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It's in Istanbul this year, so not much better lol. Will be there though. Edit - Just realised I am the 47th person to have answered this question.

Exactly right! If Sarri is given next season (and possibly beyond), I would love nothing more than him be a success and to eat plenty of humble pie.

In fairness, not changing their minds once Sarri won a trophy is the opposite of fickle, is it not?? The people that have rightfully been calling Sarri out all season who have now backtracked due to the feel good factor are the ones to watch out for. I said yesterday that my mind wouldn't be changed based on winning the Europa league, it was to be expected at the beginning of the season. Rafa Benitez won it but people still wanted him sacked. Nevertheless, fair f**ks to Sarri for winning his first trophy and I'm grateful that Chelsea now have more silverware in the cabinet, but I still don't believe he is the person to take us forward for the reasons I've previously stated. Last night, as enjoyable as it was, doesn't change anything for me.

Yeah that's it, the huge backlash against Sarri is because he wears a tracksuit. Get a grip, mate.

OK, without getting into all the technicalities of how Kepa could have actually been removed from the pitch, do you genuinely believe that Sarri storming off was in any way a good idea/justified? I don't care if a player upset him, you don't storm off down the tunnel during a game (a CUP FINAL, no less). Imagine if you displayed the same way of dealing with problems at work or in any walk of life for that matter - you'd get nowhere. He's a grown man for f**k sake, it's pathetic. The fact that people are actually trying to justify this behaviour goes to show that the sarri cultists will simply blindly defend him at all costs.

I didn't say that, did I? Stop making assumptions. He could have called the referee over and stated categorically that he wanted Kepa to leave the pitch - force doesn't need to be physical. It would then have been in the referee's hands and criticism at his door should Kepa have stayed on. Instead he opts to act like a petulant child, throw a paddy and walk off down the tunnel. How is that constructive in any way?? I'm sure there are idiots that judge him on how he looks. In any walk of life you will get morons that do that. The other things I've discussed previously, however, are my reasons.

That would have been better than walking away down the tunnel, that is inexcusable. Would have commanded much more respect had he forced Kepa to come off the pitch and not allowed the game to have continued until he did so. Don't be ridiculous. Why would I have any predisposed personal feelings towards Sarri? I want any Chelsea manager to succeed. Any dislike I have towards him is due to watching a season of boring, flawed, and tactically inept football. If he pulls it off tonight (for the first ever time in his whole career), I'll give him his due. It won't however change my view that he is the wrong person to take us forward and the sooner he goes the better for the club. Luckily, it seems the people that matter within the club are of the same view and it is only a matter of time before this horrible chapter can come to an end.

I agree with your general point, but I don't think storming off in a temper tantrum is kicking any arses. I think it is actually quite submissive and shows weakness, to be honest. Same as storming off down the tunnel during a cup final.

Please don't call people out for being thick just because their opinion differs to yours. Particularly when you can't even grasp the basics of English grammar.

Exactly. The point is that he has created a situation which has the possibility of having a negative effect, one day before the game. I'm not denying Mourinho wasn't an embarrassment at times, particularly during his second reign, but he delivered when it mattered - something that Sarri has never done in his 30 year career. It's obvious he can't deal with pressure, he's been showing this all season.

Course you will, Codey from Texas.

Yeah, it is.

'Chelsea yer da' ?. Definitely a Twitter warrior.

Whether he was throwing a tantrum about the players or the media, it's still an utter embarrassment and exactly what not is needed the day before a major final. Further evidence that this guy just isn't competent.

He definitely hasn't proved the fans wrong that have been on his back this season, not at all. I've mentioned elsewhere in this thread why Sarri hasn't been good enough so I won't go through all of that again. I don't see how Sarri will do better next season. How can he when he can't sign players and lacks the ability to adapt whatsoever. He doesn't have the players for his system, he's continuously questioned their 'mentality', but yet he stuck with exactly the same mundane, predictable and hopeless tactics week after week after week. Why is he going to change next season?

Well he's made Derby better in his very first year in management. I think it's a little unfair to say Lampard has done nothing and was just 'given' the Derby job. He's had an outstanding career in football, whereas Sarri was, as you say, an ordinary banker. Of course Sarri has had to work up through the leagues - doesn't change the fact he's won f**k all though at any level he's managed at....EVER.

Out of interest, what makes you think that? Derby was his first job, but clearly time is no measure of success if people are happy to have Sarri here who has won precisely f**k all in his 20 year odd career. Sarri is no more qualified than Frank.

Ah everything now makes sense. You are one of these Sarri cultists that you find on twitter, usually with a profile pic of Sarri's face or a player of another European team. Weird bunch.

