Match Reaction - 0-2 chelski

[Alpha]

Even if Chelsea were down to 10 men, we wouldn't have won, they're too organised and we just don't have the answers to that. We've been shown up enough time to know we just can't take these big teams on and beat them, it's nothing to do with the ref it's to do with the tactics, the team selection and players not being utilised in their natural positions as well as an insistence on playing slow paced tippy tappy football which has been proven to be a failure (unless you have a team full of top notch players and a superstar) and a refusal to address weak areas in the transfer windows.

You don't fail to win so many big games without there being a fundamental problem with your approach.

We wouldn't have known with a referee so nice to a strong team . He should have sent Cahill off first before we could have agreed or disagreed with your statement .

[Özim]

We wouldn't have known with a referee so nice to a strong team . He should have sent Cahill off first before we could have agreed or disagreed with your statement .

We would, it's predictable, we always lose or fail to win, just look at our record. People knew we'd lose before we started. Even with 10 men Chelsea are organised and well drilled enough to keep us at bay, I don't think we really have the game to open them up because we're so slow it allows them to block any of our attacks, whether it's 10 or 11 doesn't make a huge amount of difference when you play a game like ours, we don't really exploit space.

[Letters]

We would, it's predictable, we always lose or fail to win, just look at our record. People knew we'd lose before we started. Even with 10 men Chelsea are organised and well drilled enough to keep us at bay, I don't think we really have the game to open them up because we're so slow it allows them to block any of our attacks, whether it's 10 or 11 doesn't make a huge amount of difference when you play a game like ours, we don't really exploit space.

<gritted-teeth>Have to agree, sadly.</gritted-teeth>

[Alpha]

We would, it's predictable, we always lose or fail to win, just look at our record. People knew we'd lose before we started. Even with 10 men Chelsea are organised and well drilled enough to keep us at bay, I don't think we really have the game to open them up because we're so slow it allows them to block any of our attacks, whether it's 10 or 11 doesn't make a huge amount of difference when you play a game like ours, we don't really exploit space.

I can see where you are coming from .But unfortunately I'm not a fatalistic . I don't believe that something which happened in the past would keep on happening the same way for the sake of it .
Since the referee didn't do his job properly by sending off Cahill for his dangerous foul on Sanchez it's hard to make me believe we wouldn't have taken advantage of the situation.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I've reached the point where i can no longer have any respect for the facile opinions of BBC Sport, Sky Sports etc, Match of the Day Three for instance talking about the war of words between Mourinho and Wenger saying of Mourinho "he seems like the kind of individual who would take any comment put in his direction with a pinch of salt?"

Are they fucking serious....Mourinho is the most thin skinned individual in the game, these spiteful remarks he has made himself infamous for have come as a result of perceiving insults or criticism at him, the guy is a clinical narcissist everything about his personality suggests this. It's not an insult it just happens to be how the evidence presents itself, Narcissistic individuals often try to undermine the achievements of others around them, they are spiteful and bullying towards those around them and it's based on a deep seated self-loathing which paradoxically represents itself as morbid self love and the need to react defensively and aggressively towards any perceived threat to this.
The amount of ad hominem remarks the guy has made about other managers says it all, if anything i think Mourinho is more irked by Wenger than the other way round.
Because he is in a position where he has so much attention lavished on him it feeds his condition and arguably some aspects of his narcissism makes him effective in the job he does, but ultimately it's a self-destructive malady.

[Penguin]