Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:49 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Good article from Neville, echoing most peoples' thoughts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... nitez.html Since Abramovich got rid of Mourinho, Chelsea have had 7 managers. Bayern Munich, being the model of managerial stability, have just appointed their 7th manager since that time. While Chelsea have being quite ruthless with their appointments, they haven't replaced someone who was winning them the championship and had just taken them to the CL final the previous season.

getdownmonkeyman wrote: Good article from Neville, echoing most peoples' thoughts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... nitez.html Since Abramovich got rid of Mourinho, Chelsea have had 7 managers. Bayern Munich, being the model of managerial stability, have just appointed their 7th manager since that time. While Chelsea have being quite ruthless with their appointments, they haven't replaced someone who was winning them the championship and had just taken them to the CL final the previous season.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:58 am  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

had just taken them to the CL final the previous season.

Avram Grant

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:20 pm  

Tom Brady wrote:

Avram Grant

I'm aware that Chelsea got rid of the CL loser Grant. But the point was that Bayern are getting rid of their CL finalist manager at a time when he's winning them the championship and still in the CL.

Chelsea have never turfed out a manager while they were topping the table, as Bayern have just done.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:51 pm  

Torres starts. Ba on the bench. Increased hatred for that fat scouse ****.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:53 pm  

Chelsea really zipping the ball around with urgency and being very creative. The same cannot be said for their terrace chants "Ashley cole won the European cup" and on and on. I love the Hazard, Oscar and Mata trio.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:24 pm  

I know I'm biased, but I really don't see how Arsenal can cry about the first goal. The Arsenal player had control of the ball, but over ran it. To try and keep possession he flings himself at the ball and plays it, the ball runs clear of both players, there is contact between the Arsenal player and Ramires, but that was clearly contact caused because the Arsenal player flung himself to get the ball. Just because he then decides to roll around because the ball broke free to a Chelsea player it doesn't mean he should have been getting a free kick.

Ba would still have been a better choice up front than Torres, but I think we're just being kind and not rubbing it in.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:28 pm  

Tom Brady wrote:

Chelsea really zipping the ball around with urgency and being very creative. The same cannot be said for their terrace chants "Ashley cole won the European cup" and on and on.

When what you have really works, you don't need to be creative.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:20 pm  

Tom Brady wrote:

Chelsea really zipping the ball around with urgency and being very creative. The same cannot be said for their terrace chants "Ashley cole won the European cup" and on and on. I love the Hazard, Oscar and Mata trio.

Don't underestimate the contribution of Ramires. He is excellent.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:22 pm  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Don't underestimate the contribution of Ramires. He is excellent.

I'm with you. The energizer bunny, never stops.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:10 pm  

After the linesman from Man City's game against Arsenal told them to clap their fans after paying £62 a ticket, today's linesman said to Wio "Go and clap your "fans", they've just paid £1.50 on bus fare"