posted Jan 26, 2008

if we don't sort out or performances against the rest of the big four we won't win the prem, and drawing them in the fa cup/ CL could see us knocked out of them as well - like, if we keep drawing the non english teams in the CL, i think we'll win it. tottenham in the cc final will be tough and we need to treat that like a big four match - if we don't we could end up trophyless. i don't think avram's got the speaking skills to get the players going, so hopefully the natural leaders will be fit for the rest of the season, playing well, and keep us fighting on four fronts.

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posted Jan 28, 2008

lov him or hate him,chelsea remains chelsea

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posted Jan 28, 2008

Niqriol

"By the way, I think Chelsea's attitude is that it's their birth-right to win games. It shows in their confrontational behavioral dysfunction. Yah, yah, they have a long unbeaten home record. (Lost on penalties to Aston Villa at home and they comforted themselves with the fallacy that they didn't lose in the 90 minutes, so technically, they didn't lose.)"

"Lost on penalties to Aston Villa at home" ... "they comforted themselves with the fallacy that they didn't lose in the 90 minutes"

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Niqirol this is all that matters mate

Won 40 and drawn 15 of 55 at home in all competitions since the 1-2 defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League on 22 February 2006. Not lost a league game at the Bridge since the 1-2 reverse to Arsenal on 21 February 2004 (won 55, drawn 19). Not lost in 93 domestic matches in front of the home faithful if penalty shoot-outs are excluded, since the defeat to Arsenal 23 months ago.

And it wasnt Villa we lost to in penalites either mate it was against charlton so get your facts right fella.

Also you say its trophies that matter at the end of the day. Welll in the last 4 seasons chelsea have won 6 thats more then united liverpool and arsenal all put together.

I rest my case.

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posted Jan 30, 2008

I'll be Des


Chelsea met Charlton Athletic (did I say Aston Villa?) in a game which ended 1-apiece. Charlton went on to win the game on post-match penalties. Murinho philosophically refused to concede defeat and said technically Chelsea did not lose the game, because they did not lose it in regulation time. Check out this link please: http://www.chelseafc.com/xxchelsea180706/index.html#/page/FixturesAndReports/article_862745.

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Re: super_cfc

Thanx super_cfc for the correction. Aston Villa has been Chelsea's bogey team so naturally I mentioned them. But the point I was making was that Chelsea are very obsessed with not losing at home and that that's immaterial if you don't win titles. And I didn't mean to say that Chelsea haven't won any titles. But for some facts, they the Premiership after 50 years of trying to. And it'll take quite a while for Chelsea to rival the success of Man Utd, Liverpool, and Arsenal, individually as well as "put together"!

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Niqriol,

You did say Villa:

(Lost on penalties to Aston Villa at home and they comforted themselves with the fallacy that they didn't lose in the 90 minutes)

- that's where i was disagreeing. I am aware of the Charlton game and actually thought Mourinho was talking a load of rubbish at the time, but anyway that's history now.


I'll tell you what though ... as you point to Chelsea's (relatively) short spell of success so far, it's quite incredible that they already hold records for the Longest Unbeaten Home run, AND the Highest Scoring Finish in the league - wouldn't you agree?

Those are records taken away from Liverpool and Man Utd respectively by the way - and still going on the unbeaten run you can see why it does hold some importance for us.

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Another quite incredible fact is that if Chelsea win the Carling Cup, Chelsea will have won the same number of trophies as Arsenal sinve the creation of The Premier League, making us joint second to United. Who would have believed that stat if they were told that back in 1984?

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Ooooh I do like that one.

What a nice stat

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posted Jan 30, 2008

Villa or Charlton on pens ....does it matter. The fact is that our record home league run will probably never ever be beaten and if we go through this season that is 4 seasons unbeaten at home. Who on the whole planet earth has done that ? As for Avram who would have done better ?Truth is we really are now the super blues so rejoice and enjoy.

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