fernb8
28 Oct 2007, 06:18 PM
Well I am back ye buggers, and its nice to see that I have been missed in some circles. Thanks for the kind thoughts to those of you who wondered where I had disapeared to. Well to offer a brief summation, life is full of funny incidents involving timing. When do I return home for business/personal time- the week that my beloved Jose gets the sack. To say that I was disillusioned as I watched another manager who I thought was great for the club and successful at the same time (Vialli if you werent following) be pushed out the door to make way for "progress".
Arriving after our game vs Maure and Mike Dean, I realised how little I actually missed the English media and how uneducated the footballing masses are and somehow seem to live off every pundit on sky or the latest inside source from the Sun for information, FFS it makes one sick. Well long story short, I sat through the Fulham game and was relatively disgusted by what I saw on the field and in the stands. The game left a lot to be desired and quite frankly the attitude of a large contingent of fans was shocking- boycott the club... like Ambramovich needs the money. Cmon lads, I was absolutely gutted after the JM debacle, but does that mean that the players deserve to be booed and slagged off and ignored... I will leave that to the new collection of idiots who now reside, hopefully for a short period, on this board.
Wont bore you with the rest of the trip, although I did catch some more footie..always a good thing.
The other thing that really caught me off guard in the entire JM saga, without going into full detail, was how he left the club smelling like roses. All of sudden he was a victim in the media, which had for so long tormented and betrayed him, and it showed how fickle and disgusting the English media are as a whole. For those of you who are interested I did receive a pretty good viewpoint of the events behind the club in the weeks leading up to the Jose sacking and I was quite suprised by what I heard. Needless to say, if the Liverpool CL semi didnt cost JM his job, I would be a suprised person indeed. For now things have seem have been put to bed on this one, but if it comes up again I will add my ten pence/cents.
Right onto the next point, I would like to congratulate newyorkerr for being the Best New Worst poster on this board. Your argumentative, one sided and quite frankly ignorant posts seem to be doing nothing but ruining this board. I am sure you will respond with one of your childish personal attacks on me, starting with something like "well fern started it" but I could really care less. Some helpful hints for you.
1. This board was around long before you and has some outstanding regular members who know what they are talking about. Try excersing a little respect before attacking them, you are still have a lot to answer for regarding your threats to Walter who is a very good lad (Walter we will have to get a beer one day) and quite frankly I think you are lucky to still be posting on here.
2. Stop the Sheva shyte. No one cares. Everything at Chelsea Football Club does not revolve around Sheva so find another leg to hump will ya.
3. As always, with most of the newbies, you will find a much warmer recpetion by following the simple posting rules- Read, Stop, Breathe, Think, Post.
BTW- if you have a problem with what I have to say, send me a pm as I will not be responding to any crap that you throw in my direction and will gladly be waiting to use the ignore feature.
(Sorry mods it had to be said)
Right onto the next person who needs a piece of humble pie- how about me in regards to Belletti. Fecking hell, good defender, gets foward well, not afraid to get stuck in- are we sure he is Brazilian. Looks like a nice under the radar buy for us.
As for the rest of the shyte we have brought in- I cant defend them anymore
Ben Haim looks a fecking joke and out to sea in defence
Sidwell is a headless chicken and a ginga one at that
Pizzaro might be slower than Sheva.... wow!
That leaves Malouda, who I feel is getting an unfair rub from Monkee. Now my great Simian friend we have to realise that Malouda's strengths are ball to feel and playing possession- a perfect JM buy (remember JM wanted him and he signed due to JM) and is not the traditionally winger who likes to run with the ball and jink past 2 defenders with pace ala Robben (dont start getting excited mike ;)). Malouda looks like he is starting to settle and IMO he is not a true English winger that will hug the touchline, but more of a J. Cole drift into the middle to create, etc. Perhaps we should refer to Malouda as left sided midfielder and that way he would receive less stick. We have SWP, Sinclair, and Kalou (who IMO is better on the wing running at players, than in middle with his remarkably accurate shooting) to provide pace on the flanks. Give him time Monkee, methinks he might turn out to be a good little player.
A nod to Alex as well, who although shaky at times is a great choice for a third CD.
What do we need? Another foward desperately. I know Sheva scored a massively important goal vs Citeh (note the sarcasm please) but I think like most Chelsea fans I have supported him for a while now and although I think he is a class guy, he is just not the right fit for the club. When we signed him, I was overjoyed, but it didnt work and we need to find another foward and hopefully keep Drogs happy for a few more seasons.
As for the current team- Frankie looks quite useful again now he is fresh and rested, Essien appears to emerging from whatever funk he had, Carvs is a fantastic defender and Cech is great as ever, Drogs is a beast and I think things may be slowly but surely looking up for us. Still a long way to go all around, but lets hope for the best and continue to support the lads.
