BaconButty

It's still surreal how we pulled off a miracle in 2012. Finally, the gods were on our side after years of near misses.
Between 2004-2009, we made the semis on five out of six occasions when the old guard was peaking so it was a travesty we never won it at least once in those years yet an average Liverpool team had won it in 2005 and made the final again in 2007.
It was pleasing to see the majority of the old guard be crowned as CL winners. I see the 2012 final as the end of the old guard as we knew it and the beginning of a new era led by Hazard and co.

They had got bored of shafting us repeatedly.

Trump can build a wall around our defence and get Spurs to pay for it

Trump can build a wall around our defence and get Spurs to pay for it

Gonna weigh in for the first time in this thread here. Unpopular opinion ahead, I guess:
Batshuayi is sh*t. I'm sorry, he just is.
Every single one of his goals for Chelsea was either a tap-in following the hard work of teammates, or a huge slice of fortune. You might say "he has to be there to finish them", but his positioning is absolutely appalling 90% of the time. He stands like a lemon in the box and occasionally the team poke it into his path for him to score. His movement is atrocious; there's no other way of putting it. While Morata's finishing has been piss poor in recent games he's played in, his runs are at least still very intuitive and dangerous to the opposition. Morata can see where Fabregas or Hazard is about to make a pass 9 times out of 10 and he's always looking to get in behind. Batshuayi just stands with his back to the defence and wants everything into feet. It's simply not good enough for Chelsea. He is far too static and lacking in footballing intelligence.
Norwich at home he was very poor - awful touch all night, kept giving the ball away, standing around doing nothing... but then he taps in a goal and he's the second coming of Zola. Newcastle at home he was likewise poor, but another tap-in courtesy of Hazard and Alonso and a massively deflected goal paper over the cracks once more.
Any time he ever featured against good opposition, he looked totally out of his depth. It's all well and good building up your goals per minutes ratio with tap-ins in the cups, against pub teams no less, but any decent defence he has faced has had no problem whatsoever in dealing with him. His finishing is probably okay, but his movement is not good enough for that level. Before someone brings up Atletico as "good opposition", they couldn't beat Qarabag in two attempts, and again, it was a tap-in from close range with their defence apparently not fussed with marking.
His one good performance in a Chelsea shirt was in that Watford 4-2. Great header. But otherwise he has ranged from bang average to downright horrendous in all his outings for us. I cannot believe that anyone is seriously letting his array of tap-ins against the likes of Qarabag and Forest add gloss to an otherwise below par Chelsea career so far. He will never be good enough to lead our line.
I wish the guy all the best in the future, just as long as it's not at Chelsea. Nothing against him as a person, he just will not do for this club and its aspirations. He's better suited to running our twitter and facebook pages than he is to leading our attack. Rightly deserves a place in Chelsea folklore for that night at the Hawthorns though, of course.
 

I look forward to Bruce Bucks next interview:
"so Bruce, we hear Mr conte is now going to start playing a load of youth players and you are no longer signing an ageing striker, why the change?" 
"Well, Antonio Read a post by I am gay 4 Diego on an Internet forum, realised he was right and asked us to look at it. We all on the board agreed it was genius, and Roman said he had read it last week and believes it the way forward. Thanks gay..." 

If we have a few sh*t seasons all the plastics/ Thomas Cook supporters will lose interest, and find another club to follow. 
Relegation to the Championship would allow new grounds to visit, get a bit of passion going amongst our support again- it's funny how the loudest supporters in the Premiership tend to be clubs who've suffered in the past, and have just got promoted.
Every cloud has a silver lining!

Epic Fail. The man is an absolute legend. The people who liked this post should hand their Chelsea fan membership in. Embarrassing. 

Courtois is massively overrated.

I'm grateful for what Conte achieved last season and still think he's the best man for the job going forward but I can't help but think if we were going to bring in as many players as we have done this season we may have been better off with Mourinho.   

