Iggy Doonican

Again Risdale at Leeds far to ambitious spent obscene amounts on players and wages thinking they would be guaranteed Champions League Football every season. When i was young Leeds were arguably the biggest club in the country. Early 70's Man United were post Busby and Liverpool hadn't started to dominate.

Well Mears and Bates both brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. We were sailing very close to the wind financially till Roman stepped in. Mears and Bates were far to ambitious with their plans for the club.

People are saying they'd be surprised if Mourinho got sacked after eight games. Don't forget Vialli was sacked after six. Chelsea historically always have sacked managers pretty much on a whim.

How about Liverpool sacked Rodgers because they heard we were interested in Klopp. Just a theory don't bite my head off ha ha.

Think the writing is on the wall Mourinho is on borrowed time. I just can't see us turning it around. We have now conceded two more goals then we did in the whole of 2004-5. The team were bereft of any ideas yesterday and Southampton picked us off at will. Bit of a cliche but it's stick or twist with Mourinho and personally i think there's a dark cloud surrounding the club which Mourinho has caused. What he did with Matic yesterday was baffling and will only cause more resentment among the players. I have to say it was a desperate act and is something that's going to haunt Matic for the rest of his career. Why the fuck never mind buying him in the first place did Falcao start yesterday?. Everyone raised an eyebrow when we bought Falcao he was no point in sugar coating it shit for Man United last year. What did Mourinho think 'Yes i'm the man who can make him great again''. Well the answer to that is a definite no he's utterly passed it.

Just got back from the game extremely drunk. I personally think there's no going back we were totally outclassed by Southampton. Really want to hear from Chelsea fans positive or negative lets have it. And no holding back say what you feel this is not The Shed End Forum.

Summed it up absolutely brilliant post.

Oh that prick ha ha. Real sanctimonious and overbearing the little i read of his posts. But what i couldn't get over was how someone i would guess in his mid to late twenties could be so pompous.

Ok cheers mate TOP TB sounds like a very serious illness.

Ok can someone please put me out of my misery (Something an Arsenal fan says everyday) what is TOPTB?.

It means the average working man can no longer afford to go. They have been priced out and when you take into consideration train and tube fares something to eat and a few pints that makes for an expensive day out. What you will never see again at football is teenagers going as a group of mates. It's a long time ago but when i first started going regularly in the late 70's there would be 10 to 15 of us because it was cheap (before Bates !) .This would be the same up and down the country. If you compare the prices of the cinema, pop concerts and the theatre to football since the Premier League started while they have all increased in price football has gone up about 500% compared to the others. Anyway here's Chelsea beating Leeds 4-0 in 1972 just look how young the fans are during the pitch invasions. https://youtu.be/-YSaN-oKtXo

Bloody hell F.B. Plastic Bertrand forgot about that Hou Hou Hou Hou. I had that song on the 20 Of Another Kind Album. God i'm getting old.

Alan Davies just a middle class smug chimmer. He's so precious about himself . Love to meet the cunt on the street. For all our overseas members this is the sort of bloke Alan Davies is. He is known as a genial comedian who in his many television appearances is often teased for being a vegetarian. But when Alan Davies was confronted with an allegedly "aggressive" homeless person after a night out in London, his mild-mannered persona was lost in a moment of Mike Tyson-like madness. CCTV footage emerged has emerged showing Davies biting the ear of a man in an attack outside a nightclub, sinking his teeth into him for up to 13 seconds and drawing blood before two women and a man pulled him away. The victim claimed that he was set upon after he called the actor by the name of his most famous character, Jonathan Creek. Mr McElfatrick, 40, a former shop worker who is trying to get a hostel place, told how the 2am attack happened last week outside the Groucho Club in London's West End. He said: "His face darkened and he almost spat the words, 'My name's Alan. You know my name - Alan. What's my name? It's Alan'. "Then he suddenly went for my left ear. It was incredibly painful. I shrieked and my eyes were watering. He hung on and drew blood." After admitting to a "tussle", Davies, 41, said: "I'm really not normally an aggressive guy, honest." Related ArticlesComedian Alan Davies is not amused by his 'shoddy’ treatment by the BBC 08 May 2011He added: "I guess this isn't going to look good, is it? The last thing I want is another negative story about 'that obnoxious Jonathan Creek star'. What's this going to say?" Told that the tabloid headlines would read something like 'Jonathan Creek bites tramp's ear' he said: "Oh God. I don't mean to laugh but that's funny isn't it? Oh God, what a nightmare." Davies, 41, a panellist on the BBC's QI show, said he was emotional after giving the eulogy at the funeral of his friend, Jonathan Creek producer Verity Lambert. "I was very upset and emotional," he told the Daily Mirror. "I had a lot to drink over many hours. Far too much really and a lot more than normal but it was an upsetting day." Davies claimed the homeless man became aggressive after approaching him, and had abused him with obscenities. The curly-haired actor said he did not realise the man was homeless and he texted his friend the next morning to find out what happened. On Davies' official website, two people responded and their opinion was divided. A woman who identified herself as Heleen addressed a message to "Alan". It said: "Don't worry about it, it happens to the best of them, and the people that matter to you won't take notice... Love, a Belgian fan." However, Tara Oliver in France was less forgiving. She wrote: "Don't be so sure that no-one will take notice of it. I think it is absolutely despicable. There are no excuses. If grief made us all violent we'd live in anarchy. "How can this man of obvious good fortune, be so nasty to someone who has nothing. "Do something to try to make up for your behaviour Mr Davies, something that resonates, open your eyes up to the world outside of luvvydom, away from privilege and good fortune and do something positive." Mr Davies' agent said he had nothing more to add

