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But it's OK, that bloke has the straight-forward solution, just "change the entire system". It's as simple as that. I don't know why nobody else has noticed that.

I know you are only a youngster and a product of the abysmal caricature of an education system that has been devastated by successive Tory governments, so I'll try to help you. Exactly WHICH bit of "right-sided" or "midfielder" is it that you don't comprehend? Comparing midfielders with outright attackers in such an envious manner is a bit weird, even for you.

Overlapping Hazard does nothing by itself, there needs to be some sort of further action subsequent to that. He did get by a fullback a couple of times and but I think he managed to put the ball right across to the right wing position or into the crowd on both ocassions. No, a pin-point cross into a striker is a wonderful thing. Emerson's wasn't that, but you keep on. I'm not actually arguing that Alonso is a great deal better, but I do disagree that Emerson is as good as you like to think he is.

Oh, that's true enough about how stuff spreads, but that article had a shedload of stuff in detail that only someone in the meeting and taking written minutes would know. As only Sarri and the team were there, not even the back-room staff, it would have been a bit blatant if one of the team was sitting there with notepad and pen, or said at the start, "Hang on boss, while I start my phone recording" In my place of work it's the same, gossip spreads quickly, and usually changes from person to person, but only for the odd things that you have listed. My view is that Matt Law is a chancer guesswork artist, who puts so much stuff out there in his guise as a Chelsea insider that every now and again, he has to guess right. It's still all guesswork and click-bait though

You should really concentrate sometimes. Willian's career stats for goals and assists are pretty consistent, wherever he has played. He's listed as a midfielder, and his contribution is more in the transition from defence to attack than scoring goals. Always has been, and in that role he ripped us apart in Europe so much and so well that we bought him. So, no, I'm obviously not talking about goals and assists, and neither are any of his previous managers at club or international level.

So Matt Law knows the details of a closed door meeting held in a football stadium dressing room? Yep, that's all truly credible as well. Depending on which end of the "Sarri management style and future job prospects" argument you stand any one of you could have written that load of made-up bollocks, or, equally, could have written the same amount of bollocks about how Sarri gave them all a good verbal kicking. When will we all start applying some sort of sensible cognitive reasoning to the sh*te that the press and sports media keep feeding us?

Two potentially top top players who never reached their "potential" with us and a Premier league winning midfield partner for Kante who, it appears, has never had a proper chance (TM almost everyone)

I don't think we are talking about the same player, or the same match or something. I do remember one hit and hope "lump it up to the tall bloke" cross towards the end that Giroud managed to head 15 yards wide from 3 yards out, but nothing amazing or memorable other than that.

Obviously someone at the club values his contribution sufficiently to turn down £50 million** in two consecutive transfer windows. What the f**k do they know about football, anyway? (** we know that this figure is true because several posters in here told us so because they read it on twatter)

Another manager's livelihood, many millions in compensation, many more millions lost because of no European football, no cups, no bragging rights, the total meltdown in here and elsewhere, away trips to Grimsby or Ipswich, tickets available right up till kick-off, fewer internet experts telling us where we are going wrong and no more half-and-half scarves for a start.

No, I know you didn't, but WE can only ever judge a player on how they perform. Like I said, I didn't see last night's game so am relying on what people say. When he was a bit pants in previous matches, the excuse was that he wasn't playing with the proper first team. As I assume we had most of our first team playing last night, that obviously doesn't apply. To be honest, I thought that the best I've seen him play for us was when he came on as a sub playing just in front of Alonso on the left of midfield, can't remember who against. I think that basically, he's not a very good defender, and we already have Luiz performing that role for us.

What else is any player supposed to be judged on? Their instagram pictures?

I didn't see him last night, but you have to stop with this hyperbole about his performance against the Spuds. He was OK, a little bit better than adequate, but not anywhere near enough for your organ to swell in the way it does, even with your self-professed man-love for his dashing charm and Village People designer stubble.

It is indeed, thank you kindly.

The people popping Emerson in for this, how did he do last night? I didn't see the match, nor any highlights and I have deliberately kept out of the toxic morass of the match thread, but I've seen a few slightly less than complimentary comments elsewhere about his performance.

Try it for over 50 seasons @Scott Harris. We've all been a bit spoilt by success and expectations, and we seem to have lost sight of the fact that football, as most things, is cyclical, sh*t comes around, it goes around. We were great, top of the world, now, not so much. It''s all a bit pants at the moment, but at least we have won a championship in the era of colour televison, not like the Spuds, we've won the Premiership, not like the Dippers, we've won the Champions League, not like the Arse, and we are no longer the most racist team in London, not like the 'Wall. It will get better. Or it won't. Either way, it will be what it will be. Try telling Notts Forest or Villa or Sunderland fans how sh*t it is being consistently in the top few of the premier league and playing in Europe every year. Seriously, though, if you know any Leeds fans, remind then that they are dogsh*te and deserve to be in the second division and be sure to tell them that we are having a laugh.

You being all sensible and rational again, Dicky? (Mail) - say no more, must be true then. The only thing that could make it truer would be if it was on the internet or twitter. OH, wait a minute.

The very same, but not in the man-kini this time. Too f**king cold for that at the moment.

The term is just some sort of lazy gutter rag nonsense coined by our wonderful "journalistic" press because they didn't understand what Sarrismo meant, or realised their meathead readers wouldn't. I don't think you can genuinely criticise the bloke for that, and be considered rational.

I have to come clean, this is all my fault. There have been two matches this season on a Wednesday night when I have had the choice of going out dancing, or watching us play away at some dross or other. Both times I chose dancing, and both times I caused the sky to fall in and we lost, last night and Wolves away. I promise I will never, ever make that choice again, so let's all stop panicking, shall we?

So he has won stuff in some of the lower leagues with their equivalent of Celtic or Rangers in the Scotch league, and then was found out in his first go at a decent league. Spuds points record isn't really anything to boast about, though, is it? "I didn't quite bottle it as much as previous managers at a serial bottling team, but still didn't win anything" I can't believe anyone is seriously defending AVB. I think that a huge number of people in here at the time and since have been quite forthright that we had that league position, CL and FA Cup position DESPITE AVB rather than because of him. All I really need to say is Arsenal.

Simon Phillips quoting Talk sh*te. That's credible, then. That won't be generating any idiot-clicks anywhere, will it?

Depends how precious you are I suppose. I don't think saying some one was difficult to work with counts as bad-mouthing, myself, and no, they obviously didn't go to Ikea together, or stop off in Maccy D's on the way home from training. I don't with my boss. Doesn't mean very much at all, in my book, but can be used to enhance a narrative is all I'm saying.

Not really bantering (is that really a verb?) I don't think either that saying you would have left if a manager who was obviously on his way out and was then sacked had stayed counts as "bad-mouthing" and I honestly didn't think that instagram jokes meant anything at all to adults (and, obviously, neither did Willian)