Trump can build a wall around our defence and get Spurs to pay for it

Trump can build a wall around our defence and get Spurs to pay for it

Gonna weigh in for the first time in this thread here. Unpopular opinion ahead, I guess:
Batshuayi is sh*t. I'm sorry, he just is.
Every single one of his goals for Chelsea was either a tap-in following the hard work of teammates, or a huge slice of fortune. You might say "he has to be there to finish them", but his positioning is absolutely appalling 90% of the time. He stands like a lemon in the box and occasionally the team poke it into his path for him to score. His movement is atrocious; there's no other way of putting it. While Morata's finishing has been piss poor in recent games he's played in, his runs are at least still very intuitive and dangerous to the opposition. Morata can see where Fabregas or Hazard is about to make a pass 9 times out of 10 and he's always looking to get in behind. Batshuayi just stands with his back to the defence and wants everything into feet. It's simply not good enough for Chelsea. He is far too static and lacking in footballing intelligence.
Norwich at home he was very poor - awful touch all night, kept giving the ball away, standing around doing nothing... but then he taps in a goal and he's the second coming of Zola. Newcastle at home he was likewise poor, but another tap-in courtesy of Hazard and Alonso and a massively deflected goal paper over the cracks once more.
Any time he ever featured against good opposition, he looked totally out of his depth. It's all well and good building up your goals per minutes ratio with tap-ins in the cups, against pub teams no less, but any decent defence he has faced has had no problem whatsoever in dealing with him. His finishing is probably okay, but his movement is not good enough for that level. Before someone brings up Atletico as "good opposition", they couldn't beat Qarabag in two attempts, and again, it was a tap-in from close range with their defence apparently not fussed with marking.
His one good performance in a Chelsea shirt was in that Watford 4-2. Great header. But otherwise he has ranged from bang average to downright horrendous in all his outings for us. I cannot believe that anyone is seriously letting his array of tap-ins against the likes of Qarabag and Forest add gloss to an otherwise below par Chelsea career so far. He will never be good enough to lead our line.
I wish the guy all the best in the future, just as long as it's not at Chelsea. Nothing against him as a person, he just will not do for this club and its aspirations. He's better suited to running our twitter and facebook pages than he is to leading our attack. Rightly deserves a place in Chelsea folklore for that night at the Hawthorns though, of course.
 

Gonna weigh in for the first time in this thread here. Unpopular opinion ahead, I guess:
Batshuayi is sh*t. I'm sorry, he just is.
Every single one of his goals for Chelsea was either a tap-in following the hard work of teammates, or a huge slice of fortune. You might say "he has to be there to finish them", but his positioning is absolutely appalling 90% of the time. He stands like a lemon in the box and occasionally the team poke it into his path for him to score. His movement is atrocious; there's no other way of putting it. While Morata's finishing has been piss poor in recent games he's played in, his runs are at least still very intuitive and dangerous to the opposition. Morata can see where Fabregas or Hazard is about to make a pass 9 times out of 10 and he's always looking to get in behind. Batshuayi just stands with his back to the defence and wants everything into feet. It's simply not good enough for Chelsea. He is far too static and lacking in footballing intelligence.
Norwich at home he was very poor - awful touch all night, kept giving the ball away, standing around doing nothing... but then he taps in a goal and he's the second coming of Zola. Newcastle at home he was likewise poor, but another tap-in courtesy of Hazard and Alonso and a massively deflected goal paper over the cracks once more.
Any time he ever featured against good opposition, he looked totally out of his depth. It's all well and good building up your goals per minutes ratio with tap-ins in the cups, against pub teams no less, but any decent defence he has faced has had no problem whatsoever in dealing with him. His finishing is probably okay, but his movement is not good enough for that level. Before someone brings up Atletico as "good opposition", they couldn't beat Qarabag in two attempts, and again, it was a tap-in from close range with their defence apparently not fussed with marking.
His one good performance in a Chelsea shirt was in that Watford 4-2. Great header. But otherwise he has ranged from bang average to downright horrendous in all his outings for us. I cannot believe that anyone is seriously letting his array of tap-ins against the likes of Qarabag and Forest add gloss to an otherwise below par Chelsea career so far. He will never be good enough to lead our line.
I wish the guy all the best in the future, just as long as it's not at Chelsea. Nothing against him as a person, he just will not do for this club and its aspirations. He's better suited to running our twitter and facebook pages than he is to leading our attack. Rightly deserves a place in Chelsea folklore for that night at the Hawthorns though, of course.
 

It's not just about scoring goals, he's all round play needs to improve significantly. Too many times he produces a poor first touch, and has problems holding the ball up. Needs an all round good spell with Dortmund. No need for him here if he just scores tap ins every now and then but does nothing else. Great start for him and BVB. 

Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who, however as kickoff today approaches it will be Liquidator and One Step Beyond as always!

He is immortal

Never mind increasing the capacity at the Bridge, I'd rather we concentrated on getting people to sing.

Never mind increasing the capacity at the Bridge, I'd rather we concentrated on getting people to sing.

Never mind increasing the capacity at the Bridge, I'd rather we concentrated on getting people to sing.

Never mind increasing the capacity at the Bridge, I'd rather we concentrated on getting people to sing.

"Fernando Torres, he's better than you!" - Chelsea fans to Lukaku at Everton yesterday, genius

"Fernando Torres, he's better than you!" - Chelsea fans to Lukaku at Everton yesterday, genius

"Fernando Torres, he's better than you!" - Chelsea fans to Lukaku at Everton yesterday, genius