Iggy Doonican

The sort of result you'd expect if Bayern were playing Southampton this sort of result could have a devastating effect on Barca and I hope it does. Their fans are utter wankers the waving of the white handkerchiefs is the sort of thing you'd expect at the opera to show your disapproval not a football stadium. When they've played at the Bridge nearly all their fans have been glory hunting Londoners you'll hear as many English accents as Spanish ones and a couple of times they didn't sell their full allocation.

Bit touchy aren't we son what do you expect it's a football forum not Mumsnet.

Yes but for all the wrong reasons utterly shameful day. I was 15 at the time and couldn't believe what was happening at Palace when he came on as a sub.

I never mentioned Rudd as I wanted the post just to be about British well English players really Chris Hughton has the same background as me Londoner with Irish roots. Chelsea get a lot of stick about racism but we had the first black manager, Ade Mafe was our fitness coach and Eddie Newton was someone can check this the first black assistant manager to win the champions league.

That's not strictly true. I'm going to rack my brains and here's the list of British black managers as I can recall. Barnes and Ince both disasters Barnes especially three managers jobs he's had been sacked after a few months in all of them. Barnes cites racism in football but don't forget he supported Suarez in the Evra incident and to be honest his credibility was fucked after that. Ince did ok in the lower leagues got the Blackburn job and was completely out of his depth and again was sacked after a few months. His last job at Blackpool he was actually banned for threatening the ref in the tunnel. Sol Campbell who is such a twat who at one time wanted to be a Tory MP I just can't take him seriously. The only other ones I can think of are Chris Hughton who's a safe pair of hands at a championship or lower premier clubs and Keith Curle who's a journeyman manager in the lower leagues and Darren Moore who was briefly the WBA manager. Now that is a very short list I may have missed some out so apologies if I did. The way football management is now it's the same middle aged or in Roy Hodgson's case pensioner getting the same jobs all the time just look at WBA and Palace's recent managers. Then you're left with the elite managers jobs and if you're not an ex player of the club Arteta, Lampard etc or have a good CV like Ancelotti then you're not in with a shout. Pep, Mourinho, Klopp etc will get hired till they retire or in Mourinho's case his next job might not be so high profile. Some black players either say straight out they don't want to manage like Ian Wright and some just go straight to punditry recent examples Jenas, Micah Richards and our very own Ashley Cole. But one thing there is definitely a lack of is black managers in the lower leagues is it racism possibly but everytime let's say Newport or Bradford have a manager it's always a white middle aged bloke who's probably been sacked several times Micky Adams had twelve managerial jobs between 1996 and 2014. There's obviously loads of black players playing in the English lower leagues and yet they are or don't ever seem to be considered for managerial roles surely someone has to take a chance I don't understand the reluctance and it will stop the likes of Micky Adams getting jobs they don't deserve.

Three rounds of the Carabao cup in two weeks in September just stupid. It should have been scrapped for the season if fans aren't allowed in then it's hardly a cash cow for smaller clubs if they get drawn against the top premier league clubs. Liverpool played kids in the FA cup that's going to happen a lot next season.

I actually watched last night's game which is rare for me Neymar dived and Taylor gave Arsenal a free kick. He's so incompetent it's unreal two things I'm hoping for next season firstly when fans are allowed back and secondly that Taylor refs a game at the Bridge so I can give that nude nut cunt some abuse.

The old European Cup it was still two legs and same away goals rules applied the difference was it was a straight knock out competition from the start. It was a far harder trophy to win games were always pretty tight as it was just the champions of the countries involved. English football was so different then we never qualified for the 74 and 78 World Cups yet English clubs dominated European club football despite having a 42 game season and two domestic cup competitions.

It's not exactly transfer news but there are rumours that if Kepa leaves in tribute to him the number 1 jersey will be retired.

