Blue Armour

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10551411/Sofia-Abramovich-posts-anti-Putin-message.html

Kind of shows how out of touch these politicians are with reality. Seize a football club! Yeah, that will save millions of lives.

That's what I recall. At least based on the outcome of the Navalny case, where he vehemently denied links.

Just curious though. How did he & Usmanov avoid sanctions in the first round? Was it because of a technicality? Also, does sanctions automatically mean seized assets?

Yeah. Pulisic and Havertz playing where they did was super weird. Never even saw them interchange positions even once. I'll chalk that down to one of Tuchel's weird moments. Like when he played James as RCB and Azpi as the WB because he was worried about Azpi coming up against a pack attacker in the center.

True, but Pizy does have a point about his fitness. After his one month on sidelines he has come back as a far less agile player. Haven't really seen him bully defenders like he did against Arsenal, or Tyrone Mings. All that talk about making amends and he doesn't seem to be maintaining whatever standard he had.

The irony if City don't end up winning a single trophy this season. Especially after Craig Burley and every other pundit out there was blowing smoke up their arse the past few months.

Bit of a shame to toss him into a WB position. But its better he plays WB than an inside forward . Either play him as a pure winger or WB. Just play wide.

I was moaning about this entire 2nd half lol. Havertz was just wasted being shunted out wide. All that pre-match talk about Havertz and Lukaku forming a partnership and we end up playing Pulisic in the no.10 role. And the latter was awful today. Should have brought on Werner to play wide and move Havertz infield.

Probably because they have some rival red team fans in charge, lol. They used to make kits for Arse and Man Utd.

Forgot about this one!! Just for an FA Cup match...dang.

Eh...I wouldn't say no chance. Considering we were 5 points clear in November. Before covid and injuries hit.

Is it too much to ask for something like this: Granted the shorts this season are similar. But could be better.

Hopefully the pattern isn't too noticeable on TV.

Messi is an all time great., but anyone calling him a top 3 of top 5 forward at this point in time has to think hard. Especially those Messi or Ronaldo fans. Do they even watch football games? I'm looking at Messi PSG videos and they're saying stuff like 'Extra terrestrial class', lol.

You seemed to be singling out Mount for lack of big game performances, hence why I asked. It's not that he can't perform in big games. Maybe he hasn't consistently delivered. But that's the case with the entire team. The fact is we don't have consistent big game performers in the remaining attacking players. Maybe Havertz and Pulisic have slightly better stats. But I wouldn't call those earth shattering when compared to Mount.

Didn't he deliver against City in the Champions league final? Or was that Mormon Mount.

Please let that be the 2nd kit. Not that cyan and white monstrosity

Why do you never see Nike bringing in outrageous designs with silly checkered patterns on the Pool kits? They always tend to be lot more clean while they experiment designs with ours.

I swear..whoever is in charge of kit design there doesn't care much for Chelsea. Still, you'd think the club can also say no to a design that doesn't look good.

Reading the article again it seems like that was for just the one match against Wolves, probably for the trophy lift. I'd be a lot more annoyed if they had changed the rules right around the time we became eligible to play in the CWC

Hope Chelsea at least appeals though. Can't believe the PL can't make an exception for this badge. It's not like the CWC hasn't been around for many years.

Yeah..I guess it's still possible for next year's PL competition? Don't recall if Liverpool were able to do it in the PL right after their CWC win.

What's with that bloody pattern on the collar? Is it some kind of West London connection? In the zoomed view it just looks like they took the Chelsea lion and stretched him all over.....but why??? Who would do such a thing....

Its a tire rim that fell off Arsene Wenger's car