OhForAGreavsie

Thanks for the info Spike. I confess that I couldn't care less about which sportswear company produces our kit as long as their deal with CFC gives the club a fair slice of the pie. As it happens, I like the 16/17 design because it's a throwback to the kit the club was wearing the season before I became a fan in that last summer before Sgt. Pepper. I saw the ladies wear it on Saturday and then the lads on Sunday. In neither case was the patterning in the material that some people have complained about noticeable.

I didn't know the page existed and now I do, I'm going to try to forget again as soon as possible. If I don't, I might be tempted to click along there and, if I do that ,then there is a high probability my fingers and my keyboard will conspire to get me into trouble!

Fortunately for me Cricket is my first love so I'll find a way to get through this.

100% percent with you on this. Every time I talk with fellow Chelsea fans about Glen's vital contribution to our story they all agree without hesitation yet Glen does not seen to get the recognition he deserves. Perhaps it's those embarrassing connections of his.

Will you stop with this simplistic nonsense. Michael Emenalo does not run our club and while he cannot escape his share of the blame for our decent, nor is he exclusively responsible for it. How and why self-declared Chelsea fans speak in these terms about Chelsea people is utterly beyond me. Personally I'd rather have M.E. in the board room, than opinions expressed on here in the way you choose to express them. Nothing wrong with holding and sharing strong views of course, but I don't buy the way you have done it this time.

I go back to The Doc who, by the way, would rate quite well on my list. Doubt I could even name them all though unless I looked one or two up.

For a long time my own view has been that Tammy's technical limitations will put paid to his first team chances no matter how he develops physically. Agree with you however that this is what Tammy has to do if he is to have any hope of overcoming those limitations.

A fantasy which fuels excessive agitation with the non-selection of development squad players. We don't have a single player that matches the words you give to the 'youth level'. We have a few who match some of the attributes described by those words, but none who match them all.

I'm convinced that it would not. It didn't really suit yesterday either. That's the accepted story of course. It is not my opinion but I'll give you that the overwhelming majority view would be on your side of that discussion.

Liked what i saw from him this afternoon. Think I may have to revise my opinion of him upward. One thing there is no longer any room for doubt about is that Kante is a better player than Maka was.

Oh please let it be so.

Sadly yes we were horrible. I thought Katie Chapman was great in the middle and Gemma Davidson was brilliant as ever but we just were not able to get her into the game often enough. Our other ball player, Karen Carney, was even more isolated. I don't know how many touches Kaz had in the first half but it wasn't many. Arsenal on the other hand were good, scored a great goal, and thoroughly deserved their win I'm afraid. As is often the case, the offical MoTM picker got it wrong and went for the goal scorer even though both Kelly Smith and their 24, who played wide right, made more impact for them. Even at the veteran stage of her career, Kelly really does look a class act. I was talking to a young woman at Wheatsheef park last Sunday about how we thought Kelly might do at Wembley or even id she would start. To our cost, we now know the answers. At least my nieces enjoyed the day, screaming their heads off and even getting into a bit of banter with Bully of Arsenal Fan TV fame. He's a nice bloke actually. Full on support for his team but with a smile on his face and having a good time with everybody. A proper fan. A few disappointments and criticisms: - The attendance was a huge let down. When you consider that this was a local derby between two well supported clubs and that, unlike last year, kids tickets were free, then a crowd which was roughly 1,200 up on 2015's is nothing for the women's game to celebrate. Neither club nor the the two governing bodies, FA & WSL, got behind the game as much as they should have done. There was the odd media mention beforehand but no evidence that the game was actively being promoted. Once again no Abide With Me. Why not? I'm a big fan of Emma Hayes but she got the starting line up wrong. In my opinion she relies too much on Ji So Yun. Every time we play, Ji gets the big build up but she seldom lives up to it. Ji's reputation seems to me to be based on the fact that every once in a while she produces something special. One worldie every four or five matches is not the answer however. Minute by minute, game by game, Ji is more of a hindrance to our play than a help. She concedes possession easily and, rather like Mikel Jon Obi, doesn't put enough pace on her passes so that even the ones she completes, rob our attack of any sort of momentum. The contrast yesterday with Arsenal's ten, Kelly Smith, was stark. Swap those two around and we win comfortably. Ji's inability to retain possession and to produce good continuity play is the reason we couldn't get Gemma and Kaz into the game and one of the key factors in our defeat. Ji should not have started and my guess is that Emma, whose post game analysis is always honest and accurate, knows this better than we do. The ladies have done the club proud over the last three years but they are bound to be disappointed with yesterday. One bad game doesn't make you a bad side however. In fact they're a great side and sometime between now and Thursday night when they face Man City at home, Emma will help them remember that. Good luck girls.

