Iggy Doonican

Why would you care about his future conferences if he's not the Chelsea manager and I'm fighting tooth and nail to get a ticket next week mate and the only thing that's annoying me is pricks like you. If we win next week he'll have won two major trophies in two years something the likes of Poch hasn't managed so not that fucking atrocious hey mate.

Just fuck right off mate .

In the 70's black kids were usually good footballers but never supported a team if they did it tended to be Liverpool or Man United. No denying there was a serious problem with racism at Chelsea in the 70's and 80's. My theory is that a lot of Chelsea fans came from the suburbs and beyond and they were very white areas where us London boys were used to socialising and going to school with black kids.

Of course. Part of English culture not just football get any group of lads together and they'll go on the piss. In the 70's footballers would do Q&A and they would say favourite meal steak, favourite drink Guinness a lot of them smoked. That's the diet of a builder not a footballer

To be fair that was England's best team for 30 years don't know where Ince was for that game as it's Euro 96. In the squad were Sol Campbell and Les Ferdinand you could have had Andy Cole and Ian Wright but neither were as good as Shearer especially at international level. I remember Viv Anderson becoming the first black England international in 1978 followed shortly after by Lawrie Cunningham and Cryille Regis. John Barnes got some dreadful stick playing for England especially at Wembley but I don't think it was an entirely racist thing because so did Chris Waddle. Apart from Sheringham and Adams they all look totally bloody miserable

Well yes I would never praise a Liverpool player and yes of course him being terrible for us ( I know he wasn't given much of a chance) but he's a good finisher no doubt about it but when he's quiet like yesterday he looks ordinary. I can't comment on what he was like for Roma because I don't watch Italian football. There was a tongue in cheek element to my post hence the video.

I'm convinced he'll be a one season wonder FB and I've posted this before but this is his Chelsea career in a nutshell

Ain't it time for a name change mate can't say I would have been pleased if he scored a last minute goal and then came on to TC and there's someone called One Mo Salah.

Two nil down to Southampton the season is done we all except it but typical fucking Chelsea we then get our act together and go on a unbeaten run. They say when it comes to football it's the hope that kills you well Chelsea are living proof of that always have been always will be.

I know we won it and will probably be in it next year but the Europa League is the ugly sister to the Champions League. If you get knocked out of a competition that should be it your rewarding mediocrity. A half fit Costa is streets ahead of Morata and Monreal is absolutely diabolical the only other person worse than him with crosses is Dracula

For fucks sake are you for real?. You sound like your writing a letter to the Telegraph.'' There were grown men swearing at a soccer match what brutish behaviour''. It's football not the last night of the proms. No one intentionally swears in front of kids but people get caught up in the moment and emotions run high. You've been round long enough to have seen worse than swearing and hand gestures (do you mean this one?)

There are some people no matter how talented they are you just can't warm to Courtois is definitely one of those. There's something about him it's probably the self importance and smugness he radiates. Good keeper yes great ? I have my doubts.

Kept thinking of the Four Tops song during the game but with different lyrics '' You'll be going loco watching Bakayoko five minutes is to long'', '' You'll be pulling out your hair drowning in despair 40 million buys you no flare''.

It's down to Brent Council who capped the capacity but Spurs asked it to be raised and they obliged. As a former Brent Council resident I wouldn't trust them at all.

A good post and I wish I had the answers. One thing is definite though if the corrupt and incompetent F.A. did sell Wembley to the Fulham chairman there would be an outcry but after a while football fans and the media would shrug their shoulders and accept it. If Abramovich bought Wembley the country would go fucking apoplectic there would be marches, questions in the house and the Daily Mail and Express would go into meltdown.

It's funny FB in the early 90's when the Taylor report was published Bates wanted a capacity of 42,000 which then was probably just about right even though in those days you could count on one hand the number of times we would fill it. But we went through the same shit with the council back then the West Stand didn't get completed till 2000 I think. In Bates defence he didn't know how big football would become and I don't blame him trying to find other streams of revenue for the club. But it almost looked like the Shed was an afterthought the temporary stand not sure of the capacity but it was the same near enough as the rebuilt Shed.

