MrExcalibur100

And I'm sorry, but Jose has absolutely nothing to moan about. It was his decision to let Lukaku and Mata leave. It was his decision to persist leave Cole out of the team. His decision to start Schwarzer in such an important match. We have played rubbish football for the majority of the season and we were rubbish for 80 mins against the bottom team. Jose has to accept these facts. All the "I have no striker" talk is just bullshit because we had Lukaku and we LET him leave. All this under happened under Jose's watch. He just has to accept ours and his shortcomings this seasons instead of playing a blame game. We've improved this season but that's to be expected because two seasons ago we had an ageing squad and last season, we lacked depth. This is our best squad since we last won the league. The fact is that it's Hazard and our defense that has been saving Chelsea. But we look clueless when we are expected to dominate possession. The team is a reactive one, not a proactive one and it's why we have lost to only minnows this season. We don't play football like a big team and that's largely due to the conservative tactics of the manager and his inability to set-up a team to play good football. Jose might be one of the best, but he has noticeable weaknesses.

His stubbornness and arrogance was a major part of our downfall today and now the league is gone. How he can possibly justify his decision to bench Cech and not even include Ashley Cole in the squad today, I will never know. He better have a good explanation as to why he made those decisions because they've directly/indirectly cost us two goals. And the persistence with Ivanovic at RB has become a joke now. An unacceptable joke really for such an experienced manager.

No Hazard no party. That much is obvious.

The decision has ended our season as far as I'm concerned but we have no one but ourselves to blame for 80 mins of a disgraceful performance. Utter spineless fucks, the lot of them. They have no balls and lack quality. Mourinho's home record gone, but I can give two fucks about that. If not for his stupid decision to bench Cech and not even include Cole in the line-up, then we wouldn't have conceded the 1st goal and Azpi would have played his natural position on the right. He wouldn't have slipped like that too. Mourinho is going to cry after the match, but he and our players are completely to blame for the calamitous fuck up.

The defense lacks character as well, Cahill and JT excluded. And what the fuck is character without quality?

I fucking hate English football. I wish we could just leave and play in a different league and a different country. You invest so much emotional energy into it only to have egg thrown in your face. The whole thing is a farce. A fucking sham.

I can't believe what I've just seen. How THE FUCK is that a penalty?????? I'm done with football and the shit premier league. This is fucking appaling. Our entire season is over after that decision. Just fuck off.

The football for majority of the season has been dire to watch and the sad reality is that we have the players to play much better than we actually are. Teams with less resources and quality than we do play much better than us. It's something most Chelsea fans won't dare say because of who is in charge. But when the football is shit and the team is struggling against the worst team in the division then it's disappointing. Just goes to show how Hazard has been covering our asses all season. And some fools still have the gall to go to the Hazard thread and moan about him. Hilarious but sad.

The thing that frustrates me is the fact that Cole is not even on the bench. When we need him most, he's not even there. Unless he's injured, that decision by Jose is bewildering. Also, if Cech wasn't injured, he should have started. That 1st goal is not happening with Cech in goal. At this stage of the season, we can't be shooting ourselves in the foot.

Azpi can't cross as well as he'd like because he's on the wrong flank. Ivanovic can't cross to save his life. The defensive solidity they provide blinds Jose to their other shortcomings, but these things become obvious against more defensive teams. The full-backs are contributing nothing and Oscar, Willian and Salah are not the same players when they have no spaces. Hazard is brilliant in tight spaces and always makes intelligent decisions when he attacks. This is why he is by far our best player and really our only world class attacking player. The other guys are hugely inconsistent at the moment and not good enough.

It's funny how even the worst teams in the division look very good defensively when they play us. I think this says more about our ponderous, clueless play than it does about Sunderland. Their defense is one of the worst in the PL. It's not even the scoreline. It's the non-existent amount of threat we offer when we try and build up attacks. Ivanovic is one of the major culprits with his horrid overlapping and clueless crosses. He doesn't have the pace or technical ability to be even a decent attacking full-back. He might get his crosses right sometimes, but the success rate must be very, very low.

Maybe we should just sub off Willian at half-time and bring on Demba Ba. Because the longer it takes to score, the more nervous our players become and the more frustrated the fans get. For a top side, we are too easy to play against. Go 4-4-2, bring on Ba and give these fucks something to think about.

Then why the fuck does he keep on crossing? He plays like he doesn't have a brain sometimes. He knows he doesn't have the pace to go around the opposition's full-back so he lumps hopeless wild crosses (most invariably blocked by the first man) into the box. Why he is considered an untouchable, I will never know. We looked better last season when we had bloody Bertrand at LB and Azpi at RB. We need to play these guys in their most natural positions and stop with all the bullshit.

WTF is his problem and why does he keep starting every game? Why is Cole not even on the bench again? It's just weird and frustrating. It's obvious to anyone with eyes he is horrible when he tries to overlap. Azpilicueta is doing nothing on the left as well. He always has to check back to his stronger foot to cross the ball, so it's all slow and ponderous. Ivanovic and Azpilicueta are not a long term solution. Jose can't complain about lack of height now, because we have Matic back. Ivanovic needs to drop to the bench and Cole should be out starting LB until the end of the season. I'm tired of this bullshit they provide. Those two guys do nothing against the smaller teams happy to sit back and our attacking players have to play in congested spaces. Willian has been terrible. Ramires nothing.

I'm sorry but Ivanovic is a fucking liability offensively. Awful crosses. Just shit.

Again nothing from Azpilicueta and Ivanovic. They are solid defensively but nothing offensively. It's so frustrating to watch both of them sometimes. Poor games from Willian and Ramires so far.

Easier to park the bus on our small pitch like we've seen many times this season.

Our attacking play is so vastly inferior when Hazard doesn't play. Does anyone know why Ashley Cole is not even on the bench? Very wierd

Hazard is a much better player and has single-handedly carried our attack this season but don't be surprised if Sturridge wins that award. Consider that it's been given to foreign players only 3 times and Kyle Walker won it ahead of fucking Sergio Aguero in 2011. It's a bit of a farce. Unlike the main one, the young player award is ridiculously biased in favour of English players. Hazard has no chance. Plus he plays for Chelsea, so no chance. More importantly,...... he's fit enough to play some minutes in Madrid so he can be fit and sharp at Merseyside. His potential absence has been ridiculously underrated here.

Except score 30+ goals a season. Lukaku and Costa are not on the same level. One is a world class striker, the other is a kid learning the trade. Lukaku's goal per minute ratio is no better than Eto'o or Demba Ba.

Yep, Cesc the Catalan will surely strike fear into the hearts of the Los Rojiblancos.

Their fans would probably have said the same after watching us vs Swansea, tbh.

I'm one of his biggest fans but seriously. Courtois makes a decent save that any good keeper will make and you guys hype it so much.

A pretty brilliant 4-part tactical analysis on our opponents in the semi's, for those of you interested in such stuff: - http://outsideoftheboot.com/2014/04/13/atletico-madrid-tactics-part-1-how-has-diego-simeone-set-up-his-side/ - http://outsideoftheboot.com/2014/04/13/atletico-madrid-tactics-part-2-how-do-they-build-play-up-from-the-defence-and-midfield/ - http://outsideoftheboot.com/2014/04/15/atletico-madrid-tactics-part-3-what-is-their-approach-in-the-attacking-third/ - http://outsideoftheboot.com/2014/04/17/atletico-madrid-tactics-part-4-what-is-their-defensive-set-up/

Paul Parker is a well-known Chelsea hating first-grade cunt. I'm glad the fucker is getting called out by even some of our rivals. What a twat and an absolute bellend he is.