Magic Lamps

McAnus such a dick

torres trip to that bullshit defender also was not intentional, still foul. fuck it. these refs would always undermine rules to give us disadvantage.

not intentional my ass. he beat the ball to the ground with his forearm, oc that is handball

oh mata.... Lamps long balls the only whisper of a threat so far. very boring game.

classic epl refereeing, ref unable to distinguish a throw-in of a goal kick why does cole shoot from there????

appreciate the extra effort and running, ivanovic puts in to help the offense

agree 4-3-3 is the best usually but at the moment we are fucked anyway cos we got no DM, so a 4-1-2-1-2 with the midfielders interchanging in some way would be adequate. But it is feckless as we all know we got no tactical plan B and Rafa will continue with a 4-2-3-1. the problem is u have to play one out of Marin, Bertrand, Torres. I bet we will lineup this: ---------Turnbull------- Azpi--Iva---Terry---cole -------Lamps-Rami oscar----Mata-----Bertrand -----------Ba------------------

Nice thread, decent time to ponder that issue. Let's assess what we got, a clueless board, an average and unpopular manager, a vastly talented skeleton of a squad, drained of experience, relying on 3 weakish, young, inconsistent AMs that still are to win a big match for us, serious issues in key positions, the "press" and probably half of europe having a feud with us, an immensely rich, supportive but very authoritive and interfering, impatient owner, an army of more or less quality players out on loan and a world class academy full of great talents that are still to come through Fuck the manager and the press, we as a club are a global brand, got enough capital and surely the potential to become the strongest team in the world within a decade. The problem is that we do not have authorities in the board that really have clue, most are business men and maybe fans but no true blues and surely no football men, well many big clubs have worked without for decades but still there was something extra : la masia at Barca, corruption and the government allowing the club slush funds at Real and Bayern, political power and a competent manager in charge since the last ice age aso. Our factor of consistency have been individual achievements, Jose, RDM in the short term, Lampard, drogba, Terry, Cech in the long term have carried the club, compensating the managers and the boards flaws. Now the latter has decided to get rid of them we are in deep trouble, cos there is no basis of success nothing the club can cling on footballing wise. We cant sign young players and tell them they are the replacments, we have to ease them in, if we manage to fix our squad and are able to maintain the spirit that made us big, we are fine and will return as strong as ever but the indicated shotgun approach will simply aggravate everything. Our last decade of success is worth nothing. Success is like a building, you have to maintain the pillars until u got new ones that are esqually strong, but when you remove the old ones and got no replacements it will crush and you have to build out of the ruins. Right now our building is faltering, our future is in the balance.

well your right, forgot he is only 19, different situation then. We can get more than 70 game sper season, 35 each is about as much as a player should play anyway. Cech picks up injuries allt he time and we do not now if he will last as long as some hope. We can not allow a talent of the cenntury like Courtois go to waste. Cech is past his peak already, even though he might have some world class years in him yet, we will not have a squad competing for CL+PL anyway, given our policies will continue.

Not surprised Gonalons has developed so much. all down to Lyons new policy, after they won 7 league titles in a row with a world team in which heavy sums where invested but many players did not make much of their potential after joining them e.g. Gomis, Gourcuff, they invested into their own youth and have some great prospects. @Rmpr I agrre but have to add Gonalons surely is a leader in spite of his age, but no de Rossi/Alonso for sure. We are a bit too desperate for quality DMs cos there are no ones in our team and not many more available for a reasonable price, but I'd still say, sign a Etxebewhateves/Cabye type and a Capoue/Gonalons/Diame player and we will be fine if we also keeps lamps. Or bring in a big name who can actually replace him. Young, hungry players are fine, but remember, when abramovic revolutions began, we had players like Makelele and Veron around, who showed Lamps the way. There are qualities you only can gain, by playing a decade on the highest level and we shall not let these qualities go away without replacing them. We either fork out big money for a 30 year old worldclass midfielder and hope it works out long enough and eases the transition, or we have to keep lamps and the new, low-profile signings enable us to limit his defensive duties and use him more effectively. The problem is our squad is so stretched, of course our mdifield looks shit. Once we had Makelele, Ballack and Lamps, then also deco, belletti, essien and Meireles, all even though not world class every game and not necessarily starting all the time they still contribute much to the team, share their experience and give younger players composure and concentration due to their sheer presence. You can not start Lamps every game or build a team around him, we have to build it for our next generation, but when you bring in lamps when you need a goal or start him in CM in a big game next to s.o. like gonalons or capoue and he will be a lethal weapon. We need big names and experience to ease the transition but at first we need players to build a new squad and I do not see anyone as Capoue or Gonalons coming out of the youth, so i'd say sign one of them and he will bolster our squad, give us the mobile, solid, strong and passing DM we are still missing which also allows us to use our other options better. Ramires-Lamps partnership lacks tackling and cover, lamps-mikel lacks running and mobility, mikel-ramires lacks passing and tactics but Capoue/Gonalons combined with any of the three is almost complete.