Could be Willie but I think it's a case of too little too late.

We have to be brutally honest Chelsea are not going to get an extra 18,000 fans to watch us play the likes of Burnley, Bournemouth etc especially in midweek. Bigger ground means bigger away support but there's no way Burnley could bring 5,000 to Chelsea in midweek so there will be empty seats. Can't see them knocking down the hotel but making the Shed a 6,000 capacity was a joke and the blame is firmly at Bates door for that. West Ham do get much larger crowds although their twattish fans aren't happy but to use a line from the League of Gentlemen '' They are a local club for local people'' Chelsea aren't our support comes mainly from the Home Counties. Historically our crowds during midweek have always been poor because fans have to travel into London and then get through the rush hour traffic on the road and on the Underground. Fans will have to travel even further if we are at Wembley and I expect crowds to be below 42,000 for some games. Not going to lie FB I'M a bit concerned about the next few years but it's Chelsea and as you know predictable we are not.

Look for the final time I'm saying football got to be the massive sport partly and indirectly because of Roman buying Chelsea and I'm sticking to that. The business models well do you think a company like BT would have got involved in football before 2003?. Companies went tits up because they believed that football was the golden goose Setanta, ITV Digital or whatever it was called ESPN didn't last long either. Lets be honest how many members here were Chelsea fans before 2003 when Roman bought Chelsea?. As I've said the USA had no interest in football and was looked down by the Yanks as a girls game 2018 it's more popular then ever and the same with other countries and that's PARTLY down to Roman buying Chelsea. So you can save the history lesson I'm quite aware how football has changed pre and after Roman but seeing as he gave Chelsea a new fanbase almost overnight I think he's had quite a difference to our club and INDIRECTLY to others. And I never said the league's continued growth is because of Roman but him buying Chelsea had an effect on the PL and English football's finances. Matt Hughes, our deputy football correspondent, traces how the Roman Abramovich’s shock £140 million takeover of Chelsea ten years ago transformed the Premier League and turned it into a world force. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/audio-slideshow-how-roman-abramovich-changed-football-7n259bhg20t

I know where your coming from but isn't that a worry that he can go months on end looking like he doesn't care and then in the last few weeks appear to be back to his normal self.

I've already stated that English football was big before Roman and it went to a different stratosphere afterwards. The Premier League wasn't massive in countries like India, China the States etc. I really don't see your argument here's the latest list look at the obscene amounts of money West Ham and Leicester are on there for fucks sake. I also said indirectly but if you think that West Ham and Leicester (both who were taken over by the way) would have found themselves on the rich list in 2003 then your taking the piss. https://www.totalsportek.com/money/richest-football-clubs/

Not sure bringing on Baka for Willian was bolder it was borderline stupid and if you were at the game or watching on the telly the cry of '' What the fuck is he doing'' was everyone's response.

This is my last reply on the subject if Roman hadn't come we would still be in a Man United- Arsenal domination of the PL. As I've said in another post Stockport were in a higher league than Man City 20 years ago. The flux of clubs being taken over after Abramovich came well who hasn't been taken over or had massive investment. We've had City, United, Arsenal, West Ham, Leicester, Villa, Liverpool, Everton, Wolves, Pompey, Leeds,Swansea,Watford, Newcastle I could go on it's practically everyone. If you think Roman wasn't a game changer where football ownership was concened then your totally wrong. Some of those were a disaster but the point is all were taken over after 2003. The likes of Jack Walker, Matthew Harding could have never competed with the sort of investment football clubs have seen in the last 15 years.

That's bollocks mate. Chelsea fans don't care where players came from as long as they do the business. In the 80's one of our most popular players Mickey Hazard came from Spurs.