Tonnes more to talk about and discuss, I hope everyone is doing well and look foward to catching up with you.
Arriving after our game vs Maure and Mike Dean, I realised how little I actually missed the English media and how uneducated the footballing masses are and somehow seem to live off every pundit on sky or the latest inside source from the Sun for information, FFS it makes one sick. Well long story short, I sat through the Fulham game and was relatively disgusted by what I saw on the field and in the stands. The game left a lot to be desired and quite frankly the attitude of a large contingent of fans was shocking- boycott the club... like Ambramovich needs the money. Cmon lads, I was absolutely gutted after the JM debacle, but does that mean that the players deserve to be booed and slagged off and ignored... I will leave that to the new collection of idiots who now reside, hopefully for a short period, on this board.
Wont bore you with the rest of the trip, although I did catch some more footie..always a good thing.
The other thing that really caught me off guard in the entire JM saga, without going into full detail, was how he left the club smelling like roses. All of sudden he was a victim in the media, which had for so long tormented and betrayed him, and it showed how fickle and disgusting the English media are as a whole. For those of you who are interested I did receive a pretty good viewpoint of the events behind the club in the weeks leading up to the Jose sacking and I was quite suprised by what I heard. Needless to say, if the Liverpool CL semi didnt cost JM his job, I would be a suprised person indeed. For now things have seem have been put to bed on this one, but if it comes up again I will add my ten pence/cents.
Right onto the next point, I would like to congratulate newyorkerr for being the Best New Worst poster on this board. Your argumentative, one sided and quite frankly ignorant posts seem to be doing nothing but ruining this board. I am sure you will respond with one of your childish personal attacks on me, starting with something like "well fern started it" but I could really care less. Some helpful hints for you.
1. This board was around long before you and has some outstanding regular members who know what they are talking about. Try excersing a little respect before attacking them, you are still have a lot to answer for regarding your threats to Walter who is a very good lad (Walter we will have to get a beer one day) and quite frankly I think you are lucky to still be posting on here.
2. Stop the Sheva shyte. No one cares. Everything at Chelsea Football Club does not revolve around Sheva so find another leg to hump will ya.
3. As always, with most of the newbies, you will find a much warmer recpetion by following the simple posting rules- Read, Stop, Breathe, Think, Post.
BTW- if you have a problem with what I have to say, send me a pm as I will not be responding to any crap that you throw in my direction and will gladly be waiting to use the ignore feature.
(Sorry mods it had to be said)
Right onto the next person who needs a piece of humble pie- how about me in regards to Belletti. Fecking hell, good defender, gets foward well, not afraid to get stuck in- are we sure he is Brazilian. Looks like a nice under the radar buy for us.
As for the rest of the shyte we have brought in- I cant defend them anymore
Ben Haim looks a fecking joke and out to sea in defence
Sidwell is a headless chicken and a ginga one at that
Pizzaro might be slower than Sheva.... wow!
That leaves Malouda, who I feel is getting an unfair rub from Monkee. Now my great Simian friend we have to realise that Malouda's strengths are ball to feel and playing possession- a perfect JM buy (remember JM wanted him and he signed due to JM) and is not the traditionally winger who likes to run with the ball and jink past 2 defenders with pace ala Robben (dont start getting excited mike ;)). Malouda looks like he is starting to settle and IMO he is not a true English winger that will hug the touchline, but more of a J. Cole drift into the middle to create, etc. Perhaps we should refer to Malouda as left sided midfielder and that way he would receive less stick. We have SWP, Sinclair, and Kalou (who IMO is better on the wing running at players, than in middle with his remarkably accurate shooting) to provide pace on the flanks. Give him time Monkee, methinks he might turn out to be a good little player.
A nod to Alex as well, who although shaky at times is a great choice for a third CD.
What do we need? Another foward desperately. I know Sheva scored a massively important goal vs Citeh (note the sarcasm please) but I think like most Chelsea fans I have supported him for a while now and although I think he is a class guy, he is just not the right fit for the club. When we signed him, I was overjoyed, but it didnt work and we need to find another foward and hopefully keep Drogs happy for a few more seasons.
As for the current team- Frankie looks quite useful again now he is fresh and rested, Essien appears to emerging from whatever funk he had, Carvs is a fantastic defender and Cech is great as ever, Drogs is a beast and I think things may be slowly but surely looking up for us. Still a long way to go all around, but lets hope for the best and continue to support the lads.
Tonnes more to talk about and discuss, I hope everyone is doing well and look foward to catching up with you.