Originally posted by paul1Being that this is their 14th consecutive season in the Premiership (only missing out on one season since the P'ship was created in 1992), could you elaborate on your small-minded opinion that they shouldn't be in it.
Tacky, Tacky, Tacky. I long for the day when their very dubious nouveau riche gangster benefactor is nicked and Chelsea are back where they truly belong; down a division or two playing in front of 8,000 rascist animals caged in by electric fences.
And don't get me started on their manager......
Originally posted by Daemon SinThey languished in the lower divisions for some time I believe - running up huge debts trying to buy themselves out.
Being that this is their 14th consecutive season in the Premiership (only missing out on one season since the P'ship was created in 1992), could you elaborate on your small-minded opinion that they shouldn't be in it.
Bet the starving Russian millions are happy knowing their hard earned money is going on pampered footballers and luxury yachts.
I too look forward to seeing the diminuitive Russian thief sent to a gulag and living on fish eye soup.
Originally posted by Daemon SinI suppose you've supported them for years zzzzzzzzzz
Being that this is their 14th consecutive season in the Premiership (only missing out on one season since the P'ship was created in 1992), could you elaborate on your small-minded opinion that they shouldn't be in it.
chelsea have - famously - no history. liverpool had won their league 4 times before chelsea were even founded! people are bedazzled by the huge amounts of $cash that are floating around, which distract attention away from the paucity of their trophy cabinet.
as for the current outfit - the pitch is a disgrace, mourhino spent most of his post-match interview against barca railing against sky's mis-treatment of essian instead of the game at hand (it *was* priceless tv though, haha), and how a man like mourinho can ever complain about players diving anyway is a joke - he was moaning about barca players diving when they learnt their trade when playing under mourhino at porto!
Originally posted by EdwardipovMourinho is not a joke, and of course his comments are hypocritical. He wants to sound like a hypocrite. I also supsect he knows the absurdity of his complaints over Sky's treatment of the Essien tackle. But on a night where Chelsea lost to a better team, what does everyone talk about? The pitch, the sending off, his comments re: diving, the Essien tackle.
chelsea have - famously - no history. liverpool had won their league 4 times before chelsea were even founded! people are bedazzled by the huge amounts of $cash that are floating around, which distract attention away from the paucity of their trophy cabinet.
as for the current outfit - the pitch is a disgrace, mourhino spent most of his post-match inte ...[text shortened]... g about barca players diving when they learnt their trade when playing under mourhino at porto!
All he is doing is deflecting attention from his team losing, Barcelona being a better football team, the daunting task of the away leg, the way the Del Horno signing hasn't particularly worked out. He knows that if the media were talking about these things, it could affect the players, their confidence and their performance, as well as boosting the opposition.
So instead he turns on the hypocrisy, the stuff about the pitch and 'ugly scientists', decisions by the ref, Barcelona's theatres, and all the rest of the junk. And by the looks of it, it's working.
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Originally posted by T1000i'm not entirely convinced by that... barcelona might have been the better team, but we'll never know considering chelsea had to play 70 minutes against them with only 10 men - and still managed to take the lead. and no-one, except mourhino, was talking about the essian tackle on the night. everyone *was* talking about the sending off and the pitch, and rightly so - they were both pertinent to the eventual result, imho.
Mourinho is not a joke, and of course his comments are hypocritical. He [b]wants to sound like a hypocrite. I also supsect he knows the absurdity of his complaints over Sky's treatment of the Essien tackle. But on a night where Chelsea lost to a better team, what does everyone talk about? The pitch, the sending off, his comments re: diving, the Essien tack Barcelona's theatres, and all the rest of the junk. And by the looks of it, it's working.[/b]
couldn't agree more about del horno though.
edit: i don't think anyone's accusing mourinho of being a joke, by the way, even though his behaviour after the game was comical.
Originally posted by EdwardipovAye, apologies, you said a man like Mourinho making complaints about diving was a joke, rather I suppose than specifically labelling Mourinho himself as a joke.
i'm not entirely convinced by that... barcelona might have been the better team, but we'll never know considering chelsea had to play 70 minutes against them with only 10 men - and still managed to take the lead. and no-one, except mourhino, was talking about the essian tackle on the night. everyone *was* talking about the sending off and the pitch, and r ...[text shortened]... mourinho of being a joke, by the way, even though his behaviour after the game was comical.
By 'Essien tackle' I meant 'Sky's coverage of the Essien tackle' and after Mourinho made the comments several news outlets - both online and newspaper - picked up on it and ran it as a story. You yourself talked about it in your post! Number of stories focusing on the fact that had signed a better left back they might not have found themself in that position? Not many.
Although there might be more tomorrow - apparantly Del Horno came off after 20 minutes in this afternoon's game against Portsmouth to be replaced by Damian Duff at left back!
Originally posted by KirwanFor info, Abramovich is an elected governor of a remote Russian region called Chukotka, just across the way from Alaska. Its capital is Anadir. He stood for election and ousted the previous and unpopular governor in said self-governing region.
They languished in the lower divisions for some time I believe - running up huge debts trying to buy themselves out.
Bet the starving Russian millions are happy knowing their hard earned money is going on pampered footballers and luxury yachts.
I too look forward to seeing the diminuitive Russian thief sent to a gulag and living on fish eye soup.
As a result of this the standard of living there has shot up and people don't tend to freeze to death in winter any more. Our friend the Chelsea owner has also made extensive progress in providing jobs and opportunities for the people of the region who have responded in kind by taking them and ceasing to migrate to Moscow or Vladivostok at the first opportunity.
Children from this region now also have unprecendented and exciting opportunities to travel and learn more than how to rake snow off their cars. Abramovich's money takes these kids to the Black Sea for summer camps etc etc etc
So it is NOT all one-way traffic, and please can we not assume that everybody with more than a few quid is inherently evil.
So, be told!
Originally posted by T1000This guy knows how to play ball, it's all part of the show.
Mourinho is not a joke, and of course his comments are hypocritical. He [b]wants to sound like a hypocrite. I also supsect he knows the absurdity of his complaints over Sky's treatment of the Essien tackle. But on a night where Chelsea lost to a better team, what does everyone talk about? The pitch, the sending off, his comments re: diving, the Essien tack ...[text shortened]... Barcelona's theatres, and all the rest of the junk. And by the looks of it, it's working.[/b]