Chris Gundleton

Back in the 80s, my Mum wrote to him saying that me, my Dad and my brother, all season ticket holders, were getting a ton of stick from West Ham fans as we lived in Essex. School was a nightmare, particularly in 86, when West Ham had their one decent year. Back in those days, there was only two Chelsea fans at my school, me and my younger brother. Ken wrote back, thanking us for our support in foreign territory, and a few days later a thank you card arrived signed by all the players (Kerry, Pat, Speedie et al)……

Agreed. He’s easily good enough to lead our line. The quality of his goals are excellent. The one against Newcastle away was very Drogba like.

All I am going to say here with the comparison to Jackson is that Jackson had one season in the Poch system and half of a Maresca’s first season where they were still playing Poch style. That system gave numerous chances to Jackson who, if I’m not mistaken, f***** up 90%. Stick JP in that side, which also included an in form Palmer, JP would have double the amount of goals Jackson scored. He would have also scored those chances that Jackson missed in the semi final against City in the Poch year. JP has been the one shining light this season and he scores all types of goals. He is a far superior footballer to Jackson and if anyone thinks Jackson is on par with JP, go and apply for a SD role at the Bridge, you’re as clueless as them….

Great. Pick a day when there are tube strikes….!!!

Iraola for me. I think we need a reset with playing style. I’m sick to death of the playing out from the back borefest so as you say similar to Poch, we need a manager to get as scoring again and be entertaining.

Full on Potter vibes now. I predict that we will beat Port Vale for our only remaining win this season. I also predict, at most, 4 goals scored in the remaining premier league games!!!

Agree. In the early Frank days, I recall a Christmas period where Ranieri went full on Tinker mode. Pretty sure we were playing Southampton at home. Might have been Boxing Day. It was 0-0, Frank was on the bench and the entire Bridge was singing “we want Frank, we want Frank”. Pretty sure this was his second season with us…..

Just to add, personally I do think it is a downgrade as I am getting Potter vibes, but stats can be spun to mislead, that’s the point I’m trying to make….

Enzo’s Chelsea stats are skewed because of the Conference League. Take that out and his win % would drop dramatically. I’d wager you could have prime Jose at Hull and Strasbourg when LR was in charge, and say Ranieri at Chelsea and Leicester (Enzo’s team) and Ranieri’s stats would be better as he would be at better clubs in their respective leagues. We all know that Jose is better, but your rationale would say Ranieri. For the avoidance of doubt, I hate both, LR and Enzo with their anti football….

I hate to correct you, as I can’t stand Arsenal, but they did win the European Cup Winners Cup under George Graham in the 90s. However, the sentiment is correct, we have been much more successful than them in Europe before and after Roman. In European terms, we would be the third biggest team in England after United and Liverpool. I suspect that a Spaniard, Italian, German or French football fan would consider us bigger than Arsenal based on our European successes. An English football fan would put us below Arsenal based on domestic honours.

Wikipedia says that the Hull chairman sacked Rosenior, after just missing out on the playoffs, because the football was boring. I’m seriously considering giving up my season ticket after 40+ years! I detest Pep with a passion who has completely destroyed the excitement of watching a game. What makes it worse is that now everyone thinks it’s the only way to play and these clowns are fixated on it. Give me counter attack or big un and a little un up top over possession borefest every day…..

Hi is certainly sh*ttens!

As for the performance, I agree with the sentiments here. Personally, I think we have more chance winning the Champions League. Get to the knockouts stage and get it right in one off games, like PSG, then who knows. We’re not ready to win the league yet, so I’m not going to sulk, like I would have done in the past, drawing a game we should have easily won. None of us realistically think we are going to win the league, last nights game is the perfect reason why. We will drop points because of Maresca but even with prime Jose, we won’t win the league, yet, with this squad. My view, a serious challenge is next year or the season thereafter….

What was he wearing? Looked like a fan had won a raffle and the prize was sitting on the bench. If you’re going to wear jeans, wear black, not faded denim and trainers. I thought Italians were meant to be stylish…..

Our version of Newcastle’s Saint-Maximin. Only beats players by kind of leaning in to them. Not a “kick and run” type of winger or “tricky” type of winger. Happy to get rid.