Iggy Doonican

A mate of mine was saying look at those Man City players crowding round the ref (Nasri should have been sent off) i bet the media won't say anything. But in truth with regards to the P.S.G. game you get the feeling that the crowding round the ref was preordained by Mourinho in the dressing room. I'm new to this forum and have to say i'm not a Mourinho fan his histrionics are tiresome and i wish he could make us more of an attacking force. There is no excuse for having all that talent at your disposal and yet making us an awful team to watch.

It can look pretty churlish to complain when we are 6 points clear with a game in hand and the capital one cup in the bag but: This is the weakest premership in memory not one team has been consistent. We are devoid of any confidence and look totally knackered. When you look at the way the team was set up for the Capital One cup final, a centre back at right back, a right back at left back, and a centre back in midfield yet we won the game comfortably. The one player who has lost all his confidence is Oscar basically because Mourinho is trying to turn him into James Milner.

Apart from possibly Man United no one has a better record then us at The Emirates.(lost only once i think). But i really can't see us getting a result there. I don't want it to be another what if game. If we did happen to take the lead i think we would beat them comfortably because of the gaps they'll leave. But it's got 0-0 written all over it. Surely to God we won't be negative against Q.P.R. now that's a team who are there for the taking.

This is from the comments section from the Guardian. The bloke who wrote it doesn't say who he supports (it's a piece on Fabregas) but he's in my opinion pretty much nailed it. thebigfeller 22h ago3132On they stutter, doing entirely un-Mourinho-like things (or at least, compared with what we came to expect from him and them in his first spell in England). They'll win the league comfortably: by default as much as anything given the total lack of consistency beneath them. But... ... There's something wrong with Chelsea, and there's something more wrong with Mourinho. Their results and form have been going south ever since his nonsense claims of conspiracies (which he claimed when at Inter, and again at Real Madrid, and again now) began: at a time they were miles clear and walking the league. Since then, we've had: - A 5-3 thrashing at Spurs who, as a few observers woke up to today, are VERY overrated. They have almost nothing in their side likely to scare anyone of any repute. But this was only the second time a Mourinho team's ever conceded 5 - An unthinkable humiliation at home, against League 1 opposition: and another 4 goals leaked into the bargain - 3 draws in 4 home games, including against bottom 3 side Burnley. Mourinho teams just never used to do that - And another draw: which this time eliminated them. Wednesday night's debacle against 10 men. Again, previously unthinkable Chelsea fans probably won't be bothered by much of this. They're comfortably ahead; it'd take the collapse of all collapses for them not to win the title from here. But while I used to regard the argument that Mourinho didn't know how to coach genuine attacking football as unfair and a caricature, he has simply become a far more fearful, negative coach since being blown asunder 5-0 by Barcelona. He's almost completely reactive: so obsessed with the opponent and the referee that his teams rarely impose themselves from the outset on anyone. His roboticised approach (good grief, he even SPEAKS like a robot: listen to him, he does) is, I think, at odds with players like Fabregas, as it was with the ludicrously mishandled Mesut Oezil in Madrid. Not losing big away games is much, much more important to him than winning them: his caution let Man City and Man Utd back in meetings this season, and Chelsea have blown a whole bunch of leads in matches. Why? I think it's stemming from him. I think he makes far more in-game tactical errors than anyone seems to spot; I also think his intensity and obsession with starting fights with everyone exhausts his players. First time round, Mourinho was as effective at shielding his players from pressure as any manager I've ever seen. I don't think that now. He drains the life out of football matches, but maybe out of his teams too. And his chronic over-use of six core players, despite strengthening the squad hugely last summer, speaks of someone obsessed with loyal lieutenants in whom he entrusts everything - but not trusting many other players (especially young ones). Why? Two trophies this season will paper over the cracks - and Chelsea fans will laugh at this comment, I'm sure. But something is amiss; the whirlwind's going to blow itself out again. I think it's already doing so.