The 2008 Chelsea S**t List

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

What this is:
A place for you (the Chelsea fans) to vent on various figures in world football.

What this is not
A place to attack other posters or conduct personal crusades.

To kick this off I nominate Ramon Calderon and Joan Laporta for the ways they conduct their transfer dealings.

I nominate Michel Platini for being at the beck and call of certain teams within the collective.

Peter Kenyon - for being an ass goblin (how did he get involved in the olympic torch ceremony is beyond me, ugh)

http://www.chelseapies.tv/80540428.jpg

The cast of potential villains is endless so get creative and have some fun (and please, no flaming).

[ChelseaForTheCup(s)]

Brazil's coach Dunga.

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

Brazil's coach Dunga.

Feel free to add why - this is a useful place to vent out all the bad stuff so we can be fresh and chilled for the new season when it starts :)

Allez I'm sure has an essay ready as to why a certain astrology fan should be here :D

[ChelseaForTheCup(s)]

Dunga:

The reason why I hate him is because Brazil are now 5th in WC qualifying standings in South America, and MIGHT not qualify which is sad, and would be the first time in the history of the team.

Brazil's free-flowing, attacking style of footie is gone, and has been replaced with an EXTREMELY rough around the edges, ************ style of play.

He also utilizes really crappy defensive mids. Only God knows why.

[ChelseaForTheCup(s)]

Oh, and UEFA/FIFA as a whole.

[fernb8]

just wanted to add all the Porgtuguese and German fanboys

and those who think Lampard can be easily replaced by X, Y or Z...

Jesus, this is too easy.

Great idea KDB.

[yasik19]

Kenyon - what KDB said.

Summer - as in one of the 4 seasons. You can guess why.

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

Dunga:

The reason why I hate him is because Brazil are now 5th in WC qualifying standings in South America, and MIGHT not qualify which is sad, and would be the first time in the history of the team.

Brazil's free-flowing, attacking style of footie is gone, and has been replaced with an EXTREMELY rough around the edges, ************ style of play.

He also utilizes really crappy defensive mids. Only God knows why.

5th!! I've not been paying attention but that is shocking.

Goes to show you can't put any muppet in charge and have success - maybe Scolari is not as useless as some people have suggested.

While I'm posting I'm going to add Tommy Smyth. Everytime he opens his mouth I see this image

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5160/leprechaun8wj5.jpg

[yasik19]

how could I forget Mr. Smyth? Whoever hired him is even a bigger idiot.

[Dr_Intoxicated]

how could I forget Mr. Smyth? Whoever hired him is even a bigger idiot.

I have heard much about the aforementioned Mr Smyth and being in the UK have never come across him, for which I am ever grateful considering what most fans say of him.

What is his background in football?

I would like to add another so called football expert that appears on UK TV and writes in the Gruniad Mr David Pleat.

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

I have heard much about the aforementioned Mr Smyth and being in the UK have never come across him, for which I am ever grateful considering what most fans say of him.

What is his background in football?

I would like to add another so called football expert that appears on UK TV and writes in the Gruniad Mr David Pleat.

Think of Tommy Smyth as an uninformed version of David Pleat only without all of the accuracy and insightfulness that Pleat offers and you'll be close.

I second your choice of Pleat and would add one Mark "Lawro" Lawrenson. Can I add the jester Ian "Wright Wright" Wright or has his sacking made that a moot request. Eff it I nominate him too.

[Dear_Claudio]

Tommy Smyth was a hack as a player and even more of a hack as a color analyst. He's also a Manchester United fan.


David Pleat says hello to the audience at the beginning of every broadcast, right?

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

Tommy Smyth was a hack as a player and even more of a hack as a color analyst. He's also a Manchester United fan.


David Pleat says hello to the audience at the beginning of every broadcast, right?

From the amazingly classic Fantasy Football League (poor quality but typical confused Pleat):

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[mshankb]

Anyone involved in ITV's football coverage ever at any time throughout history.

[Clan]

International football in general, FIFA and UEFA specifically.

The amount of international football has now reached the point where it is detrimental to the very basic foundation of football itself - club football.

The international calander is now stopping leagues a mere three weeks after they have started, forcing players to fly off to all ends of the earth to ply their trade in qualification matches, quite often picking up knocks that result in missing matches the following fortnight, or being outright injured and missing many matchs in a row.

At best, they return home from far flung places late on Friday and are just too knackered to play on the Saturday.

