6 hours ago, STATS said:

The stick Cahill gets is actually so OTT and a shame to see how some of our own fans mock and slate him.

It's the mocking part that get's to me, i just don't see the point in it or how it helps. If people are going to criticise him, then do it with words in a grown up way, don't share a stupid video that was set up to deliberately to embarrass one of our own.

Would love a new owner. 

Has Costa gone yet?

On 23/08/2017 at 17:41, Scott Harris said:

Drogba didn't score enough goals for the club. Don't get me wrong, he is and always will be a legend of the club, but he was a massive pain in the ass when he wanted to be. A lot of games he would often look disinterested and didn't put in as much effort as he could have done. Drogba was up there with the very best strikers of his generation, possibly the best when he wanted to be, he should have been a regular 30 goals a season striker. He only managed 30 goals in a season twice in his time with us and only managed to score 20 or more league goals twice in his career for us.

Oh dear.

Oh dear.

I need to add another oh dear.

It's like saying JT wasn't brave enough. Same thing. And both bollox.

Edited September 23, 20178 yr by just

50 minutes ago, just said:

Oh dear.

Oh dear.

I need to add another oh dear.

It's like saying JT wasn't brave enough. Same thing. And both bollox.

Why is it bollocks ? With Drogba's ability, he probably should have scored more goals for us. Twice in his career he managed 20 goals in a season. 4 of his 9 season's he didn't even get into double figures in Premier League goals. As one of the top strikers of his generation, he probably could have got more goals. He made up for it though with his big game goals.

17 hours ago, EmeraldBlue said:

This.

 

How many times have I seen Cahill put his body on the line over the years? To say that he's unfit to wear the shirt says more about the poster than it does about Cahill.

 

P.S. I apologise for my unparliamentary language earlier.

His last minute tackle in the UEFA final just after Ivan had made it 2-1

I was very happy for the club to sell KDB and Lukaku back in 2014.

I didn't enjoy the Ancelotti era compared to the majority of other supporters, despite the frenetic nature of our scoring ability.

I'm forever grateful for winning the title in 2009/2010 and also winning the FA Cup in 2010, but I found Mourinho and Conte's teams more enjoyable to watch.

Edited September 24, 20178 yr by Jezz

5 hours ago, Jezz said:

I was very happy for the club to sell KDB and Lukaku back in 2014.

I didn't enjoy the Ancelotti era compared to the majority of other supporters, despite the frenetic nature of our scoring ability.

I'm forever grateful for winning the title in 2009/2010 and also winning the FA Cup in 2010, but I found Mourinho and Conte's teams more enjoyable to watch.

I was more confident with Hiddink let alone Jose and Conte.

23 hours ago, stevo said:

Would love a new owner. 

Why?

On 23/09/2017 at 03:28, stevo said:

Would love a new owner. 

Yes, why?

On 23/09/2017 at 18:40, Scott Harris said:

It's the mocking part that get's to me, i just don't see the point in it or how it helps. If people are going to criticise him, then do it with words in a grown up way, don't share a stupid video that was set up to deliberately to embarrass one of our own.

That's just social media in general, it's cancerous. Forums are so much better to talk about sport, you get more maturity and better standards than a wide-open platform like Twitter or Facebook. 

On 22/09/2017 at 19:27, EmeraldBlue said:

f**k off

 nothing beats intellectual debate, something you obviously lack and so have to resort to insults, 

On 23/09/2017 at 08:24, dkw said:

You might, but that just makes you look like a moron.

Really ?!! so anyone with a differing view than yer own is a moron, correct ?!!! , how tragic 

On ?17?/?09?/?2017 at 10:14, ashwin said:

Not sure that is true though. The admiration is begrudging given the circumstances but I think most on this forum see him as a world class striker. I certainly do.

Yes, except for August.

54 minutes ago, Forever Blue said:

Really ?!! so anyone with a differing view than yer own is a moron, correct ?!!! , how tragic 

Your views must be massively different to mine then....

Here's an unpopular opinion.

