FA Cup: Chelsea v Newcastle

miss_soojung SG

Chelsea hosts Newcastle on the 22nd.

A 2-1 win for Chelsea?

stellazio SG

i will go for a 1-0 win only becuz this is at stamford bridge..

we have to buck up..wake up..damnit..

stellazio SG

how true i am.. Laughing

eemtij SG

pei fu.......

the Bear SG

the news is bad for chelsea...

seems that for the 0.5% of the neutrals who didn't care have turned against chelsea after the disgraceful antics of people like Shawn Wright-Phillips

when chelsea had the game won, they still had to stoop to diving to attempt to get their opponents sent off...

it's a sad sad day for football...

i spit on the day roman abramovic was born... i spit on the day jose mourinho was born...

they have ruined football

dragg SG

why are you so sure he dived? it looks like a genuine foul to me.

sometimes it is very difficult to tell even when you see it in slow-motion. thats football isnt it?

Mr. Green

stellazio SG

eh swp was a player who went down with minimal contact since his days at man city..thats y he gets soo many fouls,becuz of his small size..referee’s are more lenient when awarding fouls in his favour..

miss_soojung SG

People see what they want to see - fans, neutrals, Chelsea-haters.

Don't see any comments about the bout of kicking Joe Cole got when he fell at an awkward angle, with the ball beneath him ... the player who kicked him was the same one who was sent off subsequently, wasn't he?

Perhaps Joe Cole was simulating as well? Laughing

Perhaps the Russian $$ bring on an unexplained evil change to all players who go to Chelsea - in their previous clubs they were perfect footballers who never challenged their opponents recklessly, who never tripped for the slightest of reasons, whose feet were so solidly grounded to the pitch it would take a rugby team to bring them to their knees Mr. Green

Before RA & JM came along, football was the perfect game - players followed every rule, fans were the most well behaved, 'tapping' was something that never existed, coaches never complained about poor refereeing ... what else is there Laughing

dragg SG

i guess they will stop only when chelsea start losing.

Mr. Green

there is a poll on ESPN soccernet on who will finished 2nd in the premiership this season. some actually selected chelsea.

i wonder who those idiots are?

the Bear SG

to be brutally frank, Joe Cole was obstructing play by lying on the ball.. seriously..

it would be akin to someone sitting on the ball.. they had a right to come try get the ball from him.. only they did it wrongly..

btw, the Drog actually admitted to cheating.. and he was most unrepentant about it... (click here for the report => Drogba Admits Handling Ball)

we "see what we want to see" but it was clear as day when players cheat where they didn't before, they must be under so much stress and pressure to do so...

Robben was a clean player before
SWP was a clean player before

goodness knows what happened...

i guess the only player who seems to have a shred of decorum in him is Petr Cech..

there are other players who are as dirty.. players like Pires and Ruudy van come to mind, but never ever has cheating reached such proportions as a whole team getting involved in blatant cheating.. from diving, to handballs, to outright trying to maim other players...

for this, maybe we should look to the history of things.. where managers turn a blind eye to it.. managers like Wenger and Ferguson, who refused to blame their own players when they did cheat... or commit horrific fouls..

in a cynical club like Chelsea, where the weight of Roman's Roubles have a gravity of their own, i guess the pressure to get results has caused the whole team to crack... look out for it... already, signs are there that they will implode under such pressures...

could be, this blatant team effort at cheating, is just the tip of the iceberg...

scary thing is, if Roman gets bored of this and pulls out, Chelsea will be no more.. no club on earth, not even Real Madrid can sustain such expenses without crippling debt..

the neutral? i'm as neutral as it's going to get with football.. and i'm giving them a scathing review.. think about those with bias...

it's a sad day for football when there is concerted effort in a team to cheat... it doesn't take much to understand why Chelsea is hated, not just by supporters of other teams, but by the neutrals who love the game of football as well..

btw, i have been asked which team i supported, the team i support does not exist anymore.. so there, i'm as neutral as it's going to get...