Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
Amazing how people on here line up to defend a spuds manager with a face like a punchbag who constantly blames anyone but himself for serial failure (PSG doesn't count and spuds LOST the CL final in case people hadn't noticed)

Pathetic
I don’t think anyone is defending him, they’re just telling you they don’t share your sense of animus towards him. Which you’ve largely stated is because he’s overrated and blames everyone but himself for defeats (which let’s be fair hardly singles him out as a football coach). People on here don’t have the same animus I do towards Chelsea, they don’t like the club and find it funny when they lose but as far as I’m concerned I’d consider it a just outcome if the club ends up being relegated and liquidated.

I don’t like Spurs and love it that they continually miss out on silverware and take great pleasure when they lose, but I don’t wish such a fate on them. Because apart from anything else their existence as a club sets the standard for Arsenal, finishing above them, beating them in north london derbies and winning things when they don’t is a big chunk of what gives being an Arsenal fan meaning.

I also used to actually quite like Chelsea about 20-25 years ago, it helped that they could hardly ever win against us in the league. But they played decent football and it could be quite helpful when they’d beat Man United. Always evident that John Terry was a massive cunt, but actually liked players like Zola, Hasselbank, Gudjohnssen, Flo and Poyet (before he went to Spurs)

That was tempered against the fact Ken Bates was a nasty piece of work. Last decent person to be involved in the ownership of Chelsea was Matthew Harding.