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Afaik not in the last 100 years.

WIll you accept a defeat now?

Every fucking footballer is overpayed. Are we going to moan about what the society has come to on a Chelsea forum? God this must be more retarded than blaming RW's sacking or injuries.

Bertrand returned to Chelsea from his loan to Nottingham Forrest for the rest of the season. PvA is probably going on loan. Esk must be happy ^ Ashley Cole may finally get some rest, although with CA at the helm I have my doubts.

Surely you must see the difference. Wenger didn't spend much and he managed to keep his team in the top 3 despite losing vital star players. We spent ~30£ mil just during the summer and are in danger of dropping out of the top 4. For someone who doesn't know the differences between the ways the two clubs operate such a reaction is pretty normal. Let's be honest for a second. Most managers would have already been sacked after such a horrendous form. The fact that Ancelotti still holds his job means that the club realized their part in this decline (Pretty easy to spot if you ask me) and that Roman is more patient that he has been in the past.

F me he got the fricking day right?!

FFS! Does anyone actually believe that our players suddenly stopped caring when November stepped in? Our players are OVERPLAYED and that has affected their performances which destroyed their morale. I can see some blaming "lack of commitment" if this season turns out to be a real disaster.

Lamps and Drogba usually take part. Afraik Drogba was the one who forced some of our players to applaud when JT and Lamps were unavailable. Dunno what happened yesterday, they may be knackered. After all this was Lampard's 4th straight game after a return from a lasting injury. A 3(soon to be 4)-month "bad moment" has stopped anything resembling rotation in our team.

So Sturridge, Hilario and Kakuta are demoted to Reserve football when players like Turnbull and Kalou are one injury away from starting for the champions of England? Nothing makes sense these days.

We've got Paul Clement for that.Wilkins' knowledge of the game and relationship with the players didn't seem to help when Scolari had a slump.

Just my opinion without over-analyzing stuff 1 Petr Cech IN 2 Branislav Ivanovic IN 3 Ashley Cole IN 5 Michael Essien IN 7 Ramires IN 8 Frank Lampard IN 10 Yossi Benayoun OUT 11 Didier Drogba IN 12 Mikel IN 15 Florent Malouda OUT 17 Jose Bosingwa IN 18 Yury Zhirkov IN 19 Paulo Ferreira OUT 21 Salomon Kalou OUT 22 Ross Turnbull OUT 23 Daniel Sturridge IN 26 John Terry IN 33 Alex IN 38 Patrick van Aanholt IN 39 Nicolas Anelka OUT 40 Henrique Hilario OUT 43 Jeffrey Bruma IN 44 Gael Kakuta IN 45 Fabio Borini OUT 46 Josh McEachran IN 17 in 8 out.

Nah we'll win this to keep up with our schedule of wining one game per month.

Sturridge was one of the 4 players who went to applaud the away support after the game. Cech, Ashley Cole and Terry were the other 3.

Just started reading my Twitter feed. How bout that for a stat:

I reckon it's going to be a ~10 mil rated defender.

I'm disappointed with almost everything he said, granted I'm sick of words but at least they are an indication of what he may think. One the one hand the bit about us being able to retain the league seems ignorant at best when we're 5th being 9 points off ManUnited and 10 points off 12th Liverpool with both those teams having less games that us. He claimed that little details lost us the game (like the corner and Kalou missing a 1-on-1 after we got lucky in their box) when we were terrible for 94 minutes. Moreover when a journo asked him about his job he said that he had to do better while only a few weeks ago he'd be confident of having full support. Not to mention the same old stuff about having to work hard in training and going through a bad moment. The only ray of light came when I read this off TX's link So that rules out a new Ben Haim, Sidwell, Benayoun signing that I was afraid of.

Directions change, our brilliant early season is the most recent example. I, for one, never thought we could win the league after the defeat at Everton last season, we won the double. I'm not saying a turnaround as impressive as that one is possible but such directions can be affected by luck, referees or individual performances. What if Drogba scored that penalty against Tottenham? what if we had gotten a deserved penalty against Everton and converted one of our chances against Birmingham, Looserpool and Villa? Thus I think turning a season around, or our direction during the summer is much easier than changing Ancelotti's treatment towards the youth or replacing players like Drogba and Lampard.

I'd love to argue from an optimistic point of view but you're probably right. The only thing that comes to my mind is that hopefully he's as slow as he'll get

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That's still the way he works. That would be like me blaming Ancelotti (or even a Manc Fergie) for not having the balls to stand-up to their club owners and demand investment in new players, that's the way those people work and I'm not going to blame them for it. Thank you. Then let's agree to disagree.

Even if this season ends up being worse than 2008 that will still only be one bad (or even horrible for some) season. We've (hopefully) got managerial stability, our owner isn't going anywhere, our dressing-room is still fine and our best players don't want to leave. We're nothing like Liverpool and anyone claiming the opposite is a doomsayer.

Yeah that was me, and it's still you who's ungrateful and ignorant. That's not how Roman works, he never had an interview about us winning stuff and dominating Europe and England and he's not going to have an interview when we're horrible on the pitch.Ancelotti said in December that he has Abramovich's full support and has repeated that ever since, that's good enough for me. Too many posts, can't answer them all in the right order.

Not trying to compare TFW to Carlo Ancelotti but both Liverpool and Chelsea fans are desperate to have long-term successful managers like Wenger and Fergie and =regularly end up talking-up their managers to themselves and to other fans.