No need for personal insults. Excellent post Muzchap you cunt.

Exactly. The point is Mourinho has got a lot of credit in the bank and a lot of fans have got a lot of affection for him absolutely fair enough. But his inability to change things when they obviously need changing is riling fans again absolutely fair enough.

Yes of course Terry knows how to play to the crowd. But Mourinho doesn't need help with the media and negative articles he's completely playing in to their hands. Lets hope he doesn't mention Wenger this weekend concentrate on team matters.

i agree mate but we badly need someone to organise the defence. Just don't see there second goal going in if J.T, was playing. That Guardian column says there's some unhappy players in the squad saying Mourinho was making them scapegoats after Newcastle. His man management skills these days seem to be non existent starting off by having a go at R.L.C. in that pre season game. Who would have noticed if he had a poor game in a glorified kick about. If Mourinho had the hump with him he could have bollocked him behind closed doors not in public. Some say oh that's what R.L.C. needed i just don't buy that. It's totally unnecessary to have a dig at one of our best prospects in public it could have gone the other way and completely shot the kid's confidence.

100% agree with this from the Guardian. Fair play to everyone that went last night our captain is not fucking Ivanovic. • Chelsea fans chant ‘we want our captain back’

This is from Wikipedia on micro management any similarities with our manager are pure coincidence !!!! Rather than giving general instructions on smaller tasks and then devoting time to supervising larger concerns, the micromanager monitors and assesses every step of a business process and avoids delegation of decisions.[6] Micromanagers are usually irritated when a subordinate makes decisions without consulting them, even if the decisions are within the subordinate's level of authority. Micromanagement also frequently involves requests for unnecessary and overly detailed reports ("reportomania"). A micromanager tends to require constant and detailed performance feedback and to focus excessively on procedural trivia (often in detail greater than they can actually process) rather than on overall performance, quality and results. This focus on "low-level" trivia often delays decisions, clouds overall goals and objectives, restricts the flow of information between employees, and guides the various aspects of a project in different and often opposed directions. Many micromanagers accept such inefficiencies as less important than their retention of control or of the appearance of control. It is common for micromanagers, especially those who exhibit narcissistic tendencies and/or micromanage deliberately and for strategic reasons, to delegate work to subordinates and then micromanage those subordinates' performance, enabling the micromanagers in question to both take credit for positive results and shift the blame for negative results to their subordinates.[7] These micromanagers thereby delegate accountability for failure but not the authority to take alternative actions that would have led to success or at least to the mitigation of that failure. The most extreme cases of micromanagement constitute a management pathology closely related to, e.g., workplace bullying and narcissistic behavior. Micromanagement resembles addiction in that although most micromanagers are behaviorally dependent on control over others, both as a lifestyle and as a means of maintaining that lifestyle, many of them fail to recognize and acknowledge their dependence even when everyone around them observes it .[1] Some severe cases of micromanagement arise from other underlying mental-health conditions such as obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, although not all allegations of such conditions by subordinates and other "armchair psychologists" are accurate. Although micromanagement is often easily recognized by employees, micromanagers rarely view themselves as such. In a form of denial similar to that found in addictive behavior, micromanagers will often rebut allegations of micromanagement by offering a competing characterization of their management style as, e.g., "structured", "organized", or "perfectionistic

Ha ha no thanks son i'm a bit too old for comics. Mind you i reckon Captain Tsubasa would be a better right back then Captain Ivanovic.

Captain Tsubasa well that makes everything crystal clear.

What the fuck is this monstrosity ?

Well i have put on a few pounds recently but cheers for asking mate.

Lets be honest we are a basket case of a club in some respects. Does anyone really think Mourinho will be around for long history dictates he won't. The die was cast as soon as Roman came to the club. There will always be a revolving door of managers and everyone has to accept that. Doesn't matter who you are and what your reputation is like the chances are you'll not be around for more then three years. Chelsea have never done stability it's not in our D.N.A.going back to the 70's when Eddie McCreadie was sacked for asking for a car just after winning us promotion with a young and exciting team.