I remember a radio interview with some Spanish journo saying that now he has done the 'inherited' rich team thing, he's just as likely to shock everyone and go somewhere really unfashionable where he can build everything up from scratch. I'd be delighted it if he turned all the moneybags clubs down, chose someone not in the CL and gave it a real go.
How did this thread get off the first page?
Looks like Roman has run out of patience with his latest manager and is about to tinker: Grant could return to Chelsea in advisory role to help Benítez.
How did this thread get off the first page?
Looks like Roman has run out of patience with his latest manager and is about to tinker: Grant could return to Chelsea in advisory role to help Benítez.
I actually felt sorry for Benitez at the weekend. The poor fudger wont last till Christmas.
I actually felt sorry for Benitez at the weekend. The poor fudger wont last till Christmas.
.Chelscum Fan said:Hazard is one of the highest earners at the club, cost us 30 mill£ and all he does is dance with WIgan, Nordskjælland and Reading players. he isn`t that amazing at all. For once a media darling in the Chelsea midfield,a dn when they picked one, they picked a true c++t. He is playing for himself, not the team. He is the Torres of the midfield. On a day when the whole team performs well, he is good, the team having an off day, he is maybe the worst player. He is a lazy prude. Needs to quit diving and get on with his game.
That quote is classic. Hint; Hazard's not the only true **** at Chelsea Football Club. John Terry, Roman Abramovich, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Ron Gourlay, the racists in the stands, the firms in the pubs.......
But no, it's 'we know what we are Champions of Europe' every time. It sometimes vexes me about football that tribalism masks almost everything that is wrong with a club's actions. The fans will defend it to the death, regardless of what it does, every single time. It's not just Chelsea; we'd do it too, and only the truly saintly will deny it.
If we bought ****s like that, had an owner like that, threatened referees like that, created controversies like that......I'd like to say I'd be conscientious and abandon the club I love, but I know I won't. I'll be around ,defending what we do, and excusing what we do. I'd justify it to myself by saying it's because of the memory of what the club used to be, but I'd be lying. Because the only thing that would change is that it would be me doing the defending, and other clubs' fans doing the pointing and laughing.
This tribalism is what has electrified and simultaneously irrevocably damaged football. It has given it a passion unrivalled by other sports, but it has made otherwise decent people do things and excuse things they normally would never consider doing themselves, and gives the real ****s of society, the racists and the hooligans, the blanket approval they feel justifies them in some way.
Short of outright racism and abuse,because I believe there are some things most Spurs fans will never countenance... there's little that Chelsea fans do that we wouldn't also do.
And to be honest, Sol Campbell and Arsene Wenger would beg to disagree with the first part of the last sentence anyway.
And so we fall to the lowest common defense; we're not the only ones, and we're by far the least offensive of the lot. Only, every club's fans think that.
Will this change? I don't know. And to be honest, it scares me that I don't know if I want it to change or not.
Maybe it's time to start a "Let's all laugh at Chelski" thread?
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