I think Drogba for all his greatness wasn't a prolific goal scorer, I think his lack of consistency cost us in many of our bad seasons when Jose left, we once put Anelka up front instead and he ended up winning the golden boot. I daresay Diego Costa was a better goal scorer, not a better player, however, but his goals to games ratio show that he was superior to Didier at putting the ball in the back of the net. 

EDIT: I've just realised this has already been said by @Scott Harris my bad, fully agree with you though. But still a legend nonetheless, single-handedly won this club about 9 trophies on his own. 

Edited September 26, 20178 yr by Slojo

I don't buy this referee conspiracy against Chelsea and think the idea is ridiculous. 

1 minute ago, Argo said:

I don't buy this referee conspiracy against Chelsea and think the idea is ridiculous. 

Agreed!  I don't buy any of the FA conspiracies either.

5 minutes ago, Argo said:

I don't buy this referee conspiracy against Chelsea and think the idea is ridiculous. 

I don't think there is a conspiracy but I do think out of the top teams us & City lack protection on commentary. The Diego Costa crimes a big one, three Liverpool pundits on Sky did their best to get Costa banned. Did Costa deserve the ban? Yes, but that lead to Costa consistently being penalised by the referees, after that game he never got one penalty and I can't tell you how many times he was fouled in the box that season.

I used to cringe when Mourinho kept going on about a campaign against Chelsea but he hit the nail on the head when he said MOTD or Sky never have Chelsea pundits, it's always Liverpool, Arsenal & Manchester. 

On 10/09/2017 at 00:51, TheFunkeyGibbon said:

You want an unpopular opinion? Our fan base is infested with racists and we are far too quick to defend their behaviour or pretend it's not a problem. It's not Spurs fans blocking a black man from getting on a train. Or Everton fans wrecking a cafe and abusing waiters.

And it wasn't the Leicester fans chanting anti-Semitic songs today.

Chelsea condemn anti-Semitic Alvaro Morata chant from fans at Leicester - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41216477

I'm sick to death of other fans of the club I love letting me down by being thugs and racists.

Yep, we have had this issue quite a lot actually compared to other clubs, I myself have never experienced racism at the bridge but I know people who have, but not recently. Our behaviour in Paris, however, was embarrassing, not just the train incident, all the riots, fighting, trashing up restaurants, it was awful. But I think our Club has taken great action in banning a lot of these supporters.

So we can't criticise the club but we can criticise some fans that ignore it. 

Edited September 26, 20178 yr by Slojo

19 minutes ago, Slojo said:

I don't think there is a conspiracy but I do think out of the top teams us & City lack protection on commentary. The Diego Costa crimes a big one, three Liverpool pundits on Sky did their best to get Costa banned. Did Costa deserve the ban? Yes, but that lead to Costa consistently being penalised by the referees, after that game he never got one penalty and I can't tell you how many times he was fouled in the box that season.

I used to cringe when Mourinho kept going on about a campaign against Chelsea but he hit the nail on the head when he said MOTD or Sky never have Chelsea pundits, it's always Liverpool, Arsenal & Manchester. 

There is a bit of an element of bias in punditry i agree, but i just don't buy it with ref's one little bit, they are rubbish, not cheats. We are having a bad run at the minute with ref decision's but we have also had periods when we had numerous dodgy decision's go in our favour, like Carlo's tenure where it felt we got away with something almost every week, or what about Jose's return where we got that crazy non penalty vs WBA to preserve his home record?

Another conspiracy i can't stand is the one when apparently team's outside the top 6 apparently play for their lives vs us but tamely role over for rivals. Im guessing United fans are probably saying the same about Stoke right now, likewise City fans about Everton.

Edited September 26, 20178 yr by Argo

3 minutes ago, Argo said:

There is a bit of an element of bias in punditry i agree, but i just don't buy it with ref's one little bit, they are rubbish, not cheats. We are having a bad run at the minute with ref decision's but we have also had periods when we had numerous dodgy decision's go in our favour, like Carlo's tenure where it felt we got away with something almost every week, or what about Jose's return where we got that crazy non penalty vs WBA to preserve his home record?

