The FA CUP Fifth Round - 18/19 February *** Spoilers ***
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Good to see Everton and Sunderland in the 1/4s
If Chelsea continue to be as spineless as they have been of late , they are lucky to get this far (and I will be cheering on Birmingham in the replay)
Well done to Bolton and Leicester also
Should be a reasonably easy game for Spurs tomorrow, and who knows which Liverpool will turn up lol
( no disrespect to Spurs at all, as irrespective of the draw, they have a great chance of going all the way) I would love the smaller clubs to get to the semis and further
If Chelsea continue to be as spineless as they have been of late , they are lucky to get this far (and I will be cheering on Birmingham in the replay)
Well done to Bolton and Leicester also
Should be a reasonably easy game for Spurs tomorrow, and who knows which Liverpool will turn up lol
( no disrespect to Spurs at all, as irrespective of the draw, they have a great chance of going all the way) I would love the smaller clubs to get to the semis and further
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Think you've got your wires crossed, was the Chelski fans chanting for Jose.
Apologies then Arsenal fans. Just got out of the cinema, and the radio reported that it was Arsenal fans shouting for Jose
Bit disappointed that none of the senior players appeared to go up to Ox at the end of the match, he was clearly a bit down about the OG (at least he made the effort to get back - if you are relying on a winger to clear it from the 6 yard box in open play then there are bigger issues at hand) and could have done with somebody putting an arm round him (metaphorically at least); if anything he was getting more support from the Sunderland players.
That James Maclean looks quality for Sunderland, be off to a big club soon I reckon.
Or, he could be another Henderson
MacLean did look really handy indeed (come on, be fair to the lad, whats he ever done to you to deserve that comparison lol)
Felt for Ox with the og, but as you say full credit to him for actually getting back to attempt the clearance in the first place
I wouldnt put it past Jose to go to Arsenal (if the board would agree before hand to give him a blank check to basically completely rebuild the squad) - givne the mixed messages the board have been giving out in recent years about how much funds are available this may or may not be possible but stranger things have happened.
I know Jose is supposed to want the Utd job after SAF, but can/will he wait that long (and its not exactly a given that he would get it either)
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Jose is a VERY smart manager and would never take the Arsenal job, blank cheque or not. He's a habit of taking over a team at the right time to look brilliant, and leave before the downslide happens.
Porto have all the best players of the nation and some good brazillian types and no one notices them, they have a good champs league, all the players wanted to move up, Porto were about to be dismantled so he leaves. He goes to the easily second best team in the league at a club with unlimited funds, with two players Robben and Cech already bought to bolster the team and there was slim to no chance of Arsenal repeating their unbeaten season so were almost certain to do worse.
Almost anyone who took over Chelsea was going to win the title, Ranieri certainly would have. Spent a few years there, just as Chelsea start sliding backwards, in large part due to him selling Robben and wasting 100's of mils on crap, he jumps ship to Inter, 2 league titles in a row iirc, Milan, Juve, another team all recovering from cheating scandals, at least 2 years completely unopposed at the top.
Again he overspends, only actually buys a couple good players, then jumps ship before the anti football starts working against inter and jumps to another team that have drastically improved and only really a single win from beating Barca in the league with Barca likely to have a few issues within a couple years.
He likes joining clubs with money, sure, but he has made his name by joining the right club at the right time while making little to no actual improvement in the teams he joins. Chelsea didn't get better, Chelsea were BRILLIANT the year before they won the title, Arsenal just had a season that was beyond epic then fell apart. Inter didn't improve at all, their football got steadily more awful the longer he was there. Real don't play one iota differently to before he joined. In fact, they were worse their first season and tried the "antifootball" tactic in big games and it backfired badly, this season they are much closer to the pre-Jose Real Madrid than last year.
He'll join a team that is max 1-2 players from a VERY strong title shot, for instance if City fail to get the title, Mancini goes, Jose comes in and takes a side that should have won the title easily this year, adds two players, wins title, gets hailed a hero again.
Porto have all the best players of the nation and some good brazillian types and no one notices them, they have a good champs league, all the players wanted to move up, Porto were about to be dismantled so he leaves. He goes to the easily second best team in the league at a club with unlimited funds, with two players Robben and Cech already bought to bolster the team and there was slim to no chance of Arsenal repeating their unbeaten season so were almost certain to do worse.
Almost anyone who took over Chelsea was going to win the title, Ranieri certainly would have. Spent a few years there, just as Chelsea start sliding backwards, in large part due to him selling Robben and wasting 100's of mils on crap, he jumps ship to Inter, 2 league titles in a row iirc, Milan, Juve, another team all recovering from cheating scandals, at least 2 years completely unopposed at the top.
Again he overspends, only actually buys a couple good players, then jumps ship before the anti football starts working against inter and jumps to another team that have drastically improved and only really a single win from beating Barca in the league with Barca likely to have a few issues within a couple years.
He likes joining clubs with money, sure, but he has made his name by joining the right club at the right time while making little to no actual improvement in the teams he joins. Chelsea didn't get better, Chelsea were BRILLIANT the year before they won the title, Arsenal just had a season that was beyond epic then fell apart. Inter didn't improve at all, their football got steadily more awful the longer he was there. Real don't play one iota differently to before he joined. In fact, they were worse their first season and tried the "antifootball" tactic in big games and it backfired badly, this season they are much closer to the pre-Jose Real Madrid than last year.
He'll join a team that is max 1-2 players from a VERY strong title shot, for instance if City fail to get the title, Mancini goes, Jose comes in and takes a side that should have won the title easily this year, adds two players, wins title, gets hailed a hero again.
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Chelsea won the league with 95 points which is a Premiership record and 16 points better off than they finished with the previous season. Saying Chelsea didn't get better is beyond blinkered
i'll take the bait
HA is all i have to say on the matter. we'd take you to pieces.
spurs should win today, not sure of our line up.
and arsenal will probably beat us next saturday.
Pts prove nothingChelsea won the league with 95 points which is a Premiership record and 16 points better off than they finished with the previous season. Saying Chelsea didn't get better is beyond blinkered
.Here's a little basic maths for you, gap is 10 points, Real are 4 points better off than last season, the other 6 points come from how much worse Barca are doing, ok, which is bigger 4, or 6(and this is ignoring the other points because Barca were doing even better than Real at this point of the season, obviously. Real are epically fantastic, but, Barca were even better last season. So Barcelona being worse is quite obviously the BIGGER reason(6>4) for the 10 point gap, and compared to the same point last season, Real are 4 points better off, if they lose the next game it might be 1 point, Barca are 13 points worse off, if they win the next game they could be only 10 points worse off(though obviously both depend on last season, its actually more likely that Barca would still be 13 points worse off). Real's "improvement" is statistically very small as in, 1 loss and its almost gone, Barca's difference is FAR bigger, both in terms of games required to close the gap AND percentage of points difference.