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Straight from the training ground, my ass! Why does the media tend to forget about the pile of crap we've been playing recently. I give the credit to Hazard, Mata, and Oscar for the goal, not Rafa.

Ba, Ba, Demba Ba, have you any goals, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, of course I have! P.S. 2 more hopefully!

Why have we not been playing like this recently FFS? I think this Rafa situation has given them a massive kick up the arse!

that would be brilliant. The whole team turns to Benitez after he scores and they've all got a "RAFA OUT" vest on haha.

FFS, all I keep hearing is "Good chance for Ba" Or "great ball from Mata" but no end product! ARRGGHHHH!!

I really don't know why he didn't play Ake in place of Ramires. Ramires has not had a great game for a while now.

I still believe that Terry and Benitez aren't getting along. I think this is the reason for him leaving Terry out. On Chelsea TV last night they said that Rafa has a fully fit squad to choose from, so not sure what's going on.

Seems like Benitez isn't the Angel that many people seem to think he is. I knew about the ill feeling between him and Materazzi, but didn't know Benitez told Materazzi to take down the paper cuttings from his locker. WHAT A DICK!!

Apparently, Maicon said to Mourinho "Your old friend is taking over at Chelsea" to which Mourinho replied "Who" and Maicon said "Benitez" to which Mourinho replied "the fat one? Materazzi should be his assistant" in regards to the ill feeling between Materazzi and Benitez. Materazzi had previously told of how Benitez made him tear down newspaper cuttings from his locker of victories with Mourinho and Marcello Lippi when The Blues' interim coach joined Inter in 2010.

Even Mourinho been mocking Benitez! It doesn't look good for the fat one! lol

He can he say that the atmosphere is toxic. Apparently, we were playing well away from home, but we've lost to teams who we should never have lost to. We looked terrible against Sparta Prague as well, SPARTA f**kING PRAGUE of all teams! Rafa doesn't seem to understand that it's his tactical ingenious that has caused us to look like sh*t at home and away from home, NOT THE FANS!!

In the press conference yesterday, the media asked him whether he's spoken to Abramovic and he replied "That's my business". A bit touchy for someone who is so confident that Roman and him get on well.

An article by Neil Ashton for DM. Interesting stuff! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2286237/Rafa-Benitez-mocked-Chelsea-players-rant.html

How can people say the fans affect the player's performance? How much money are these guys being paid again? They're professional enough to not let that affect them. Sorry, but if I was being paid only £500 a week (which is still a huge amount of money for running around a pitch for 90 mins) to play football, then I would work my socks off to win the game. The players know the hate isn't directed towards them, so they should be performing at the top of their game every time they step on a pitch. They train at a multi-million pound establishment in Cobham every day, it's not like they're training in the local marshes for f**ks sake. I'm sorry, but you can't blame the fans for the player's lack of passion & creativity in their game. Their build up play and movement is f**king awful at the moment and that is the fault of only one man, RAFA! How about the players and manager take a wage cut until things start improving? I'm sure you'll see the players pull their fingers out then.

Has anyone noticed that neither Lampard or Terry have come out and told the fans to back off Benitez and support the team? They know he's sh*t as well, most probably.

Callers calling in saying the typical. We should point the blame at Roman, but we won't!

Martin Lipton will be on Talksport radio in a minute. They been talking about Terry as player manager and get opinions from other club supporters. Pretty much saying that if Terry became player/manager, it would be even worse for the club because of his reputation outside the sport. I think that's what they were getting at anyway.

One good thing to come out of last night's game, was Ake! Hope he starts on Saturday or at least given a chance.

A reply from a fan.

I suppose I can understand why they do it, though. Not to stereotype (well, I kind of am) but I suppose the Liverpool and Manchester lot have to fill their time somehow, seeing as most of them are feckless & jobless, and appear on Jeremy Kyle everyday no offence to the ones who aren't feckless & jobless.

Can I just ask, why do opposition club supporters keep coming here? I've read other team's forums, but I've never wasted my time in signing up and commenting on them. Very odd people in this world. Edit: Actually, I read through spurs forum once last weekend, that was the first time. Never ever thought about signing up to comment, though!

This is Roman pictured this morning, on the way to Benitez' home for "talks" http://www.independent.co.uk/migration_catalog/article6253634.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/20-Abramovich.jpeg

Other clubs are mad because our fans have the cojones to stick up for our beliefs, whereas the fans of Man Utd, Liverpool, and Tottenham are happy to sit back when things go wrong.

Surely there's an Arab Billionaire out there who supports Chelsea. I'm getting sick and tired of Abramovic and his clan of muppets who he calls employees. We have to respect Roman for what he's done for us money wise, but he's starting to f**k it up big time. If things don't start improving, it would be better all around if he just sold up and left, along with Gourlay, Buck, and his whole PR department.

Roman has lost the plot. Any other time he would have sacked the manager immediately for talking like that, but now he's letting it go without repercussions. I do wish Peter Kenyon was still here, at least he had a knowledge of football unlike those other 2 muppets Roman calls employees.