Another conspiracy i can't stand is the one when apparently team's outside the top 6 apparently play for their lives vs us but tamely role over for rivals, im guessing United fans are probably saying the same about Stoke right now, likewise City re Everton.

Yep I agree, it's ridiculous, I mean every fan on every forum you go on you see the same thing, "media is against us" "referees are against us" "teams love to raise their game against us" 

But I was very pissed off how they never showed Crouch's tackle on MOTD, you know for a fine fact if it had been United, Liverpool or Arsenal it would have been discussed by either Phil Neville, Keown or Danny Murphy. And if that had happened Crouch probably would have been banned, that's where I think we are at a disadvantage at times. 

Can you remember this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11315400/Jose-Mourinho-claims-there-is-a-campaign-to-portray-Chelsea-as-divers.html

Although Mourinho is a whinging bar steward we all know, he actually had a point. I'm not sure if you can remember but MOTD did a full segment on our players diving not long before Fabregas was wrongfully booked for simulation. They grilled all our players like Willian, Costa & Hazard going down a lot during the match. Don't get me wrong our diving was dreadful, but I've seen no different from other teams and they've never had that same treatment before. Mourinho even discussed that and he said MOTD were wrong for criticising our players, I don't think they were but I at least want them to have some consistency and it does impact our game, from then on we were never getting penalties awarded, our players were booked for no reason. I believe that season we had 3 penalties in the league, 3! That's terrible, we deserved about 11. That was the same season Matic got sent off in that bull sh*t Burnley game. 

4 hours ago, Argo said:

I don't buy this referee conspiracy against Chelsea and think the idea is ridiculous. 

I agree, but i do think there is something going on. I don't think refs are deliberately not giving us decisions because they hate us, but i do think that they don't feel any pressure to make big calls in our favour. Let me give you an example of what i mean. Say a ref get's a decision wrong against United, Liverpool or Arsenal, that ref will be heavily criticised by pundits and the media and on highlights shows you can guarantee they will dedicate a decent amount of time calling out the ref for the poor decision. Now if this was to happen against us, like the Crouch tackle at the weekend, then the ref wouldn't be criticised, in this case the refs decision didn't even get a mention on MOTD. Because the refs bad calls gets highlighted in the games involving clubs like United, Liverpool and Arsenal, you will then see refs become afraid of getting things wrong in the next game involving these teams which ends up with these teams getting big decision's in their favour, even if it is an unfair decision.

If anything, it shows how mentally weak a lot of refs are and how easily influenced they are by the media and football pundits. Look at Costa, he was made out to be a cheat before he even joined the club, then he ended up getting booked for diving on his first game for the club when it wasn't even a dive. If he was a United, Arsenal or Liverpool player, i highly doubt he would have received that kind of treatment on his first game. Another example of refs being influenced by the media is the reaction to Mane's high foot. In the next week of fixtures, we got a yellow card for an over head kick, something that is incredibly rare to see in football. I don't think a United, Liverpool or Arsenal player would get booked for that kind of thing. They wouldn't book their players because it would put them in the spotlight and football pundits and the media would say the ref is overreacting after what happened to Mane the week before.

The media treat us as an easy target, they have done since Roman Abramovich arrived and "killed football", and this way of thinking spreads through the game and influences decision's made for or against us.

People buying tickets for games with no intention of going and then trying to sell them on here. Manipulating Loyalty point system. Buyer of ticket should be given the points. That would clear up problem of people who "can't go"

3 hours ago, Richard P said:

People buying tickets for games with no intention of going and then trying to sell them on here. Manipulating Loyalty point system. Buyer of ticket should be given the points. That would clear up problem of people who "can't go"

Agreed - especially repeat offenders.  I have sold a couple through here but genuinely bought for someone who then couldn't make it.  But yeah, I would've been happy to transfer the points.  So, not unpopular as far as I'm concerned!

In 2009 UCL second leg against Barca, our failure to convert chances was the main reason of our downfall.