All the while this is going on, the clubs are paying their wages and have absolutely no say so whatever in the matter.They can't even declare a player injured and unfit, as the final determination is the right of the national FA, who as we found out with Robben, are far more interested in getting that one game out of him and if he misses the next month of club football...so what!

FIFA and UEFA are continually flexing their muscle with clubs and are growing in strenght, due to the continued increase in International fixtures, each and every season.
It is no coincidence that they want the amount of league fixtures reduced by lowering the amount of teams in the top leagues, thus enabling even more fixtures to be added...and thus increasing their power even more.

They feared the G14 and caved in on the lawsuit over injured players, unfortunately the clubs not only failed to push on from this, but it seems that they may now disband the G14 itself.

We also now have this poxy international world club football thing with confederation champs going on in December...right in the middle of the bloody season and at an extremely important and busy time in England in particular.
Madness.

Club football is more important than international football, always has been and always will be, only countries that have weak club sides have a majority of fans favouring the international game.

Oh and another thing, when the ******** are UEFA ever going to cop on and adopt the system that CONCACAF have for world cup qualification.?

Bloody madness having to see San Marino stop leaues around the continent so Germany can beat them 13-0.

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

Anyone involved in ITV's football coverage ever at any time throughout history.

I loved Saint and Greavsie (see first Chronicle - wish I had this vid for that one).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWa2rpgu1lk

If you mean the match day team like Racist Ron then I concur.

[Andy Bennett]

From the amazingly classic Fantasy Football League (poor quality but typical confused Pleat):

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And, Keane does not miss. Keane does not miss!!!

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'I'll have to go home'... oh! if only you would Pleat, if only you would :(

Also, if a name has more than two syllables, he can't pronounce it... so, for example, Lizarazu becomes Lizazaru, Camoranesi becomes Caromanesi, etc, etc.

You'd have thought that, purely based on statistics, he'd get it right sometimes... but then you obviously don't know David Pleat, do yer :)

[blackjack]

Julie Foudy: because she makes my ears bleed.

[BridgeMonkee]

Oh, and UEFA/FIFA as a whole.

I'd happily get rid of both of them. They are a gang of French and German blokes who do their best to try to destroy the beautiful game and then try to blame it all on England and the Premiership. England is blamed for hooliganism, clubs with too much money, negative tactics, etc, etc., and yet most of the violence, bungs, tapping up, match fixing, spitting, cheating and diving takes place in other countries and other leagues. . .Ho-fecking-hum.

They meddle and they think they are righteous and . . . god I wish they would become obsolete. Football needs new governing bodies. No doubt about it. They are a greedy little parasites . . .they're out of date.

[CubLou]

Now I dont know how many are going to agree on me with this, but as a person who grew up used to the style that most American sports leagues are run, I have a problem with the way that good teams will always bee good and bad teams will always be bad in major European football leagues.

I just see the "top four" as bad. Obviously not the teams themselves, otherwise I wouldnt be here I feel that the teams should be and are doing everyhting in their power and inside of the rules (well unless your Madrid) to make thier teams better.

But I think the rules need changing.

I think that Salary caps as well as some sort of first year draft should be put in. Now i am not fully sure on what the college systme is like in the UK, so maybe we cant draft guys just when they are done with college like here in the US, but i think something should be done where the kids cant be signed until they are 16 or so, in which teams will have to go through rounds of drafting players.

Also a salary cap would obvioauly help smaller clubs and thier supporters a chance to compete.
Over in the U.S I am a Cubs fan, and for any in here that dont follow baseball, they havent won the championship in 100 years. That is the longest drought in any major American pro sport.

In the EPL a big think is made becaue Liverpool havent won it all in now 18 years. From my experince, I just cant see that as a long wait. From my experince I cant see finishing second two uyears in a row as all that dissapointing. Frustrating yes, pople should be angry at first that we came so close twice in a row just to lose, but very succesful none the less.

I guess it just seems wierd that if you are a fan of some random team that is in the highelst leverl of competetion like West Ham or Wigan or Fulham or whoever, you know that you will probably NEVER win the EPL. NEVER. maybe a leage or FA cup, but you know growing up that there is about a .01% chance you see glory, and to me, thats just dont seem right.


Like i said earlier, this is coming from a guy who was raised in the US and is used to the way we do things. An explanation of the thought process in the UK on league structure would be gladly recieved from me