It was mainly at Dortmund that I saw him play. I really got into the Bundesliga for a while when KDB was at Bremen. I never felt that I saw special.

This is an accurate assessment I think but I also believe that the best lies ahead for the Premier League. This crazy season has given the so called big sides a real jolt. I honestly don't think it ever occurred to them that someone from outside the cabal could do what Leicester did them. They have been kicked out of their complacency and will up their game. They will also be spurred by the challenge from domestic sides who are better able to tool up than has ever been the case before. I still think the absolute crème-de-la-creme will gravitate towards the Spanish and German mega clubs but Premier League clubs will begin, have begun indeed, fighting back. Already more of the world's top coaches are here than ever before. More of the world's better players will follow.

Is Goetze special? I have never been convinced. What have I missed with this bloke? Simply being better than we have currently is not good enough.

Between his imperfect English vocabulary and a cautious approach to what he says, Guus's meanings are often communicated more through body language than through the words he uses. He did not mean that we should infer from his comment that Eden will definitely be here next season. He was asked about Eden's form and it's implications for Belgium in the summer and Chelsea next season. Responding to that question he needed to say nice things about Eden, Belgium and Chelsea. That's what he tried to do but without ignoring the contributions of other players too.

My only disagreement with Wednesday's line up was the selection of Mikel over Tomori who I felt could have been given a start. One potential explanation I came up with is that Antonio Conte has an idea that MJO can be useful at CB and has asked for it to be tried out. That guess fits in with the point your are making.

With current levels of TV revenues there is no such thing as a small Premier League club, and there is certainly no such thing as a small Champion's League one. Not financially speaking anyway. Even if Leicester are relegated next season their revenues will still dwarf those of all but a tiny handful of the mega clubs in the rest of Europe. Throw in the fact that they have wealthy backers and there are only two ways money will cause them to part with a player; if if they don't think he's an important member of their side or if he has a buyout clause. Clearly the first won't apply to Kante and even though it is rumoured that there is a clause in his contract, Leicester will be able to compete hard with any offers he receives from elsewhere. If Kante chooses to move it will probably have more to do with the attraction of the club he joins, than with the money involved. I think we all have our doubts that any highly sought after player would choose Chelsea this summer. Hopefully that doubt is just the natural pessimism of the football fan.

I have been a fan of Washington's NFL team for many years. I used to use the team name but I don't any longer. It's not a matter of being pc, or of pandering to certain strands of opinion. It's simply that I learned the name is offensive to many people and so I don't want to use it. In a similar way, what you are, and what you do, is for you to think about, not me.

Note I did not describe the term as referring to a race. In fact the whole use of the word race in this context is incorrect since there is only one human race. Humans can be split into different ethnicities and this is what I talked about. Note again however that I did not specify any particular origin since travellers can trace their routes back to a number of different ethnic groups. There is not doubt that the term in the song refers to travellers just as there is no doubt that those families recognise that word as both insulting and referring to their ethnicity. http://www.srtrc.org/faqs#faq4466 In any case, people have been found guilty of racially aggravated offences for using the term in the song so, legally, as well as culturally, it is racist.

Thanks RS. It is used as a derogatory way to refer to people of a certain ethnicity. Of course it's racist.

Love the respect but not the song. Can't love a song which includes a racist term I'm afraid. Where was the respect for Studge last night? What did he do wrong?

I don't agree with you about Kennedy's touch but I do agree that he should play more. I see no reason for persisting with Baba. These minutes should have gone to Kennedy.

So undeserved.

Jimmy Greaves, the greatest of them all, scored on his Chelsea debut. Come on Tammy.