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My round, same again?
'61, Never Again...
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Arsene? :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by GP
Nose
Shame Conte is a decent bloke. A successful Chelsea not being managed by a cunt is just weird.
Spurs lol
Fuck off Chelsea
Wenger out
He won't last there, already talk of him going to Inter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
It must be really tough for Maureen to take! We should give this change of manager a go, doesn't look too bad.
What will it take for Chelsea to, for want of a better phrase, die? Will Abramovich ever get bored and bugger off?
I'd say 3 seasons without a trophy could be the magic number (apart from in our case, of course). It might tempt drastic, wholesale changes for the worse.
They've really turned football into crap for me since 2005 :(
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Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
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It's a vanity project for him. Unfortunately because of that he will always ensure that they are successful. Even 1 season without a trophy is usually enough to bring about change there, such are the standards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
I remember a couple of years after Abramovic took over we played them at Highbury and (as we always did back then) beat them and thinking "they'll never by a title".Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernesto
I was wrong, they've bought plenty. And now so have City.
Money and success in football have always been linked to an extent but in the Sky era it's got increasingly ridiculous.
Football :rose:
PS: Just remembered. I was talking to a Chelsea fan recently and he was bemoaning the way Man Utd have splashed money around recently.
A Chelsea fan moaning about another club spending silly amounts of money in an attempt to buy success... :doh:
Even if he were to fuck off there would be another billionaire waiting in the wings.
Some of you guys sound so bitter!
I don't even look at Chelsea as a big spender anymore, sure they splash the cash but they don't spend like the Manchester clubs do, they don't even spend more than we do.
What is difficult to take for me is how they have bounced back from last season, how they were able to retain all their star players then convince other top players to join them. They have ambition, they will not accept second best. It's in total contrast to us and it's one of the reasons why I feel we have literally no chance of winning a title under the current regime because if it's not Chelsea it will be someone else winning the league, it won't be us irrespective of the circumstances.
I am bitter. Bitter about how money and football have been so inextricably linked. Not because it means we're not successful right now - we are one of the haves, with better management we would be successful with our resources. But the sums involved are so obscene, the players are such cheats, the referees are so incompetent and spineless and possibly corrupt. These things were probably always so to an extent but it's got a lot worse in the PL era. So yes, I am bitter about the way football has gone as a sport - well, it's not a sport any more, it's a business and we are now customers, not fans. That's what I'm bitter about. It's not that Chelsea and City have bought success, it's the environment that means that is possible and really the only way to be successful these days.
What Leicester did last year shouldn't be possible in the modern game so that was a ray of hope but they took advantage of a rare season where all the big guns were rebuilding or were Arsenal. This year it's business as normal again.
Fair play Letters, I geniunely feel the same so I completely hear where you are coming from. I do share these same concerns for life in general, global politics, the economy, just general social shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Anything that adheres to the corporate model is SHIT or eventually turns to SHIT. That's a fundamental truth of humanity when you look honestly. The thing I have realised over the last decade is Arsenal is a far more cynical club than Chelsea. Chelsea is like your barrow boy come good, the suit doesn't quite fit but, by whatever means, he's at the table nonetheless. Arsenal are the suave, smooth, well heeled and well dressed toffs that are offended by the presence of a chav at THEIR perpetually reserved restaurant. The chav has a criminal record FFS! The Arsenal bankers would never commit such despicable acts. That's their stockbroker's job. And their ticket office's.
The chavs are a sustainable club. The chav in chief sustains them out of his own pocket. What has he bought with "his" money? Success. We're a sustainable club too. The fans sustain the few and we've bought ranches and gridiron franchises.
At least the chav in charge turns up and cheers like a fan. I wouldn't eat with any of them, feeling is mutual for sure. But, if I was forced to, at least Abramovich might deign to speak to me, rather than have the butler sternly pass the salt.
Bitter about a team I don't like winning something when they didn't have to play in Europe this season? You could say that.
Anyway, Man City v Leicester's programme is on Sky now. Opening up with a Chelsea montage for some reason.
Another thing. Wenger should be fucking embarrassed that Conte can waltz in and land a title. Wenger has had years to achieve this. Now he has money too. First Leicester. Now this. All the excuses are gone and what we are left with is a man who is no longer capable of getting the job done.
NQ and Pardiola are in the studio.
The fake NQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Man City: Caballero, Fernandinho, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy, Yaya Toure, De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling, Sane, Gabriel Jesus.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Benalouane, Fuchs, Chilwell, Mahrez, Ndidi, King, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy.
Going on about Citeh's 2012 title win. :lol:
Totally. We are worse and Wenger has lead the way. I'll keep repeating it, but just remember how Wenger has backed season ticket price hikes despite all the money sloshing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
I don't like two teams playing in blue against each other.
Hit it Clichy you wimp.
Man City 1-0 Leicester, David Silva. Absolutely pubbed it in.
Sterling is too shit to have got a touch on that, I thought. It was offside if he did.
It will be quite amusing if that goal does get awarded to Sterling given he was offside.
Football. :lol:
Stupid sport.
Pelanty to Man City, good dive from Sane.
2-0 Jesus.
Man City 2-1 Leicester, Okazaki!
What a finish.
Kompany. :haha:
De Bruyne. :haha:
2-1 HT.
Albrighton goes for goal of the season, probably will be on another pitch down the road.
Chillwell with a ridiculous run. Kompany the scrote hacks him down, booked.
Jesus berating Yaya and on his birthday too.
Fernandinho should be off, disgusting elbow on Albrighton.
Albrighton's face is a mess. :sick:
How did that happen says the ref?
King off injured, Amartey on.
From the BBC:Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
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Marc Albrighton's face has just connected with Fernandinho's arm. That's going to hurt.
His face got in the way of a bent elbow, clumsy Marc.