cosmicway

So after sir Alex the deluse.

Two big failures only (Mou second season, Conte second season). I was not happy with Roman either but certainly a lot better than Boehly, Boehly is not a "crabs man" but his advisers are useless.

Ok it's not exactly the same. But what are the reasons for their decline compared to ours ?

Over the ten years they sunk lower.

United are the same disaster area as we are. It's 10 years now with them and they 're not a club without dough. What is the explanation ? Arse too, another rich club, till two years ago but Arse are a team without the glorious past of the reds.

After all this, with or without overkill tactics by the Israelis, is n't it strange that Hamas are still in control of Gaza ? I don't mean why the Israelis have n't reached the southern extremities yet, but the population allowing Hamas to maintain control. How do they do it ?

Tuchel's team of 2021-22 was a good team, the team of the first two months of 2022-23 when he was still manager not so. We were crap. You may not like this because Thomas is a Chelsea hero, but the same happened with Mourinho. 2014-15 very good, 2015-16 awful - sacked. The sudden demise of Mourinho's team was due to aging players in my opinion and something similar happened in 2017-18, the second Conte season. Then after Tuchel, Potter failed, Lamps failed and now Poch. But only in exceptional circumstances do I blame managers because I have seen enough. A good team failing because of the manager is a rarity. There are some managers who lose the dressing room but the rest are just scapegoats. Chelsea suffer because for years now they use the transfer windows to buy championship level players.

The problem is those scouts of ours don't understand that all foreign leagues are inferior and they buy low quality players thinking they are good quality. It's like our Panathinaikos once upon a time. They were generally good in the transfer market but also bought one or two players from Megara -the place where the eggs come from- and from other small towns. These players were heroes over there but useless for Panathinaikos. The exception appears to be Caicedo who came from Brighton but plays like a substitute for Barkley.

In an age where football is internationalised this Chelsea team would be second force in Spain-Germany, good for France, superb for Italy, without an opponent in other countries. But no good for the EPL. And from our Brighton squad only Cucurella stands his ground.

As always the big problem is these people can't score. What if Everton had scored their one goal but we had scored two or three ? Who would care ? Then their second goal could never have happened if there was a decent formation to defend the corner and there would be if everyone was not despaired at that time. Football has changed the last five years. Sometimes I watch old matches in youtube. Players like Francis Lee, Chivers, more recent ones like Rush and Dalglish and even more recent ones like Lampard, Drog. These people were allowed fields and acres of free space by the defenders and they were scoring those spectacular goals of the past. But I also remember seeing them from the terraces. Nowadays EPL defenses are running at you like bees and hack you down. But other teams have found antidotes while we are stuck.

If these players stay for three or four days at Goodison park they may score. But who is coaching and selecting the attackers ? Me ?

Here they use tarts.

Crystal Palace says wiki. I wonder. Could it have been the match against Newcaslte I was attending and the old man I was talking to mentioned Newcastle as Cook's new team by mistake ? I remember distinctly the old man I was talking to said "he went to Newcastle" but there are memory tricks. Crystal Palace I did n't even know existed.

Their scouts are Mickey mouse readers.

EPL club supporters are not into this. I remember when Chelsea sold Charlie Cook to Newcastle. It was my first visit to the bridge -it was against Ipswitch- I did n't know about it so I said to the fans "have you not burned all the boats in the Thames yet ?" - because that's what would have happened if it was Greece. They shook their heads and said no. The same now.

Try Ioannidis. Who knows ?

So they can defend corners better.

I can recall when we were skint and the likes of QPR were laughing at us. But that was only natural. This defies explanation. Even Arsenal who two years back were at their all time lowest have managed to build a decent squad.

Spurs minus Kane are no big deal really but it's one of their best teams in recent years.

That bitch in Peacock was crazy for Everton from the 1st minute.

San Marino 2nd division teams defend better than we did in their second goal.

We are sh*t. Sack Poch.

No thrust.

I don't like them. One time someone attacked me. First, days before that happening, Olympiakos were playing against PAOK Salonika. The score was 3-2 to Olympiakos. I ran out of fags, pop out. The man at the kiosk was not in his place but was doing something some 5-6 meters away. From the kiosk's transistor radio a hear a big roar and the man says "PAOK equalised". Hurriedly I pay for the fags and return inside the pub making awfully rude gestures against an Olympiakos supporter. But he just looked at me perplexed. It was no goal - it was a dangerous free kick for PAOK Salonika that went just wide and the kiosk vendor was fooled because he was a little away from his radio ! Few days later now. I go to the same pub and just ask "what was the result AEK - Kavala ?". So now the Olympiakos man becomes mad "you dare ask about that lousy good for nothing football team ?" and kicks me in the butt. We ended up in the police station but there was no trial because the offense was not considered serious enough ...