We Are No Longer Champions

[Wilf Wild 1937]

Does it matter whether it's now or in a fortnight?

Let's just get our fucking trophy back next year.

Is the correct answer.

 

[qpr_fan]

The pressure is off. Hopefully the boys can play some good football for the remainder of the season. It would be good to see a serious push for the Champions League happen next season with a couple of serious signings.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Not being bitter, but this season has been a real hangover season ( in more ways than one) all the hype, all the bombast, and it fizzles out like a limp, wet sparkler....
Last season we had City and Liverpool, scoring for fun, Arsenal, lording it at the top for most of the season, Chelsea in the mix, it was a great season ( and not only because we won)
How fitting that Mayweather and Chelsea win titles on the same weekend, a cold, calculating wifebeater, fighting dirty and holding whenever threatened, and team grinding out the 1-0's, rife with diving, cheating ref harrassers, with a bad talking, eye-gouging manager leading the way.....
I know he's been under pressure for the last few months, but I think Pellegrini got a very telling dig in with the "we scored over 100 goals in the Prem (150 in all comps) when we won the title"... That we haven't been able to recreate the same free flowing, dynamic attacking football this season, is disappointing, the reasons will be dissected, and hopefully, fully addressed over summer, hog tied by FFP and unfortunate injuries and poor form go someway toward explaining some contributing factors, but there are tactical naivities that have been exploited by opponents too...
Yes Chelsea have been the most consistent, therefore they win the title, but it's left me numb, not in an emotionally shocked way, just a bored, mundane numbness......

 

[eversince 76]

Disappointed not winning the title or any silverware for that matter. But I am far from acknowledging we deserve the right to win silverware every season, no matter what money or targets has been set. It's because we play in the PL and it's simply the hardest league to get anything that goes in to a trophy cabinet. Despite mistakes being made ,and we don't need to hide behind that fact, and poor performances in the domestic cupcompetitions ,people on here imo too easily forget it wasn't going for us as well. On different fronts we were hit by UEFA, injuries especially to our core players, often playing other teams when they had hit form, another tough CL-draw in the group phases as well as the first knock-out round, a move to the Etihad Campus (don't underestimate this change), etc. Looking back to every aspect to the game, it just wasn't our season. I take that because I know that the long term planning will get us enough to look foreward to.

Chelsea won it and deserved it. Maybe they were playing some boring football, but than again they also had to do with Costa quite a few games. And both Remy or Drogba are not gonna deliver the same. For the rest Chelsea had it their way, hardly any injuries and an easy CL-draw. And let's be honest, they also played some fine football. It wasn't always boring stuff.

Imo the team do need some refreshments either with 2 or 3 new players, but certainly 1 or 2 players from the academy. I't's these kind of players that gives the more experienced once an extra dimension to their game: they need to perform by exemple and lead by exemple to the young kid in the team. The ones we buy need to be big and I mena BIG players. Obviously if UEFA let us spend and the players we are targetting wanna come.

 

[quiet_riot]

The pressure is off. Hopefully the boys can play some good football for the remainder of the season. It would be good to see a serious push for the Champions League happen next season with a couple of serious signings.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Actually you're wrong.
Technically the league isn't over until all games are played, and it's possible (albeit remotely) that a club could suffer a points deduction. Of course, it won't happen, but theoretically it could. If Chelsea were to field an ineligible player, they could be deducted points, and in theory that could be three times for three games. They could also lose 10 points by going into administration. So, despite all the media, technically they aren't champions yet.

*BURSTS OUT LAUGHING*

As ever you completely miss the point. He was right, I am right. You've just fallen for the media declaration and assumed it must be correct like most would assume.

Rule C.11. The Club which is at the top of the table at the end of the Season shall be the League Champions.

Taken from the actual rules, and not the media: <a class="postlink" href="http://m.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.premierleague.com/content/dam/ ... 014-15.pdf</a>

So, erm, laugh all the fuck you like, he was right.

So if we win the title with five games to go next season you won't be singing "champions...champions" until after the final whistle of the final game?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Chelsea are the Champions Elect but the PL will only formally confirm that once the season is over I believe.

Rule C. 11 states "The Club which is at the top of the table at the end of the season shall be the League Champions".

As it's not yet the end of the season, they are not yet League Champions.

 

[FanchesterCity]

*BURSTS OUT LAUGHING*

As ever you completely miss the point. He was right, I am right. You've just fallen for the media declaration and assumed it must be correct like most would assume.

Rule C.11. The Club which is at the top of the table at the end of the Season shall be the League Champions.

Taken from the actual rules, and not the media: <a class="postlink" href="http://m.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.premierleague.com/content/dam/ ... 014-15.pdf</a>

So, erm, laugh all the fuck you like, he was right.

So if we win the title with five games to go next season you won't be singing "champions...champions" until after the final whistle of the final game?

*sigh*
Of course I'd be singing it! But we wouldn't TECHNICALLY be champions. Don't know how many times I have to explain it. Chelsea are not TECHNICALLY champions yet. It's a tiny, tiny technicality that nobody really cares about, and the media ignore, but a technicality it remains.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Disappointed not winning the title or any silverware for that matter. But I am far from acknowledging we deserve the right to win silverware every season, no matter what money or targets has been set. It's because we play in the PL and it's simply the hardest league to get anything that goes in to a trophy cabinet. Despite mistakes being made ,and we don't need to hide behind that fact, and poor performances in the domestic cupcompetitions ,people on here imo too easily forget it wasn't going for us as well. On different fronts we were hit by UEFA, injuries especially to our core players, often playing other teams when they had hit form, another tough CL-draw in the group phases as well as the first knock-out round, a move to the Etihad Campus (don't underestimate this change), etc. Looking back to every aspect to the game, it just wasn't our season. I take that because I know that the long term planning will get us enough to look foreward to.

Chelsea won it and deserved it. Maybe they were playing some boring football, but than again they also had to do with Costa quite a few games. And both Remy or Drogba are not gonna deliver the same. For the rest Chelsea had it their way, hardly any injuries and an easy CL-draw. And let's be honest, they also played some fine football. It wasn't always boring stuff.

Imo the team do need some refreshments either with 2 or 3 new players, but certainly 1 or 2 players from the academy. I't's these kind of players that gives the more experienced once an extra dimension to their game: they need to perform by exemple and lead by exemple to the young kid in the team. The ones we buy need to be big and I mena BIG players. Obviously if UEFA let us spend and the players we are targetting wanna come.

Good post. Excellent balanced summary. IMO.

 

[mike1923]

If I was the manager id have a giant picture of that twat Terry lifting the trophy on the dressing room wall next season.

And remind them all that if they don't have the bottle for a fight for the title next year then they're welcome to fuck off.