I actually still see no problem having Cech AND Courtois in one team, Cech also replaced Cudicini when the latter was only 31 and he still stayed with us for 4 more years. Liverpool had Dudek and Reina for a long time, Every Bundesliga club normally has two absolute quality goalies. jack Butland is okay, but Turnbull also was ok at the time he joined us, he was about the same age btw. This move only makes sense if we line up him as future Cech replacement which would a shame considering we got a much better option right now.

and now you have to read all that shit about what a fantastic performance Brentford delivered. They are shit, they were shit in this game, so we were, cos we fuckin had 5 games in 15 days and all of our 14 infield players are tired as fuck and our manager and board just have no clue, our team is a horde of dead men walkin and this will not get better until some profound changes are made. And still we will tear them into shreds at the bridge, cos we still are chelsea FFS

even though with an okay ref we would have won... well one should not expect okay refs in English football the display was indeed pathetic.

the ref is shit. this was most definitely a penalty

at least I got a reason to wake up before 3pm now, maybe this will get my party-disrupted sleeping rhythm intact again, overdue because my exams start next week. Whatevs. It is just fuckin Brentford, we should smash them easily, do not care about all this mind game bullshit. Laughed so much when their 22 year old keeper considered himself as "more than a match" for Lampard in terms of penalties. Only because he has watched all of lamps pens, doesn't mean you will keep em out. One of the world's best goalies, Manuel Neuer, had watched all of Lamps penalties, and he knew how he would take the penalty in the CL final high with power donw the middle, as he does most crucial penalties, he remained grounded and raised his arms, he knew exactly where the ball was going but still it was to hard to be kept out.

smart move, anelka's a deft finisher, just what juve lacks. Weren't they also in for Drogs and Lamps? Imagine the 3 of them together in one side. If utilized wisely they could make Juve CL contender again.

Now Luiz is injured we fuckin need a proper CM. We only got Ramires and Lamps left and both are playing on their last legs already. Which retard is responsible for entering the season with such a thin squad and letting Essien and Meireles go unnecessarily? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2267930/David-Luiz-faces-weeks-injured-Chelsea-problems-mount.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Hear the Momo Diame roumour would be back, no idea if he really is that good or only plays so good against us, cos his stats are shit.

Should have been a yellow card for the ballboy for deliberate handball and more than 3s ball barrier. Eden's tackle was fair, only got the ball.

"Who is the worst looking?" is a very unfair question, when Gervinho is around http://socqer.com/static_media/uploaded_images/H0OAFQDP2G_gervinho-balding.jpg

+1 We fuckin lack consistency. We had big players who could rise to the occasion and literally train themselves with their experience, so it did not matter so much, our managers where constantly changing, but now we got a host of talented but young players, who can not compensate for the lack of chemistry with the coach. The deficiencies of Romans hire&fire mentality were covered by Cech, Lamps and esp. Drogs punctual overachievements. I think we are the only top team whose titles have been won by 30+ players exclusively. Now our failure to do either of finding a long-term manager and replacing our big players adequately or in time.

both teams's as well as the ref's performance were abysmal today. 2 mistakes by Ivanovic gifts Swansea the COC, a trophy about which I do not care at all but 0/4 trophies of which 2 we should have won easily makes me worry whether a Chelsea withou Drogba can compete for trophies at all.

Swansea are soooo shit still we got not even a proper chance against them.

it just hurts so much to see all those mistakes of us. the calibr of players we have should be able to humiliate this poor swansea side also with ten men, but we are just shit tactically

Foy is such a cunt, what does it matter if the ballboy got a kick anywhere it was not malicious. But Hazard is a dick tough. swansea were poor today, as have been we.

One should just not expect anything from this side or from benitez. that ball boy is such a pussy