Chelsea v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

mourinho on radio

I dont like that style of play - wtf you cnut

[LeeB]

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.

Fuckin' a.

[olaftab]

delph - what a player he has become

Listening to a radio station that covered the game here and they cannot stop raving about him

Which is probably more than a radio station here is doing.

I can hear Franks now "well the bubble has burst after just one win"

[Ads]

On my way back.

I will start with the good. Fabian Delph. The lad looked immense and bossed the midfield second half. The defence stood up and limited them one meaningful attempt on target all game.

The bad. Kevin Friend. Ivanovich should have walked. The ****** should have walked. Terry's handball. Fuck me. Disgrace.

We were the better side second half. No ifs or buts a point was the least we deserved.

[curiousorange]

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.

I like the attitude, but I wonder how much truth lies behind that opinion.

[PeterWithesShin]

Man love for Lambert increases.

[Deano's Mullet]

mourinho on radio

I dont like that style of play - wtf you cnut

its cos we gave them a game. had we rolled over for them he'd have been even more patronising and full of praise for us. Fergie used to do it all the time when they beat us and when we drew with them he'd suddenly hate us.

[not3bad]

We go again.

[London Villan]

I like jose, but the reaction would have been different had we won...

[Stu]

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.

I like the attitude, but I wonder how much truth lies behind that opinion.

I'm cynical about it too, because I thought that when MON was in charge. Then everyone fucked off.

[steamer]

lost at home end of last season, very unlucky.
Lost tonight, very unlucky.
A different story than 12 months ago, Proud of our young Villa team that is getting Plaudits from commentators.
Feet on the ground,no easy games but please let us hammer the scouse fuckers.
was at the back of the Holte in 76 when we whacked them 5-1 ohh for a repeat !!

[Deano's Mullet]

lost at home end of last season, very unlucky.
Lost tonight, very unlucky.
A different story than 12 months ago, Proud of our young Villa team that is getting Plaudits from commentators.
Feet on the ground,no easy games but please let us hammer the scouse fuckers.
was at the back of the Holte in 76 when we whacked them 5-1 ohh for a repeat !!

i'd take a repeat of the 1-0 from two seasons ago. 3 points please villa. do we know who the ref is?

[Chris Stares]

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.

In all honesty, PWS, they were some of the worst decisions I have seen.  Clear forearm thrown by Ivanovic.  Friend was standing directly behind the incident so may not have seen how obvious a forearm smash it was.  Ivanovic's offside for the goal was marginal but I'd say a foot or so - definitely offside.  The Terry handball was so obvious - he pretty well batted the ball out of the area!  Friend's view was in no way obscured - he was looking straight at the incident.  The only thing you might say is that Terry was perhaps being held down a bit under the challenge.  However, even Michael Owen (who I felt was pretty negative towards us before the game) said afterwards that had the forearm been thrown by a Villa player rather than Ivanovic, it's highly likely he would have been red-carded.  He also said he didn't think that the challenge on Terry was any worse than what normally goes on at most set pieces and for him it was a stone-wall penalty.

Whilst it may seem bitter, when it's absolutely clear-cut that the ref's decisions were utterly woeful it's hard to take.  I'll get over it by tomorrow, but right now, I'm fuming at the injustice of it.  And before anyone says we got all the decisions against the Arse, video analysis has pretty well shown that the ref got those major "contentious" decisions right.  Probably the only one where we were fortunate was Vlaar not getting a second yellow for that block on Rosicky (I think it was).  Apart from that, I don't think what went in our favour on Saturday and what went against us tonight are comparable.

I was utterly proud of how we played tonight, however, and I am optimistic for the coming season.  I hope that we can back up one more time on Saturday and give Liverpoo a beating.

One final thought:  Mourinho is a c**t.  What he did very cleverly in his post-match interview was to ramble on about how we're just long-ball merchants and pump it up to Benteke and hit teams on the break, whilst his Chavski team want to win with quality and technical ability rather than just "graft", not allowing the interviewer to ask him the "hard" questions.  At times, we do play like that, but it is disingenuous of him to assert that we are just a bunch of cloggers like Stoke used to be/maybe still are.  Again, fair play to Owen who said that he absolutely disagreed with "The Retarded One's" assertion that we are just a long-ball team by citing the quality of the build up for our goal.

[Stu]

lost at home end of last season, very unlucky.
Lost tonight, very unlucky.
A different story than 12 months ago, Proud of our young Villa team that is getting Plaudits from commentators.
Feet on the ground,no easy games but please let us hammer the scouse fuckers.
was at the back of the Holte in 76 when we whacked them 5-1 ohh for a repeat !!

A result against Liverpool at VP is long overdue. I can't remember the last time we beat them at home, in any competition, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Time for Archer. I'm in the Dangerzone.

[pauliewalnuts]

I would rather have played like that tonight and got robbed and come home with nothing than have played poorly and scrambled to a point.

Early days, but I think that performance, plus Arsenal, bodes extremely well for this season.