Closed Man City 2-0 Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UvaU4eSDNQ

[The_Flash 1,144]

Eto'o - Eto'o - Was he even playing? Anonymous

Exactly, when he is on we have 10 men

[Blue Traveler 256]

That defeat away to Basel? This is probably right up there with it. Worst performance since that defeat.

I forgot that! thanks for reminding!

[duo11bluecl 207]

Loving the under reaction to this defeat, fucking hell now our only real chances of trophies are CL and BPL which is really unlikely especially with the former. This is actually our best chance at a trophy this season. In title race we are the little horses, in CL we stand next to no chance against Bayern, Madrid...etc unless we repeat the City performance in each of those matches, something we have shown to be clearly unable to do.

If we don't win BPL or CL then no matter how you look at it we had better seasons under the FSW and Robbie, who are both not world class managers. What is the point of bringing a top class manager in if he doesn't make a difference? Or is this because it is 'transition' so it doesn't really matter? Believe it or not, our club need to be WINNING TROPHIES EVERY SEASON if we want to be seen as one of the best in the world. Coming to semi final or take the title race to the last few rounds are not good enough, a club of our status need to do that as min EVERY SINGLE SEASON.

If we gone trophy less, any manager of the last 10 years would have been sacked but Jose will get a pass, why?

[The_Flash 1,144]

Cheer up ,, Its Valentines DAy ,,,time for a big huf

Give me the huf then? Lol

[Jase 43,479]

I forgot that! thanks for reminding!

You're welcome.

[Jase 43,479]

Loving the under reaction to this defeat, fucking hell now our only real chances of trophies are CL and BPL which is really unlikely especially with the former. This is actually our best chance at a trophy this season. In title race we are the little horses, in CL we stand next to no chance against Bayern, Madrid...etc unless we repeat the City performance in each of those matches, something we have shown to be clearly unable to do.

If we don't win BPL or CL then no matter how you look at it we had better seasons under the FSW and Robbie, who are both not world class managers. What is the point of bringing a top class manager in if he doesn't make a difference? Or is this because it is 'transition' so it doesn't really matter? Believe it or not, our club need to be WINNING TROPHIES EVERY SEASON if we want to be seen as one of the best in the world. Coming to semi final or take the title race to the last few rounds are not good enough, a club of our status need to do that as min EVERY SINGLE SEASON.

If we gone trophy less, any manager of the last 10 years would have been sacked but Jose will get a pass, why?

No offence but perhaps others are more calm and composed not to completely overreact and press the panic button after just 1 defeat...

[Blue Traveler 256]

I saw us give away SIX at wolves and we were lucky it wasnt SIXTEEN ,,, we still sang tho all the way back to London

I don't have that composure you lads had those days.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I forgot that! thanks for reminding!

Loving the under reaction to this defeat, fucking hell now our only real chances of trophies are CL and BPL which is really unlikely especially with the former. This is actually our best chance at a trophy this season. In title race we are the little horses, in CL we stand next to no chance against Bayern, Madrid...etc unless we repeat the City performance in each of those matches, something we have shown to be clearly unable to do.

If we don't win BPL or CL then no matter how you look at it we had better seasons under the FSW and Robbie, who are both not world class managers. What is the point of bringing a top class manager in if he doesn't make a difference? Or is this because it is 'transition' so it doesn't really matter? Believe it or not, our club need to be WINNING TROPHIES EVERY SEASON if we want to be seen as one of the best in the world. Coming to semi final or take the title race to the last few rounds are not good enough, a club of our status need to do that as min EVERY SINGLE SEASON.

If we gone trophy less, any manager of the last 10 years would have been sacked but Jose will get a pass, why?

No one should be under reacting that was a s$it performance. I was embarrassed. I really thought we would beat them tonight I wore my lucky Frank Tshirt and everything.

I thought we'd beat them twice and once more and we have a great chance of winning FA Cup. Damn

Who thinks without a trophy this year Jose will be still be here? I hope so

[duo11bluecl 207]

No offence but perhaps others are more calm and composed not to completely overreact and press the panic button after just 1 defeat...