We beat Liverpool and Spurs on the way to the final and lost to the first ever team to win the domestic quadruple, on penalties, whilst outplaying them ont he pitch for the 120 minutes. Seems strange to not take this as an achievement. No, I don't see second as an achievement. Perhaps this is where we differ. I couldn't care less if he get's us to finals and we lose. Imagine thinking Sarri had nothing to do with our league finish. Both Hazard and Kante have had their most productive seasons in a Chelsea shirt whilst being apparently thrown out of position by Sarri. Take those two players out and name me one more player even close to being world class. With how many games we've had to manage Sarri has done wonders with what he has at his availability. How many genuine world class players do Spurs, Arsenal and Utd (our direct rivals for third) have? Exactly. We should comfortably finish third. I'm not sure how you are measuring Kante's productivity? Goals? Of course he'll score more goals being played out of position further up the field than where he is best used. I don't think you can attribute Hazards performances to Sarri. If anything Hazards job has been made harder by being forced to create something from nothing due to playing such a rigid, un-productive, tippy tappy, sideways pass for the sake of sideways pass style. It is probably down to Hazards obscene brilliance alone that Sarri has been let off the hook by some with the blinkers on. We were already qualified on the last day so how could we have f**ked it up? I was quite clearly talking about third spot - you know, relating to your original point of declaring how spectacular of an achievement it was. If the only manager you wanted sacking was AvB and not Mk.2 Mourinho than this tells me a lot. In fairness, I had forgot to mention this one. Arguably our best player this past month or so. lol. He's been shocking all season and has restricted us severely in how we play (in fairness this is as much down to Sarri's stubbornness). One month will not change that.

- We didn't win the milk cup. Growing up in the late 80's means I will always be grateful for a cup final, but let's not get too hung up on finishing second. If we start seeing this as an achievement we will be no better than Arsenal - a club that we have ridiculed for years now for accepting mediocrity. - We haven't won the Europa League yet. Lets see how we fair with that. Remember Sarri has not once stepped up in a final in his entire career. - We finished third despite Sarri, rather than because of Sarri. I'm not having that our squad is not good enough to have comfortably finished third. He's got an array of talent at his disposal, including two genuine world class players - one of which he has played out of position all season to accommodate his only system, and the other which has been played as a false 9 in the most important games - despite this clearly not working. Instead we have crawled over the line despite Spurs, Arsenal and Utd all having one of their worst ends to a season possibly ever. We even did our best to f**k that up on the last day, despite it being in our own hands. I am not fickle, the only manager other than Sarri I have wanted sacking was AVB. If I can see signs of hope then I will back the manager regardless of where we are in the league. Unfortunately Sarri has proven himself to be damn right incompetent time and time again. Week after week I've watched the same predictable and stubborn mistakes. He must be an absolute dream to prepare for. He has one plan of action and either doesn't have the tactical nous to change things up or is too stubborn to do so. Either way it's not the standard required from our club. I'm not overly concerned as I know it is only a matter of time before he's out the door. I would just prefer it to be sooner rather than later, particularly if CAS freeze our transfer ban. Heaven forbid he see's Kante as surplus to his system and sells him before he's sacked. He can take Jorginho with him.

Can't wait for him to go personally. It is inevitable sooner or later because he just isn't good enough, just hopefully we don't leave it too long.

Who is running this club? Who is actually making these despairing decisions, seriously?! I am used to Chelsea being generally quite chaotic, but the decision to play a f**king charity game 2 weeks before a major European cup final, against our close rivals no less, has left me in genuine disbelief. I'm finding it hard to put into words how ridiculous this idea was.

Yeah we got on at Nuneaton and saw him. Funny, because he gives it the big one on twitter then hides himself away in the corner when out and about.

I heard absolutely nothing of the sort yesterday, and that would not be the first time this season that Levene had reported such 'incidents' at games that I have heard nothing. The bloke is a freelance journalist and strikes me as a bit desperate to honest. Reports on 'racism' from his press box without even being present in the concourses of away ends or sat in the stands with the fans. What he does is actually quite dangerous. He practically led the media witch hunt against that bloke who was accused of racism towards Sterling, with absolutely no evidence to support what he was saying. The guy has since been proven innocent after losing his job as a result of the false accusations. If it was me I'd be looking at legal action against Levene. People have called him out on Twitter for what he does, but his simple go to response is just to brand people as racists. He's too simple to realise that it's not him standing up against racism that people are against, but rather accusing people/whole away ends of racism based on hear-say or with no evidence whatsoever, and in some cases, ruining peoples lives in the process. Funny thing is, he even has history of racially abusing an Indian boy on twitter himself. Pathetic man.