That's the Colonel's secret recipe . Her arse cheeks look like Colonel Sanders has a siamese twin brother which reminds me of the joke '' Why do American Siamese twins love coming to England ? so the other one has the chance to drive

To wear that ridiculous outfit and yet go out in bare feet

I bought a Chelsea one on Ebay for a fiver and a quid postage the megastore it's a fiver just for delivery. Last Friday it was baking hot so I thought I'd just put on my mask when needed so put it in my pocket it was a disposable one. I took it out but one of the strings had snapped so the only thing I could do was pout my lips and balance it on my face six places I had to go including the bank and post office like that people were asking me how I was and all I could do was give them the thumbs up

My best mate was in an induced coma for 39 days thankfully he's recovered he's a London bus driver amongst whom there's been a number of fatalities. So nothing angers me more then these self righteous thick as shit halfwits who shout out all lives matter but refuse to wear a mask.

I watched Saturday's game in the pub (socially distanced of course) I'm watching Man U on BT I don't know if this is happening on all the tv coverage but there is what sounds like German singing what the fuck for?. Apart from anything else it's a match between English and Danish teams and we all know there's no one in the stadium whose benefit is it for cause it's proper annoying.

Perfect article if you're a glass half full or glass half empty fan. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/aug/10/the-fiver-frank-lampard-chelsea-big-cup-bayern-barcelona-manchester-city

I never pay much attention to any of those sites to be honest. I hate Talk Sport I was in my mate's car the other day Simon Jordan has his own show talk about someone who likes the sound of his own voice fucking hell. The weird thing is Danny Kelly who is a journalist and knows his stuff is playing second fiddle to that twat who in essence is a failed businessman mind you so is Trump.

Transfer pub sounds weird surely transfer tavern is better or as that's used on other platforms Sky, Talk Sport would legal issues arise ?.

Bruce Buck is hardly going to call Lampard useless it's faint praise. A chairman is not going to publicly chastise the manager he wouldn't need to he'd just sack him not even Bates did that he called them hopeless after they left mind you.

You say we are the worst fans in the world how many Chelsea fans do you know personally none and I'm not talking about your buddies on Facebook. You have no idea about what Chelsea fans are like apart from a few posts on here you don't agree with and you go on a rabid tirade about us. And spare us the fucking American analogies about waving pitchforks we're a London football team mate not a hick town in Alabama.

Who are you to take the moral high ground about how fans behave ?. If you don't like it either don't read it or support someone else. Every fan has the right to slag off his team it happens everywhere on every football forum and social media. Of course it's over the top sometimes emotions run high but fuck no way am I going to let someone like you make sweeping statements about Chelsea fans stay in your lane mate.

Well said son but shh you're not allowed to question a legend. And you make a good point three games three defeats eleven goals conceded but that's ok there will be a massive turnaround next year when all our defensive frailties will be completely eradicated by a manager whose teams have conceded over 100 goals in two seasons in the league.

Such bland uninspiring bollocks tear the fuck into them Mourinho would have done . The sort of thing he would have said if he was still working for BT. Chelsea boss Frank Lampard: "Nights like this in a footballing sense, show me a lot, tell me a lot. "In a football sense I feel like I know where we can improve, so now it's time to look at that. "I saw lots of good things in the team and also some of the bad we have seen this season. We had individual errors that gave them goals and at this level that will finish you off. "We want more but the feeling is we have achieved something with the group we have. Now is the time to think where we can improve."

Blinding graphics (is that the right word I am old V )

Eight years ago the greatest night in our history tonight it was like going back to Anfield in the 80's where you knew we had no chance of winning just hoping it wouldn't be a total embarrassment. How many goals have we conceded in all competitions this season we conceded the same number of goals in the league as Brighton that's unacceptable but of course it's all down to the transfer ban, having to the play the youngsters ad fucking nauseum. A 70 million keeper, an established German international someone who had a successful loan at Everton a club legend at right back looking fucking clueless the buck stops with one person and one person only.