MrsGaffer

As frustrating as he has been at times, that header was like Drogba. Was brought in to replace Morata and he’s done a much better job than him. Helps that he’s a sexy bastard too!

What a manager. One of the most dominant Chelsea cup final performances. Love it Mauriziooo!

Giroud ya donkey! Emerson defensively is making me sweat. But overall think we’ll nick this with a Hazard special

Hope YouTube stream doesn’t lag

It’s a mixture of things, the tracksuit is a small part, as people call him a ‘tramp’ as a stick to beat. But obviously his style of play is the biggest concern with fans. I’ve been at the Bridge couple of times this year, and you get the odd complaint about “tippy tappy!” because we pass more than we did under Conte. I use Conte as he was backed by fans in the stadium until the very end with worse results last season than Sarri is now. But Conte’s tactics were found out towards the end last season, and Sarri aside from a few horrible games has been getting results with his tactics, and could be hours away from lifting a European trophy. Conte was brilliant in his 1st season, and Sarri may not reach the level of excitement and results that season brought, but largely irrelevant to Conte in his 2nd season and not changing was his downfall Football comes in cycles though, and I’m not saying defensive football is dead, but you look at City and Liverpool, they aren’t parking the bus. They are the benchmark for me. Perhaps your Mourinhos and Contes of the world’s tactics may make a comeback, as football moves in cycles, but for now Sarri has the right idea and needs some extra quality to take his style to another level, like at Napoli

Actually think there’s some truth to fans not liking Sarri because he wears a tracksuit, but more so because his celebrations are more muted in my opinion. If he wore a suit and jumped around the touchline like my 3 year old would, just like the way Conte did, I think it’d be a different story! He’d be liked a lot more for sure

Excitement always kicks in on the day, taking tomorrow off if we win, can’t wait ??

Higuain and Giroud have been poor but not at this level yet!

3rd and a possible Europa League win is a horrible chapter?! It’d be a better season than everyone in the league apart from City and the CL winner

Bloody hell, the reaction was based on media watching training, yet half the people here thinking he can’t organise or motivate the players. He’s been a manager for 30 years! You don’t last 30 years without being able to organise or motivate your players

Heir to Ash ? Did this guy ever play for us? Might’ve done but 15/16 is a blur to me thankfully. I was pregnant most of the season but even that wasn’t as painful as some of the results we had

Is it just me that can’t get excited for this game? It’s been too long since we last played probably. We deserve better than this competition but, can’t lose to f**king Arsenal ?

Marina bullying Madrid haha. Women run football ?

Jorginho has been very good, his role is simple too so I don’t know how people don’t understand what he’s about yet? I mean you don’t need some big 6’4 bastard in midfield to succeed!

How has Sarri got this reputation of a tramp just for a tracksuit? Seems an odd thing to beat him with! Wouldn’t care if Sarri turned up in a mankini, I mean it wouldn’t be the best sight ? but he’s done a great job so far considering we’re in a transition period

I think women in football are overall just a victim of stupidity from men in society in general, people just want us to ‘know our place’ and just be ‘feminine’ and not compete with men or stand out because that’s ‘masculine’. People think this is still 50 years ago where women just stayed at home and look after kids while men worked. Going by that I’m ‘feminine’ as in when I get home I care for my 2 kids etc, but as I coach football for youth I’m being competitive and also standing out so this is seen as ‘masculine’ It’s just human qualities for both and should be normalised. I can agree women’s players aren’t at a great level, but that’s down to physicality mostly. Some male players wouldn’t look out of place there, like our very own Torres and Morata aren’t the embodiment of masculine! But it’s different for managers. If you’ve seen Emma Hayes interviews she has as much knowledge as the game as a man. Tactically I think no problem she could be a Premier League manager, but outside factors is stopping her. Can you imagine the amount of media attention it’d get if she became our manager, just because she doesn’t have a penis?!

I like the Bridge as it is tbh. Don’t really like that sh*thole we were planning ??

Haha already heard it all before!

People forget our current manager started from the lower depths of the Italian leagues! You can start anywhere, if you work your way up and have the ability

Already made a few posts but thought I’d say hi, enjoy the debate and banter on here. Been Chelsea since the mid 90’s, that era with Gullit, Vialli and Zola. Fell in love. That’s all interesting things about me. I’m a woman too, hence the username if that’s interesting enough ? KTBFFH

Mostly anyone from the Conte era aside from Luiz, Kante, Rudiger, Giroud, Emerson. So much wasted money in the last 2 years. Does AVB count? We paid a good amount to release him from his contract. Absolutely woeful! Saying that, he might’ve suited our current squad and situation more Mourinho went mental in his last seasons for us both tenures, Tal bein Haim and that Djibouti? ?

Last season was woeful apart from the FA Cup, I’m not sure how you could’ve enjoyed a season like that. Was the 2nd worst of the RA era for me. Yes the board are involved aswell but we don’t know who’s the culprit. Conte has also had his players in, like going for a target man all January and then getting Giroud for example Jorginho has been really good, Higuain is only a loan. How about Kepa? Been brilliant. Is Sarri a better winner than Conte? No and his trophy record proves that, but he currently suits us a lot better than Conte. If we kept Conte considering all the rifts he had and last season in general apart from the FA Cup, I wouldn’t like to see where we’d be now. Had to go

You are very funny What is funny about that? I’d say it’s a fair evaluation of what Conte done

Done a fine job so far, good signings, getting rid of deadwood, top 4 etc. What I like about Sarri most and why I’m prepared to give him time is he’s a completely different manager to past managers we’ve had. We’ve had pragmatists in the past, it did work indeed but footballs changing now, you need to be progressive. We did have AVB of course who was different to Mourinho, Conte etc but he was a mess, with his high line! City and Liverpool have achieved what they have with attacking football. Sarri is trying to do that with us, but at the 1st stage just like Pep and Klopp were a few years ago

Torres for Barca and the Europa League. Otherwise Torres was one of the most frustrating players we’ve had behind Morata. Both paralleled each other, really girly players! Glad we at least had Diego in between them