I am just annoyed our best chance of a trophy is gone. Also the way we lost it is terrible, no pride, no climax. Similar to that Arsenal-Spurs game 3rd round. I would be happy if City won because they were the better team and we gave it our best shot, but the players just decided to throw the game away before kick off. No offense but with that attitude you won't win many big things. You get paid £100k per week, at least show some effort for it. This team's mentality need questioning imo, they don't seem like a Jose team at all.

Unable to hang on against Bayern in super cup then lost, lose to an underdog in Capital 1 Cup through the last min, afraid to have a go at a better team, losing many points through bad late defending against crap teams. But saying this, if we stuff Gala in 2 weeks away from home and remain top of the BPL by then, things will be forgiven for the moment.

[Stingray 9,441]

Who thinks without a trophy this year Jose will be still be here? I hope so

I have no doubt, a certainty that is unmoble he will be here even after a no trophy year. It is and never was our goal. Our goal is to foster and grow the talent we have, create an identity, make a group of winners.

We are getting there so soon, which is a win. But Abra will be patient, no doubt.

Ps! We can still win the EPL

[The_Flash 1,144]

I am just annoyed our best chance of a trophy is gone. Also the way we lost it is terrible, no pride, no climax. Similar to that Arsenal-Spurs game 3rd round. I would be happy if City won because they were the better team and we gave it our best shot, but the players just decided to throw the game away before kick off. No offense but with that attitude you won't win many big things. You get paid £100k per week, at least show some effort for it. This team's mentality need questioning imo, they don't seem like a Jose team at all.

Unable to hang on against Bayern in super cup then lost, lose to an underdog in Capital 1 Cup through the last min, afraid to have a go at a better team, losing many points through bad late defending against crap teams. But saying this, if we stuff Gala in 2 weeks away from home and remain top of the BPL by then, things will be forgiven for the moment.

Your right, the first two times I thought we gave everything against City I was very proud of them.

Today there was nothing no life, no fight. Bad

Everyone is talking about Arsenal burning out maybe we are

[mannyfreshh 164]

I hope we play them in the champions league

[Muzchap 8,966]

We are a little horse remember???

I think back to the past 3 seasons - am I happier now - YES

WE are building something for the future - we have seen glimpses of it and like a crack addict we want more!!!

Patience is what's needed. So we lost. Big deal. The lads were outplayed - doesn't happen much to us - so if/when it does, just goes down as a that's life moment. Do I think this will happen next year? Or the year after - NO!

It takes time to instil a winning mentality in players - it's a long process and some never make it...

Do I expect changes in the summer? YES

Why? Because some players cannot cope with the system and Jose is learning 24/7

If we can do well in the EPL and not get embarrassed in the CL - will this season be a success? YES

You gotta look at where you travelled from, to know where you are travelling to! We're halfway (ish) down a long road... Lets give it a few more miles before we chuck in the towel... It's a Marathon not a sprint...

My 2p worth

[laura90 556]

This little horse story is boring and annoying as hell.

When Jose said that Arsenal are big horse and Chelsea little one - it all become a joke and lost all credibility.

No way Jose considers Arsenal bigger favourites than us, he knows they will fall apart soon - like the rest of the public.

The problem with our horse is not his size - it's the way he runs and skips obstacles.

He does this in very limited and unimaginative way - he spends most of his time running like a mad man, he tracks back a lot and chases ball from his opponents, when he gets it he is finding ways to score , after he scores he sits back and counter attack.

That's against even smaller horses than him ( placed from 7-20 place on the table).

Against equaly big or even bigger horses our horse has only two goals: to sit back and counter attack. That's the plan that works most of the time - especially when other horses opt to attack more and more and leave our horse lots of free space to run and counter attack. Then our little horse produces amazing performances.

The problem however occurs when other horses opt not to attack and to leave it to our horse. Then our horse becomes little confused - he is great when has to chase the ball - but when he has the ball at his feat and can't run, he often don't know what to do with it - he lacks vision, skill, creativity and tehnical ability to manipulate the ball in tight space, when faced with well organized defence.

That's what makes competing difficult to our horse , not his size.

We are still favourites, as all of you will probably say when we win the next five games.