13 minutes ago, charierre said:

Fooking hell!

Come on man wtf

21 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Are we sure he's not cosplaying? I recognise that symbol on his jacket, it's the Umbrella Corporation logo from the Resident Evil games 😆

It's been confirmed now, this is exactly what it was 😂

Excellent 3 points considering how poor we were in the first half.

Good signs that we are beginning to win games when not playing well.

Still think we desperately need a CB.

I think we’ll be top at the end of the next round of fixtures

from sky sports news.

Maresca hints at new striker signing after Delap injury

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has revealed Liam Delap will be sidelined for several weeks due to a hamstring injury.

"The injury doesn't look good. He was full speed, hamstring. It requires weeks," Maresca said in his press conference after the game.

"In terms of another striker, we just finished the game. Now we will see if we take any decisions."

On the future of Jackson and whether it was too late to prevent him from leaving the club, Maresca added: "I just said, we finish the game and came here. We will see. I don't know.

"When you have two strikers, it's enough. When one is injured, it is probably not enough."

4 minutes ago, OneTommyLangley said:

from sky sports news.

Maresca hints at new striker signing after Delap injury

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has revealed Liam Delap will be sidelined for several weeks due to a hamstring injury.

"The injury doesn't look good. He was full speed, hamstring. It requires weeks," Maresca said in his press conference after the game.

"In terms of another striker, we just finished the game. Now we will see if we take any decisions."

On the future of Jackson and whether it was too late to prevent him from leaving the club, Maresca added: "I just said, we finish the game and came here. We will see. I don't know.

"When you have two strikers, it's enough. When one is injured, it is probably not enough."

Is Datro Fofana still in the building?

Going to keep saying though, Semenyo looks excellent again today. Can play wide and can play up to. Big, strong and pacy with real quality

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Jacksons loan move is off!

Never ever wanted VAR. supposed to be here to end this type of debate. Pointless other than ruining that spontaneous release of emotion we all miss.

Anyway I’m all for winning ugly but we can’t do a Sonia Jackson every weekend.

33 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's been confirmed now, this is exactly what it was 😂

He's cosplaying as Hunk. The arrest was around the corner from an anime and comic con. The police are an embarrassment, you'd think they have been told to be aware of cosplayers, it didn't need half a dozen police officers to pile onto him and to risk a panic.

They'll probably charge the poor guy now to try and save their blushes.

1 minute ago, abigsmurf said:

He's cosplaying as Hunk. The arrest was around the corner from an anime and comic con. The police are an embarrassment, you'd think they have been told to be aware of cosplayers, it didn't need half a dozen police officers to pile onto him and to risk a panic.

They'll probably charge the poor guy now to try and save their blushes.

I agree, but at the same time, I think London has become such a sh*thole for crime that the police are now on edge.

29 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Is Datro Fofana still in the building?

Going to keep saying though, Semenyo looks excellent again today. Can play wide and can play up to. Big, strong and pacy with real quality

There is a stirkey up in sunderland of ours who hasnt got any game time yet this season, absolutely perfect third choice striker collecting dust tup north

51 minutes ago, bluelightening said:

There is a stirkey up in sunderland of ours who hasnt got any game time yet this season, absolutely perfect third choice striker collecting dust tup north

He scored a really good header in the league cup the other day too.

Goalless draw tomorrow we are indeed top and in all scenarios our worst position will be second. Considering our performances can’t complain at that at all, result.

Just finished watching in DVR. Couldn’t be assed to get up at 4.30 but did peek at team at 3.30 ah insomnia

Lot of drama😂 VAR defo blue so far this season. Glad Jacko staying sensible as Delap #9 cursed already 😅

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

He scored a really good header in the league cup the other day too.

Oh I'd missed that. Excellent !

Beggars belief though that were happy for him to be 3rd striker up at Sunderland whereas we thought we could get by with only two down here, despite have CL fixtures on top of what Sunderland would have ...

One injury and it all falls apart .. plan ? What plan ... LOL

49 minutes ago, SFL82 said:

Goalless draw tomorrow we are indeed top and in all scenarios our worst position will be second. Considering our performances can’t complain at that at all, result.

At what point is Maresca going to announce that we are not in a title race I wonder ? LOL.

Harsh from Chelsea blocking Jacko's move though we all understand why.

Good that we will be in 1st or 2nd place until just after the International break and we might even get a defender back by then.

We are in trouble now, the media, pundits, ex players from other clubs have made such an issue out of today’s match I can see Fulham getting an apology and refs denying us decisions unless it’s blatant until this all blows over.

40 minutes ago, 2211 said:

We are in trouble now, the media, pundits, ex players from other clubs have made such an issue out of today’s match I can see Fulham getting an apology and refs denying us decisions unless it’s blatant until this all blows over.

MotD was pathetic. Danny Murphy and Steph Houghton both felt VAR got the penalty call right, but Murphy felt the disallowed goal was the worst VAR call he's ever seen. Absolute hysteria, which will cost us with refs and VAR over the season.

It's of course not relevant that one of Murphy's many clubs was Fulham.

2 hours ago, Backbiter said:

MotD was pathetic. Danny Murphy and Steph Houghton both felt VAR got the penalty call right, but Murphy felt the disallowed goal was the worst VAR call he's ever seen. Absolute hysteria, which will cost us with refs and VAR over the season.

It's of course not relevant that one of Murphy's many clubs was Fulham.

I stopped watching that sh*te years ago. It's dated.

3 hours ago, 2211 said:

We are in trouble now, the media, pundits, ex players from other clubs have made such an issue out of today’s match I can see Fulham getting an apology and refs denying us decisions unless it’s blatant until this all blows over.

MOtD is trash. Both calls were correct. First was very soft, but the correct call. No idea why anyone would claim second was not a pen. Joao Pedros touch was ball to hand, theirs was hand to ball. Simple. No need for a ref apology, they got it bang on.

If you want to any more evidence that the media overreact to a decision that goes in our favour, look at the penalty Dowman won for Arsenal. Pretty much exactly the same thing, zero outrage.

11 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

At what point is Maresca going to announce that we are not in a title race I wonder ? LOL.

That literally came into my head when I wrote that lol

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The refereeing in our match was poor, let’s be honest. For me, excuses like “finally refereeing in our favor” don’t cut it. I can’t even imagine the chaos on the forum if the exact same refereeing went against us – total meltdown.

Pedro looks like a fantastic signing so far, while I really don’t get Gittens – nothing special. The man management with George yesterday, plus playing him out of position, was at the very least laughable, if not worse. Delap got injured and will be out for at least 2 months, which is a shame, but stopping Jackson in the middle of Munich, a player who doesn’t even want to be here anymore, and trying to drag him back to the Bridge by force… that’s incompetence of the highest order. It was obvious we were one injury away from mild panic in terms of strikers, yet we did nothing about it. And now, on deadline day, we’re stuck dealing with bloody Jackson and whether or not we’ll actually force him back.

We prioritized Garnacho, didn’t properly address the CB situation, and Sanchez is still the goalkeeper. On paper, the transfer window looked good, but when you take a step back, it was chaotic, messy – I can’t even find the right word.

10 hours ago, Backbiter said:

MotD was pathetic. Danny Murphy and Steph Houghton both felt VAR got the penalty call right, but Murphy felt the disallowed goal was the worst VAR call he's ever seen. Absolute hysteria, which will cost us with refs and VAR over the season.

It's of course not relevant that one of Murphy's many clubs was Fulham.

Meh. Sam sh*tterface on Talksh*t was of the view that Chalobah deliberately slid his foot under Muniz's to engineer the situation.