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Matt Miazga’s game by numbers vs Aston Villa:
6 clearances -- 4 aerial duels won -- 3 tackles won -- 3 blocks -- 1 interception
 
Pretty solid stats for a debut game, even if it is against Villa. Was part of out first clean sheet in 10 games, I call that progress, confidence is key!

Ive backed up my point several times.
Hazard having dreadful season, talks about possibility of joining PSG. Courtois has had a bad run, talks about preferring Belgian defence. Lukaku openly speaks about joining a bigger club, clearly disrespecting a team that spent 27 million on him. Benteke slagging off Klopp for not making him no.1 striker when he has missed so many easy chances. 
 
Belgian players are either stupid or so egotistic that they overrate themselves.

To be fair, neither Tibo nor Cech nor even De Gea have been consistently excellent this season. I think Butland has probably been the standout keeper so far this season (though admittedly I don't watch him as frequently as the 3 I mentioned before). 

Even Aguero, the best striker in the league which most people agree with has his droughts where he sometimes goes 5-6 games without scoring. Costa is no different. But when they are on form, they really are on form.

Amazing servant for the club, never complained, always gave his best. That goal against Barca will forever live in my memory. What you lacked in technical ability you've more than made up with your heart, passion and work-rate. Thank you Rami!

I'm glad we have Courtois but it's hard to watch Cech potentially lead Arsenal to their first title in the Abramovich era
Hopefully City go on a run and win the title.

Legend!

he's not even here - and could never be - but only the prospect of Guardiola really coming already changed my heart a bit about him.
I hate him with a passion - as the SOB he is and I have a few questions about his quality when he did what he did to that perfect Bayern team in less than 6 months.
He's not bad, I just don't think he's as good as people claim him to be.
All that said, he's the best option to be our permanent choice. Klopp would have always been my preference, but that ship already sailed.
It's unbelievable - I should stop posting my intolerance towards players/managers I hate saying I won't watch the team with them, I always suck in even before they're here. So all my posts about how I'd have a very hard time watching my team managed by Pep? All BS now and the guy could end up not even coming.
Once the guy becomes a Blue it becomes very hard to carry on hating them - only Benitez made the exception. Still can't stand his face.

Mourinho wasn't financially backed so why would Pellegrino?
Simeone to me is a born winner so I'd happily have him here. I'm not overly bothered about being liked by neutrals and I've never felt embarrassed being a Chelsea fan, at least not because of a manager not named Rafa. I find it a tad tacky that our fans get success but moan about the way we get it, but I think that's more of a Twitter thing.

time for Fabregas to put on the magic hat and quieten the boo boys.
The jeers for him were not just about what that woman had scrawled on a tatty sheet.
Think a lot of his were about performance as well ( like Ivanovic jeers ).
I like the fact that him and Ivanovic are ballsy enough to say something......now then...Costa, where are you hiding?

She can't even properly spell Hazard's name - which is a word in English. Don't demand too much from the lass.
When someone that is deeply connected to Chelsea FC like Pat is and even works for the club's TV, everyone is going to assume he knows something. The tabloids have said the same for months and Cesc didn't bother, only making statements in his social media to state his position. I think something extra is needed for him to clear his name when it's coming from someone like Pat.
I also believe like someone else that Cesc will drop it now that Pat came publicly to clear things. But he needed to show something else. As I said, some people never really got over his gunner past and others barely had, needing only this tidbit to go back despising him.
I'm fully converted though

but you know, it's my fangirling status according some rather smart people here that justifies my opinion that Cesc wasn't against Mourinho.
I wish I was as smart as those people... Oh, one can only dream

Roman & Emenalo

My question is: if Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Münich, PSG, ManCity, Arsenal etc are all pushing for beautiful attacking tikataka football style, why should we follow suit? Are there enough players to actually implement the right system? I really didn't mind defensive football, that has been our niche for a long time. The main difference I'd expect to see from Simone (compared with JM) is a better man management/better PR via press. So in that regards Simone would be the best candiate for the vacancy.

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The match going support could see things on the pitch which are not so evident with watching on the screen. Showing a lack of effort, not trying their best etc is one of them.
Ok...so what if a player didnt like Mourinho or his tactics.....their lack of effort was in effect mugging us as paying supporters off.
We tried our best by singing songs about virtually every player past and present, being loud on away games when oppo fans were taking the piss etc etc and yet these prima donnas were throwing it back in our faces just because their head coach was questioning them.
Forget about tactics, formations and all that bollix that the fifa 16 coaches on here run their gobs off about....this is down to pure effort and the basics need to be sorted before anything else

CPO might have something to say about that last bit, but yes he can hire and fire who he wants.
It's one season out of however many you plan on being a Chelsea supporter. You've got what you want now (and yes it's easy to say since it's true) but what next? What did you want next? Did you want this vacuum where supporters feel a disconnect with the club? Where we chuck a bit of our identity away? Is Steve Holland the plan? Aidy maybe?
And I think the same guy who came back, the guy who led us to the league title and has unrivalled success as a manager would have got us going again. Jimmy Greaves probably didn't say 'form is temporary and class is permanent', but he sure as shit believed it and we'll all hold on to the players and maybe even the board regaining form.
Supporting a club when they're winning the league is easy. That's when Facebook is fun and you can put up photos from the parade as your cover.
It's when things go bad that supporting actually gets tricky yet the fans managed it every week. That's the one thing giving me hope for the future because the supporters will be united, but I suspect it may be against the players and the club itself.

Absolute bullshit mate every Chelsea fan should count there lucky stars the day that Roman walked into the club. I'd prefer a different billionaire ran my football club that's just fucking pathetic. Roman saved this club from the brink and I guarantee that if he hadn't we'd be in the Championship at best. Would you be a Chelsea fan? I very much doubt it. Roman has carte blanche to do what he wants it's his money and if he makes a few bad decisions that people don't agree with then tough fucking titty.

I don't believe he had any part in this movement to force José out. He been trying, and today he did again. He just continues to be completely out of form. One of the few players that showed today what he's been showing for months...

I guess Skrtel's elbow on him was coveniently forgotten then!!

Some more views of the stadium. Let me know if there are particular views you'd like to see.

I don't believe that for one second. Had Lampard done anything to warrant a ban, he'd be banned. What is happening here has nothing to do with reputation and everything to do with bias. Gabriel should've had his ban upheld and to the letter of the law Wenger should've been banned for leaving his technical area and pushing Jose... The reason nothing happened is because the FA are full of shit and are biased. These are the same people who accused Ashley Cole of lying when he said he never heard Terry use unsavoury language, the same people who played mind reader and declared Diego meant it when he walked on Can, the same people who upheld the suspension to Matic when he angrily pushed Ashley for nearly breaking his leg and decided not to suspend Ashley for a vicious tackle... I can go on and on and on. City rightfully should've had points deducted for illegally registering Lampard, instead they release a statement protecting what was initially stated by City Group, correcting the mistake that rightfully proved they were lying.
When Chelsea win the title its a Herculian effort because the FA always make decisions against us despite setting precedence with previous incidents.

Wow we have a whole section of choir boys in our ranks.
Do I condone what Costa did/does? no... But three games for that is excessive. When Wenger pushed Jose he got nothing, when Sanchez took a full swing at Ivanovic he got nothing... When Aguero actually stomped on Luiz he got nothing.... Costa puts his hands in Koscielny's face and get 3 games.
Its bullshit.

It wasn't on target.