Do you like Chelsea?

[jugularvein]

Hate em. Everything that's been said so far covers what I think of them.

Hate the Spuds more though

yeah the spuds are 'plucky' though in despicable sort of way. i'll hate them more in a few years time when their potential becomes a reality but chelsea are in a different league of ugliness

 

[stavros]

What I like about Chelsea is now loads of people moan about the greedy Pr£mi£rshit who didn't before, the people who support clubs who have been complicit in engineering a system that means the rich get richer and the poor end up loaning their fifth choice kids cos they can't afford to buy any of their own players, reducing the overall excitement and movement between divisions.

A system that as a poster (stavros I think) pointed out has come to such dull end that the battle for 4th means more than the championship itself and I love seeing United, Arsenal, Newcastle etc etc moaning about being priced out the equation. Ha, Ha, Ha...

This is fairly on the money. Looking back there was no discernable football reason for the Premiership coming into existence. Although a couple of teams smaller, it is exaclty the same structure as the first division was. However the major difference now is the financial reward available which has warped people's priorities to a bizarre extent. Everything is sponsored, players receive 6 years of my wages in one week all financed by the people who've always been there, us. The most powerful man in English football, a man who can alter the fixture calender to the point where we have only 4 or 5 Saturday 3pm kick-offs, is thoroughly hatable Aussie who bribes his way with our government and threatens them with bad publicity should they step out of his line.

Chelsea are the epitomy of this ideology. For those that control them they exist solely to generate revenue, which has never been the reason this game exists. It seems to me that British, and global football, would be so much better if clubs were all owned and controlled by supporter cooperatives, as with Barcelona, and the sorry joke that is what's left of the European Cup is mopped up and reinstalled back to admitting Champions only. However, it is nigh on impossible to see a way back now we have trod down the slippery slope of financial control. With Chelsea, we can only hope the Russian gets bored or Vladimir Putin's successor isn't so understanding and indictes him for the crimes his colleagues have been imprisoned for.

 

[DexterTCN]

Ok. Spurs haven't beaten Chelsea for nearly 16 years. Is that a meaningless statistic?

Mohammed Ali has never beaten me in a fight

 

[AverageJoe]

How odd that my local teams forum had the same question (sorry for turning up late by the way). So it seems fiiting to post the same answer...but before that, half these posts seem to be about Chelsea *fans* as opposed to Chelsea the team. There's no doubting that Mourinho has before a Marmite figure - you either love him or you hate him. Personally I love him. And to fair (and I dont want this to come out the wrong way), he also has an excellent grip on the quaintness and idiosyncracies of the English language for a foreigner, and is therefore always guaranteed headlines.

For example, in the first game of the season (I think) he and Paul Jewell were interviewed and tey asked Paul what he wanted from the season. He answered the traditional 'we want to stay up, work hard, play good football and excite the fans'. The commentator then asked Jose.

"We want to win four cups - the League, The FA, the Champions League and the Premiership"

Commentator - 'Surely you're joking Jose'

Jose - 'Well he started it'

Theres not many English players or managers that could have thought or said that!

Anyway, here's my post from the other site (sorry about rambling)

" The strategy in place seems to be to have bought young talent for an immediate impact on the Premiership and the supplement it with even younger players to come through the academy. Previously, ony John Terry came through the ranks, but Mourinho has built a new academy and is planning for the future.

At the moment, the team isn't eaxctly old

Cech (1982), Del Horno (1981), John Terry (1980), Joe Cole (1981), Frank Lampard (1978), Michael Essien (1983), Arjen Robben (1984), Shaun Wright-Phillips (1981) etc etc.

Add to that this lot at the academy

Ryan Bertand 5/8/89 (England Under 17)
Jack Cork 25/6/89 (England under 17) - son of Alan Cork
Jonas Elmer 28/2/88 (Swiss Under 17)
Ricardo Fernandes (Portuguese under 17)
Fabio Ferreira (Portuguese under 17)
Tony Grant (England under 19)
Yves Ma Kalamby (Belguim under 19)
Michael Mancienne (England under 19)
Nuno Morais (Portuguese under 19)
James Russel (Republic of Ireland under 17)
James Simmons (Republic of Irelandunder 19)
Scott Sinclair (England under 17) - made his debut for Bristol Rovers at 15
Jimmy Smith (England under 19)
Steve Watt (Scotland under 21)

So, that looks like the next 10 years sewn up for Chelsea, and we haven't even started on whether Jon Mikkel Obi will join us or Man U"

Night!

 

[jugularvein]

night

 

[AverageJoe]

cheers. Sleep well!

 

[zenie]

I used to have no strong opinion either way about Chelsea, but ever since the starting buying success through having more money than anyone else, I've grown to quite dislike them and rent any success they buy with their $$$$$.

What's your opinion? (poll coming up)

Well ed, i've liked them since I was 10 or 11 when they played Man U in the cup.

The way I see it Chelsea are just getting their dues, financially they've had nothing of the scale of other clubs.

Maybe Abramovich is going a bit far - but he is a gangstar

He wants to get the club to the top then sell it and make a shit load anyway he can, if that means we as a club have great players and a fantastic few seasons then so be it.

 

[Batboy]

I has a run in with three of their 'supporters' on Earls court tube. I was sitting down opposite them with my then 9 year old daughter when one of them was hurling vile racist abuse along the carriage directed at some Asians, he then further erupted when these Albanian/Romanian kids jumped on the tube with accordian/violin and started busking. The prick jumped up and started screaming 'No Surrender No Surrender ' Obviously thinking they were Irish Catholics (The dickhead!).

I sat their getting more and more pissed off , everyone else in the carriage as usual put their eyes to the floor to 'hide', his two mates were laughing at his antics. All were in their early forties.

He carried on his rantings and as I sat there stewing I contemplated that a) My daughter had both Irish and Asian blood in her and B) I really did not want her or myself to listen to this shit. So I stood up and berated the prick and his two mates, the whole carriage went silent and after initial silence he started mouthing off how he wanted to fight me and gestured to me etc etc.

These Chelsea fans were pre- Abromarich and I have no reason to doubt they still go to Stamford Bridge mouthing off their vile abusive filth, although quite what they make of a Russian running their club and with the team filled with foreigners I don't know, perhaps they've changed their tune and surrendered, whatever - they put me off Chelsea for life, hope they go skint and their ground is turned into a NCP car park.

 

[Harold Hill]

Always have hated them, always will.



Chelsea have never had any kind of local community support. J.

I hate them but know the area well and thats bollocks mate. More Chelsea in Fulham than Fulham even in the their bad old days. Battersea/Wandsworth was and still probably is pretty staunch.