Chelsea fans Ignorance

[Richard E]

It was still more of an achievement in 1982 than Chelsea only finishing 12th in a division that included such giants of the game as Wrexham and Leyton Orient.

[Chris Smith]

As proud as I am that we won the European Cup as Champions of England, you can't pretend that it was harder to win back then. Would we have found it easier if the 2nd and 3rd best teams in Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal etc had been in the tournament rather than the champions of Luxembourg, Northern Ireland, Malta, Albania and Iceland?

People say it was all knock out back in those days, but there was only one extra knock out round. Plus, the group stages generally mean, by and large, the best 16 teams in Europe pop out into the knock out phases now. There is no chance on earth Glentoran, Arges Pitesti, Rabo ETA Gyor and Szombierki Bytom (all appeared in the last 16 in the early 80s) would do that now. That is a shame and perhaps makes it less pure. But it means the competition is now harder to win and (almost) impossible for a smaller team.

I just dont see the need to denigrate it now. Maybe because we dont play in it.

It is a moot point as to whether or not it was more or less difficult to win.

The fact is that at the time it was the premier European club tournament and in 1982 the winners were Aston Villa.

[not3bad]

As proud as I am that we won the European Cup as Champions of England, you can't pretend that it was harder to win back then. Would we have found it easier if the 2nd and 3rd best teams in Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal etc had been in the tournament rather than the champions of Luxembourg, Northern Ireland, Malta, Albania and Iceland?

People say it was all knock out back in those days, but there was only one extra knock out round. Plus, the group stages generally mean, by and large, the best 16 teams in Europe pop out into the knock out phases now. There is no chance on earth Glentoran, Arges Pitesti, Rabo ETA Gyor and Szombierki Bytom (all appeared in the last 16 in the early 80s) would do that now. That is a shame and perhaps makes it less pure. But it means the competition is now harder to win and (almost) impossible for a smaller team.

I just dont see the need to denigrate it now. Maybe because we dont play in it.

It is a moot point as to whether or not it was more or less difficult to win.

The fact is that at the time it was the premier European club tournament and in 1982 the winners were Aston Villa.

And we won it - they bought it.

[Damo70]

Also, we didn't get drawn against teams like Glentoran, Arges Pitesti, Rabo ETA Gyor and Szombierki Bytom. We had to beat Dynamo Berlin, Dynamo Kiev, Anderlecht and Bayern Munich.

[OzVilla]

You know I'm still absolutely loving it that we beat them.

This twat just reinforces my complete lack of respect for that horrible club.

I must have watched that last 20 minutes about 7 times now. It's great.

[Smirker]

You know I'm still absolutely loving it that we beat them.

This twat just reinforces my complete lack of respect for that horrible club.

I must have watched that last 20 minutes about 7 times now. It's great.

 

You got a link to it?

Might torrent the match actually.

[supertom]

My solution to Chelsea fans, and you can stick JT in the line up too:

[ADVILLAFAN]

The Brummie Chelsea fan who used to be a Villa fan at work was in a very bad mood on Monday, apparently we had the ref on a string.

He conveniently seemed to forget the refereeing from the game at Stamford Bridge and stormed off in a sulk. I didn't see him for the rest of the day.

I didn't even bring the match up with him, he started the conversation. I just tried to look as smug as I could. 

[JUAN PABLO]

I said to the one chavski fan I know , did you see your result on Teletext .     

[Ads]

The Brummie Chelsea fan who used to be a Villa fan at work was in a very bad mood on Monday, apparently we had the ref on a string.

He conveniently seemed to forget the refereeing from the game at Stamford Bridge and stormed off in a sulk. I didn't see him for the rest of the day.

I didn't even bring the match up with him, he started the conversation. I just tried to look as smug as I could. 

Good lord, I cannot believe you would even bother speaking to that sort of person about football.

[andrew08]

For what it's worth I taunted an 11 year old Chelsea fan at my boys school yesterday!

[Phil from the upper holte]

I fucking hate Chelsea, always have always will..That is all

[Ads]

I would literally be ashamed to be a Brummie supporting Chelsea fan. The thought makes my skin crawl. How would you ever expect to be taken seriously when talking to your friends about football?

[Jimbo]

I'd be ashamed to be a Chelsea fan, full stop.

[pauliewalnuts]

Surely the European Cup was far more difficult to win, if only buy virtue of the fact that you had to actually win your league (or the EC) to be allowed to take part.