23 minutes ago, charierre said:

Think your thinking of 62/63 season when there was hardly any matches between Boxing Day 62 and March 63 and Halifax opened their pitch up as a skating rink.

18 February 1963: Sunderland v Gravesend

 

 

 Panto football..........

55 minutes ago, coco said:

18 February 1963: Sunderland v Gravesend

 

 

 Panto football..........

 

Nice picture!

1 hour ago, coco said:

18 February 1963: Sunderland v Gravesend

 

 

 Panto football..........

Proper pitch, there'd be no diving around on that one.

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by charierre

Hazard has been having treatment for a knee injury and is a slight doubt for this match

I thought it was precautionary. Nothing serious.

16 hours ago, charierre said:

Think your thinking of 62/63 season when there was hardly any matches between Boxing Day 62 and March 63 and Halifax opened their pitch up as a skating rink.

I was 7 years old at the time,you are right.The snow was deep on the ground for months.

Any news on Hazard?

2 hours ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

Any news on Hazard?

Conte said in the pre-match press conference today that he's available to play on Monday.

22 hours ago, coco said:

Remember the days when we all played at the same time on boxing day ?.................

And they think the defending this season is bad!

1 minute ago, Jezz said:

Conte said in the pre-match press conference today that he's available to play on Monday.

Great news thanks Jezz  

21 hours ago, charierre said:

Check the results out two days later when they played the reverse fixtures, some crazy turn arounds for a few of them.

Saturday 28th December 1963
English Division One
Aston Villa	2-2	Wolverhampton Wndrs
Birmingham City	1-4	Arsenal
Blackburn Rovers	1-3	West Ham United
Bolton Wanderers	3-0	Sheffield Wednesday
Chelsea	1-0	Blackpool
Everton	0-3	Leicester City
Ipswich Town	4-2	Fulham
Manchester United	5-1	Burnley
Sheffield United	1-2	Nottingham Forest
Tottenham Hotspur	0-2	West Bromwich Albion

How do you lost 8-2 at home then beat the same team 1-3 away two days later 

Edited December 22, 20169 yr by Argo

2 hours ago, Argo said:

How do you lost 8-2 at home then beat the same team 1-3 away two days later 

Booze, lots of booze.

Jose mourinho already starting mind games saying chelsea play defensive and thats why he doesnt see us dropping points. I hope conte pays that asshole JUDAS no mind bcoz he won 3 titles playing the exact same way, the only difference is we are intersting to watch.

Whats wrong with what Jose said?

"They score one goal and they win. They defend a lot. They defend well. They are winning and, in the last 20 minutes, they bring defenders in.

"They don't care what people say, what people think. They just want to win. And, because of that, I don't see them losing many points."

He is not "complaining". If anything it seems he is praising us in his own way. 

I think he's a bit jealous. If we need to lock down a win we have defensive options, he has Fellaini ;)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0N-n30WEAAzna6.jpg

Edited December 22, 20169 yr by Ivanov87

1 hour ago, Don Conte said:

Jose mourinho already starting mind games saying chelsea play defensive and thats why he doesnt see us dropping points. I hope conte pays that asshole JUDAS no mind bcoz he won 3 titles playing the exact same way, the only difference is we are intersting to watch.

But everything Mourinho said is true. We have been defending a lot and we are bringing on defensive players in the final twenty minutes and it's making us hard to beat and winning us games.

Some of you people need to stop feeling like a jilted lover and taking offence to everything and anything Jose says about us.

56 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

But everything Mourinho said is true. We have been defending a lot and we are bringing on defensive players in the final twenty minutes and it's making us hard to beat and winning us games.

Some of you people need to stop feeling like a jilted lover and taking offence to everything and anything Jose says about us.

Spot on FC. He's actually praising us massively here 

I'm good thoughts

11 hours ago, Bobbywoodhogan said:

I cant believe after all the years of having mourinho play mind games with the opposition some chelsea fans are blinded or choose not to see him being his cynical self. Of course in simple terms he is praising us, but he also said a couple of weeks ago that media hated on him when he played defensive and won championships and now they dont appreciate his expansive football. Basically he is pushing a propaganda that the pundits and media shud use to attack us and hopefully change our philosophy so other teams can have a chance, like what happened in our title winning season in 2015 when we played attacking football to please the media and then we got smashed by spurs 5-3 before jose switched to his boring bus packing football to win the league..  JOSE HAS NO LOVE FOR CHELSEA.. THE SOONER THE FANS REALIZE THIS THE BETTER.  I cant believe some even see what jose said as a compliment he hasnt said one good thing about the club since he got fired. He is a RED DEVIL and in his words he will like to be one for a long time

4 minutes ago, Don Conte said:

I cant believe after all the years of having mourinho play mind games with the opposition some chelsea fans are blinded or choose not to see him being his cynical self. Of course in simple terms he is praising us, but he also said a couple of weeks ago that media hated on him when he played defensive and won championships and now they dont appreciate his expansive football. Basically he is pushing a propaganda that the pundits and media shud use to attack us and hopefully change our philosophy so other teams can have a chance, like what happened in our title winning season in 2015 when we played attacking football to please the media and then we got smashed by spurs 5-3 before jose switched to his boring bus packing football to win the league..  JOSE HAS NO LOVE FOR CHELSEA.. THE SOONER THE FANS REALIZE THIS THE BETTER.  I cant believe some even see what jose said as a compliment he hasnt said one good thing about the club since he got fired. He is a RED DEVIL and in his words he will like to be one for a long time

from the pride of london. Glad others arent falling for jose's bs

"At the end of it, Chelsea have a record and a style that any manager would envy. Mourinho clearly does, and he’s handling it the only way he knows how.

It's quite funny out of the posts you choose mine which was a simple agreement.

In any case you can believe what you want as do we. It's opinions here, if you think he has no love for our club then fair enough but others believe he still does. It doesn't meant he doesn't want to beat us though and mind games are part of his tactics as a manager. I'm sure when he's finished and he looks back he will have affection for us. Also say he doesn't does that mean we shouldn't appreciate what he achieved with us? I think for certain you are the very definition of what is wrong with a certain calibre of football fan, short memories and very little respect.

Shows how poisonous this man is that even after he's gone and we're top of the table our fans are still arguing with each other over him. Amazing.

 

1 hour ago, Don Conte said:

I cant believe after all the years of having mourinho play mind games with the opposition some chelsea fans are blinded or choose not to see him being his cynical self. Of course in simple terms he is praising us, but he also said a couple of weeks ago that media hated on him when he played defensive and won championships and now they dont appreciate his expansive football. Basically he is pushing a propaganda that the pundits and media shud use to attack us and hopefully change our philosophy so other teams can have a chance, like what happened in our title winning season in 2015 when we played attacking football to please the media and then we got smashed by spurs 5-3 before jose switched to his boring bus packing football to win the league..  JOSE HAS NO LOVE FOR CHELSEA.. THE SOONER THE FANS REALIZE THIS THE BETTER.  I cant believe some even see what jose said as a compliment he hasnt said one good thing about the club since he got fired. He is a RED DEVIL and in his words he will like to be one for a long time

I'm surprised they haven't followed him to Utd since they love him so much.