cosmicway

plus the europa league final !

I did n't watch between halftime and the 4-3 due to a phonecall.

Napoli are a silly team. The bats will bite them.

Crazy match. Final against the bats at Baku most probably.

Arsenal are the better on paper. 1893 elo rating to Napoli's 1817. Plus it's a local derby against us and local derbies are always dangerous. Our elo rating is 1860, rather surprisingly below Arsenal. Eintracht or Benfica are not pushovers although somewhat lower rated (at 1799 and 1764 respectively) but Valencia at 1819 is certainly not out of it and could get the better of either the gooners or Napoli.

90 mins. I backed Ajax a little yesterday for the win ! But why they think Spurs chances are so exotic, is the question.

Spurs pay 10 to 1 for the win tomorrow. It's huge. Why ? At the same time Ajax pay 9 to 2 to win against Juve in Turin and Ajax are rated lower relative to Juve than Spurs are relative to Manchester City. Why this discrepancy ? Is it because of Kane ?

We had a chance to come back. Saleh was lucky. This shot is once in a lifetime. Why could n't Willian score in the first half with his effort ? But seriously it's not only yesterday's match that we are complaining about. Since 2015 with the exception of the Antonio break things are not going well. Three awful seasons - one good.

When we have the ball the build up is too predicatble. Would n't change match of we had a better striker but the same build up. Only Hazard makes some difference - can't be stopped except when fouled

How many times we had the ball down the wing and no one moved inside the box ! How about that ?

We had no physical condition in the second half compared to them. It was a matter of time before they scored. They got a lucky second then the three Hazard misses (!) - we could have come back with one of those.

The old Mazopoust in Stanley Mathews farewell match in 1965. Listen to those names. The commentator says ... all of them cost more than a million pounds in the transfer market !

A new Demba Ba please.

Saw the replay only. They had a Mazopoust in their team. Is he the grandson of the great Mazopoust ? Also their stadium is called ... Eden.

Slavia went straight to the preliminary groups of the Europa league. Finished close second to Zenit Petrograd (who went out to Villareal in the previous round) and managed to eliminate Sevilla next. In the Czech republic they are top of the league, 7 points ahead of Viktoria Plzen with three matches remaining. In terms of club elo ratings we are well ahead, some 150 points. What is the verdict ?

You fancy us winning by over one goal this one ?

Backed Barca yesterday for the win. There was a bonus bet too for the live and the slimy ones at bet365 were n't letting me use the bonus bet. I could n't possibly stay awake unitl the match hour anfd the slimy characters would have none of it.

Well things were normal yesterday. But the old Chelsea could also come back from behind (Mourinho, Antonio seasons). This team has problems and if it is some stronger opposition, like City say, then it's even worse. We do need some surgery.

West Ham are always causing trouble. They are not a top of the league side but not easy. Then Wolves was another easy one but ... We make it look easy when we play serious football.

A semblance of form at last, in view of the European clashes and Liverpool. Hazard was fantastic and the scoreline 2-0 is artificially low. I hate this Real Madrid talk, as if we are Apollon Athens, Xanthi FC, Corfu FC.

Brexit = Alles kaufen kommandant

Charlie Chester

Is 22 billion enough money ?

Yet another shock defeat. We 'd better get used to it because next season we are going to be way below the middle of the table. It did n't look likely at all. Hazard hit the post, Higuain almost scored -and he shoud have. For the first time we were creating chances, something I did n't see against Wolves or Man. United in the cup match. The 2-0 was of course a science fiction penalty but Everton studied us well and they knew we make mistakes in the second half. Alonso has no business at Chelsea of course.