Chelsea (N) | FA Cup SF | Post-Match Thread

Anybody else noticed the street sellers yesterday was selling Chelsea bucket hats obviously with Chelsea written on them.
Our had Sky blue's written on them to cover today's fans.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Makes me laugh how he’s talked about as a “young” manager. He a year younger than Guardiola.
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Fans tend to guess a manager's age based on when he made his name.

IIRC, Poch started at Espanyol around the same time Pep started at Barca. Pep just made his name way faster, whereas most English fans only know of Poch around his Southampton days.

Same goes for Ten Hag, who is a "young up-and-coming coach". He is a year old than Pep.

I fairly certain some will label Postecoglou the same way, but he is actually older than the lot I named.
 
Another good day out. Used the train from East Midlands for the first time -all went well and lots of options going home - so missing the train I was aiming for by 2 mins didn't matter.

I was surprised by only four changes from Wednesday - but Pep knows best, and mostly he knows that Bernardo, Kev, Rodri will take the pain of Wednesday night and drive through it, none of them were at the slick best, but their determination overcame all that - culminating in Kev's burst into the box and Bernardo being in the right place to hammer it home. (I couldn't celebrate too wildly as I was a bit worried that the ball might have hit Alvarez on the way in and he would have been offside - but all was good)

I thought Jack played well and was surprised that he was taken off (I would have changed Bernardo - but what do I know?) but Doku took it up another level and gave their right-sided defenders no peace at all. The result was the goal - Kev racing into the space left as they tried to stop Doku and his pass was perfect.

All I'm hearing in the media is that Chelsea dominated and should have won it. The stats say differently and I was never really worried by them - they had a few openings, but never really looked like scoring. My main worry was that we were heading for extra time and whether the team could manage another 30 minutes - but Chelsea didn't capitalise on our tiredness and that's because they just were not good enough to do so.

Final joy was a little women's choir in the queue back to Wembley Park giving a rendition of Sometimes I Fantasise - and even though they wanted everyone to join in - it really didn't need a load of blokes mangling the tune. If that was you - thank you it was great. And a song that we don't hear enough of.

All in all another grand day out.
 
Blueboy73 said:
My wife's best friends husband is a Chelsea fan.
He thinks Poch is a fraud.
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Glad there's a set of fans in the league that finally echoes my sentiment. Else we'd have the Spurs fans and the media telling us constantly how he underperforms because he didn't get the funding.

Poch is a good coach yes, but nowhere near the likes of Pep and Klopp as the media likes to imply.
 
A great win and a cracking effort from the team and fans. The game itself wasn't a brilliant spectacle but never mind. The 1st half was quite poor with numerous mistakes, especially on the right side of defence. Plenty of balls given away cheaply throughout the match by 2 or 3 players. However, this was surely down to the after effects of Wed night by being a bit jaded so is completely understandable. Another final and the lads deserved it.
 
Blueboy73 said:
Shearer's only managerial experience was a brief stint with his beloved Newcastle when he managed to relegate them.
I take Shearer's opinion as seriously as Spitty who has never managed and Ratboy who also failed miserably in his only managerial stint at Valencia.
It's not the first time Shearer has had a pop at us after we complained about unreasonable TV scheduling either.
When the paedo protecting BBC put us on a Sunday night 3 days before a UCL trip to Kiev, he said "I don't get resting players" now he's saying Pep could have made changes.
Shearer needs to pick a lane and stick to it rather than choosing the narrative to give him a reason to have a go.
This coming from someone who turned his back on his country at 30 to prolong his club career.
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Played in 2 Cup finals and lost them both
 
There are some idiots following football these days, many working in the media. I have had a good look at the Grealish penalty appeal and anyone calling that a penalty really needs to find another sport to moan about.
 
hilts said:
Missed it but excellent result after the mid week result. From what I heard it wasn't much of a game so not sure I will bother watching it. Players must be knackered.
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In a sinister kind of way, it can be quite an object lesson to watch, just to see how poor we can be when we're absolutely shagged out. It was particularly flagrant in the case of Kev. I don't think I've ever seen him play so many off-target balls since he's been with us. Hope he can recover for next Thursday.
Also worth seeing to appreciate how good Ortega is. How long can we keep that guy, when he's that good, and plays second string?
 
United felt that participating would be too much to handle, which led the FA to propose dropping out of the cup. The decision was made on 29 June 1999 and United chairman Martin Edwards said there was ‘no alternative’ and that it was in the ‘national interest’. The FA suggested Man Utd withdraw from the FA Cup / John Gichigi/Getty Images

just a reminder
 
Akira said:
There's alot of fixation from 'neutrals' about Grealish's 'apparent handball', but I thought Caicedo was lucky to not at least see a double yellow. Some of his tackles were very cynical.
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I simply don't understand how footballers, who have played the game, can even debate this (fans who are in bad faith, pundits who are deep down hostile to us, yes, that I understand all too well).
When you jump as high as you can from a standing position, your ams do not stay straight at your sides as if you were a soldier on parade. Everybody knows this. It's kinetically impossible. Jack's arm was somewhat out from his side, maybe 20°. And he'd have to be a very clever boy indeed to know that the ball was going to head towards him, and exactly there. It wasn't at a bloody right angle.
There's nothing whatsoever to see here.
 
city saint said:
and thats why players dive.it was a foul and var should have flagged it up.you shouldnt have to go down for it to be a pen
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It's sad, isn't it, that honesty is in effect punished. Phil's another one who doesn't go down unless his feet have really been taken from under him.
 
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