C'mon the chels

Sounds cool, only playing 30 minutes each way for two matches and then 45 each way is a bit scary, i'd be blowing out of my arse after the first 30 minutes!

As much as I hate to say it I think Lamps may stillbe moving on, I just think if all was well you wouldn't have heard anything about this. There would have been no stalling for a year, contract offered and signed no probs. All we've heard for a year from Chelsea is we love frank and we want him to stay and from lamps I love Chelsea and want to stay yet a deal remains unsigned.

I'm not the least bit surprised about this. I've been saying for months that I am absolutely certain he will not be in charge next season and got called crazy, and asked what I'm basing this insanity on. Well as I said months ago, Jose was the most successfulmanager in Chelsea's history nobody would have been able to fill his shoes, so the Chelsea regime did the smart thing and put a whipping boy in so that the next true long term coach would be living up to a bumbling idiot and not a charasmatic tactical genious. In all honesty though I don't think it has worked completely because most Chelsea fans are still struggling to pickout a manager they woould want at the club because they are still measuring against Mourinho.

I'm sorry GZ but this argument is poor. The big difference is that You could probably count on one hand in the four years Mourinho was boss the amount of times he messed his tactics up, and you could probably stand there all day picking games out that Mourinho changed the course of the game in our favour by making tactical decisions. You could probably stand there all day picking games out that Grant fucked up with his tactics which cost us and count on one hand the amount of times he got it right, I for one can only think of 3; Arsenal at the bridge, Man utd at the bridge and Liverpool at the bridge CL.

Its a fine line, every team has had to cope with the ACN and injuries, TBH if we are going to whine about the ACN don't buy as many fucking African players simple as. I think the league was a good result and I'm proud of everyone at the club for getting to the UCL final and playing so well, but when you consider how close we were to winning a trophy, be it FA cup or Carling Cup, to end up with nothing is poor. The players are the guys who have got us as far as they did this season I think most, bar Malouda, have given everything, the failure sits with Grant. At key times when we needed a tactical decision or word of encouragement or good sub we had the opposite which in all likelihood was the difference between winning something and not. Maybe we can't win something every year but in a year where we were close to a treble, to end with nothing shows a lack somewhere. It's poor and to make excuses like ACN, Mourinho getting the sack or injuries detracts from the fact that Chelsea Football Club as a whole have made the choices which contributed to this season ending the way it did.

May as well put the boot in as well then! Hmmm where to begin. I've said for ages that I didn't think Grant was right for the job but I thought I would see what happens at the end of the season before I passed full judgement. Firstly when all said and done Bombay blue is exactely correct Jose never lost a final and here we are at the end of the season having been in two finals and ending up trophyless, that is not good enough. Secondly the Loss of the UCL was not really Grant's fault maybe he could've made some different changes quicker but it was a very tight game, and Drogba being sent of with 6 mins to go was a fucking disgrace. We may not have one it in that 6 minutes but once Drog got sent off we had no chance of winning it before the penalty shoot out. Thirdly I don't think second in the league is bad at all, we should always aim to finish in the top two whilst recognising that we aren't going to win the league every year. Finishing third would have been really shit! All in all Grant's tactical ineptness was the difference between us finishing with 1 or 2 trophy's and no trophies, when you put it all together and think about the season as a whole it has to be viewed as a bad season. If we had won the FA and Carling cups finished second in the league and just pipped to the UCL then I would say give the guy another go because that is a good season, unfortunately considering how close we were to winnning something and ending up with nothing is not good enough.

Well there have been rumours about wet head going to Real Madrid in the last couple of days. The reason it is more focused on Chelsea is because Drogba has never quashed rumours that he will leave Chelsea and actually fuels speculation, I'm quite certain Lampard is going, its been on the cards for ages and Chelsea's inability to tie him to a contract is fueling this one. No idea where the Carvalho story came from, he's going no where.

I had a great dream last night......oh sorry not that kind of forum!

Won't happen.Doesn't fit Chelsea's policy of lowering the age of the squad, plus Ihate the fucker!!!!

I wouldn't want to give Malouda anymoretime, not because I think he is shit because clearly he isn't but because the lazy fucker showed no fight at all for most of the season, you don't need time to try or give 100% that should just be something he does even when things aren't going so well.

Yeah somethig to tell the grandkids!. When we were at Thames view primary school, I was about 8 and JT would have been around 6, we were playing footie in the playground with a tennis ball. I was steaming down the wing, Joe Cole like, and instead of making a proper tackle JT stuck his arm out and clothes lined me. I fell over bashed my head on the floor and burst into tears!

Hello suzzie welcome.

I'm not saying anything else about Essien other than I remember him saying he'll play anywhere for the team but he didn't say its because he loves the club. Its because the guy is as about as professional as they come, which is why you will never hear him talking about a move like that fuckwit Drogba. The test is when a club enquires......and they will.

Oh come on Warnie, for the two times you can say the difference between the two is two games against Man utd and Liverpool anyone in their right mind can pick 10 against smaller clubs that never stood a chance against us with Jose. And anyway we had a good record against UTD under Mourinho so I don't see how that game is relevant. The only game anyone can pick out as us doing better in under Grant is the Liverpool CL match and like I said for that one game I could probably sit here and pull 10 off the top of my head where we've done worse.

If you like that FB you'll love some of the stories about our younger days! Esk may remember this area but there was a little green on Bastable Avenue as you were coming from River road on the left hand side where we used to have a kick about. That was the site of my stunning 3-2 wembley singles victory against JT! Paul Terry was in goal and it was me and JT in the final, the little bastard tried to cheat but I still did him.