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Totally disagree. Have you seen our lineups in those games? There might have some complaints here and there but think most were OK with the lineups that were put out in those matches. Those lineups should still be good enough to put away the likes of Southampton, West Brom, Leeds, Brighton etc. The West Brom game was a freak game but otherwise, we had chances to put away Southampton, Leeds, Brighton and even Man United but didn't take them. On top of that, we also have had to play a game every 3-4 days. It's almost impossible to play the same XI in every game even if we want some consistency. It also hasn't helped that the players have generally been blowing hot and cold with their form. And mind you, since Tuchel took over, only Man City have picked up more points than us and they have played 2 games more. This goes back to the point previously made where we have left ourselves with so little room for error after botching those games against top half teams under Lampard.

In the midst of us reaching the FA Cup final and Champions League semi finals, has anyone actually noticed that we've only won 3 of our last 8 league games? That's one less than when we won 4 in a row in Tuchel's first 5 league games.

Do we really care about how other fans perceive us? It's become nothing but lazy views and tribalism when it comes to non-Chelsea talking about us. By this point, it's tiresome and not worth bothering at all. As for Roman, make no mistake that this ESL fiasco will always be a blot in his copybook but that aside, it's easy to just forget the good work that he's actually done for the club. No need for me to go through what he's done for the Men's first team and so that aside, Roman has invested and helped bring up the best youth academy in the country, invested and helped built the most dominant Women's team in the country and one of the best in Europe, provided free accommodation to the NHS staff last year, continued to pay everyone at the club their full wages despite the ongoing pandemic, ran and supported campaigns on anti-discrimination. There are probably more but those are the ones off the top of my head. If you look at owners of the other big clubs around Europe, how many do you see do such things for their club? Not many, if any at all. You have clubs like Liverpool where they tried to furlough their staff last year because of the pandemic but had to make a U-turn after a backlash and ditched their women's team. You have clubs like Man United, where the Glazers continuously take money out of the club and have the club in big debts. You have clubs like Arsenal, where Stan Kroenke doesn't even give a shit about the team being successful or not. You also have clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona where the owners have put their club in such a terrible financial financial - e.g. Barcelona's debt is supposedly more than 1 billion. Maybe it's the byproduct of modern life but is it even genuinely possible to find a "squeaky clean", rich sports owner these days? Every rich person out there will have always motive, agenda of their own. They will always be dodgy in some ways. Roman might not be the perfect or "cleanest" owner around but he's still better than a lot of the other owners.

We have been looking better lately? Defensively, we are generally still fine. Offensively, we are still inconsistent. One game we look good, the next we look crap. Look back at our last 7 games - Sheffield United, WBA, Porto, Palace, Porto, Man City, Brighton - and tell me if our performances were consistent across the board. Off season? Pre-season? Have people forgotten about Euro 2020 this summer? The Premier League next season will start 1 month after the end of the Euros and say if 2 teams that heavily feature our players - e.g. England and Germany - go all the way to the final, then those players will likely not have pre-season at all because they might well get something like 3 weeks off and just 1 week to prep for the new season. And IF we win the FA Cup, we will have the Community Shield a week before the league starts. Right now, the only players that will be around for pre-season are Azpi, Alonso, Pulisic and Ziyech. Kepa, Gilmour and CHO may be around if they aren't called to the Euros while Silva could be available if he does get that contract extension. So, that's only 4-8 players. Am assuming Caballero will leave once his contract expires. I can't remember what happened in pre-season in 2018 after the World Cup but this is not ideal after the lack of pre-season last summer.

Inter, Atletico and Milan have all also pulled out. Only Juventus, Real and Barcelona left...

About the in-game changes, yeah, I have no idea what Tuchel was trying to go for. The players were just randomly running around the pitch.

Was the tactical decision really questionable? Selecting Mount in midfield was probably the only questionable one. Otherwise, the other selections were things that what people supposedly wanted - the front 3, Azpi being rested, same goes for Chilwell with Alonso coming in. Am inclined to think that the ESL fiasco affected the players but on the other hand, yesterday's performance was not really different to what we have seen in some other matches under Tuchel. And all this aside, am also not having this tiredness excuse that's being thrown out by Tuchel all of a sudden.

Best pray that Stamford Bridge doesn't become a source of a COVID-19 outbreak...

There's an apology but it also shows how out of touch these owners are...

How much of it was Mount looking lost and how much of it was Mount looking tired? I thought Tuchel would taken the opportunity to give him a break yesterday but he didn't. It feels like we've reached the point again where Mount is suddenly being overplayed, because he's played all 10 games for club and country and started all but 1 of them in the last 4 1/2 weeks, accumulating up to 776 minutes out of 900.

C'mon now, stop trying to give the club an excuse for such a pathetic statement. They had hours to come out with a decent statement and they couldn't even have the decency to acknowledge the mistake and apologize. Exactly. Compared to the owners of the other big clubs out there, Roman is generally better than most, if not all.

Just saw the statement. It’s pathetic! Didn’t even acknowledge the mistake and didn’t even fucking apologize! And they only considered the matter fully after joining the ESL? Like WTF?!?!

West Ham 0-1 Chelsea PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2020/21 Premier League Match 33 24th April, Saturday 2021 London Stadium 17:30 Kick Off (UK time)

Nobody is stopping you from forming your own Chelsea Super Forum...

But there's a new format coming and look at that second point...

If they are taking ages with the statement, then they better explain why they made the decision in the first place and apologize for causing this bloody chaos!

The hilarious thing now is the reformed Champions League is not any better than the Super League either. It still seeks to protect the interest of the big clubs.

Do they though? A point would be decent for them and can then hope we will drop more points in our remaining games. The bigger winner of all this shit is probably Leicester, who face West Brom on Thursday. Somehow, all the teams below them dropped points!

Never mind the fact that the Super League idea was trash to begin with. They can't even market it right. They announced the god damn thing close to midnight on Sunday, then you have Perez giving that interview again close to midnight on Monday and now, you have everyone pulling out close to midnight on Tuesday! WHAT A FUCKING SHITSHOW!

If he wants to deflect, he should just stick to the ESL distraction excuse and don't say anything else.

AC Milan now also out.