Football 2011/12 Football Season

[Cookinflatsix]

Chelsea are a joke of a football club

They fire Ancellotti to get a Mourinho lookalike, just to prove a point. But they dont allow the guy to prove the point

why sack a proven manager because he is not winning everything quickly enough, then hire a young unproven guy and give him less than a few years?

Mourinho will be laughing his head off

as will be Grant, Scolari, Ancellotti, even Gullitt will be having a chuckle

Man City have shown how to go about buying your way to the top. Mancini didnt look any better than Ancellotti and he is still there

Chelsea must be the richest cheap skates in football

 

[Slyboogy]

Poor from Wolves, 5-0

Terrible right from the start, I watched the whole match aswell, no point firing Mick McCarthy when the whole team plays under him, and you don't fire a manager that's doing the best he can and achieving results in the middle of a relegation battle.

How on earth do chelsea expect to be successful if they keep firing the manager.I'm starting to hate Chelsea as much as i hate Man United.

Same here and I kind of like Chelsea a little aswell..

 

[Jos the Boss]

1-3 man united!

 

[Cookinflatsix]

Spurs have shipped 8 goals in the last couple of games

Looks like the traditional collapse in the last third of the season is underway

They are gonna be looking nervously over their shoulder at who is 4 points behind, regretting all those big bets and all the bluster

again

 

[MCLS]

Without Parker and Bale Spurs are distinctly average

 

[Slyboogy]

Without Parker and Bale Spurs are distinctly average

They actually played much better than Man United without those 2 players, it was like the Liverpool and Arsenal game, except Tottenham put on a lot more pressure and had more chances.

 

[mjo]

Great smash-and-grab for Arsenal but dropped 2 points against Hartlepool. Still, the mighty Dons have a great run-in, 13 wins out of our last 13 games here we come!

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

Aah Boro back on the winning trial 1-3 away at Pompey. Just hope that isn't the last time we'll ever play them! Really hope they'll stay up in the championship.

 

[FB]

The way things are going every game could be the last Pompey play, let alone against each team

 

[Galahad]

Spurs have shipped 8 goals in the last couple of games

Looks like the traditional collapse in the last third of the season is underway

They are gonna be looking nervously over their shoulder at who is 4 points behind, regretting all those big bets and all the bluster again

We've had a tough run of games, and the results are just about what you'd expect: a draw at Anfield, beating Newcastle at home, losing to Arsenal and Man United. For the rest of the season every game is winnable, bar the trip to Stamford Bridge (and at the moment I wouldn't rule us out of getting something there either).

Arsenal will probably close the gap further, but I still think we're in great shape to finish third.

I'm going to resist the urge to comment on teams having a 'traditional collapse'.

 

[FB]

The professional whingers were out in force on 606 yesterday "Harry's got to go", "his head is being turned by the England job", "he's taken Spurs as far as he can, we need someone new".

For fucks sake, Spurs are 3rd in the table, probably having their best season since fuck knows when and STILL the fans aren't happy. I really do despair of football fans sometimes, you wait until Harry's gone and the revolving door policy of managers at White Hart Lane starts again you miserable, moaning bastards!

Even if Spurs finish 5th it will be a fantastic season. Do Spurs fans really believe they can mix it with the Manchester teams without Daniel Levy turning them into the next Leeds United? Get a grip (no slight meant towards an Spurs fans on here I should hasten to add).

 

[Galahad]

I couldn't believe my ears. I need to stop listening to 606 in general and Alan Green in particular.

The morons on there are in no way representative of the huge, huge majority of Spurs fans. Some of them may have been doing it as a bet, sincere as they seemed.

 

[teabagyokel]

Don't understand why Chelsea got AVB, the guy is so young and quite inexperienced and had one big season with a dominant Portugese team, why didn't he stick with Ancellotti?

Lets stop the revisionism on AVB's Porto record, can we?

In 2009-10, when AVB was busy keeping Academica up (from last when he took over, btw), Porto finished 3rd in the Portuguese League, 8 points behind Benfica and 3 behind Braga, though they did win the Cup.

The next year, with AVB in charge at Porto, they finished 21 points clear of Benfica in the league, scoring 84 points out of a possible 90 (with no defeats), successfully defending the Cup and winning the Europa League.

That was nigh on the perfect season. (They're 3 clear in the league this year, btw).

Now as for Chelsea. It is an impossible job. Terry, Lampard, Cole and Drogba are not good enough any longer. However, they cause a bloody riot if they aren't picked, obliterating any kind of common purpose within the squad. Drogba has scored 4 league goals this season. That is as many as John Terry.

In addition, Chelsea have a pre-existing £50,000,000 signing in Fernando Torres, who has scored twice this season, looks a shadow of the pre-2010 player and is the owner's favourite. Lucky for Drogba he's a criticism fireguard, no?

Plus those senior players are talking to the owner and their media friends about how you're crap. The problem remains. Pity AVB, one of the brightest sparks in European club management, who tried to do what needed to be done, and was not allowed to do so.

 

[FB]

5 Live reckons AVB will turn up at one of the Milan clubs next season so his world hasn't exactly fallen apart has it? I cannot believe anyone would think his reputation has been tarnished by being sacked by Roman Abramovich, most would just see it as par for the course.

 

[teabagyokel]

5 Live reckons AVB will turn up at one of the Milan clubs next season so his world hasn't exactly fallen apart has it? I cannot believe anyone would think his reputation has been tarnished by being sacked by Roman Abramovich, most would just see it as par for the course.

No, but there is some serious nonsense being talked about him over in our press.

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

Reckon AVB Might go and rebuild his reputation back up at Home in Portugal should Sporting or Benfica come knocking. But wouldn't be surprised one bit if we see him rock up at one of the Milan clubs in the near future.

 

[Slyboogy]

Lets stop the revisionism on AVB's Porto record, can we?

Thanks for the lecture. I am quite aware what AVB has achieved but it still doesn't change my opinion on Chelsea keeping Ancelotti.

 

[teabagyokel]

Thanks for the lecture. I am quite aware what AVB has achieved but it still doesn't change my opinion on Chelsea keeping Ancelotti.

I don't think it would have averted the crisis they're now having forever, but may have staved it off for a while. On the other hand, he may not have brought Mata, he may have left Sturridge kicking his heels, we don't know...

What we do know is that Chelsea need a clear out, because I hate to see a manager undermined by players who won't bloody do what they're told and are unsackable. Wouldn't happen in any other workplace, would it?

The same thing caught out Woy Hodgson at Liverpool; I hope the players that mutinied against him are enjoying life under Kenny - their results have barely improved despite ludicrous investment.

 

[Cookinflatsix]

We've had a tough run of games, and the results are just about what you'd expect: a draw at Anfield, beating Newcastle at home, losing to Arsenal and Man United. For the rest of the season every game is winnable

hmmnn, Spurs looked liked a special team earlier, a team that won despite who they played, a team destined to win games, a team where the sum of the parts was many times bigger than the whole

Now on paper yes they should win a lot, but they are now playing well but still losing, bad luck, excuses etc.

nah, the magic's gone, fleeting as other clubs have come top realise, that uber self confidence, once lost doesn't come back in a season

the fans show their true colours and turn on their manager, who departs for the England job, and leaves in his wake irretrievable chaos, disaster and despair

Saint Totteridge's day approaches as surely as it has for 20+ years

 

[Slyboogy]

Spurs I think unlike the other top teams, don't have much of a bench, apart from their starting 11 the other players are fairly average.