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Unless he's doing something bizarre like putting Cucurella in midfield or on the wing, I assume that's a back three with Gusto and Cucurella as wing-backs, with Enzo and Neto behind Delap. Really shouldn't play a back three and not start Acheampong on the right of the three though. Pretty hilarious sign of how much everyone at the club hates Garnacho: he still doesn't get a start despite being one of only three fit senior attacking players and we haven't scored for four games in the league.

Great opportunity for the Brighton players and manager tonight, play well and there's like a 40% chance they'll be getting paid twice as much playing for Chelsea next season.

If that XI scores a goal it'll be a miracle.

I like it, I like it... can we have the wing-backs invert though please?

"Lomba squad"

What could go wrong?

Enjoyed his carries out of defence, was one of the few line-breaking moves we actually pulled off last night.

Apologies, didn't get to watch the game live yesterday as I was at a wedding (I should clarify that it wasn't me getting married). Watched it back this morning. Haven't seen such an impotent display since Eghbali last took his trousers off. Take your pick.

I will be at a wedding later unfortunately so I'll miss the game.

@Mod @loz This is a banning offence surely?

Great news, delighted for Super Frank, glad he's shown the world what he's capable of. There's a small music museum in Coventry which has the car from the Ghost Town music video. They've sort of hollowed out the inside so customers can sit in it. f**king hilarious. No idea how they got it in there as it's basically on the first floor of a terraced house.

Here's the full interview if anybody is interested. Let's not kid ourselves that Romano is a journalist: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/17/cole-palmer-chelsea-premier-league-transfer-speculation-england-world-cup Generally positive, he claims he's over the groin injury that marred the first half of the season. Comes across in the way that his facial expression on the pitch suggests (dense to the point of accidental Zen). Had a chuckle at the repeated implication that he thinks a lot of his teammates are sh*t.

They also seem like the kind of egotists who wouldn't respond well to attacks on their masculinity. So if someone were to, say, start a rumour that one of them is impotent...

sh*t like this should be the focus of the protest. We could be the most abject team in the league (bar Tottenham obviously) and there still wouldn't be anything quite as craven as a co-owner of the team scalping his own f**king fans.

"Former RB manager" is a bigger red flag than the ones they wave in Beijing

Acheampong's minutes in the league since Rosenior was appointed (apart from the seven minutes he got against f**king Port Vale in the cup): (And f**k all of the awful internet football people like Simon Phillips, Piss and that twat Romano).

Modern football is great

Any manager should be sacked on the spot for losing at home to Tottenham, regardless of circumstance. It should be a clause in their contract.

...anyway. While he has spectacularly f**ked up every single man management situation he's faced, and while his public speaking inclines more towards coprophagic corporate aphorism than anything of substance (let alone true), he is hardly the problem. Today Rosenior started the best XI available to him; every option on the bench would have made the team measurably worse. One assumes that he would have started Fernández given the opportunity, but that decision was taken out of his hands. And let's not forget that Rodri said worse and Pep was able to shrug it off; it was the impotent, maggot-dicked parvenus above Rosenior who couldn't tolerate the slightest dissent. The players he had available were worse than the players the other team had. That is the responsibility of the owners and the incompetent/corrupt apparatchiks they chose to put in charge of the footballing side of the club. That isn't to say that I think Rosenior is qualified or even competent, but sadly that is now our lot as Chelsea fans.

We no longer have a seat at the top table and it's entirely because of the actions taken by BlueCo. We are now worse in every conceivable way as a football club. I would even go as far as saying that Chelsea is frankly an asset, a business that is not terribly well managed on the football side, sporting side, or promotional side. Take your pick.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/apr/11/real-talk-chelsea-punished-enzo-fernandez-for-exposing-projects-fatal-flaw

He strikes me as one of the many centre-backs who are fine if they don't have to defend space behind them. Under Nuno it's not like he has to worry about being cute in possession, and nobody's beating him in a physical battle. 'West Ham way' my arse

I've used that excuse before

That result practically guarantees that @SydneyChelsea's prophecy will come true. Suppose I'd better watch it at the pub so I can at least bask in a no-doubt hilarious victory against a top side. Awful weekend for Leicester; they lost at home and both Portsmouth and Oxford picked up unexpected wins. They're now four points from safety and Portsmouth in 21st have a game in hand. Think I can hear the bell tolling...