cosmicway

Not really. Against Leicester we were paddling. This was a case of bad luck and the ref could have given us a pen too.

No, we had final efforts tonight but the ball was n't going in. Still we have no forwards worthy of the name.

Spurs were fcuking lucky. Their penalty was an offside by a mile.

Against City last season was two tearful affairs. Against City couple of seasons ago we won 1-0 at the City ground after the defense performed heroics but it was n't parking the bus ! We hit the woodwork 3 times and failed to make it 2-0. You call that parking the bus ? I missed very few matches the last eight seasons, The only cases where we indeed parked the bus on purpose were those two & with 10 men in the case of Barcelona. But that's neither here nor there. When a team has to approach a match that way they should do so. I did not comment against our opponents of two days ago for doing that but because they are a very poor side and we should be winning 5-0 against such opposition. About Leicester I did not say the same things, because they put up a very good performance.

Incidentally we never played that way ! Only against Atletico in the semi of 2014 in Madrid. Against Barca, the 2-2, we were down to 10 men after Terry was sent off. I do not criticize, but that does n't make Soton a team worth talking about. Look at their table position.

Good in parking their bus. Okidoki. Maybe PAOK also, had they not been left with ten men ...

Sarri ball: About Sarri ball a description is given here: https://www.goal.com/en-in/news/what-is-sarriball-how-chelseas-tactics-could-change-after/pqijnswg5x3x1lpvp5yulnab2 It says this: So the tiki taka passing is meant to confude the defenders so they leave a gap somewhere, for the attackers to exploit. As such it's not something new. It's what Jose Mourinho said he was going to do back in 2014 (and he did win the premier that year in fact). So it's Mourinho ball ! It does n't work because our players bar Hazard are slow like Thames barges. So the vertical tiki-taka more often than not becomes the safe pass backwards, as if we are playing to slow things down. In addition when the gap is finally found, it's Morata at the receiving end who has managed to place himself in an offside position. With some other players or with some other level of opposition it might work. From all those systems, I prefer the Conte system, when we also had Diego Costa in the team.

It's a Greek tragedy with the Baltic countries. I have no doubt that those people in the pictures are real nazis but this is what happens when you are attacked simlultaneously by two enemies. The same things happened in Poland, Ukraine and Greece. Those two systems nazism and communism are responsible for everything and there are still people believing in them !

Just like under Jose. Where is the "Sarri ball", or attempted "Sarri ball" ; And if the opponent is as poor as Southampton was, then in 90 minutes one or two sort of chances will come up anyway. I found myself drifting many times today as I was watching this match and thinking about other things. The "boring-boring Chelsea" chant we were hearing many years ago. This type of display is 100% the manager's fault.

We were appalling once again. We could have won. Morata's goal ought to have stood, also the penalty. But the opposition were useless. Their best chance was a shot going wide and Kepa touched it so it went for a corner. Against such opposition Chelsea was a pain in the eye to watch. Any neutral watching this match would have switched channels in a couple of minutes. I don't understand this slow motion football we are playing. Why was Mourinho's system any different ? The absence of a forward of Diego quality is no excuse. I 've seen other teams with good players all round but a weakness in the number 9 position and they are not a pain to watch like Chelsea is thse days. That Chelsea was an Arsenal from the darkest lagoons.

Saw him yesterday against Spal. Scored one goal -alone, empty net- then missed a good chance or two. I reckon he 's better than Morata but not a great deal.

We 're back on an even keel, as the objective seems to be a limited one, to finish in the top 4. It's a pain in the neck to be 11 ponts behind the scouser team 11 points and 5 points behind Spurs (!). All these things are self inflicted wounds. Yesterday we played with no forward and it's better that way because both Morata and Giroud don't seem to be up to it.

The one thing I did n't like about the Leicester match was the almost total capitulation after they scored their goal. True there were the Rudiger and Alonso chances but they all looked like broken men, one childish mistake after the other. This was not the case in the other defeat, at Wolves. We tried for 20-25 minutes to come back against Wolves. Sarri has to find that psychologist.

Everybody was completely and utterly demoralised in the last half hour - except Kepa.

We could easily have won the bloody match. If one of the first half chances had gone in then Leicester could n't come back. Even if they scored an equalizer it would be different in the last half hour, so we could have won that way. Then everybody here would say "how nice". It was not like e.g. Spurs who outplayed us. I mean to say the dirt is hidden under the carpet even when we win. There are huge problems to be solved.

Vardy is a useful forward. Why is he not in one of the big clubs now ?

With Bats or Remy we might. After the 1-0 the Chelsea team might as well have left the pitch.

Could it be deliberately self inflicted.?

Who cares about the military ? Certainly not the Scots. British military is in any case only for parades nowadays. Back in 2003 it took the British two months to occupy Basra when the Americans were having a party crossing the desert and entering Baghdad. The British are good code breakers, i 'd give them that, but as for military ... it is I 'm afraid only the USA and from the other side Vladimir (Mayhe's new boyfriend as it happens). The brexiteers are vindictive people however. Noboy likes them, including the Americans and the commonwealth countries.

The Scots are boiling mad. You are talking out of your a**. All the brexiteers should be taken to a wild island and placed in a potato sack with a cat.

The Scots voted by 55 to 45 in favour of union. Now I 'm looking for Scots who are pro-europe and formerly pro-union. You are looking for Scots who are anti-europe and formerly pro-indy. Make a bet.

Scotland will be fine, that's for sure. England will be like Venezuela - but they will have eaten the brexiteers by then so England too will be fine.

Brexit will be dead before Easter. If Mayhem goes for "hard brexit" then the people will be forced to eat from the dustbins and they are going to chase her and Bojo with clubs. As for the postwar NATO aber naturalich it stood between us and the USSR and the NATO alliance as well as EU originated as a Greek-British affair, because Winston in those days was in favour of a "United States of Europe" - going further than modern day Europeanists. The rest were not involved (French-Dutch-Belgians-Danes ...) because even if they wanted, the axis was occupying them. But what happened in our time, after the fall of the USSR ? The fanatical and illiterate brexiteers seeing that the imminent danger was gone, came out of their closets and started attacking the EU. They did not want to reform and improve the EU, they wanted to destroy it and make Europe return to barbarism. Fortunately it's such a gigantic nonsense and the entire scheme is about to flop before it begins.

I don't get some of the random things you say. As for Gr it's where it all started -simultaneously with the battle of Britain to be fair and exact. Because France had fallen, USA were neutral as also USSR. So it was GR and GB left fighting and this is where NATO was born for real - not in Paris in 1953. The various communist collaborator governments that cropped up lated is a national misfortune - that too is correct. But things with Brexit are going from bad to worse and as for the Spaniards they can take Gib with only a few policemen and a squad car. The place is impregnable from the sea but not from mainland Spain and the reason Franco did not take it during the war is that he knew Hitler was going lose and then it would be curtains for him too. The typical brexiteer is an illiterate person. It's a low life working class movement and while some Tories jumped in the bandwagon for electoral gains, the real Tories know better than that.