Iggy Doonican

So your not in the least concerned that a title winning team has more or less imploded and that after losing to Palace and Southampton that everyone in the ground had a feeling of relief rather then euphoria.

Open play ?. A mistake by the keeper and a cross deflected in not exactly flowing football but fuck i'll take it. The difference between Dave and Ivan was the major plus point for me. Dave just knows exactly how much space to give the opposing player before putting his tackle in or just being touch tight and not allowing him any space at all.

Well you can go through my posts mate and i have never said Mourinho should be sacked. Has he made some questionable decisions this season on and off the field a definite yes. 100,000 members is a bit of an anomoly because a lot of those members are overseas and become members as there way of supporting the club knowing they'll rarely be able to attend games. What's our hardcore support that would go every game through thick and thin i would say about 20-25,000. So you say if we were in a relegation battle people would pay going towards £100 for a Cat A game mate sorry but no way. The crowds would be down massively. If we did struggle cup games would no longer be subsidised so £70 for a Cat B game against Norwich. Mourinho's last game first time round 25,000 everyone paying full price against Rosenburg.

This on paper at least is the perfect game to start Baba. If it's Zouma at right back and Dave at left then it's pretty obvious Baba is not rated and has no future under Mourinho. It's just a weird buy and could mean that we have bought two left backs for over 30 million pound in the last two seasons not play them and sell Bertrand for 10 million. It's beyond baffling. And Zouma at right back for fucks sake totally wasted like Dave is at left back.

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king. If Mourinho thinks that Roman and the board would be happy with a mid table finish then he's not looking at the bigger picture. Lets say we did come 11th just watch from February the way that the crowds will drop off. The clamour for tickets for the day trippers and tourists will wane and when we are playing the likes of Stoke and W.B.A who never sell there full allocation we will be playing in front of crowds of 32,000. Unless they start dropping prices and history dictates they won't. F.A.cup games won't sell out either Champions League ones will (if we're still in it !). Chelsea need Champions League football like a vampire needs blood the loss of revenue will be catastrophic, as i said crowds will be down and the top players won't come. Which brings me to the really worrying part the Wembley move. We can take the piss out of other clubs support Man City's especially where they practically give tickets away. But if we are struggling what sort of crowds will we get at Wembley?. If the whole point of moving to Wembley is to get bigger crowds at the Bridge and we start getting crowds of less then 42,000 we will be a laughing stock especially among other fans. I hate to say it but Spurs would fill Wembley comfortably regardless of how well the team are doing. Which brings me back to Mourinho i hate Wenger as much as the next man but he's always got Arsenal into the top four. Specialist in failure? maybe, mid table finish never. It doesn't really bode confidence when your manager is talking about a mid table finish this early in the season something is wrong and badly wrong in and around the club.

The wait is over F.B. https://youtu.be/iGG5OhEcpOQ

Here's some extracts from Sam Allaradyce's autobiography. Big Sam on… the Moon landings “Neil Armstrong claims to be the first man on the Moon, and fair play to him, it’s a results business. But it’s not as if he flew there himself, is it? Any old duffer can sit in a metal box and get blasted into space. I’d like to have seen him try and navigate his way there using a dog-eared Esso Road Atlas. I’d have a lot more respect for him then. “Also, I didn’t like that whole ‘one small step’ business. If it was me – and I admit, walking on the lunar surface is still an aspiration rather than an achievement at this stage – I would have taken a ruddy big step. You’ve got to get stuck in, show the Moon you’re not intimidated. He went down in my estimation after that.” Big Sam on… Jesus “It does rankle with me at times, the double standards you see in the press. Jesus walks on water and they build a religion around him. I get Bolton into the top six with one of the smallest budgets in the Premiership and everybody calls me a long-ball manager. Anyway, if Jesus is such a miracle worker, how come he got caught? You’ve got to win your battles. “By the way, the walking-on-water thing is a myth. I’m not saying he didn’t do it, just that it’s easier than it looks. Any non-Newtonian fluid of a minimum viscosity can be subjected to a short period of shear stress if the body exerting the force is light enough – and people were a lot smaller in Biblical times, that’s a known fact. We actually tried it on a warm-weather camp in La Manga once. We filled the pool with cornflour and Sammy Lee was able to run across without breaking the surface. We’ve got the Prozone printouts to prove it.” Big Sam on… Big Sam “The perception of childbirth is that mothers do the donkey work, but I don’t live in the world of perception, I live in the world of reality. It was a nine-month slog to fight my way out of that womb, and although it wasn’t always pretty, I ultimately achieved my objective, on time and on budget. “You’re there to be shot at when you’re a recently-fertilised embryo, so those months were all about keeping it tight, maintaining a good shape, concentrating on the process, making sure that when the opportunity presented itself, I grabbed it with both hands. Passing the magic 40-week mark was a big psychological boost, and a big accomplishment to put on my CV. It wasn’t an ideal introduction by any stretch, but at that early age you’re just glad of the work.

