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Yeah but I am talking about nasty stuff that gets physical, not keyboard warriors having a bitch at each other

Will be fisticuffs or at least heated verbals amongst Chels tomorrow. Someone will say 'fuck of you fat cunt' to FSW then someone will say 'fuck off support the team' 'Dont tell me to fuck off' etc then it will kick off. Happened with Ranieri, Grant etc. Shame when theres divisions between the fans

Agree with that -would be a big mistake not to renew Coles contract and if the FSW has had a hand in it I will personally kick his fat arse -though there is talk Cole has had a gutful of the British media

Exactly. Fans get excited by the prospects of a Josh or youngster making it. Youth team players, will always want to make the grade, which is the reason for the special relationship they have with the fans. The CL success was enabled by ready made players and as such its a perpetual cycle. Without that success, we could have not had any of these (Oscars, marins, Hazards) players coming to Stamford Bridge. .

Strange to have Colin Hutchinsons autograph -as you said he was unpopular. No player of any merit has been promoted from the academy since 1990s. It has however produced 'factory seconds' that have been farmed out to other teams eg Borini, Kakuta. But with acquisitions such as Hazard, Oscar, Marin, it doesnt bode well for anyone coming through directly.

Hutchinson was a player, I have his autograph -much loved by the fans, not on the board. Youre not a troll or Ron Gourlay in disguise are you ?

I might be wrong but didnt you say in one of your posts youve been going for years ? I dont think theres one fan I know goes to regular games that isnt fucked off with Gourlay, Buck etc. The academy is window dressing, almost without exception the first team are bought off the (Waitrose)shelf. As for outside investment anyone working in a telesales call centre could sell advertisng space to a World club that has blanket TV coverage. I dont think it takes a genius.

Everyone to have managed Chelsea by 2014 CHELSEA FC has confirmed that everybody in the UK will have a chance to manage their club over the next two years. The main quality Margaret Gerving wants in a player is politeness England’s longest-running farce has drawn up a schedule of 15-minute managerial appointments, starting with 78-year-old Margaret Gerving from Carlisle, who will oversee the first part of Sunday’s match against Manchester City. The huge rota will begin as soon as Chelsea staff find Rafael Benitez, who is currently hiding somewhere in Stamford Bridge with the keys to the main entrance and all the forks from the canteen stuffed into his coat pockets. Margaret Gerving said: “My grandson puts the football on sometimes when he comes to visit and that’s given me enough insight to know that Torres can fucking whistle if he thinks he’s starting up front. “I will be starting that nice Ashley Cole, though. Beautiful manners and immaculately turned out, he is. It’s a mystery no nice young lady has snapped him up.” Each sacking will be accompanied by a six-figure payout and it’s hoped that Chelsea can drag the country out of recession by the time the first few million people have been sent on gardening leave. Employed people will be allowed to manage the club during their lunch hour and the under-fives will be given overnight slots which are anticipated to be quiet, apart from the occasional Travelodge-related incident. A Chelsea spokesman said: “I don’t have the full list of forthcoming managers to hand but I can tell you that Sven Goran Eriksson is about 62 millionth.”

Because modern day clubs are businesses first and foremost -with football added on as the extra bit. Businesses will fail and some will succeed. I like your analogy of La Masia football as a factory. This is true of the whole industry. The production line workers are the players. It is a beautiful game, but playing football is brutal and violent work—most players have short careers and sacrifice their bodies for their vocation. The workers may be vastly overpaid, but they still sell their labour to the capitalist owners, who proceed to make vast profits from them. The coaches, scouts, and trainers are the engineers, production planners, and shopfloor managers in the factory. Their schemes, strategies, and training prepare and coordinate the production process. Combined with the skills of the athletes, they engineer schemes and tactics that keep the game evolving and competitive. The referees can be easily overlooked, but they play a crucial part in the valuation process. They are the quality control specialists, ensuring that working conditions are uniform and safe, and that a quality product is turned out, play-by-play and week-by-week. What do owners do? They sit in luxury boxes, sucking their bloody profits from the bodies and minds of the players, coaches and refs. Much like the super-wealthy in other sectors. Capitalism has crises and businesses collapse, financial suffering for workers and their families follows. Unemployment, and associated increases in health problems, depression and suicide risk. By comparison the problems of football capitalism, the demise of clubs, can be seen as trivial -but its still gutting in so much as the emotional investment by fans is often greater than that given to a wife or girlfriend

