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I won't re-quote his very long, rambling meander through self-pity and self-justification, but I will say that either collymore or the mirror have some serious and very expensive public relations people on-board.

OK, I see I'm in a minority. Carry on, collymore is obviously more than a know-nothing wife-beating dogger, with deep and meaningful insights and perceptiveness.

for a start. neither that smug prick collymore, you nor me knows what the the dressing room atmosphere is like.

he or she seems to have quite an unhealthy interest in children and an inability to spell.

Clicked on it and read through - glad we agree on collymore's vermin status. Used to read the Mirror when I was a lad and it was still a proper journalistic newspaper. Not for many a year now, though. And I can't be held responsible for any other poster's (hopefully temporary) lack of judgement now, can I?

What was wrong against Spuds? Anyway, I said we struggle against the dross

We'll be up for this one. It's the dross we struggle with.

Redacting Collymore makes no difference. It's a lazy,cliche-ridden rehash of all of Collymore's previous rants about the inner working of the club that he has no idea at all about, but it panders to that sort of reader who takes their information from the likes of Collymore and the Mirror. If you want to believe that there is a crisis within the club, you'll be happy with Collymore and all the other vermin who punt this narrative. Me, I prefer to wait for evidence, rather than the bigoted made-up bollocks usually spread about our club by the press and ex-scouse/manc pundits.

Like we did last time we played City? oh, wait..........

Oh, come on, FFS, Stan Collymore? Really? I've had sh*ts with more insight than him.

If you say so, mate. If he tried that another 1000 times, he wouldn't score it again.

And I'd be right

And I expect you think Sturridge's goal was absolutely brilliant and not a 1 in a thousand chancer shot, as well.

My point is made perfectly and succinctly by yours. You "grew up under a labour government and was educated within one", so, by definition, you were educated in the apocalyptic mess that was, and is, the results of several years of Tory vindictive and deliberate destruction of what was an education system that was the envy of the world. I despise Blair with the same disdain I hold for Spuds and Scousers, but he did try, unsuccessfully, to repair the damage. If you were in education under Labour government, then the damage had already been done. That's the point I'm trying to make, and the fact that you don't comprehend that is proof positive of that point.

I never argue with my self because I know I'm always right.

Are you comparing Willian with Hazard? Apples and Cheese, mate. I'd be happy with Willian playing left/right/central midfield, his "end product" would be the same, but we wouldn't have to put up with the constant scapegoating in here every match. (No, I couldn't keep a straight face as I typed that, of course we'd have the same old boring whines from the same old boring whiners)

You keep on about him being a winger. Try this https://www.skysports.com/willian and specifically this bit Player Details Name: Willian Date of birth:09/08/1988 Place of birth: Brazil Height: 1.74m Club: Chelsea Squad: 22 Position: Attacking Midfielder (I bolded the important bit!) I've never said (I think) that he is ideal for us and the way that Sarri wants us to play, though I do think he presses better than most in the team. My gripe has always been prats in here wittering on about his "lack of end product, goals and assists" when that is not his main role or function. In my mind, any Willian goals are an added bonus to what he brings to transition from defence to attack. I'll grant you that once he gets up front he, as well as Hazard, slow the attack down a lot and that causes us problems, but I'm not sure how many more times or ways I can say this, Willian is an attacking midfielder, his main role is supporting the attack, not being the main goal scorer and because some people have taken against the lad for whatever weird reason they have, they refuse to see any good at all , and are always looking for a slip or mistake to rant about, in a way that isn't applied to most of the team, and which makes me think that a lot of people are more concerned with spotting a Willian mistake and posting "OH, Willian FFS!" than they are with actually watching the match.

You never answered @coco's question. Did you actually watch the match?

I liked it because it reinforces my oft-stated position that Willian is not and never has been a main goal-scorer, so for people to whine on about him not scoring 20 a season here is just facile and ignorant. That's why.

Ha @coco, I can judge a match by reading stats web sites and sky sports twatter, I don't need to have seen the match to have an opinion :), so I know the simple answer is to change the entire system. LMFAO!

No, I didn't say that at all. And he wasn't that good in the Europa matches either. And it was you who brought a selective Youtube video along as supportive evidence for your point.

Obviously you don't understand the difference between "simplistic" and "simple". Perhaps English isn't your first language, so I won't go on. All you ever seem to post is a series of negative cliches, that mostly appear to be cut and pasted from randomnonsense.com.

Aww thanks @Valerie

You have said it. There it is, in bold, up above. Simply put. With no qualification, just "I'd change the entire system", full stop. Simplistic as f**k. So don't be trying to portray me as putting stupid things in your posts. You do that quite adequately all by yourself.

And how many goals and assists did all of that Youtube trawling show he created? After all, that appears to be your player judgement tool of choice And how much of his immense defensive skills does it show? And where is the Youtube of all his highlights in the Europa League matches?