cosmicway

When we talk about the possibilities of war breaking out, the brexiteers become indignant. They don't have the intention to declare war they say, so the accusation is -to their eyes- absurd. But this is neither here nor there. The rebirth of nationalism and the regrouping of communist guerrila armies are very real possibilities, when we no longer have united Europe. Already we have the Spain-Catalan conflict, the rogue Italian government, Erdogan threatening Greece and the communists who are homeless right now look forward to China to become their sponsor. Spain will also take the rock of Gibraltar thus ending centuries of British naval supremacy in the med. Those are very real world prorblems. The brexiteers naturally say "Czechoslovakia is a faraway country", like Nevil Chamberlain of old. At the same time however, because of their extreme foolishness, Britain itself is threatened with economic collapse. All that because of the ... Polish nurses who are working in the hospitals in the UK and for no other reason.

No what you are saying is crazy. Brexit's momentum is driving things that way, by design or otherwise. At the same time some of the brexiteers are definitely in the same basket and worse.

Spurs were lucky against us, with Atkinson a useful addition to their team on the day. We also made some dreadful mistakes. This time it will be different.

NATO was created in the fifties to defend the west against the USSR. These days Putin does n't care all that much to invade western Europe. In 2015 the scrounger lefties who rule Greece tried to persuade him to come over but in vain - hence they folded back and returned to the Merkel camp. At the same time the Brexiteers and the Trump want Europe to return to its nationalist past. A past in which communists were gouging out the eyeballs of the nuns and the the nazis were burning Jews in the ovens.

RIP

Brexit sucks. Once upon a time the Soviet Union was trying to break up the European Union, using its vast network of spies and saboteurs to create discontent. The Tories of the era resisted, as was natural for them to do, but not now. Now they are doing Putin's job and we see the old ghosts of ultra-nationalism one by one returning from their graves. Mosleyites-Lepenists-Afd. International communism is also searching for a formula to revive themselves. It's like Norwegian zombies.

Chelsea just did n't care. It was a question of Vidi being able to produce just a touch of football, which they did. On the plus side the two free kicks - especially from Willian who could n't find the net from set pieces since Mourinho's time. Olympiakos ko'd AC Milan and could be Chelsea's next opponent. I think the strong ones are Chelsea - Napoli - Inter and no one else.

Courtois in Real Madrid

What Stirling did to infuriate anybody ? If thery were ahead and he was walking slowly towards the touch line it could be, but they were never ahead. He is not one of those players entrusted to kick Hazard either. It's a strange affair as much as it is unlikely to be racist abuse. I 've seen racist abuse in football grounds. In the 80s the Greek teams were all white and the first coloured player was one named Inluga, a midfielder and a very good one too. The man heard all sorts of abuse from the hooligans. Later we had Daniel Batista (the poor mens Gullit as he was nicknamed) and others. Daniel became Greek eventually and played for the national team also. But who could say a thing against him ? Non-football supporter hooligans is different. Sometimes they mix with the crowds and create ugly scenes. Greece v. Romania world cup qualifier of 2014 was one such when the racists created ugly scenes.

It does n't make sense. Half our squad our black guys. If it concerns an opponent or one of our players who underperforms, it just does n't make sense even if some in the crowd are racists. I don't believe it. In Paris it was different. It was off the pitch and a company of hooligans were horse playing on the train platform.

There is a blackman in the video who rants as Stirling. It's probably a false alarm.

Fantastic comeback but we 're still fourth.

Roman is selling the team for 3 bil. It's already down to 800 mil.

Prices are already out, 4.00-4.00-1.90. City -1 3.10 recommended City-City 3.00

All these plus we have become too static.

Even there the Bate Borisovs are finished now.

Shameful but expected. I could n't have known if Wolves were up to the task, but I did n't expect any better from us. Our goal was a fluke, then Wolves kept playing defensively and hoping for a miracle, which we made possible for them. Our strikers were useless, Willian and Cesc hit the roof from very good positions. From the rest no running of the ball, no nothing. We could at least have turned back to hold on to the lead and slow things down. We were not clever enough to do that either. Europa league next year, or maybe Balkan cup !

Hazrd was in Spain. Willian would be useful in this match,

Let Chelsea equalize against Spurs and then we would see if they could do it.

Spurs was more of an Atkinson job plus defensive mistakes. Fulham are like PAOK - should have been 6-0 against them.

Dismal performance of the year.

All three Greek teams are out. Oly-AEK and PAOK by 90% is also out. Very poor all of them.

PAOK are 5 points ahead in the Greek superliga. They can't really miss the opportunity to win their first championship after 32 years, because everyone else is playing crap. But PAOK are crap too. The Greek teams that could play some football in Europe are a thing of the past. The sliding downwrds of Greek football began only months after the Euro win of 2004 in Portugal ! They can do nothing against Chelsea. Only if Sarri fields the substitutes of the substitutes of the substitutes. It;s partly due to the economic crisis but in any case Greece is gradually becoming like Denmark - no domestic football.

Anyway I went for today's match to the "Sports bar" outside the Athens museum - for the first time. It was advertised in facebook as the meeting place for Chelsea fans. The place was full of Spurs fans ! Maybe our fans stayed silent - we were not given any rope in any case. The Spurs were jumping up and down like monkeys. With London's houses ending some way before one reaches White Heart Lane it's surprising there are so many of them. Maybe they were Looserpoolians supporting anti-chelsea.

No this team is not a finished article, despite one or two obvious gaps. But re. the premiership, it has been decided I think even if we had won today.