This verbal sniping by a couple of multi-millionaires, what a load of bollocks. Saw the title and just for a moment there I thought there'd been a physical assault. Now that I would pay to see, them scrapping.

Nothing to do with the interest of Liverpool FC- Gillete and Hicks as small time parasites compared to Abramovich would have been squirming

Thank you sir. Remember when Benitez joined in with Wenger saying how Abramovichs money had ruined football.? Kind of ironic now the fat pig has his snout in the cash trough with all the other 'yes' men

Like the bit where he says hes a fake. I think it will be a bit like when Grant took over , and the players will play in spite of whos in charge. Whats more important than Tubby, is leadership on the pitch at the moment. Thats why we're shipping points

Agree with the sentiment, and there are quite a few going to abandon their season tickets -but the attending fans are becoming less and less relevant, and will continue to do so -unless the arse falls out of TV revenue and sponsorship. I wil continue to support -no one -Abramovich, the board, players are bigger than the club. Buck and co. are mere custodians, and cunts as well

This is the nub of the matter. The clubs, owners, take the fans for granted -yet they would be nothing without mugs like us splashing the cash to go to games. People align themselves to a 'brand' and the owners invest because they know fans are 4 times more likely to get divorced than switch clubs/brands.

Window dressing, an afterthought to deaden the blow

I have been going to SB and away for over 40 years. There is no doubt Abramovich has brought success to the club so the question you have to ask is whether you would forfeit all the trophies for a less autocratic rule ?. What you have to remember is that it's a capitalist World , and that includes football. The sport represents and reinforces capitalism's relations of labour and production. We find a hierarchy of coaches, trainers, assistants, directors and owners. Players are given monetary values and then bought and sold. Capitalism promotes the idea that return on investment must be made as quickly as possible and so footballers rather than being nurtured and cultivated are being bought and sold as mere commodities across the globe. This includes managers where Roman has enough spare cash to buy out contracts.This concept also applies to football clubs, and ownership has passed around without discrimination, from exiled and corrupt billionaires to debt-ridden American businessmen, the Premiership has already bankrupted more than a few football clubs with the promise of more to keep financial administrators busy. With this set up the fans are an afterthought, so know your place. But forums are a good place to moan.

No it wasnt over football, it was because Sp*ds are seen as a 'jewish' club and the Italians were Fascist edl types according to Italian media

Not played a minutes Europa football this season for A Madrid.... . . . . Means that he can join an Europa Cup playing team in the knockout stages if he leaves Madrid

Dont look if squeamish but this one of the injuries Lazio did on a Spurs fan. Disgusting https://twitter.com/TheReal_AntAvfc/status/271705801616416769/photo/1

Nice sitting on the fence there by the FA. Gets them out of a tricky situation. You can tell it's pantomine season

Blokes a genius

Lampard definitely leaving now. Theres no way he can get his hands on any pies at Cobham now Tubby Benitez is here

Hasnt been a more hated caretaker since Ian Huntley

Yes and selective history is their mantra. I could reel off another 10 Rafa 'superstars' -but lets move on. If hes been brought in to indulge Romans £50m hairband, its a lost cause. Torres has lost it . He can't even run let alone control a ball, develop any sort of technique, play a first time ball, put his laces through it. He looks so clumsy all the time he makes me nervous. I never slate him at the Bridge or away, as he does put a shift in, but his best years are gone. Cant wait for Rafa to utter the immortal 'Hunbeleefable, hunbeleefable' when he loses