Why Chelsea indeed............. I guess it could have been any team really, but circumstances dictated that after a few months in the UK, I was invited by my restaurant manager to go with him to watch a League Cup game at Stamford Bridge, as he had a spare ticket, donated by a footballer customer as a tip... So we made sure that we were off work on that day, and departed for London, and as it was my first real experience on the tube, I thought that I was going to be claustrophobic in the tunnels... I felt really nauseous... Infact, even now, I don't like using the tube in London at all.... We arrived in good time, picked our spots (standing) and waited for the game to start.. I still vividly remember Chelsea playing Newport County, and winning 4-2 to progress to the next stage, where Stoke was waiting, and after two draws, Chelsea got rogered 6-2 away on the third replay...... Anyway, my first game of footie in teh UK, shaped my team preferences, and I was impressed with Chelsea so much, I started following its progress and supported in good and bad times alike... Slowly, "Roma", the team I followed all my life, started fading away from my memory, until it became just that... A memory... Every now and then, I look up to see wether it is worth texting my older brother after the Derby vs Lazio, but usually I just leave it... Since the Sacking of Wilkins, Chelsea has been thrown into turmoil, and i feel absolutely gutted by what is going on in the camp. Abramovich, from the saviour, is slowly becoming the destroyer, as he has got rid of some excellent managers, just to follow his own agenda of glory, without realizing that glory doesn't come immediately, just because you chuck a few million quid to obtain it, it takes time, and patience, just look at Sir Alex Ferguson as an example. For all its faults, Utd, is a top team, and have been so for years, consistently. This current Chelsea manager, is only at his second posting, and I wish Abramovich had never heard of him, even Scolari, in his incompetent ineptitude was better than Villa Boas... Sometime I feel so frustrated about it, but there isn't much I can do, so, let's wait and see if Roman, sees the light.... The annoying thing is that a Danish friend of ours, seem to support any team that manage to beat Chelsea, and duly texts me about it, or messages me on FB, with the express intention to wind me up... Regardless of what Chelsea is going through at the moment, I will support it all the more... It would be made much easier if Villa Boas goes and Ancellotti comes back.............. Yup... And the pink pigs have been fed, watered and on the runway ready to take off......
Sorry no................ The main reason Chelsea players wear blue shirts is so that in case of accidents on the pitch, blood will not show..........
You mean all of Chelsea's opponents have blue blood? But I really do think you made a huge mistake by ditching Ancelotti. The bloke has serious form: winning the Champions League was always a priority to him over winning the league at Milan, and, apart from Mourinho, he was the one manager so far who I feel could have delivered Roman's Holy Grail. Much as I do like AVB, he's just not in the same class as Carlo.
I didn't mean you personally Unless you've bought out Abramovich on the quiet? Anyway, what do you reckon to Chelsea's chances against Napoli? Could have done a lot worse, but I think it's going to be a difficult tie. Italian football is beginning to look decent again, and I feel one of their teams is going to win it in the next couple of years. Hoping it's going to be Milan - but please just let it be someone other than Barzzzzelona...
Napoli is a good team. And its obvious strenghts should not be taken lightly. Too many times this current Chelsea manager underestimated supposedly weaker teams and got us bitten in the bum... And I can see us failing to go any further in this competition, thanks to his lack of common sense. Yesterday for instance.......... He kept a £50 million striker collecting splinters in his bum, and managed a measly draw against a team which we so gloriouly rogered and humiliated not so long ago 8-0........ Ancellotti needed more time... He would have got us the Champions League Cup sooner rather than later... Now we won't see it in a month of sundays, thanks to this moron.
The Mancs may have a reprieve and go back in if the Swiss FA fails to punish one of their teams for fielding uneligible players... They have time until mid January to take action.... Lets hope they do take action....
