ChelseaYankee

So tired of hearing media and so-called Chelsea fans (not here) blame Cahill for the second goal. Alexi Lawless commented that Cahill should be out there second guessing his teammates that they are about to f*up. Roberto Martinez acquiesced. Other Chelsea fans think Cahill should have been marking Suarez while he was well offside. There's many things wrong with these analyses. 1) Cahill was not at fault. England was playing a high line. If he started marking Suarez behind the defensive line set there would be no line or it'd open up the break for everyone else. 2) If you're second guessing anyone on your team that they are about to f*up they shouldn't be out on the pitch in the first place. 3) If everyone is second guessing everyone else your team is never going to win because no one trusts anyone.

Marca is blaming Carlo for chasing away Ozil now... Carlo is a great manager, but there's no manager alive that can save Real Madrid. It's a club run by a circle-jerk of the fans, media, and self-indulgent players. Real Madrid will always be dangerous because Spain will always buy Real Madrid the best players and give them shady tax breaks, but they'll never be anywhere near what they should be with amount of money they invest because the entire atmosphere is toxic and getting more pungent by the day.

Losing 3 out of the first 6 is horrible for United...but it's not like they aren't notoriously slow starters. They have turned things around so many times in the past after slow starts, it won't surprise me if they do it again with Moyes at the helm.

They give us the best manager in the game. They sell Ozil and Higuin. They pay Tottenham a yacht-load of money for Bale. Net result so far: Chelsea's back in good hands. Arsenal can't stop winning at the moment and are top of the table. Tottenham are title contenders and champions of this year's transfer market. Napoli is top of the table in Serie A. ... Real Madrid are in 3rd in La Liga, already 5 points behind 1st and 2nd, and just lost their derby...at home.

It's an ugly part of Chelsea and all other football clubs, but it's worth watching if you haven't seen/never saw it before. I was kind of surprised that Donal MacIntyre got a Chelsea tattoo for cover...and that he never removed it. Also surprised he's still alive quite frankly. http://worldsoccertalk.com/2013/08/26/bbc-documentary-on-chelsea-headhunters-football-hooligans-video/

Out: Oriol Romeu Florent Malouda Paulo Ferreira Yossi Benayoun Henrique Hilario Kakuta Sam Hutchinson IN: Kevin De Bruyne Lukaku Loan: Marin McEachran Thibaut Courtois

He should write for Marca.com. They have been throwing the kitchen sink at Mourinho ever since Saint Iker got benched.

Thing that bugs me is Real Madrid is trying to milk millions of dollars off of Chelsea through his existing contract clauses. Saying no one can hire him unless they pay Real Madrid 17m pounds for the buyout clause. They are going to fire him anyway (in which case, THEY would paying a fee for early termination). They shouldn't get a dime from us. Unless the clause says no one can hire for a year or so even after he is fired, we should just wait them out imo. I will be so glad when this is over so I can go back to hating Madrid and La Liga. "Mourinho signed a new contract at Real last summer, just days after they won La Liga, but his fractious relationship with senior board members and players will cost him his job. Real president Florentino Perez wants compensation for Mourinho from Chelsea in order to use the cash to release Ancelotti from his contract at the Parc des Princes. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2327254/Real-Madrid-set-decide-Jose-Mourinhos-fate--want-Carlo-Ancelotti-Paris-Saint-Germain.html#ixzz2Tp8KJQbM

Anyone able to watch the game without Gus Johnson doing commentary is lucky. Forget all the blunders he makes every other time he opens his mouth.... He asked Ian Wright during the match today what "width" meant. I kid you not. Oh, and he's going to be calling the Champions League final :-/ ffs...

Roman's ego is a cancer to our club. He doesn't have to face the fans or the media and that's unacceptable. He's surrounded by sycophants and runs the team like Stalin ran Russia. He thinks players are just replaceable cogs and has no understanding of what makes teams and franchises great. There's nothing and no one to check against this megalomaniac. He wants to get rid of legends still playing at a high level because his vagina got all sandy when the players went against his puppet manager (who was not playing his best players nor winning games) and proved his way wrong by winning the Champion's League when the puppet left. He's holding on to Torres because of pride and because he invested a lot of money in him, but it was a dumb buy--just like Sheva. It's obvious Torres is past it and doesn't belong as a fixed starter on a team of Chelsea's stature. You think RM, Barca, Arse, Manu, City, Bayern, etc would sign Torres? Heck no. I tell you one person many of them would sign though...Lampard. Next stop for Torres is the glue factory or a second tier club. He needs to apply his cold, Stalinesque attitude towards Torres and get rid of him. Our club and our fans need to stand up to him over not resigning Lampard and screwing over the club for his ego. Owners in America would be torn a new one if they did what Roman gets away with doing. In England, I guess people just sit on their hands and watch so long as the bills get paid. CFC fans and club look like a lot full of Uncle Roman's poodles.

C.Ronaldo is Salieri (Amadeus movie version) to Mozart. Great player, but he's also the one everyone wants to hate whereas golden boy, Messi, can do no wrong. CR is one of the greatest players of all time, but he's playing at the same time where the best of all time (attacking wise) is playing. Many people want to find fault with CR saying he's selfish, doesn't play defense, flops, etc, but the truth is if it weren't for Messi a lot of this criticism would be minimized and he'd be the one being compared to all the great players of the past.

GK: Peter Cech RB: Phil Lahm (Dani Alves is too costly on defense and as said, he's starting to struggle to even start) CB: Mats Hummels (Only 5 goals scored against them in the group stages of the CL against Real Madrid/Ajax/Citeh and one of the best defensive records last season in the Bundesliga) CB: Thiago Silva (He may be playing in Ligue 1 now, but PSG is looking good defensively despite a bad start) LB: Ashley Cole (I like Marcello and Coentrão and I think one of those two are heir apparent, but no one is more consistent than Ashley Cole.) MF: Yaya Toure (He's the most menacing box-to-box/holding midfielder-whatever you want to call him-in the game) MF: Xavi (though Pirlo showed him up in the Euros) MF: C. Ronaldo MF: Inesta MF/F: Messi F: Falcao

So like with all the best players playing in Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona must have gone undefeated save when they played each other...and with Barca having the most world's best players, best coach and the player who won the Balloon D'Or again they must have won all of the Spanish trophies. Which countries had teams in the Champions League finals again? I forget... Anyway, no goalkeeper did what Cech did last season in the Champions League...ever...Based on merit, Cech was easily the best goalkeeper in the world last year, maybe of all time.

Not this poorly though. There's bad, then there's this slop.

Players win games, coaches lose games, refs ruin them. We didn't win. Refs were fine. Rafa lost this game. If one player was playing bad, you could blame that particular player, but if they are ALL playing bad...ie...it's probably not the players that's the problem. It's very difficult for the entire squad at this level of football to all be playing awful at the same time. It's the coach or something beyond the players.