It's missing two letters there should be AB before the N.

A Football Archive* Retweeted Beyond The Last Man ‏@BeyondTLM Sep 29 When I die and go to hell, the Devil will punish me by making me listen for all eternity to moaning Arsenal phone-in fans.

The words leopard and spots come to mind.

The megastore have brought out some handsome replica polo shirts. They have also re released the 1974 away shirt which is selling for £20. Also some geezer on Ebay is selling the old red, white and green scarfs. I have to buy one of them to replace the one I lost in 1978.

Ha ha not really mate it's more open baths and back pain remedies that grab my attention when it comes to ads

Right you young fuckers explain to an old man about Assassin's Creed. Don't forget my generation saw the first influx of Video Games, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Asteroids.

Mourinho's book comes out this week if it doesn't sell many copies i wonder who he will blame?. His publishers, his agent or maybe he'll have a sideswipe at the whole of the British public Maybe it will be dedicated to Ivanovic. Dear Branislav Thank You for always being there i could never drop you for another.

Straw Man Argument.

Maybe Mourinho should take a leaf out of John Sitton's book if we are struggling against Villa. Sitton played for us briefly in the late 70's and as you can imagine after this went on air hasn't had a manager's job since. https://youtu.be/7SN9le_U5SI https://youtu.be/L20B881v4gA

Not even a household name in his own household.

Q.P.R IN THE NORTHSTAND ANYTIME IN THE 70'S OR 80'S

If Mourinho did get sacked the clubs who would be interested in him and him them is pretty small in England. If he joined Spurs after he said he's one of us well that would guarantee him to become an instant hate figure with Chelsea fans. Would Spurs want him ? possibly but after A.V.B i don't think he'd be very welcome there. Man United that ship has sailed for Mourinho he won't be going there. Arsenal won't have him likewise Man City. Dark horses West Ham who i can see being the next club to have major investors pumping money into the club. But where ever he goes the man brings major baggage with him and that is definitely going to put some clubs off. I do think his stock is on the decline apart from the baffling on field decisions it's the off field antics that will worry any potential suitors. Mourinho since he came back is a surly obnoxious man who has lost all his swagger and charm and anyone who can rant for seven minutes has got problems.

Just a little bit to old Zolayes ha ha. That's what Grant was originally bought to the club for to put out the cones and pass out the bibs in training so polishing a few turds would be like a sideways move for him.

Is Avram Grant available ?

It's funny Mourinho claimed that K.D.B was knocking down his door demanding to play. Yet K.D.B claims Mourinho only talked to him twice the whole time he was here. Personally i can't see a young kid constantly demanding to play, K.D.B doesn't come across like that sort of person and even a seasoned professional knocking on Mourinho's door and haranguing him well that's never going to end well.

Liverpool begin search for new chief turd polisher Liverpool football club have this morning begun the search for a world-class turd polisher capable of turning their ‘squad’ into league champions. Just hours after firing previous turd polisher Brendan Rodgers, the club has said it aims to make a quick appointment and will try to have a new chief turd polisher on board after the international break. The decision to sack Rodgers has pleased Liverpool fans who for some unfathomable reason believe Liverpool should be incredibly successful, every single year, despite being a bit shit. Poor deluded Liverpool fan Simon Williams told us, “Brendan Rodgers didn’t polish the Liverpool turd, so much as smear it across his chest and into the faces of the fans.” “What people need to realise is that we should be winning the league every year, we just need a turd polisher with vision and a bit of tactical nous.” “Our turd deserves to be league champions. The fact that Blackburn and Leeds have won the league more recently than we have is completely irrelevant.” Football expert Les Walden, told us, “Look, Liverpool need to realise you can’t polish a turd, it’s just not possible.” “The Liverpool fans should just be happy that manager after manager has rolled their turd around in a bit of glitter to at least make it look pretty.” “But a turd is still a turd..

As a club we have never done stability you just have to accept it as a Chelsea fan. Since Dave Sexton left in 1974 only two managers have been at the club four years John Neal and Ranieri. That vote of confidence is basically the Sword of Damocles so expect change pretty soon. How many more defeats and piss performances is Mourinho away from the sack?. Not many. Close battling losses ok. But if we have a repeat of the Southampton debacle then he's gone.