Sidibe elbow and a blatant foul on Christiansen just before their second goal. Defence is still poor and Kante aside I think we lack battlers, players who put in tackles and will give as good as they get when the opposition start using thug tactics.

The whole loyalty thing works both ways too. You can't sack a manager or get rid of a player, then complain about disloyalty when they show up at a rival club. Do people expect him to go and manage Leyton Orient or something? We sacked Jose. Twice. As I recall, a lot of people on here were happy with that decision. He's entitled to look for another job and he got an offer from a Champions League club who also reached the final last season. No unemployed manager in the world would turn it down.

Is Drogba in the stadium? Can we bring him on? It's not been good but I'm still hopeful... Arsenal should be more than 1-0 up and they aren't. At some point you'd expect them to do what they always do and tank. And we surely can't be as bad again in the second half.

An honest player and a proper blue, but truth be told when we starting signing the likes of Leboeuf and Desailly his days were numbered. There's also this, still a great watch four years on.

Absolutely fantastic performance. What a turnaround after that pitiful outing against Arsenal barely a month ago. Kudos to Conte and the players for turning things around. Begs the question though, what the f*ck happened to Hazard and Costa last season? Btw, our last three home games have ended 3-0, 4-0 and 5-0. Who is our next home match against?

On goal difference in a tough group. Is that really a sackable offence? Only by our ridiculous standards. Fergie, Wenger, Conte and Benitez have all been knocked out in the group stages before and kept their jobs. That same season City finished bottom of their group and didn't even win a match.

He was clearly doing something right though. He got the players on side, which AVB had failed to do, galvanised us and ending up achieving something that no other Chelsea manager has done. Maybe he shouldn't have got the job but after winning the CL he couldn't not get the job. My problem was really that he hadn't done a whole lot wrong when he got sacked. We were playing some fantastic football and were 4 points from 1st (and it would have been closer but for that dreadful Clattenburg performance against United). I'm sure he could have matched Benitez and won the Europa League.

What made the Benitez thing worse was the way we dumped Robbie, who had done nothing to deserve the sack, to make way for him. That's still the sacking that annoys me the most.

That brilliant league title in 2015 is very inconvenient for some people and the narrative they're trying to peddle. I'm sure some would have been delighted if we hadn't won it just so they could prove a point about Mourinho.

It is an exaggeration and it's not a statement of fact to say we were about to go bankrupt when Roman bought us. Against £250m of assets, the issue was a £9m Eurobond installment we were about to default on. The problem was short-term liquidity, ie cash flow. Not an ideal situation, but not on the verge of bankruptcy either. In that situation, before going bust, we had the option of seeking out new investment (which is what we did, successfully), selling some assets or trying to renegotiate/restructure the debts. The fact that the likes of Roman and Ecclestone were interested at all shows we were considered an attractive proposition.

There's nothing like beating Ludogorets to prove your Champions League credentials.

Probably more a dispute with the club than Robbie specifically, since Benitez didn't bring him back into the first team.

Hart not being a good enough passer has to be one of the daftest reasons ever for shipping out a fine goalkeeper. Like selling Makelele for not being a goal threat.

To be fair to him, he has some stiff competition from Clattenburg.

I was referring to 2003, when Roman forked out £60m for something he could have apparently had for peanuts days later. In 2003 we had £250m of fixed assets, including a stadium on the most valuable real estate in the world, a multi-million pound squad, were in the CL, etc. The problem was short-term liquidity, with the £9m Eurobond installment we were struggling to pay. Not exactly an ideal situation, of course, but it's an exaggeration to claim we were at the point of extinction either. Had Roman not bought us we probably would have been sold to Ecclestone's group.