Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Dave]

Not sitting back but we would inevitably have dropped deeper, y'know like conceding late when we were winning at WBA and Everton to name two examples.

Rather than us being pinned back, both of those were cornalties though weren't they?

Swansea as well.

[JUAN PABLO]

I was listening to sky tv and they didnt even mention that Ivanovic should probably be in the dressing room when he scored.

To be fair to Tawksprout , they were going mad when he scored and both the decisions  but stan C was in the back ground losing it ,

[mr woo]

As for the penalty, if you can see why that is given beyond 90th minute at the Bridge, then you are a significantly more enlightened man than I.

You've clearly made your mind up that everyone is against us and that there is some shadowy conspiracy going on, so I'm not going to bother trying to change your mind.

But I assume that this conspiracy that means we would never get an injury time penalty at Chelsea was set up sometime after 2007?

No conspiracy just cheating.

I wouldnt even say there was cheating involved, but bear in mind that every referee has just seen their colleague dropped after making controversial calls against a high profile side that have subsequently proved to be 100% CORRECT!

What message does that send out?


I honestly dont think refs favour any side in any game, but I do believe they have to be that little bit more 'certain' when giving decisions against a top 4 club because the repercussions are so much greater if they get anything wrong.

After all, do you honestly think Anthony Taylor would be sat on his arse this weekend if he had made those exact same decisions in a game involving Hull and Cardiff.?

[Stu]

Delph and Gabby HAVE to be in the next England squad.

NO. England ruins our players.

[adrenachrome]

I hope Kevin Friend gets the Flu for Christmas. The crooked, scuttering, monkey felching spunk trumpet.

I hope he eats one of the pies that Richard Hubbard ate, the turd fondling, mandrill fellating fuckwhiste.

[peter w]

End of the day, we lost a game and realistically 1 point. I think even if Andi scores one of his chances, we'd have sat back afterwards and conceded anyway.

Not too fussed again as we have 3 points from two games, that's 1 more than two battling draws at the Emirates and Stamford Bridge. And if there's one thing that's held us back over the last 20 years, it's this obsession we have with drawing games, thinking it's great when we string an 8 or 9 unbeaten run even though 6 of those games have been drawn.

Another good thing is we've got two of our toughest away games out of the way and we've still got a positive goal difference. Generally teams that have positive goal differences end up in the top half.

All in all, we certainly have the right man in charge for the task ahead this season.

You are spot on Soccer, but tonight I will be bitter.

Tomorrow, I will be apprehensive. One of my biggest annoyances with Villa is not backing up displays like the last couple with similar at home. And Liverpool looked decent last week.

Thing is ozz we did follow it up performance wise. usually we bottle the 'follow-up' game. Not the Lambert Villa. I am disappointed but not angry. i think its because I can still vividly feel the last few seasons. This feels different and although we will lose a few along the way, I'd expect us to win a fair few games this season. Against anybody.

we'll lose 4-0 on Saturday now, obviously.

[curiousorange]

Whoever called for Delph to be called up for England can stop that kind of talk. The moment they get him up to Burton is the moment the ground starts to be laid for the inevitable move to Manchester.

[bertlambshank]

As I don't have Sky it will be interesting to hear from those who do watch the extended highlights how bad the decisions really were. And also what the pundits say about them. So please let us Skyless wankers know.

Depends who they have on,Butch 'Im not drunk officer' Wilkins or some other ex Chelsea player who gets paid by Chelsea tv.

[JUAN PABLO]

Whoever called for Delph to be called up for England can stop that kind of talk. The moment they get him up to Burton is the moment the ground starts to be laid for the inevitable move to Manchester.

exactly

expect Ricky Lambert to replace RVP

[olaftab]

I hope Kevin Friend gets the Flu for Christmas. The crooked, scuttering, monkey felching spunk trumpet.

You have such a poetic way with words. Brilliant.

[TonyD]

My biggest concern is how tired will some of the players be for the Liverpool game after these 2 games. I think we may need to change a couple of things around Saturday.

Eh? So wake up tomorrow feeling shagged and get a team of sport masseurs working on them.  Friday, so light training and TACTICS.   Saturday,  driven to VP.   Hardly like the IronMan schedule.   

[Villastu]

Just on my way back to brum from the match, great support again from the 1500+ that travelled,  going down there  we would of been happy with a point. Thought delph had another good game in midfield and was probably my man of the match for us. A clear penalty from where I was in the upper tier. Gutted.

[charlie]

Chelsea benefit from brown envelope syndrome, refs like brown envelopes, there was NO way we would win or even draw, I expect even the special one was embarrassed, sadly most top sport is corrupt.

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[Des Little]

Havent read all the thread but in short Delph was immense, the ref bottled it and we're head and shoulders above last season.  They know they got out of jail and so does the rest of the country.

[peter w]

Delph and Gabby HAVE to be in the next England squad.

NO. England ruins our players.

I think the current team will be different in that respect. They are young and growing as individuals together. That's what Lambert is trying to create and I don't think the likes of Delph, Lowton, westwood, and without doubt Gabby, want to do anything but play for Lambert, their team-mates, and Villa at this moment in time.